The Gigabit Ethernet Project

Project description

This page describes the problem being addressed in the Gigabit Ethernet Project.

Summary statement

This project addresses traffic characterization and switch architectures for high-speed packet switched networks with variable length packets. Switching at higher layers (i.e., "application-layer" switching), as an extension is also being addressed. The four year plan includes integration with teaching and the development of new courses and outreach. This grant is funding two Ph.D. students, REU students, RET teachers, and partial summer salary for the principal investigator. Graduate students that have been funded are:

Zornitza Genova Prodanoff - PhD in August 2003 and currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida.
Kenji Yoshigoe - PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Expected to finish in 2004.
Ahmed Aslam - PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Expected to finish in 2004.
Aamir Shaikh - MS in May 2001 and currently in industry

As of August 2003 student funding is complete. Zornitza and Kenji have been the primary funded students with Ahmed funded for one semester and Aamir for two semesters. See also the people page.

Research problems

The problem, objectives, work completed, work in progress, and results for four problems are described in the links given below (listed after each problem are the responsible students).

Traffic modeling for gigabit applications - Aamir Shaikh and Joe Rogers (Joe not funded from this grant)
Native switching of variable-length packets - Kenji Yoshigoe
Parallel packet switching by IP flow distribution - Ahmed Aslam
URL switching at gigabit speeds - Zornitza Genova Prodanoff

The continued development of this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 9875177. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflects the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Last updated by Ken Christensen on DECEMBER 20, 2003