US-EC Cooperative Activities: Interactive Service Negotiation and Adaptive Delivery Platform for IP-Based Communications

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY

Investigators

Abstract

0334667 Szymanski This two-year award supports US-European cooperative coordinating and educational activities related to an EU-funded project, "Interactive Service Negotiation and Adaptive Delivery Platform for IP-Based Communications (SNAP)," involving Boleslaw Szymanski of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute and Krzystof Malinowski of the Polish Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK). Malinowski is the coordinator of SNAP, which includes participants from France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, who represent IP service providers, equipment manufacturers, and universities. Its goal is to specify, develop and integrate innovative telecommunication technology by exploring such concepts as service architecture, man-machine interface, data-path reporting, and authentication. The participation of the PI is expected to lead to collaborative research. The RPI team's expertise is complementary to that of SNAP, thus leveraging the European investment. The RPI group has both tools and experience developed for distributed simulation of large networks, which will be used in SNAP's simulation experiments. RPI will also participate in the development of the tools for intrusion detection, and will conduct research on network economics.