NSF Workshop on Mobile Community Infrastructure

NSF 移动社区基础设施研讨会

• 批准号: 1455719
• 负责人: Zhuoqing Mao
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1455719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Workshop; Mobile; Community; Infrastructure

This project funds a workshop on mobile community measurement infrastructure to respond to the growing needs for increased visibility into network behavior to enable cutting-edge research in mobile computing. The workshop will bring together the top researchers in both academia and industry, as well as policy makers from government, to discuss the requirements for such an infrastructure and identify the concrete steps to make progress towards the identified goals. Given the diverse research topics within mobile computing, we will ensure that different research areas and all the important network layers (e.g., physical, MAC, network, transport, and application) are adequately represented at the workshop to ensure a productive outcome from the discussions.Flexible measurement infrastructure support for experimentation are critical for enabling and supporting research work with strong experimental components to help validate ideas and evaluate the design in practice. Mobile computing research work must be evaluated in as realistic network settings as possible to help researchers understand how various factors such as signal strength, network load affect the performance and energy metrics of interest. Currently, there is no environment that enables network visibility from an end-to-end perspective of the cellular network protocol stack: from the end-device all the way to the network server traversing through various network elements. The lack of such an integrated measurement infrastructure greatly hinders the innovation in this important research field. Because it is not trivial to design instrumentation to support diverse needs of researchers in mobile computing, the workshop helps define the goals and requirements of a mobile measurement infrastructure that is designed to last at least 10 years to support cutting-edge research in this space.

该项目资助举办一个关于移动社区测量基础设施的研讨会，以满足日益增长的网络行为可视性需求，从而实现移动计算领域的前沿研究。 该研讨会将汇集学术界和工业界的顶尖研究人员以及政府决策者，讨论此类基础设施的要求，并确定实现既定目标的具体步骤。鉴于移动计算领域的研究主题多种多样，我们将确保不同的研究领域和所有重要的网络层（例如物理、MAC、网络、传输和应用）在研讨会上得到充分代表，以确保讨论取得富有成效的成果对实验的灵活测量基础设施支持对于通过强大的实验组件启用和支持研究工作至关重要，以帮助在实践中验证想法和评估设计。 移动计算研究工作必须在尽可能真实的网络设置中进行评估，以帮助研究人员了解信号强度、网络负载等各种因素如何影响感兴趣的性能和能量指标。 目前，还没有任何环境能够从蜂窝网络协议栈的端到端角度实现网络可见性：从终端设备一直到穿过各种网络元件的网络服务器。 缺乏这种综合测量基础设施极大地阻碍了这一重要研究领域的创新。 由于设计仪器来支持移动计算研究人员的不同需求并非易事，因此研讨会帮助定义了移动测量基础设施的目标和要求，该基础设施的设计寿命至少为 10 年，以支持该领域的前沿研究。