networks research centre

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networks research centre

• Bob Briscoe
• Oct 2004

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networks research centre - themes

• networks of x
• x computers, devices, people, physical phenomena
• necessity of relaying infrastructure
• commercial service vs. collaborative self-supply
• incentives
• for collaborative self-supply
• for commercial service (viability)
• social costs (e.g. congestion, loss-of-privacy)
• regulation public policy
• collaborative vs. polity

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networks research centre - expertise

• networking architecture, layering, interconnect,
  naming addressing
• network games, network security
• network pricing, business models
• distributed systems, platforms
• messaging, group communications
• technical, economic, social

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network research centre

• control aspects of networking
• economics and motivation as guiding principles

p2p motivation
collabspectrum
comms companies
deep pktinspection
public agencies
architecture
CII
IP e2e QoS