Application-layer Internetworking for the Internet of Things

物联网应用层互联

• 批准号: RGPIN-2020-05908
• 负责人: Liebeherr, Jorg
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=717409
• 关键词: Application; layer; Internetworking; Internet; Things

The explosive increase of network-enabled sensors, actuators, and other cyber-physical systems, referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), together with the proliferation of proprietary network infrastructures that largely bypass the public Internet, requires new solutions for interconnecting large numbers of heterogeneous networks. This project seeks to develop an internetworking architecture that is based on self-organizing application-layer networks. Self-organizing means that devices use all their communication modalities to detect and establish connectivity with other devices to form a network. All nodes of an application-layer network participate in relaying data between sources and destinations of information. Application-layer internetworking refers to the interconnection of devices with attachment points in different network infrastructures at the level of application programs. The long-term objective of this project is to explore the foundations of application-layer internetworking and develop new protocol solutions that enable and facilitate such internetworking. The project will address challenges of integrating low-power IoT devices into the novel internetworking architecture, and addresses scalable routing, resilience to failures, and network policies. The proposed research program seeks to make contributions to a future of highly interconnected networks of IoT and legacy devices. A separate thrust, but an integral part of the project, is the development of new traffic control algorithms using the framework of network calculus theory. Novel trends in technology, such as the ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) service in 5G networks, have increased the demand for novel scheduling and shaping algorithms. We seek to design algorithms that are based on the sound mathematical principles of the network calculus and that allow an efficient implementation in deployed systems. Doing so we seek to develop theoretical underpinnings for scheduling and shaping algorithms in modern communication networks. By providing implementations of the developed scheduling and shaping methods, the project seeks to close the gap between the outcome of academic research and deployable technologies. Research activities of this project involve theoretical and experimental research, including the design of algorithms, protocol design and implementation, as well as analytical performance evaluation, simulations, and measurement experiments.

被称为物联网（IoT）的爆炸性增大，其启用网络的传感器，执行器和其他网络物理系统，以及很大程度上绕过公共Internet的专有网络基础架构的扩散，需要新的解决方案，以互连大量的异构网络。该项目旨在开发基于自组织应用程序层网络的互联网工作体系结构。自组织意味着设备使用所有通信方式来检测并建立与其他设备形成网络的连接。应用程序层网络的所有节点都参与信息来源和信息目的地之间的中继数据。应用程序层互联网工作是指设备与应用程序级别不同网络基础架构中的附件点的互连。该项目的长期目标是探索应用程序层互联网工作的基础，并开发新的协议解决方案，以实现和促进这种互联网。该项目将解决将低功率IoT设备集成到新颖的互联网架构中的挑战，并解决可扩展的路由，对失败的弹性和网络策略。拟议的研究计划旨在为物联网和传统设备的高度相互联系网络的未来做出贡献。 项目的单独推力是项目的组成部分，是使用网络演算理论的框架开发新的交通控制算法。技术的新型趋势，例如5G网络中的超级可靠的低延迟通信（URLLC）服务，已经增加了对新型调度和塑造算法的需求。我们试图设计基于网络演算的合理数学原理的算法，并允许在部署的系统中实现有效实现。 这样做，我们试图为现代通信网络中的调度和塑造算法开发理论基础。通过提供开发的调度和塑造方法的实施，该项目试图缩小学术研究结果和可部署技术的结果之间的差距。 该项目的研究活动涉及理论和实验研究，包括算法的设计，协议设计和实施以及分析性能评估，模拟和测量实验。