OSU to participate in project to shape the future of the Internet

Monday, October 19, 2009

Researchers from the computer science and electrical and computer engineering departments at Oklahoma State University have been selected to participate in the GENI project, a National Science Foundation-funded endeavor that will explore future internets at scale. 

OSU will receive $90,000 toward the three-year project.  The overall NSF award is managed by BBN Technologies and totals $11.5 million.  Thirty-two other academic and industry teams will participate in the project.

“We are quite excited to receive this award,” said Xialoin Li, assistant professor in computer science and the principal investigator of the OSU award.  “We are looking forward to being a part of a team that will actually help to shape the future of the Internet.”

OSU’s project, called OKGems, aims to design a GENI-federated multimodal cyber-physical system.  A unique contribution to the project involves the creation of a programmable robotic virtual laboratory that can be accessed by researchers around the world.  OSU will also work with collaborators at Duke University, Ohio State University and Wayne State University on the development of sensor systems for the GENI platform. 

The co-principal investigators of the project include Drs. Venkatesh Saranagan and Johnson Thomas, assistant professor and associate professor of computer science, and Drs. Nazanin Rahnavard and Weihua Sheng, assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering.

GENI, a virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale, creates major opportunities to understand, innovate and transform global networks and their interactions with society.  Dynamic and adaptive, GENI opens up new areas of research at the frontiers of network science and engineering, and increases the opportunity for significant socio-economic impact.