[governance] The Internet Is Broken - Researchers are working to make the Internet smarter

[Jim Fleming]

http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16051,258,p1.html?trk=nl
The Internet Is Broken
The Net's basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten
national security. It's time for a clean-slate approach, says MIT's David D.
Clark.

The Internet Is Broken -- Part 2
We can't keep patching the Internet's security holes. Now computer
scientists are proposing an entirely new architecture.

The Internet Is Broken -- Part 3
Researchers are working to make the Internet smarter

To that end, the NSF effort envisions the construction of a sprawling
infrastructure that could cost approximately $300 million. It would include
research labs across the United States and perhaps link with research
efforts abroad, where new architectures can be given a full workout.

Foundations for a New Infrastructure
The NSF's emerging effort to forge a clean-slate Internet architecture will
draw on a wide body of existing research. Below is a sampling of major
efforts aimed at improving everything from security to wireless
communications.

PLANETLAB
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Focus: Creating an Internet "overlay network" of hardware and
software-currently 630 machines in 25 countries-that performs functions
ranging from searching for worms to optimizing traffic.

EMULAB
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Focus: A software and hardware test ­bed that provides researchers a simple,
practical way to emulate the Internet for a wide variety of research goals.

DETER/University of Southern
California Information Sciences Institute
Marina del Rey, CA
Focus: A research test bed where researchers can safely launch simulated
cyber-­attacks, analyze them, and develop defensive strategies, especially
for critical infrastructure.

WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Laboratory)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Focus: Develops wireless networking architectures and protocols, aimed at
deploying the mobile Internet. Performs research on everything from
high-speed modems to spectrum management.


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