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 $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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $600,000 over 3 years to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to develop a next-generation framework for in-network lookup engines. The project, titled "NETS: SMALL: Develop Core Techniques and Applications of Learned and Disaggregated In-Network Lookups," aims to replace traditional hash functions with machine learning...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $374,998 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research to develop formal specification and verification tools for dynamic computer network data planes. The tools will check network configurations prior to deployment and monitor configurations as they execute, improving reliability and preventing outages. Researchers will specify...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $123,859 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The grant, titled "DEVELOPING GENERALIZABLE ML MODELS FOR DIVERSE LEARNING PROBLEMS IN NETWORK OPERATIONS," aims to develop a closed-loop machine learning (ML) pipeline that iteratively refines training data collection to improve the generalizability of ML models for network...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $1.2 million to develop a granular, scalable and secure network functions virtualization (NFV) framework for high-performance packet processing at 100 gigabits per second and beyond. The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, will deliver a new NFV platform to support investigator-initiated research and education in...
This Project Grant award 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 $1,841,145 to develop an instrumented multi-platform overlay for networked systems research. Specifically, the awardee, Washington University, will create practical software infrastructure enabling researchers to develop, evaluate, and distribute networking software operating across smartphones,...
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...