Title: Internet-Scale Systems Research Group
1Internet-Scale Systems Research Group
- Eric Brewer
- David Culler
- Anthony Joseph
- Randy Katz
- Steven McCanne
- Computer Science Division
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
2Mission Statement
- Lead the evolution of the Internet through
fundamental protocol and systems research - Grounded in real-world prototypes that are
deployed across diverse user communities - Unify on-going and future research projects
- Facilitate technology transfer and
standardization - Work closely with industrial partners in an open
laboratory environment
3Strategy
- Leverage interdisciplinary systems expertise in
network-based applications, scalable services,
network-connected computing platforms - Work collaboratively across applications, OS,
networks, architecture - Interact closely with industry, to obtain early
access to leading edge technologies and
facilitate tech transfer - Cultivate ties with Bay Area networking and
systems research community
4Internet-Scale Systems
- Extremely large, complex, distributed,
heterogeneous, with continuous and rapid
introduction of new technologies - Feasible architectures
- Decentralized, scalable algorithms
- Dynamically deployed agents where they are needed
- Incremental processing/communications growth
- Cross-layer protocol design and optimization
- Prototyping and deployment-driven
5Research Focus
- Protocols
- TCP enhancements
- Link-layer protocols
- Multicast
- Real-time streaming
- Web transport
- Security and E-Commerce
- Infrastructure Services
- Scalability
- Availability
- Pervasive Computing
- Mobility
- Proxies/Transcoders/Network Agents
- Active Services
- Novel Applications and Architectures
6Project Synergies
TranSend TACC Model Wireless Access
NINJA Scalable, Secure Services Computation in
the Network Smart Spaces as an
app Event-Response Programmable Access
BARWAN Wireless Overlay Networks Scalable Proxies
RTPGateway Service Discovery
vic, vat, wb
MASH Collaboration Applications Active Services
NOW/Millennium Computing Platform
MASH Toolkit Active Services Model
7Emerging Distributed System Architecture
Personal Information Management and Smart Spaces
Distributed Videoconferencing
Room-scale Collaboration
Speech and Location Aware Applications
ICEBERG Computer-Telephony Services
MASH Media Processing Services
TranSend Extensible Proxy Services
Active Services Architecture
Distributed Computing Services Ninja
Computing and Communications Platform
Millennium/NOW
8Experimental Testbed
Fax
IBM WorkPad
Image/OCR
Text
Speech
MC-16
Ericsson
CF788
Motorola Pagewriter 2000
WLAN
Pager
306 Soda
405 Soda
326 Soda Colab
GSM BTS
Network Infrastructure
Millennium Cluster
Smart Spaces Personal Information Management
Millennium Cluster
9Benefits of Sponsorship
- Involvement with outstanding Berkeley graduate
students - Participation in portfolio of large-scale,
inter-disciplinary, pre-competitive research
efforts with only modest investment - Access to all ISRG-developed software,
prototypes, simulation tools, and testbeds - Early access to groups research results through
on-campus participation and retreats - Support the expansion of cadre of researchers
with expertise in Internet-scale systems
10Intellectual Property Issues
- All ISRG results placed in the public domain
- Widely disseminated and distributed for
educational and research purposes - Research reports, Web site
- Sponsors can receive non-exclusive, no-fee
licenses for commercialization - Only sponsors participate in twice yearly
retreats - First ISRG Retreat 11-13 January 1999Sunday, 10
January 1999 Demo Day _at_ Berkeley - To encourage an open research environment, ISRG
researchers prefer not to sign non-disclosure
agreements
11Participating Sponsors
12Invitation to Participate
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