Internet-Scale Systems Research Group

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 Research Focus

6. 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

7. Emerging Distributed System Architecture Personal Information Management and “Smart Spaces” Distributed Videoconferencing & Room-scale Collaboration Speech and Location Aware Applications ICEBERG Computer-Telephony Services TranSend Extensible Proxy Services MASH Media Processing Services Active Services Architecture Distributed Computing Services: Ninja Computing and Communications Platform: Millennium/NOW

8. 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

9. 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 group’s research results through on-campus participation and retreats • Support the expansion of cadre of researchers with expertise in Internet-scale systems

10. 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 @ Berkeley • To encourage an open research environment, ISRG researchers prefer not to sign non-disclosure agreements

11. Telecomm Equipment Companies Service Companies Computer Companies Participating Sponsors

12. Invitation to Participate ?