In work at Washington St Louis and Stanford on network virtualization a lot of the research is predicated on lots of fancy hardware for forwarding (viz NetFPGA) (a recent SIGCOMM reject by UCL/Lancaster people on this got multiple GigEs at line rate fairly nicely – a good solid piece of work on mid-range affordable virtualized routers) – but that is virtualized _forwarding_ – the real control plane is the routing protocols- if you want to virtualize that, its because you want multiple co-existing routing computations (possibly for isolated VPNs, or possible for services for different users or for robustness to attack etc etc etc) so then what you want is META routing.

The objective of these symposia is to celebrate idea-sharing sessions on the importance of the technological medium of telematic networks in general, and of the REDIMadrid network in particular, for the development of leading research activity at World level. The collaborative support on the activity of distributed research groups, GRID environments, distributed super-computers and scientific databases are examples of its application to almost any field of scientific research. Two emerging areas of research will be the focus of attention: the e-medicine and the e-participation.

La Feria Madrid por la Ciencia (The Forum for Science) is a key part of the Programa de Ciencia y Sociedad (Science and Society Program) that the Regional Government of Madrid launched in 2000, through the Dirección General de Universidades e Investigación (Directorate-General of Universities and Research). This Program seeks not only to promote dialogue between citizens and scientists, but also to increase the public’s participation in science.

The objective of this course is to learn how to model cellular systems for the use in optimizing the design of this type of network. The course will consist of the following parts: A revision of basic queueing models Analysis of cellular systems with a single cell Channel reservation strategies possibility for the design of systems that optimize performance whilst minimizing the probability of interrupting current sessions Models and algorithms to support the different priorities of existing users Flow guarantees to different users through models of service differentiation Hierarchical cellular structures

This course is focused on the optimization problems that arise in network communications design and planning. First the mathematical techniques involved in constrained optimization are introduced. Then, a taxonomy of network planning problems is reviewed. Representative examples are provided and modeled as constrained optimization problems. After that, algorithm and problem complexity classification is introduced, next to an evaluation of complexity issues in constrained optimization problems. Finally, a section introducing graph theory as a feasible approach for network optimization is included.

  Mext Interim Meeting 2007: Focusing on nemo global development The conference will be conducted in English

Please note: Attendance restricted to members only The meeting will be conducted in English

El pasado 11 de Julio la Fundación IMDEA Networks celebró la reunión anual inaugural de su Consejo Científico en Madrid. La reunión marcó un punto importante en el establecimiento de la fundación de la investigación. Este prestigioso Consejo se compone de once investigadores de los más importantes del Mundo en la tecnología de redes. El Consejo fue presentado a dignatarios, incluyendo representantes senior de la Comunidad de Madrid, quienes crearon y fundaron la iniciativa IMDEA. Tras aceptar formalmente sus cargos como Miembros del Consejo, estos eminentes expertos consideraron varios aspectos de la estrategia científica de la Fundación, lo que ayudará a orientar la dirección de investigación que se debería perseguir en los próximos años.

El pasado día 26 de Junio, IMDEA Networks celebró una reunión con los representantes principales de la industria cuyas compañías han sido invitadas a seleccionar un representante que forme parte de su Patronato, así como otras partes interesadas en el nuevo instituto de investigación internacional.

The international networking research community has begun to focus on ideas for a next generation Internet architecture. Before developing a next generation architecture, however, it seems appropriate to understand what exactly the problems are with the current Internet architecture. There seems to be widespread agreement that mobility and security are the primary problems stressing the current Internet, but exactly what the problems with mobility and security are, and in particular, whether the problems are architectural in nature, is under dispute. In this lecture series, we examined the mobility and security with the intention of understanding the current architecture and what might be done for a next generation architecture.