ICES:Small: An architectural, economic, and legal approach to encouraging end-to-end Quality of Service in the Internet

ICES:Small：一种鼓励互联网端到端服务质量的架构、经济和法律方法

基本信息

批准号：
1216023
负责人：
Scott Jordan
金额：
$ 40万
依托单位：
University of California-Irvine
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-08-01 至 2018-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1216023&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
ICES Small architectural economic legal

项目摘要

Networking research on Internet Quality of Service techniques has resulted in standards that have been widely incorporated into routers. And yet, use of Quality of Service practices is very limited. Internet Service Providers have implemented Quality of Service practices to support their own voice and video services, but do not offer Quality of Service techniques to their subscribers for use by any other Internet applications. Internet Service Providers have not incorporated Quality of Service practices into their agreements with other Internet Service Providers, and hence Quality of Service techniques are not available across the Internet. The limited deployment of Quality of Service practices has ignited vigorous debate over Net Neutrality, one of the most contentious telecommunications public policy issues in decades.This project will address the lack of availability of Quality of Service techniques widely across the Internet. It will adopt an interdisciplinary approach that integrates network architecture, economics, and law. The project will have three goals. First, it will create and analyze network architecture and economic models that can give insight into when an Internet Service Provider will choose to offer Quality of Service techniques to application providers other than itself. Second, it will consider how communications law may affect the development of Quality of Service practices. Third, it will illustrate potential technical and economic arrangements between users, Internet Service Providers, and application-providers that could enable widespread deployment of Quality of Service practices in a manner consistent with new laws regulating traffic management. It is hoped that the results will encourage the widespread deployment of Quality of Service practices and thus enable further development of novel Internet applications. The research will also encourage interdisciplinary teaching of networking technology, economics, and law through further development of a novel undergraduate course on The Internet and Public Policy. The research, if successful, will inform ISPs and regulators, and potentially improve both the functional character of the Internet and the revenue opportunities of the ISPs.

网络研究有关互联网服务技术技术的研究导致了已广泛纳入路由器的标准。但是，使用服务实践的使用非常有限。互联网服务提供商已经实施了服务实践来支持自己的语音和视频服务，但不向其订户提供服务质量的技术，以供任何其他互联网应用程序使用。互联网服务提供商没有将服务质量实践纳入与其他互联网服务提供商的协议中，因此，在互联网上无法提供服务质量。服务质量实践的部署有限引发了关于网络中立性的激烈辩论，这是数十年来最有争议的电信公共政策问题之一。该项目将解决在整个互联网上广泛广泛无法提供服务质量技术的可用性。它将采用跨学科方法，将网络体系结构，经济学和法律整合在一起。该项目将有三个目标。首先，它将创建和分析网络体系结构和经济模型，这些模型可以洞悉互联网服务提供商何时选择为应用程序提供商以外的应用程序提供商提供服务质量的技术。其次，它将考虑通信法可能如何影响服务实践质量的发展。第三，它将说明用户，互联网服务提供商和应用程序支持者之间的潜在技术和经济安排，这些方案可以以与调节交通管理的新法律一致的方式广泛地部署服务质量。希望结果将鼓励服务质量实践的广泛部署，从而进一步开发新的互联网应用程序。这项研究还将通过进一步发展互联网和公共政策的新本科课程来鼓励网络技术，经济学和法律的跨学科教学。该研究（如果成功）将为ISP和监管机构提供通知，并有可能提高互联网的功能性和ISP的收入机会。