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.

该 I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是通过提供可扩展、自组织、自修复、虚拟专用网络连接设备来启用和支持新兴的物联网 (IoT) 应用程序。云到网络边缘。边缘计算包含越来越多的技术，可在传感器和物联网设备的地理邻近范围内实现数据存储和处理。 该技术为智能城市、制造、国防、遥感/监控/分析、广告和娱乐等各种新兴应用提供低延迟响应时间和高吞吐量数据访问的基础。具体来说，该项目将通过使现有应用程序能够在多个提供商的地理上分散的异构边缘计算资源之间无需修改的情况下进行通信，来推进有可能降低边缘计算应用程序的开发、部署和管理成本的技术。这些功能预计将为系统集成商和/或应用程序开发人员带来直接好处，他们构建的产品可以将该服务纳入并利用作为其各自解决方案的一部分。这个 I-Corps 项目致力于边缘计算网络虚拟化技术的商业化，建立在自管理和自组织软件定义覆盖网络的研究和开发之上。该系统组装其基本抽象（组织为结构化对等覆盖拓扑的互联网隧道的数据平面），然后以对应用程序透明的方式自主路由虚拟网络流量。其去中心化方法已被证明是灵活的、可扩展的并且能够适应故障。物联网 (IoT) 类应用程序或网络物理解决方案的工作流程严重依赖于分布在多个地理位置的设备和应用程序之间基于互联网协议 (IP) 的通信。这些环境通常会包含大量异构设备，这些设备具有复杂、不断发展的网络配置，手动管理具有挑战性且容易出错——该项目在网络层直接解决了这些挑战。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已被通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。