Research Groups

Networking

The Networking Group pursues research on Internet architecture. Our group's research interests range from routing protocols and open router platforms to transport protocols, network infrastructure security, and large-scale peer-to-peer systems. In addition, the group contributes to IETF standardization in some of these areas.

The Networking Group consists of ICIR (the ICSI Center for Internet Research), CCIED (the Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses), and several major project areas, including XORP (the eXtensible Open Router Platform project).

ICIR is dedicated to the study of the Internet architecture and related issues. The scientific challenge is to understand the behavior and performance of the current architecture, and to propose modifications to the architecture as required. ICIR has three basic goals: (1) to perform fundamental research on the Internet architecture, (2) to contribute to the Internet community by actively participating in the relevant standards (IETF and Sigcomm) organizations, and (3) to provide a neutral forum where the research community and commercial entities can jointly discuss problems relating to the Internet architecture. ICIR's current research activities include work on network measurement, multicast, congestion control, security, web caching, and performance modeling. CCIED is a joint project of ICSI and the University of California at San Diego. CCIED is focused on understanding the threat posed by Internet worms and related global network attacks and developing automatic systems to detect, respond, and mitigate the damage caused by these attacks.

Professor Scott Shenker leads the Networking Group. He received the 2002 ACM SIGCOMM Award in recognition of his contributions to Internet design and architecture.

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