FIND: Future Internet Design Informational Meeting November 7, 2006

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FIND Future Internet DesignInformational
Meeting November 7, 2006

• Darleen Fisher
• CISE
• National Science Foundationdlfisher_at_nsf.gov

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FIND Challenge to the Research CommunityCreate
the Future Internet you want to have in 10-15
years

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The Future Internet

• Must
• Be worthy of our societys trust
• Even for managing and operating critical
  infrastructures
• Provide a bridge between physical and virtual
  worlds
• Via instrumented and managed sensorized physical
  environment
• Support pervasive computing
• From wireless devices to supercomputers
• From wireless channels to all optical light-paths
• Enable further innovations in SE research
• Seamless access to networked instruments,
  supercomputers, storage, etc.
• Create a social world in which we would want to
  live

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What is Different This Time?

• Clean-slate approach
• To overcome Internet ossification
• Research not constrained by the features of the
  current Internet
• But does not mandate rejecting what currently
  works
• A comprehensive coordinated effort
• Ability to try different approaches (We do not
  have a preconceived idea of what they are)
• Ability to experiment at scale
• With real users and applications

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Success Scenarios

• Internet evolution influenced by clean-slate
  approach
• Alternate Internet architecture emerges
• Alternate architecture(s) coexist with the
  current Internet
• Virtualization becomes the norm with plurality of
  architectures
• Single architecture emerges and dominates
• New services and applications enabled
• Many other payoffs
• Some unexpected

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FIND - Different Process

• Goal oriented ? Future Internet
• Not typical for NSF research programs
• Area has a longer timescale with sustained
  funding
• Three phases -- iterative and overlapping
• Exploration of architectural components and 1st
  cut overarching architectures
• Convergence into multiple full-scale
  architectures
• Experimentation of architectures at scale
• Competitive cooperation model
• Competition to bring out the best
• Cooperation to build on each others work to
  deliver Future Internet
• Competition Proposal reviews
• Cooperation Among awardees
• Regular meetings -- three times a year
• Commitment to openness and transparency

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Stages of Research2006-2007

• Research on architectural elements
• Naming, identities, forwarding, interdomain
  protocols, etc.
• 1st Cut overarching architectures
• Cross-cutting requirements of built-in security,
  robustness, and manageability etc.
• Transformational architectural ideas (like packet
  switching was for the Internet)

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Stages of Research2007 and Later

• Coordinated effort to assemble overarching
  coherent architectures
• Multiple PI meetings to formulate architectures
• FIND awardees
• But also other architectural researchers e.g.
  funded by NeTS, CyberTrust, DARPA, industry,
  internationally funded researchers, etc.
• Small number of architectures developed

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Stages of Research2008 and Later

• Architectures as they emerge will be made
  operational and tested
• Simulation
• Emulation
• Run on a large-scale GENI facility
• Experiment with new architectures at scale

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• Where are we now?

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FIND 2006

• 26 of 98 projects awarded
• some 1 year seed investments
• NeTS 40M
• FIND 15M (38 of NeTS)

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FIND 2007

• NSF 07-507 January 22, 2007 deadline
• First FIND PI meetings
• Begin to create a FIND community and identify
  areas of commonality and differences, open
  research areas
• FIND project descriptions at
  http//nsf-find.cs.umn.edu
• Process for including FIND-like researchers from
  industry, international and academics funded
  elsewhere

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FIND Portfolio

• New architecture principles
• Composable architectural building blocks
• Recursive network architecture
• Delay tolerant network architectures
• Disaster networks
• Cache and forward network (for large files)
• Network technology and architectures
• Wireless Networks
• Optical Networks
• Higher barbe more architectural
• Services architectures

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FIND Portfolio

• Virtualization
• New layer 2 hour glass
• New e2e services from virtual nodes links
  (multiple hour glasses)
• Sensor networks
• Security
• Default off and least knowledge
• Packet attribution with privacy preservation
• Routing
• User controlled routes

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FIND Portfolio

• Object identity and naming
• Handles for naming, security communication
  paradigms
• Usable namespaces for small devices
• Economics and network architectures
• Market enabling architectures
• Management
• Manageability in routing systems
• Model-based diagnosis of the knowledge plane

