Research

Research in advanced network technologies and applications is very important component of CESNET's mission. The major framework for our research is the official research plan titled Optical National Research Network and its New Applications which we implement since 2004 until 2010.

Research activities

Because the area covered by research plan is really wide, we decided to split our efforts to following particular research activites:

International projects

We gained significant international credit thanks to our results in the area of advanced networking technologies and applications. We participate in a number of international projects:

Multi-Gigabit European Academic Network (GN2): The goal of GN2 project is to design and deploy next-generation European backbone infrastructure fulfilling the needs of scientists, researchers and educators. Main focus is given to ad hoc infrastructures (grids) built for the purposes of particular applications, to the user mobility in so cold European Research Area (ERA), and to support dedicated high-quality end-to-end interconnections.
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE III): The EGEE III project develops further the original goals of EGEE and EGEE II projects – building of stable grid infrastructure based mainly at IA-32 and IA-64 (eventually AMD64) computers with the Linux operating system and interconnected with huge data storages for the needs of extremely demanding applications.
EGI_DS: The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study represents an effort to establish a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and requirements of the research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries in the European Research Area (ERA).
GLIF: The Global Lambda Integrated Facility is an international virtual organization that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking. GLIF provides lambdas internationally as an integrated facility to support data-intensive scientific research, and supports middleware development for lambda networking.
Phosphorus: Its goal is to define, implement and make accessible a new integrated architecture for usage of common network resources and services and consequently to demonstrate it on a global testbed connecting Europe, U.S. and Canada by usage of some GEANT2, NREN, CBF and GLIF resources.
ORIENT: The project aims to create a quality infrastructure enabling mutual collaboration of European and Chinese scientists. The key component is the building of high-quality interconnection of European and Chinese research and education networks.
PlanetLab: PlanetLab is a global research network that supports the development of new network services. It is used to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing.
VINI: Virtual Network Infrastructure (VINI) is a virtual network infrastructure that allows network researchers to evaluate their protocols and services in the wide area. VINI allows researchers to deploy and evaluate their ideas with real routing software, traffic loads, and network events. To provide flexibility in designing various experiments, VINI supports simultaneous experiments with arbitrary network topologies on a shared physical infrastructure.
FEDERICA: FEDERICA (Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures) is European project to implement an experimental network infrastructure for trialling new networking technologies. High level of virtualisation allows to perform wide variety of independent experiments, even the disruptive ones.