About
From the FIND proposal: "To address the limitations of services in the current Internet, this work presents a clean slate Internet architecture, called NetServ, based on the concepts of service virtualization. NetServ strives to break up the functions provided by Internet services and to make these functionalities available as modular building blocks for network services."
NetServ is a research project that aims to make service virtualization possible at the network core. It aims to make router technology more extensible and alow for services to be enabled at the network core, making some classes of applications much faster.
NetServ is a (approximately) four-year project that began in Spring 2009. The project is funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and DoCoMo Labs Europe.
The overall NetServ project is a collaboration between four research laboratories:
- Columbia University (Internet Real-Time Lab)
- Alcatel Lucent (Bell Labs)
- Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
- NTT DoCoMo (DoCoMo Labs Europe)