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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R31409/01
Title:	PolyNet: Policy Based Management of Adaptive Networks
Principal Investigator:	Sloman, Professor M
Other Investigators:	Luk, Professor W Dulay, Dr N Lupu, Professor EC
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Project Partners:	Cisco
Department:	Computing
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 October 2001	Ends:	28 February 2005	Value (£):	342,971
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Networks & Distributed Systems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Communications
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This project will investigate the use of policy to support adaptability at three levels: (i) within network-aware applications, (ii) within application-aware networks, and (iii) at the hardware level to support adaptability in the packet forwarding fastpath of network elements. We will make use of the Ponder Policy Specification Language developed at Imperial College which supports both management and security policy specification, to investigate how to use policy to guarantee QoS, how to provide application-specific routing configurations such as multiway multicast, and to define who can program specific components and what programming operations they can access. Although other groups are looking at policy based network management or configurable network processors based on FPGAs, we are not aware of any other work on how the above three levels of programmability can interact using policy. We will develop a simple collaborative application involving users with variable capability workstations and communication links (including mobile and/or wireless), supported by an experimental network facility as a means of evaluating both functionality and performance. This will also enable us to evaluate Ponder as a language for programming networks at various levels of abstraction, and hence refine the language.
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