Research areas

• Funded projects
• NSF EIN: End-To-End Provisioned Optical Network Testbed for Large-Scale eScience Applications
• DOE SCIDAC: Enabling Supernova Computations by Integrated Transport and Provisioning Methods Optimized for Dedicated Channels
• NSF ITR: Fast File Transfers Across Optical Circuit-Switched Networks
• NSF: Hardware acceleration of signaling protocols
• Verizon: Automation of network element testing (specifically SS7 STPs)


• General research
• Optical networking
• Support of voice telephony on 802.11 LANs
• Datacasting on digital TV channels
• Internetworking of different types of networks. Types of networks include:
• circuit-switched (e.g. PSTN, SONET/SDH or WDM)
• connectionless PS (e.g. IP)
• connection-oriented PS (e.g., MPLS, ATM)