Networking Research Laboratory
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.
Current research projects and recent papers
Researchers