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 $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to evaluate and address security and privacy threats to programmable networks. Awarded to Cornell University on July 1, 2021 for a three-year period concluding September 30, 2024, the grant funds three main research thrusts. The first focuses on implementing secure and privacy-preserving algorithms on programmable switches. The second...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $544,061 Project Grant to the International Computer Science Institute under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The grant will support research to develop an extensible Internet architecture through interposition at the network layer. The grantee will insert a new layer between the network and transport...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,686 will fund the University of Connecticut (UConn) to design efficient tools that automatically manage the algorithm design, deployment and resource management of multiple co-existing network functions (NFs) through a new concept called consolidated data planes. Key objectives include: Developing an automatic tool to construct consolidated data plane...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $187,180 will support research into hybrid switching in data center networks from October 1, 2022 through July 31, 2023. The grant recipient, Princeton University, will develop systems-driven modeling and principled algorithms to address the challenges of fast, dynamic switching capabilities needed to meet rapidly growing and changing traffic demand patterns in...
Cornell University was awarded a three-year, $399,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research collaborations to hybridize trusted execution environments and secure multiparty computation. Specifically, the university researchers will work to advance the development of research cyberinfrastructure that enables and...
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 $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research on Application Defined Networking (ADN) for cloud computing. The objective is to enable high-performance and efficient communication between microservices in cloud applications by allowing developers to specify communication needs at a high level, which can then be automatically optimized and implemented...
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 $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...