NeTS: Large: Collaborative Research: Design Principles for a Future-Proof Internet Control Plane

NetS：大型：协作研究：面向未来的互联网控制平面的设计原则

• 批准号: 2202649
• 负责人: Aditya Akella
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2202649&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Large; Collaborative; Research; Design

One of the big challenges faced in the Internet today is the ever growing complexity associated with the increasingly diverse usage models and growing user expectations about quality of service. The core technology used in the Internet, IPv4 and BGP, is based on technology developed in the 1970's and early 1980's, when the focus of the Internet was providing connectivity between unsophisticated edge networks and applications. In contrast, today's users and service providers want high Quality of Experience, e.g., smooth HD video, responsive e-commerce stores, interactive social networks, etc. Addressing these challenges is hard because both IP and BGP have proven to be very rigid and hard to modify. While there has been much research on clean slate proposals for the Internet data plane, research in the control plane has mostly focused on specific protocols. This project fills this void by using a holistic approach to the design of the Internet control plane that can adapt to efficiently meet the growing demands placed on the Internet.Based on our experience with the XIA future Internet architecture project, we define three separate but related requirements. First, control protocols must be evolvable so they can adapt to future emerging requirements. Second Internet routing protocols must be resource aware. Finally, the Internet control plane must support coordination with the control planes of increasingly sophisticated edge networks such as content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud infrastructure. The project has a broad research agenda that includes research in protocol support for evolvability and resource-awareness in the Internet, the definition of interfaces and techniques for coordination across edge and transit domains, and a control plane architecture that provides support for common control protocol functions such as discovery and control communication. This research uses several real-world drivers including traffic engineering, cloud computing and a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) defense service. Finally, the project will includes an end-to-end experimental evaluation effort using large-scale testbeds such CloudLab, GENI, and PEERING.Intellectual merit: The main intellectual merit of the project is that it addresses three fundamental challenges in for Internet control protocols (evolvability, resource-awareness, and interfaces for coordination across heterogeneous control planes) in an integrated fashion. The results in these three areas will be integrated in a novel control plane architecture for the Internet.Broader Impact: The project will also have significant broader impact. First, tools to run large scale networking experiments across testbeds such as Cloudlab, GENI and PEERING will be made available to the research community. Second, the project will engage undergrad and MS students in the project and integrate results in courses at CMU and UW-Madison, and will organize a DIMACS workshop to engage the community in discussion on the important topic of control plane design for the future Internet. Finally, the holistic approach to rethinking the network control plane can have tremendous impact on the networking research community and industry.

当今互联网面临的最大挑战之一是，与日益多样化的使用模型以及对服务质量质量越来越多的用户期望相关的越来越复杂。 互联网中使用的核心技术IPv4和BGP是基于1970年代和1980年代初开发的技术，当时互联网的焦点是在未教学的边缘网络和应用程序之间提供连通性。 相比之下，当今的用户和服务提供商需要高质量的经验，例如流畅的高清视频，响应式的电子商务商店，交互式社交网络等。解决这些挑战非常困难，因为事实证明，IP和BGP都非常僵化且难以修改。 尽管对互联网数据平面的清洁板提案进行了很多研究，但控制平面中的研究主要集中在特定协议上。该项目通过使用整体方法来设计互联网控制平面，以有效地满足互联网上不断增长的需求。基于我们在Xia未来的Internet体系结构项目中，我们定义了三个单独但相关的要求。首先，控制协议必须是可发展的，以便它们可以适应未来的新兴要求。 第二个互联网路由协议必须是资源知道的。最后，Internet控制平面必须支持与日益复杂的边缘网络（例如内容输送网络（CDN）和云基础架构）的控制平面的协调。 该项目具有广泛的研究议程，其中包括协议支持的研究，以支持互联网中的可发展性和资源意识，跨边缘和运输域协调的接口和技术的定义以及为共同控制协议功能提供支持（例如发现和控制沟通）的控制平面体系结构。 这项研究使用了几个现实世界中的驱动程序，包括交通工程，云计算和大规模分布式拒绝服务（DDOS）国防服务。 最后，该项目将包括使用大规模测试的端到端实验评估工作，例如CloudLab，Geni和Peering。智能优点：该项目的主要知识分子是，它解决了互联网控制协议的三个基本挑战（可再现性，资源了解，资源的了解，资源 - 理解，以及在整合跨越的平面平面之间的协调））。这三个领域的结果将集成到用于互联网的新型控制平面体系结构中。BroaderImpact：该项目还将产生更大的影响。 首先，将向研究社区提供跨测试台（例如CloudLab，Geni和Peering）进行大规模网络实验的工具。其次，该项目将吸引本科生和MS学生参与该项目，并将结果整合到CMU和UW-Madison的课程中，并将组织一个DIMACS研讨会，以吸引社区讨论未来Internet控制平面设计的重要主题。 最后，重新思考网络控制平面的整体方法可能会对网络研究社区和行业产生巨大影响。