Future networks are likely to exhibit unpredictable and complex behavior
and dynamics; to span a broad range of technologies and bandwidths, from
wireless sensors to high-performance, international connections; and to
carry increasingly large amounts of increasingly demanding traffic. This
cluster supports a range of research and education activities in
networking technology and systems. Its goals are to sustain the science
and technology needed to create next-generation networks as well as to
address the limitations of existing networks.
Topical areas of current interest include projects to create
next-generation networks, increase fundamental understanding of large and
complex heterogeneous networks, and continue the evolution of the network
by overcoming existing limitations and by adding new capabilities and
services. Targeted focus areas are programmable wireless networks, which
seek to exploit the capabilities of programmable radios to make more
effective use of the frequency spectrum and to improve wireless network
connectivity; and networking of sensor systems, which seeks to create
architectures, tools, algorithms, and systems that will make it easy to
assemble and configure a network of sensor systems.
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