Fundamental IT Research: Scalable Information Infrastructure
- Research to support the phenomenal growth of the Internet
- In 1985 the Internet connected 2,000 computers
- Today it connects over 37 million computers
- Future networks will connect at least a billion users and will be more complex - they will connect sensors, wireless modems, and embedded devices
- Proposed research areas:
- Deeply networked systems (scalability)
- Anytime, anywhere connectivity (wired and wireless)
- Network modeling and simulation