InternetScale Systems Research Group

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Internet-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

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Mission 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

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Strategy

• 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

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Internet-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

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Research 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

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Project 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
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Emerging 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
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Experimental 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
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Benefits 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

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Intellectual 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

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Participating Sponsors
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Invitation to Participate
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