Program Goals
We believe that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication infrastructure. Further, we believe the Internet's shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and 'backward-compatible' style of academic and industrial networking research. The proposed program will focus on unconventional, bold, and long-term research that tries to break the network's ossification. To this end, the research program can be characterized by two research questions: "With what we know today, if we were to start again with a clean slate, how would we design a global communications infrastructure?", and "How should the Internet look in 15 years?" We will measure our success in the long-term: We intend to look back in 15 years time and see significant impact from our program.
Cool Events
Stanford Computer Forum 2008 Annual Affiliates Meeting. Hear talks from leaders around the world and from local experts on technology and business trends that are driving the vision of the Programmable Open Mobile Internet... Read more
Spurred on by a widespread belief that TCP is showing its age and needs replacing - and a deeper understanding of the dynamics of congestion control - the research community has brought forward many new congestion control algorithms. There has been lots of debate about the relative merits and demerits of the new schemes; and a standardization effort is under way in the IETF.... Read more
Cool Projects
Virtual world systems are very demanding on the network and push the Internet as currently deployed to its limits...Read more
The FCC today maintains relatively tight control of spectrum access, through a variety of regulations and licensing programs...Read more
OpenFlow is a way for researchers to run experimental protocols in the networks they use every day. OpenFlow is based on an Ethernet switch or WiFi access point, with an internal flow-table and a standardized interface to add and remove flow entries. Network switch vendors will add OpenFlow to their switch products for deployment in college campus backbones and wiring closets....Read more














