IMR:MT: Internet Routing Experiments for the Cloud Era

IMR:MT：云时代的互联网路由实验

• 批准号: 2323307
• 负责人: Ethan Katz-Bassett
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2323307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IMR; MT; Internet; Routing; Experiments

Emerging applications will stress the Internet’s latency, reliability, throughput, and jitter more and more, from video conferencing, to AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality), to self-driving vehicles and traffic control, to remote health monitoring and health care. These applications are increasingly concentrated on a small number of large cloud and content providers. They deploy servers around the world to serve clients over short distances; and they peer directly with many edge networks to directly deliver services. Academic researchers lack realistic experimentation environments for this important setting. Existing testbeds lack the global footprint and rich interconnectivity of large modern providers, and they cannot support the low-latency and high-throughput traffic that emerging applications demand. This project will build a platform that enables researchers to conduct Internet routing experiments in an environment that is faithful to real-world cloud providers. To democratize research in this important setting, this project will build a new software router for existing PEERING testbed capable of supporting high performance; the routers will be deployed at 30 cloud sites across six continents, with nearly 10,000 BGP peers, dramatically expanding PEERING's footprint; and the project will build and make available tools for researchers to conduct experiments in this setting, controlling the routes and traffic exchanged between the cloud sites and the peers, and measuring and archiving the results.The primary impact of this project will be in democratizing access to research in the setting of a globally deployed, highly interconnected cloud network with granular control, one which is critical and central to today's Internet and hence society. By opening this research area to researchers without privileged access to hypergiants and cloud providers, the project will enable cutting-edge research that can shape the Internet and Internet applications of the future, benefiting society. The high-performance software router we build will also be useful in many other settings. The project will also develop class projects that involve real-world experiments in this setting, helping to train students in this critical area.The project will extend the PEERING testbed, and the extensions will be documented on the PEERING website: https://peering.ee.columbia.edu/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.

新兴应用将越来越强调互联网的延迟、可靠性、吞吐量和抖动，从视频会议到 AR/VR（增强现实/虚拟现实），到自动驾驶车辆和交通控制，再到远程健康监控和医疗保健这些应用程序越来越集中于少数大型云和内容提供商，他们在世界各地部署服务器来为短距离的客户提供服务；并且他们直接与许多边缘网络对等以直接提供服务。重要的现有的测试平台缺乏大型现代提供商的全球覆盖范围和丰富的互连性，并且无法支持新兴应用程序所需的低延迟和高吞吐量流量。该项目将构建一个平台，使研究人员能够在特定环境中进行互联网路由实验。为了使这一重要环境中的研究民主化，该项目将为现有的 PEERING 测试平台构建一个能够支持高性能的新软件路由器；这些路由器将部署在遍布六大洲的 30 个云站点上。与几乎10,000 个 BGP 对等点，极大地扩展了 PEERING 的覆盖范围；该项目将为研究人员构建并提供可用的工具，以便在该环境中进行实验，控制云站点与对等点之间交换的路由和流量，并对结果进行测量和存档。该项目的影响将是在全球部署的、高度互连的、具有精细控制的云网络的环境中实现研究的民主化，这对于当今的互联网乃至社会来说都是至关重要的和核心的。通过向研究人员开放这一研究领域。即使没有超级巨头和云提供商的特权，该项目也将实现能够塑造未来互联网和互联网应用的尖端研究，造福社会，我们构建的高性能软件路由器也将在许多其他项目中发挥作用。还将开发涉及此环境中的真实世界实验的课堂项目，帮助培训该关键领域的学生。该项目将扩展 PEERING 测试平台，扩展内容将记录在 PEERING 网站上：https://peering ee。 .columbia.edu/该奖项通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。