I-Corps: Software-Defined Overlay Virtual Private Network for Edge Computing

I-Corps：用于边缘计算的软件定义的覆盖虚拟专用网络

• 批准号: 2134548
• 负责人: Renato Figueiredo
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2134548&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Software; Defined; Overlay; Virtual

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to enable and support the emerging class of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications by delivering a scalable, self-organizing, self-healing, virtual private network connecting devices spanning from the cloud to the network's edge. Edge computing encompasses a growing set of technologies that enable data storage and processing within geographic proximity of sensors and IoT devices. This technology provides a foundation of low-latency response times and high-throughput data access for a wide range of emerging applications, such as smart cities, manufacturing, defense, remote sensing/monitoring/analytics, advertising, and entertainment. Specifically, this project will advance technologies that have the potential to lower the cost of development, deployment, and management of edge computing applications by enabling existing applications to communicate without modifications, across a geographically dispersed set of heterogeneous edge computing resources residing on multiple providers. These capabilities are envisioned to be of direct benefit to system integrators and/or application developers who build products that can incorporate and utilize the service as part of their respective solutions.This I-Corps project pursues commercialization of a network virtualization technology for edge computing that builds on the research and development of a self-managing and self-organizing software-defined overlay network. The system assembles its base abstraction (a data-plane of Internet tunnels organized as a structured peer-to-peer overlay topology) and then autonomously routes virtual network traffic in a manner that is transparent to applications. Its decentralized approach has been shown to be flexible, scalable, and resilient to failures. Internet-of-Things (IoT) class applications or cyber-physical solutions exhibit workflows that depend heavily on Internet Protocol (IP) based communications among devices and applications that are distributed across multiple geographic sites. These environments will typically incorporate large numbers of heterogeneous devices that have complex, evolving network configurations that are challenging and error-prone to manually administer - challenges which are directly addressed by this project at the network layer.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.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是通过提供从云到网络边缘的可扩展，自组织，自我建立的，虚拟的，虚拟的，虚拟的专用网络连接设备，来启用和支持新兴类别的应用程序（IoT）应用程序。边缘计算涵盖了一组不断增长的技术，这些技术可以在传感器和物联网设备的地理距离内进行数据存储和处理。 这项技术为各种新兴应用程序（例如智能城市，制造，防御，遥感/监视/分析，广告和娱乐活动）提供了低延迟响应时间和高通量数据访问的基础。具体而言，该项目将推进具有潜力的技术，这些技术有可能通过促使现有应用程序在不进行修改的情况下进行通信，从而降低边缘计算应用程序的开发成本，部署和管理，这些应用程序跨越了多个提供者的地理分散的异构边缘计算资源。这些功能被认为是对系统集成商和/或应用程序开发人员的直接好处，这些系统可以构建可以合并和利用服务作为其各自解决方案的一部分的产品。这项I-Corps项目追求网络虚拟化技术的商业化，以实现网络虚拟化技术，以建立在自我管理和自我组织软件软件覆盖网络的研究和开发的基础上。该系统组装其基本抽象（作为结构化的对等覆盖拓扑组织的Internet隧道的数据平面），然后以与应用程序透明的方式自主路由虚拟网络流量。它的分散方法已被证明是灵活的，可扩展的，并且对失败有弹性。 THINets（IoT）类应用程序或网络物理解决方案表现出很大程度上取决于互联网协议（IP）的通信（IP）的通信，这些设备和应用程序之间分布在多个地理网站上。这些环境通常将结合大量具有复杂，不断发展的网络配置的异质设备，这些配置具有挑战性和错误的手动管理 - 该项目在网络层上直接解决的挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的知识绩效和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过评估的支持。