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NSF Funds Next-Gen Network Research

By Leila Meyer
02/14/14

The National Science Foundation has granted seven awards of $300,000 each to university research projects that aim to develop next-generation network technologies.

The awards are part of the Japan-United States Network Opportunity (JUNO) program, which was established to address the problem of supporting trillions of network-connected devices as the "Internet of things," which includes smartphone and tablets, as well as Internet-connected home appliance, residential and environmental sensors and vehicles, explodes in growth.

The JUNO program is a collaboration between the NSF and the Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It supports joint research project between the United States and Japan, with NSF funding the U.S. researchers and NICT funding the Japanese researchers involved in the projects.

The seven university research projects that were granted JUNO awards include:

"Virtual Mobile Cloud Network for Realizing Scalable, Real-Time Cyber Physical Systems" with researchers from Rutgers University New Brunswick;
"Collaborative Research: Energy-Efficient Hyper-Dense Wireless Networks with Trillions of Devices" with researchers from Florida International University and the University of Miami;
"Collaborative Research: ACTION: Applications Coordinating with Transport, IP, and Optical Networks" with researchers from University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Virginia;
"Service Offering Model and Versatile Network Resource Grooming for Optical Packet and Circuit Integrated Networks" with researchers from North Carolina State University;
"Collaborative Research: Location-Based Forwarding and ID-Based Routing (LORIF) for the Future Internet" with researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Liberty University;
"Cognitive Security: A New Approach to Securing Future Large Scale and Distributed Mobile Applications" with researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and
"Cost-Effective and Scalable Architectures for Multi-Granular Optical Networks" with researchers from George Washington University.

According to information from NSF, the research projects will advance networking technologies in the areas of optical networking, mobile computing and network design and modeling.

Further information about the JUNO program and awards can be found on the National Science Foundation's site.

About the Author

Leila Meyer is a technology writer based in British Columbia. She can be reached at [email protected].

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