NSF Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS)

NSF 09-556

nsf grants networking architecture

Basics

Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering

• Division of Computer and Network Systems
  • Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs

Due 5pm local time; submission windows:

• Medium projects: Aug 1--Aug 30
• Large projects: Nov 1--Nov 28
• Small projects: Dec 1--Dec 17

Outline: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503307&org=NSF
Topics: http://www.nsf.gov/cise/cns/nets_pgm.jsp
Call: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09556/nsf09556.pdf

Project Classes

Three tiers of proposals:

• Small: Total budget up to 500000 for up to three years (one or two investigators, one student and/or postdoc
• Medium: Total budget up to 1200000 for up to four years (one or more PIs, several students/postdocs)
• Large: Total budget up to 3000000 for up to five years (two or more PIs, team of students/postdocs)

Expected 80--120 awards

Review Criteria

• Intellectual merit of proposed activity
• Broader impacts of proposed activity
  • Including educational, infrastructure impact
• Integration of research and education
• Integrating diversity into NSF programs, projects, activities
• Collaboration plan

Division Goals

Develop better understanding of fundamental properties of computer and network systems

Create better abstractions and tools for designing, building, and measuring future systems

Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS)

Networks must be available anytime and anywhere

• From any communication device
• Little or no management overhead
• Resilient and adaptive to failure and attack
• Trustworthy

Evolve over time

• New hardware, software, services, requirements
• Growth, load, new link characteristics
• New mobility patterns
• Heterogeneity

Resource efficient

• Energy
• Graceful performance degradation

Network architectures, protocols, technologies

• Personal area and home networks
• Wireless and sensor networks
• Enterprise, core, and optical networks
• Peer to peer and application networks, overlays

Topics

• Interconnection of heterogenous networks
• Resource and service discovery
• Naming and addressing
• Routing and congestion control
• Mobility management at different levels and granularities
• Virtualization
• Link configuration
• In-network intelligence
• Cloud computing
• Network control and management, topology management, monitoring
  • Security
  • Performance measurement
  • Diagnosis
  • Network simulation

Novel frameworks, wmethods, protocols, tools

• Scalable, non-instrusive mechanisms

Bring the network closer to autonomy

• Minimal human intervention

Relevant Topics

• Architectures and protocols for evolvable, reliable and easily manageable large-scale, heterogeneous networks,
• Addressing schemes to support broader semantics for topological location, names, attributes and coordinates,
• Frameworks and approaches to support mobility and enable highly flexible, multi-modal, routing technologies and protocols,
• Cross-layer approaches, mechanisms and protocols for adaptive, survivable and resilient networks operating in extreme and challenging environments,
• Paradigms and abstractions for seamless interoperability and to enable cross component-optimization
• Scalable mechanisms, methodologies and tools for empirical measurements and traffic characterization of large-scale, heterogeneous networks,
• Novel advances in network operations and management, including innovative paradigms, methods, protocols and tools to enable self-managing networks and scalable administration and coordination of network operations,
• Novel advances in network software and technologies, including design methodologies and tools for modular, efficient, and upgradeable protocol design and implementation in large-scale, heterogeneous networks.