NSF Workshop on Fundamental Research in Networking

6:30pm – 7:30 Registration and Cocktail reception (Garden Room)
7:30 – 8:30 Dinner (Airlie Room)

Thursday, April 24
7:00am – 8:30   Breakfast and Registration                                                     (Airlie Room)
8:30 – 8:45          Welcome and introductions                                                 (East Room)
                           N. Shroff, J. Liebeherr

8:45 – 9:15          Past and Present of Network Research at the NSF         (East Room)
                           A. Jukan

9:15–10:45          Panel 1: Grand Challenges in Networking                         (East Room)
                           Chair: D. Towsley
10:45 – 11:00      Break                                                                  (2^nd Floor, Airlie House)
11:00 – 12:30     Panel 2: Network Applications of the Future                     (East Room)
                           Chair: A. Ephremides

12:30 – 1:30        Lunch                                                                                   (Airlie Room)
1:30 – 4:00          Breakout sessions                             (East, South, West, North Rooms)
4:00 – 4:30          Break                                                                  (2^nd Floor, Airlie House)
4:30 – 6:00          Report back, summarization, report planning                    (East Room)
7:00 – 9:00          Dinner                                                                                   (Airlie Room)

Friday, April 25
8:00am – 8:30   Continental Breakfast.                                                           (Airlie Room)
8:30 – 10:00       Discussion and report planning                                           (East Room)
10:00 – 10:15      Break                                                                  (2^nd Floor, Airlie House)
10:15 – 12:15      Writing breakout groups                   (East, South, West, North Rooms)
12:15 – 12:45      Wrap up, homework, and report completion schedule       (East Room)
12:45 – 1:45:       Lunch                                                                                   (Airlie Room)

Defining a `grand challenge’ as a fundamental problem with broad economic and scientific impact that is currently considered intractable, and whose solution can be advanced by fundamental research, this panel attempts to articulate grand challenge problems in computer networking. What are grand challenges in fundamental networking research? Is the formulation of grand challenges beneficial and useful? A related question, one the importance to networking research, is on the need to develop an “Network Science,” which provides methodological principles as in physics, astronomy, etc.

Panel 2: Network Applications of the Future (Panel chair: Tony Ephremides)

Innovation in computer network technology and research is driven by the needs of emerging applications. In the past, audio and video applications, content distribution, and the world-wide web have stimulated innovation in computer networking. More recently, peer-to-peer applications, mobile devices, and network-enabled sensors have created a new wave of innovation and creativity. Being aware that predicting the impact of new applications is not always accurate (e.g., video-on-demand), and anticipating new applications is not always successful (e.g., peer-to-peer), the panel will try to formulate a vision of future applications, how networks will be used, and how fundamental research in networking, in its various diverse forms, will serve as the enabler of future networks.