Networking Research Laboratory

Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin


Research activities of the laboratory span the entire development cycle of network protocols, from design and specification, to verification, testing, performance analysis, implementation, and performance tuning. There are two currently funded research projects. The first project is on research, design, and implementation of a set of network security services, including an authentication service (called SNP), an authorization service for securely offloading the access control function from application servers, and a scalable group key management service for multicast applications. The second project is on end system and network support for providing end-to-end quality of service guarantees to "application data units," which includes research on operating system techniques, high-performance routing and switching, as well as scheduling and admission control algorithms.

Laboratory research projects are supervised by Simon S. Lam, Professor of Computer Sciences. Research funding has been provided by National Science Foundation, NSA University Research Program, Texas Advanced Research Program, ATT Foundation, and Lockheed.


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