FIA-NP: Collaborative Research: The Next-Phase MobilityFirst Project - From Architecture and Protocol Design to Advanced Services and Trial Deployments

FIA-NP：协作研究：下一阶段 MobilityFirst 项目 - 从架构和协议设计到高级服务和试验部署

• 批准号: 1345256
• 负责人: William Lehr
• 金额: $ 18万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1345256&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FIA; NP; Collaborative; Research; Next

The Next-Phase MobilityFirst (MF) project aims to have a major impact on the architecture of the future Internet by re-architecting it to address the needs of emerging mobile platforms and applications. Adoption of technologies arising from this project may be expected to provide improved efficiency, security and robustness that would benefit both network operators and end-users of the Internet. This project, originally funded as a collaborative research effort under the NSF Future Internet Architecture (FIA) program (2010-13) in which the MF architecture was designed over the past 3 years, is centered on a new name-based service layer which serves as the narrow-waist of the protocol; this name-based services layer makes it possible to build advanced mobility-centric services in a flexible manner while also improving security and privacy properties. The architecture incorporates novel storage-aware routing techniques which provide significant improvements in mobile network capacity and functionality. The next phase of the MobilityFirst project is aimed at making the transition from early-stage architecture and prototyping to advanced real-world services and trial network deployments. The research and experimental trials agenda is aimed at validating and refining the core name service, routing, security and management components of the MF architecture, while also responding to emerging trends in network technology and services such as the cellular mobile data explosion, the growth of content, the emergence of cloud computing, and software-defined network (SDN) technology. Intellectual Merit: This project includes several research thrusts aimed at transitioning the MobilityFirst architecture to advanced services and field deployable technology. These include: (1) advanced name-based network services and development of enhanced global name service (GNS) technology; (2) network security and privacy designs and enhancements; (3) design of advanced content services; (4) application of MobilityFirst protocols to next-generation mobile cloud computing; (5) design of advanced context-aware services; (6) technical and economic study of cellular-Internet convergence; (7) software-defined network (SDN) ready protocol design; and (8) technology platforms, router implementation and deployment strategies. These research thrusts will be informed by three distinct real-world network environment trials: a "mobile data services" trial with a wireless ISP (5Nines) in Madison; WI; a "content production and delivery network" trial involving several public broadcasting stations in Pennsylvania connected by a greenfield optical network called PennREN; and a "context-aware public service" weather emergency notification system (CASA) with end-users in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. These network environment trials are the centerpiece of the proposed project, and are expected to provide a firm basis for validation of the MobilityFirst protocol stack and its usefulness for developing advanced mobile, content, context and cloud applications, while also advancing the technology to the field-deployment stage. Expected outcomes from the project include research results on security, privacy, content/context/cloud services and SDN; MobilityFirst protocol stack software revisions; router technology implementations; multiple real-world trial deployments of the technology; and experimentally supported evaluations of the architecture. This project is a collaborative effort involving Rutgers, UMass, MIT, Duke, U Michigan, U Wisconsin, and U Nebraska with the participation of several industrial research and network environment trial partners.Broader Impacts: The MobilityFirst project will have impact as a new approach to a future Internet that by design addresses mobility and mobile platforms, and as an enabler of new mobile Internet applications of social value such as context-aware emergency notification services. The release of open source protocol software may be expected to help to stimulate further experimental research on future Internet architectures across the networking community. The project also contributes to education and training in the key areas of Internet and mobile network technology.

Next-Phase MobilityFirst (MF) 项目旨在通过重新构建未来互联网的架构来满足新兴移动平台和应用程序的需求，从而对未来互联网的架构产生重大影响。该项目所产生的技术的采用有望提高效率、安全性和稳健性，从而使网络运营商和互联网最终用户受益。该项目最初是 NSF 未来互联网架构 (FIA) 计划 (2010-13) 下的一项协作研究工作，其中 MF 架构是在过去 3 年中设计的，重点是一个新的基于名称的服务层，该服务层服务于作为协议的窄腰；这种基于名称的服务层使得能够以灵活的方式构建先进的以移动为中心的服务，同时还提高了安全性和隐私属性。该架构采用了新颖的存储感知路由技术，显着改进了移动网络的容量和功能。 MobilityFirst 项目的下一阶段旨在从早期架构和原型设计过渡到先进的实际服务和试验网络部署。研究和实验试验议程旨在验证和完善 MF 架构的核心名称服务、路由、安全和管理组件，同时响应网络技术和服务的新兴趋势，例如蜂窝移动数据爆炸、内容、云计算的出现和软件定义网络（SDN）技术。智力优势：该项目包括多项研究重点，旨在将 MobilityFirst 架构转变为先进服务和现场可部署技术。其中包括： (1) 先进的基于名称的网络服务和增强型全球名称服务（GNS）技术的开发； (2) 网络安全和隐私设计和增强； （3）高级内容服务设计； （4）MobilityFirst协议在下一代移动云计算中的应用； (5) 高级情境感知服务的设计； (6) 蜂窝-互联网融合的技术和经济研究； （7）软件定义网络（SDN）就绪协议设计； (8)技术平台、路由器实现和部署策略。这些研究重点将通过三个不同的现实世界网络环境试验来实现：在麦迪逊与无线 ISP (5Nines) 进行的“移动数据服务”试验；威斯康星州；一项“内容制作和交付网络”试验，涉及宾夕法尼亚州的多个公共广播电台，这些广播电台通过名为 PennREN 的新建光纤网络连接；以及达拉斯/沃斯堡地区最终用户的“情境感知公共服务”天气紧急通知系统（CASA）。这些网络环境试验是拟议项目的核心，预计将为验证 MobilityFirst 协议栈及其开发先进移动、内容、上下文和云应用程序的有用性提供坚实的基础，同时还将技术推进到该领域-部署阶段。项目预期成果包括安全、隐私、内容/上下文/云服务、SDN等方面的研究成果； MobilityFirst协议栈软件修订；路由器技术的实现；该技术的多次实际试验部署；并通过实验支持该架构的评估。该项目是罗格斯大学、麻省大学、麻省理工学院、杜克大学、密歇根大学、威斯康星大学和内布拉斯加州大学的合作成果，并有多个工业研究和网络环境试验合作伙伴的参与。 更广泛的影响：MobilityFirst 项目将作为一种新方法产生影响未来互联网的设计旨在解决移动性和移动平台问题，并成为具有社会价值的新移动互联网应用的推动者，例如情境感知紧急通知服务。开源协议软件的发布有望有助于促进整个网络社区对未来互联网架构的进一步实验研究。该项目还为互联网和移动网络技术关键领域的教育和培训做出贡献。