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Lessons from FIND 2006

• Is it networking? Does it belong in NeTS?
• Is it architectural? Does it belong in FIND? How
  well does it address architectural issues?
• Is it clean slate? Is it appropriate for a
  Future Network?
• Is there evidence of a deep understanding of the
  (hard) issues?
• Will it scale?
• Can it be secure?
• What about overhead or complexity?
• Is it economically viable?
• Have ideas already been tried?need good
  understanding of the literature and history of
  the field when rethinking old ideas

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Lessons from FIND 2006

• Is there a unifying theme of ideasor just a
  grab bag of ideas?
• Is there an evaluation plan for the new ideas?
• Is there a well developed plan for the
  integration of education and research?
• How will the PIs involve students in the FIND
  research?
• What is the broader impact if successful? Does
  the idea matter? Want to hear if successful,
  these ideas would have a profound positive impact
  on the Future Network.

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Lessons from FIND 2006

• Too many ideas merely extensions of current
  Internet or P2P networks
• Too many were technology, not architecture
  proposals
• Too many use assumptions appropriate for the
  current Internet
• Not just fix the Internet mentality
• It does NOT have to fit within todays vision of
  GENIs capabilityGENI will evolve

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Guidance to FIND Proposers

• Think of creative yet well-considered ideas
• Clearly show how the proposed work addresses one
  or more Future Internet requirements (e.g.
  built-in security, economic viability,
  manageability)
• May submit architectural components,
  architectural theory, 1st cut overarching
  Architectures (not just critique of Internet)
• Discuss how your work would fit into a larger
  overall network architecture

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FIND Review Criteria

• Intellectual Merit
• Broader Impact
• How well the work addresses architectural
  requirements
• How well the proposed work relates to and
  enhances overall architectural framework
• Importance of work to framing a new architecture

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NeTS Program Directors 2007

• FINDDarleen Fisher Allison Mankin
• NBDDarleen Fisher
• WNDavid Goodman (leaves 2/06)
• Recruiting new PD with wireless networking
  expertise
• NOSSDavid Du

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Allison Mankin

• Co-program director FIND (with Darleen Fisher)
• Co-program director GENI (with Guru Parulkar)
• Consultant, Shinkuro, Inc., Bell Labs, USC/ISI,
  NRL, U. Wisc (visiting scientist), MITRE
• Author of many published networking research
  papers
• Co-editor IPng Internet Protocol Next Generation
  1995
• Co-Director, IETF Process for Selection of the
  Next Generation Internet Protocol
• Director, CAIRN (successor to DARTnet)
• Internet2 Abilene Technical AC
• Area Director, Internet Engineering Steering
  Group
• Chair, IETF Geolocation Privacy WG (ongoing)
• ICANN Security Stability Committee
• Member of various boards, directorates, and
  working groups

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David Clark

• FIND Architecture and Outreach Coordinator
• Remain a member of the research community, but
  work with NSF community
• Plan PI meetings
• Identify FIND research priorities
• Lead FIND team-building
• Help FIND researchers frame new architectures
• Outreach to researchers funded elsewhere
• Outreach to international FIND-like researchers
• Provide linkage between FIND and GENI

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900-1015  Welcome (Grand Dominion
I-IV) Darleen Fisher, Program Director,
NeTS       FIND Program Past and Future      
Introduction of Allison Mankin, Program
Director, NeTS Introduction of David Clark, MIT,
FIND Architecture and Outreach Coordinator The
Challenge of Thinking Architecturally -- David
Clark 1015 Break (Upper Rotunda) 1030-1200
FIND Principal Investigator
Panel-Experience in Writing Funded FIND
Proposals (Grand Dominion I-IV)       Nick
McKeown, Stanford       Nick Feamster, GA
Tech       Ken Calvert, University of
Kentucky 1200-100 Lunch (Fairfax Dining Room
13) 100-200 FIND Reviewer PanelAdvice about
Writing FIND Proposals (Grand Dominion
I-IV)       Jorg Liebeherr, University of
Toronto       Craig Partridge, BBN       K. K.
Ramakrishnan, ATT Labs-Research 200-300
Questions and Answers