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Cubicon Clean Slate Semantic Net

Cubicon Clean Slate

Cubicon can contribute to the Clean Slate Design for the Internet program by providing a very useful net-centric operating environment to accelerate network research. This environment is aligned with the objectives of the GENI Distributed Services and Facility Security goals outlined in the 2006 draft specification publications.

Cubicon has been designed primarily to collapse the traditional 4 through 7 ISO stack layers. This consolidated architecture provides a concrete infrastructure that could guide future lower-level network research and development to support the following advanced higher-level characteristics provided by Cubicon:

Intelligent networking substrate

• Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) performed in router and switch backplanes provide wire speed content analysis without parsing or acceleration hardware for execution of smart, network-aware services.
• Virtual Active Networking (VAN) capabilities are owned and operated by a network provider and allow users to install and execute services on the network that may be simultaneously shared among many users. Customized stream processing is applied for application-aware routing, information caching, multi-user communications and packet filtering. Rapid service deployment and flexible service management is performed through a high abstraction, visual language interface.

Wireless support in ad-hoc and mesh nets

• Efficient real-time processing by compact context engine in physically-limited devices and sensors (context-based garbage collection and intrinsic cube operation execution).
• Efficient content transport is performed through a secure and compact medium (not XML) over low bandwidth channels.
• Dynamic context device delivery supports interactive vehicle safety, information and entertainment applications using advanced asynchronous mechanism (AJAX-like, but fully automated).
• In-network storage supports hop-by-hop transport, caching and opportunistic delivery.
• Proxy topology enables a person to be represented through several devices through a virtual IP address to route syndicate and mail content based upon their preferences.
• Object-to-object message passing provides application interoperability between nodes within a virtual private domain.
• Content-aware service response based upon relationship code, geography and schedule objectives.

Inherently secure network eco

• Late context binding to binary content provides adequate IP obscurity for many applications without evoking encryption overhead.
• Community-sourced context effectively inhibits rogue behavior from node execution eliminating the need for signature- and behavior-based security techniques.

Resource provisioning model

• Grid and P2P computing supported through slice management of a cluster of edge nodes to provide data exchange, sharing and migration capabilities. Default core protocol transfer mechanism can be overridden to enable experimental protocol research experiments in a robust and secure net environment.
• Visual process- and control-flow language declarations enable rapid design iteration and management of advanced experimental algorithms.

Economic policy support

• Capacity-based resource allocation mechanism enables a domain manager to specify provisioned node processing and storage usage policy through non-reputable access keys.
• Context reuse based upon recombinant core component mechanism that supports IP selective disclosure policy for virtual supply chain economy to become self-sustaining.

Semantic computing

• Topic map declaration by communities and entities convey knowledge about resources through a superimposed layer, or map, of the resources. These maps of associated concepts provide the required infrastructure to enable a Semantic Net to naturally evolve through the contributions of many domain participants.

Universal storage substrate

• Context-based schema unifies hierarchal, relational, object and markup schemata that enable a singular representation between dynamic and persistence states that vastly simplifies data, information and knowledge representations. Persistent context is automatically virtualized to storage as an orthogonal dimension of a node’s memory manager, thus greatly simplifying grid and in-network data distribution.

True hypertext substrate

• Cleartext mechanism overcomes limitations of the WWW reliance on the markup paradigm in the representation of semi-structured data. Cleartext provides complex linking and analytic processing of non- sequential writing for new forms of publishing, sharing and behavior-driven knowledge forms.

Community development

• Intentional software development based upon a finite set of iconic cube components that capture complete design specification that execute directly through a distillation process in a node’s semantic engine. Iconic context-based language used to develop domain-specific languages to meet emerging knowledge age requirements for universal discourse between networked people and devices.

There is a growing awareness that the Cubicon contextual architecture is novel, viable, scalable and addresses fundamental semantic infrastructure requirements. Fully realizing a Semantic Web, a Giant Global Graph, a Semantic Net or whatever one wants to call it needs all the ingenuity mankind can muster. Cubicon has solid science to contribute to its realization.