Networks

Network operators face combined pressures of continuing rapid growth of data traffic, demand uncertainty, and highly cost-sensitive customers and competitors. As a result, carriers and service providers need innovative strategies to support economical network growth with improved operational flexibility, higher service availability, and much greater investment efficiency than in the past.

Distributed Computing

The objective of this research is to develop models and protocols for a public computing infrastructure, taking advantage of new computing paradigms such as grid and peer-to-peer networks for com-puting and communication. This research group envisions a day when network computing power will be available from a jack in the wall much like any other public utility. This research includes new ways of grouping, defining and discovering available resources in a heterogeneous network of peer devices and domains. TRLabs is also defin-ing innovative approaches to establish trust relationships between disparate network domains and to guarantee quality of service in peer-to-peer overlay networks.

Network Modeling and Protocols

The Network Modeling and Protocols group focuses on end-to-end engineering issues that arise in current and future networks. It targets the design and evaluation of information technology and network management approaches from a systems perspective. The group engages in research in the design and analysis of systems that are flexible enough to incorporate changes and evolution in use and configuration, while remaining efficient in their utilization of network resources.

Survivable Networks

Led by an IEEE Fellow with 25 years of experience in the field, TRLabs research on survivable networks has achieved worldwide recognition for continual innovation and leadership in aspects of transport networking technology and theory. Members can access groundbreaking research in network availability, ring, mesh, and hybrid network architectures and network planning and evolution involving IP / MPLS, ATM, SONET and DWDM layer technologies.