Computer Networks at ISI is one of world’s largest and most active research groups focused exclusively on network technologies. With about 50 researchers and staff, our directions include:
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Networks
- sensor networks, active networks, overlay networks, wireless and mobile networks
- network security
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Infrastructure
- Internet infrastructure
- network architecture
- infrastructure protection
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Design and simulation
- network simulation
- protocol design
- traffic and performance modeling
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Other network thrusts
- congestion control
- high-speed communications
- embedded systems
- advanced applications of networking
Research is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and other key federal agencies. Computer Networks researchers also work with businesses to invent, develop and deploy novel networking concepts.
We also collaborate with several research centers based at ISI, or in which ISI plays a significant role, and with the wider networking community.
A distinguished history
ISI’s Computer Networks researchers have been making significant contributions to networking and security research since the Institute’s founding in 1972. In fact, ISI was launched primarily to pursue work on packet switching, the network communications technology that became fundamental to ARPAnet and its successor, the Internet. Previous Division directors include Internet luminaries Jonathan Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Danny Cohen. Our team has created or collaborated on numerous technologies now in wide, daily Internet use, including:
- TCP/IP
- SMTP
- DNS
- Kerberos
- LFN TCP
- PIM
- RPSL
- XBone
- Tethernet
- IPv6
- GAA-API
- Myrinet LAN Drivers
- RSVP
- RSd
- BIRD
- Diffusion Routing Protocol
- LSAM Proxy Cache
- PKI
- BGMP
- MASC
- SDP
- SAP
- vic
- vat
- rat
- ARDP
- CIDF
- ns-2
- mtrace
- dig
- pkt
We’re continuing to pursue experimental networking research in a new era: building future networks of immense scale, extreme density, and unimagined functionality.