Glenn S. Burdett, PhD Student
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

NSF FIND (Future Internet Design)
Funded Project
Nirmala Shenoy, Victor Perotti,
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Technical and socioeconomic studies
Koushik Kar, Aparna Gupta
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Technical and business studies
Murat Yuksel
University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)
Technical studies
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Key project points
• Global Routing vs. Distributed Routing on tiered structure
• Packet Switching vs. Contract Switching
• Multiple Addresses vs. Single Address
Discuss…
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NSF FIND Project Objectives
1. A Scalable and Robust Internetworking
Architecture
2. Scalable Addressing and Ubiquitous Roaming
3. Contract Switching over the Scalable
Internetworking Architecture
4. Economic and Risk flow Analysis of the
Proposed Future Internet
5. Test Bed Implementation
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• NANOG 45 January 25-28th, 2009
• Survey Purpose:
To examine the acceptability of both the current and the improved
Internet architectures

• 90 Responded, or 1/3 of attendees
– ISP 56%
– End user and Others 33%
– Hardware Industry 6%
– Software Industry 4%
– Academics 1%

Performance of Current Internet
3.5
3.4
3.3
3.2
3.1
3
2.9
2.8
2.7
QoS Speed
In terms of QoS, speed and Cost
Cost

Features that need the most improvement
(the feature that has the lowest points need the most improvement)
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Spam Phishing Scalability Hacking Bandw idth Cost of
Features Productivity
Quality

90.00%
80.00%
70.00%
60.00%
50.00%
40.00%
30.00%
20.00%
10.00%
0.00%
The Groups that will influence the adoption of a new Internet technology
ISPs Internet
Companies
Netw ork
Hardw are
Vendors
Groups
EndUser Govt Other Group
From a study of Internet stakeholders to evaluate the adoption of a new Internet infrastructure. Initial 90 respondents from NANOG 45 2009

• Moving beyond network simulations
• Linux test bed in lab
• MPLS
– to implement the proposed structure
• Seeking test bed partners

• You are invited for a web conference or visit
• See you at NANOG 47
• gsburdett@gmail.com