This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $240,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research titled "A Stateful Switch Architecture for In-Network Compute." The award period is from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2026. Specifically, MIT researchers will develop a stateful switch architecture and runtime to enable...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems will support Purdue University's research to enable real-time, high-bandwidth network traffic analysis using machine learning on programmable switches. The project aims to develop novel methods for efficiently mapping popular ML models like decision trees and neural networks onto programmable switch hardware, as well as new switch primitives for computing flow statistics. This will...
This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of new technology to verify network-wide properties of dynamic data planes at Princeton University from October 2022 through September 2025. Specifically, the researchers will create formal specification and verification tools to check network configurations prior to deployment and monitor configurations as they execute. These tools will use a...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on developing consolidated data plane management tools for network functions (NFs). The project aims to design efficient algorithms and data structures to automatically manage the deployment and resource usage of multiple co-existing NFs, which are crucial for managing...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a prototype for a load-balancing switch that uses a weighted-cost multi-path scheme to distribute and load-balance workloads in science data center networks. The project aims to overcome limitations of current software-based load balancers and provide accelerated, high-speed load balancing capabilities using...
This Project Grant award for $865,209, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to develop novel tools for implementing and proving the correctness of programmable networking hardware, such as network switches. The project aims to carry out formal proofs of functional correctness for complex optimizations that enable switches to process packets quickly, focusing on justifying the...
This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $567,981 supports new research directions in network design at The Johns Hopkins University from November 2022 to October 2025. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the grant will advance three areas of network design not previously studied at scale: demand-aware topology design for new reconfigurable network technologies; optimization of graph-theoretic objects like geometric...
This Project Grant award of $210,758 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to develop a holistic platform that allows datacenter operators to execute per-packet AI-driven decisions directly within the network at line rate. The key research thrusts include: (1) designing novel data-plane architectures for per-packet AI, (2) implementing high-level, declarative frameworks for expressing AI objectives and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $252,350 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to Purdue University. The four-year grant, beginning October 1, 2024, will fund research and development focused on the foundations of oblivious reconfigurable networks. The project aims to advance the theoretical understanding and practical implementation of dynamically reconfigurable network architectures to efficiently manage...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $236,260 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at The George Washington University to develop critical enablers for future programmable converged wireless-optical networks capable of supporting beyond 5G/6G applications. Specifically, the University researchers will work to design resilient fronthaul architectures using novel power-over-fiber technology; develop automatic edge cloud management and...