The NeTS Program

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The NeTS Program

• Dr. Joseph B. Evans
• Program Director
• Computer and Network Systems
• Computer Information Science Engineering
• National Science Foundation
• INFOCOM 2005
• 15 March 2005
• Miami, Florida

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NeTS Programand Other Programs of Interest
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NeTS Elements

• Currently NSF 05-505 expected 40 million
• Three elements (this time)
• Networking Broadly Defined
• Focus Area 1 Programmable Wireless Networks
• Focus Area 2 Networking of Sensor Systems
• Includes educational efforts

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Cyber Trust Program

• Broad research areas
• Information/Applications
• Systems Software
• Communication Networks
• Fundamentals
• Education and Workforce Development is a required
  component of every proposal
• For technical specialists and generalists
• For the general public
• Multi-Disciplinary
• Spanning technical disciplines
• Exploring relations between technical and social,
  economic, regulatory, legal domains

• Trustworthiness is a system property
• System design may take into account
• Human behavior
• Economics
• Law
• as well as technical considerations
• Includes wireless and sensor network security!

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CISE CRI Program

• CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (NSF
  04-588) replaced
• CISE Research Infrastructure
• CISE Research Resources
• Minority Institutions Infrastructure programs
• CRI supports proposals
• Small (lt300k) with no cost sharing required
• Medium (300k-800k) with 20 cost sharing
  required from PhD granting institutions
• Large (800k-2M) with 30 cost sharing required
  from PhD granting institutions
• CRI supports infrastructure not normally fundable
  under other grants
• Infrastructure Acquisition for projects in areas
  that CISE supports (not necessary to have the
  research currently funded by CISE)
• Community Resource Development from 300k-2M
  with no cost sharing required to create a
  resource for an entire CISE research community
• Next year's deadlines (but may be moved earlier
  in the summer)
• 25 July 2005 for Letters of Intent for Large
  proposals
• 22 August 2005 for full proposals

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NSF MRI Program

• Objectives of Major Research Instrumentation
  Program (MRI)
• Improve the scientific engineering equipment
  for research research training
• Improve quality and expand scope of research
  research training in science engineering
• Foster the integration of research education by
  providing instrumentation for research-intensive
  learning environments
• Assists in the acquisition or development of
  major research instrumentation that is too costly
  for support through other NSF programs
• Maintenance technical support associated with
  instruments also supported
• Proposals may be for a single instrument, a large
  system of instruments, or multiple instruments
  that share a common research focus
• Computer systems, clusters of advanced
  workstations, networks, and other information
  infrastructure components necessary for research
  are encouraged
• Awards for instrumentation range from 100,000 to
  2 million
• Prior program offering information
• FY 2004 program size was about 75 million and
  deadline was 22 January 2004
• Funding rate for the FY 2003 MRI competition was
  approximately 40
• FY 2006 MRI competition has not yet been announced

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Status of Programs
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NeTS Outcomes FY 2004

• FY04 submissions to NeTS
• of proposals of projects
• Broad Area 228 194
• ProWiN 77 62
• NOSS 161 126
• Approximately 35 of the Broad Area proposals
  were on wireless topics
• Overall, approximately 18.5 of the proposals
  were successful

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NeTS Outcomes FY 2005

• FY05 submissions to NeTS
• of proposals of projects
• Broad Area 292 231
• ProWiN 63 51
• NOSS 172 130
• Approximately 40 of Broad Area projects
  submitted are on wireless networking topics

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Cyber Trust Outcomes FY 2004

• Co-funding from DARPA 5M CAREERs add 2M

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Upcoming Solicitations

• NeTS 14 December 2005
• Computer Systems 11 November 2005
• Cyber Trust 6 February 2006
• Computing Research Infrastructure 22 August
  2005
• Workforce / Broadening Participation 14 June
  2005
• NSF Major Research Infrastructure 26 January
  2006

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What You Can Do To Help
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High Impact From Our Research

• High impact means more than just good papers it
  changes practice for the better!
• It is OK to fund high risk, high reward projects
  even if some do not succeed
• It is NOT OK only to fund flawless projects that
  would predictably lead to incremental results

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Help from the Community

• Send your best ideas to NSF
• Consistent with focus goals of the program
• We want high risk / high reward proposals
• Suggest and encourage good panelists who can do
  justice to the proposals and our focus
• Volunteer to be a reviewer and panelist

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Contacts Further Information
www.cise.nsf.gov
Darleen Fisher (dlfisher_at_nsf.gov)
Networking Broadly Defined
Programmable Wireless Networks
Networking of Sensor Systems
www.cise.nsf.gov/prowin/ Joseph Evans
(jbevans_at_nsf.gov)
www.cise.nsf.gov/noss/ Guru Parulkar
(gparulka_at_nsf.gov)
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The NeTS Program