FIA: Collaborative Research: MobilityFirst: A Robust and Trustworthy Mobility-Centric Architecture for the Future Internet

FIA：协作研究：MobilityFirst：面向未来互联网的稳健且值得信赖的以移动为中心的架构

• 批准号: 1040020
• 负责人: William Lehr
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1040020&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FIA; Collaborative; Research; MobilityFirst; Robust

This project is aimed at the design and experimental validation of a comprehensive clean-slate future Internet architecture. The proposed MobilityFirst architecture is motivated by the ongoing paradigm shift of Internet usage from today?s fixed PC/host (client)?server model to emerging mobile data services and pervasive computing applications. The major design goals of the architecture are: mobility as the norm with dynamic host and network mobility at scale; robustness with respect to intrinsic properties of the wireless medium; trustworthiness in the form of enhanced security and privacy; usability features such as support for context-aware services, evolvability, manageability and economic viability. The key components of the MobilityFirst network design are: (1) separation of naming and addressing, implemented via a fast global dynamic name resolution service; (2) self-certifying public key network addresses to support strong authentication and security; (3) generalized delay-tolerant routing with in-network storage for packets in transit; (4) flat-label internetwork routing with public key addresses; (5) hop-by-hop transport protocols operating over segments rather than an end-to-end path; (6) a separate network management plane that provides enhanced visibility; (7) optional privacy features for user and location data; and (8) an integrated computing and storage layer to support programmability. The project?s scope includes architectural design, validation of key protocol components, testbed prototyping of the MobilityFirst architecture as a whole, and real-world protocol deployment on the GENI experimental infrastructure. The results of this project will provide architectural guidance for cellular-Internet convergence, and are expected to influence future technical standards in the networking industry.

该项目旨在设计和实验验证全面的全新未来互联网架构。所提出的MobilityFirst 架构的动机是互联网使用模式从当今的固定PC/主机（客户端）服务器模式向新兴移动数据服务和普遍计算应用的持续转变。该架构的主要设计目标是： 移动性成为规范，具有大规模的动态主机和网络移动性；无线介质固有属性的鲁棒性；以增强安全性和隐私的形式提高可信度；可用性功能，例如对上下文感知服务的支持、可演进性、可管理性和经济可行性。 MobilityFirst网络设计的关键组成部分是：（1）命名和寻址分离，通过快速全局动态名称解析服务实现； (2) 自认证公钥网络地址，支持强认证和安全性； (3) 具有网络内存储功能的广义延迟容忍路由，用于传输中的数据包； (4) 具有公钥地址的平面标签互联网络路由； (5) 在分段上运行的逐跳传输协议，而不是在端到端路径上运行； (6) 提供增强可视性的独立网络管理平面； (7) 用户和位置数据的可选隐私功能； (8)支持可编程性的集成计算和存储层。该项目的范围包括架构设计、关键协议组件的验证、整个 MobilityFirst 架构的测试台原型设计以及 GENI 实验基础设施上的实际协议部署。该项目的结果将为蜂窝互联网融合提供架构指导，并有望影响网络行业未来的技术标准。