Collaborative Research: ENTeR: Enabling NeTwork Research and the Evolution of a Next Generation Midscale Research Infrastructure

协作研究：ENTeR：支持网络研究和下一代中型研究基础设施的发展

• 批准号: 1836715
• 负责人: Ilya Baldin
• 金额: $ 85.44万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1836715&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; ENTeR; Enabling; NeTwork

Over the past decade the Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) has supported a wide range of networking and computing systems research into future internet architectures, Software Defined Networking (SDN), wireless and mobile networks, network hardware and software approaches, network applications, network monitoring, network security, future clouds, distributed computing and edge clouds, and smart cities. GENI has been credited with key contributions including developing a federated approach for provisioning, accessing, and programming distributed cyberinfrastructure through standard abstractions, APIs, and security policies. Experimentation continues today, executed by a growing number of GENI users who are using it both as a research and an educational tool. Recent GENI experiments include work on evaluating future exascale systems, securing scientific workflows, defining and testing novel Software Define eXchange (SDX) architectures, network security research, and routing and transport protocol evaluations.This proposal, Enabling NeTwork Research and the Evolution of a Next Generation Midscale Research Infrastructure (ENTeR) seeks to update, adapt, operate and maintain the existing GENI infrastructure for a two year time period in order to support ongoing at-scale network research experiments. At the same time, the project will engage in planning for next generation experimental research infrastructure. ENTeR will facilitate the transition from GENI to a new platform capable of supporting a much larger experimental research community. The ENTeR team's primary focus will be to ensure that the critical portions of the GENI infrastructure needed by the majority of researchers remain available and relevant. GENI will expand its role as an interconnect fabric between various elements of national experimental cyber infrastructure like NSF Future Clouds (i.e., Chameleon Cloud and CloudLab) and the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Resesearch (PAWR), linking them to campus networks and offering a rich set of new experimental capabilities. This project will provide opportunities for students to work on live distributed infrastructure, troubleshoot real problems, and develop software solutions that will be used by a large community of researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在过去的十年中网络监视，网络安全性，未来云，分布式计算和边缘云以及智能城市。 GENI已获得关键贡献，包括开发一种通过标准抽象，API和安全策略开发联盟的方法来提供，访问和编程分布式网络架构。今天继续进行实验，由越来越多的Geni用户执行，这些使用者既将其用作研究和教育工具。最近的GENI实验包括评估未来的Exascale系统，确保科学工作流程，定义和测试新颖的软件定义交换（SDX）架构，网络安全研究以及路由和运输协议评估。该提案，实现了下一项网络研究以及下一步一代中期研究基础设施（ENTER）试图在两年时间内更新，适应，操作和维护现有的GENI基础架构，以支持正在进行的ATCALE网络研究实验。同时，该项目将计划下一代实验研究基础设施。 Enter将促进从GENI到一个能够支持更大的实验研究社区的新平台的过渡。 Enter团队的主要重点将是确保大多数研究人员所需的Geni基础设施的关键部分仍然可用和相关。 GENI将在国家实验网络基础设施（例如NSF Future Clouds（即Chameleon Cloud and Cloudlab））和高级无线重新搜索（PAWR）的平台（PAWR）等国家实验网络基础架构（例如NSF Future Clouds（即），将其链接到校园网络并提供丰富的集合新的实验能力。该项目将为学生提供实时分布式基础架构的工作机会，对实际问题进行故障排除以及开发软件解决方案，这些解决方案将由大量的研究人员使用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过使用评估的支持。基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评论标准。