Status

Summer 2009

Columbia University: Performance evaluation of NetServ prototype.

Bell Labs: Implementation and possible simulation of a Content Distribution Network (CDN) framework built on top of NetServ.

Spring 2009

Columbia University: Implemented working prototype using

  • Click modular router
  • Java, OSGi (Eclipse Equinox)

Our implementation involved launching a JavaVM (JVM) by writing our own Click module. This JVM, once launched, ran the OSGi (Equinox) container and our custom NetServ modules that can process packets using our modular framework.

About NetServ

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.

Original NSF FIND proposal

Research Partners

  • Columbia University - IRT Lab
  • Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
  • Bell Labs
  • DoCoMo Labs, Europe

Funded by

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • DoCoMo Labs, Europe