Networking

Overview

The networking group creates network infrastructure capable of delivering  services efficiently (including rich media services) to both enterprises and consumers. Their research spans overlay networking, monitoring and management techniques, resource & service discovery, grids, routing and transport protocols, network architectures, wireless ad hoc systems, internet media delivery, real-time communications, network quality of service, and content distribution. 

To tackle the exponential growth in service composition and distribution on the Internet the networking group is developing an overlay based architecture called OASIS. Their development and testing environment is PlanetLab (www.planet-lab.org).

The technology developed is also a key component of a recent successful research award from DARPA. OASIS (Overlays for Adaptive and Scalable Internet Services) serves as the umbrella project for a number of the networking group's ongoing efforts:

• NetVigator: Scalable Estimation of Network Path Properties including bandwidth (BandAid)
• NodeWiz: Scalable Multi-Attribute Queries on Node Properties
• SmartSeer: Scalable Continuous Query Processing