WAN in Lab NSF Site Visit

Caltech, March 5, 2003

NSF CISE RI Program: NSF 005

Report: NSF Workshop on Network Research Testbeds

Site team

• NSF: Darleen Fisher and Kevin Thompson
• External:
  • Aaron Falk, ISI
  • Matt Mathis, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center

Agenda

• 8:30 - 8:35 Welcome (Prof Steven Low, PI)
• 8:35 - 9:00 Prof Richard Murray, Chair, E&AS Division

Engineering & Applied Science at Caltech

• 9:00 - 9:30 Prof John Doyle, EE/Control & Dynamical Systems/BioEngineering

Theoretical Foundations and Challenges

• 9:30 - 10:00 Prof Steven Low, CS/EE

  Caltech FAST Project: Overview

• 10:00-10:15 Break

• 10:15-11:15 Prof Steven Low, CS/EE

WAN in Lab

• basic design, equipment, costs
• unique features
• alternatives
• management system
• summary: reviewer concerns, review criteria

• 11:15-11:45 Dr Steve Yip, Optical Networking Dept, Cisco

Cisco-Caltech Collaboration

• 11:45-12:00 Site team caucus
• 12:00-12:15 Discussion of initial impression
• 12:15- 2:00 Lunch, Education & Outreach, Poster sessions

Research talks:

• 2:00 - 2:30 Prof Harvey Newman, Physics

HENP Grids & Networks

• 2:30 - 3:00 Prof Demetri Psaltis, EE

Holographic Wavelength Filters

• 3:00 - 3:30 Dr Cheng Jin, CS

FAST TCP Kernel

• 3:30 - 4:00 Sidharth Jaggi, EE

  Network Coding

• 3:30 - 3:45 Site team caucus
• 3:45 - 4:00 Debriefing: initial comments to PI's
• 4:00 - 5:00 Site team writing session (closed)

Site team package

1. Agenda
2. Slides
3. EAS brochure, CACR brochure, EAS Strategic Plan
4. Response to reviewers' concerns

Panel concerns

1. Project is too narrowly focused on TCP/AQM
2. Alternatives to WAN in Lab not discussed
3. Accessibility and management of WAN in Lab to outside researchers

Review criteria (NSF 005)

• Intellectual merit
• Broader impact (education, diversity, outreach)
• Integration of research & education
• Integrating diversity
• Rresearch enabled that would otherwise be impossible
• Synergy between projects and researchers