CI-ADDO-NEW: PhantomNet: An End-to-End Mobile Network Testbed

CI-ADDO-NEW：PhantomNet：端到端移动网络测试平台

• 批准号: 1305384
• 负责人: Jacobus VAN DER MERWE
• 金额: $ 199.85万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1305384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; ADDO; NEW; PhantomNet; End

The importance of mobile devices and the mobile networks that support themcan hardly be overemphasized. Despite fantastic advances in wirelesstechnologies and mobile devices, current mobile network architectures,while packet based, overwhelmingly resemble their circuit-switched forebears.To enable the fundamental research and innovation demanded to advancemobile networking beyond the state-of-the-art, a new facility called PhantomNet,will be developed and coupled with the Emulab testbed at the University of Utah.PhantomNet will be a fully programmable end-to-end mobile testbed withunique features to facilitate research efforts at the intersectionof mobile networking, cloud computing and software defined networking.PhantomNet will enable hands-on teaching in mobile networkingtechnology in a manner that simply does not exist today. Further,the facility will enable forward-thinking research that re-considersthe technical and economic factors involved with the interplaybetween mobile networks, software defined networks and cloud technologies.The availability of a physical facility will help researchers totransition new mobile network designs from theory into practice.Given that a large fraction of the world's population are alreadyusers of such networks, and that fraction is growing, the researchenabled by this infrastructure will have the potential to have trulytransformative impact.

移动设备和支持它们的移动网络的重要性怎么强调都不为过。尽管无线技术和移动设备取得了巨大进步，但当前的移动网络架构虽然基于分组，但与电路交换的前身极其相似。为了实现推动移动网络超越最先进水平所需的基础研究和创新，建立了一个新设施称为 PhantomNet，将与犹他大学的 Emulab 测试平台结合开发。PhantomNet 将是一个完全可编程的端到端移动测试平台，具有独特的功能，可促进移动领域交叉点的研究工作网络、云计算和软件定义网络。PhantomNet 将以当今根本不存在的方式实现移动网络技术的实践教学。此外，该设施还将支持前瞻性研究，重新考虑移动网络、软件定义网络和云技术之间相互作用所涉及的技术和经济因素。物理设施的可用性将帮助研究人员将新的移动网络设计从理论转化为实践鉴于世界上很大一部分人口已经是此类网络的用户，并且这一比例还在不断增长，因此该基础设施支持的研究将有可能产生真正的变革性影响。