RNP announces selected Working Groups in 2017
After the release of the R&D Programs announcement in January, RNP announced the ten Working Groups (WGs) for the 2017 period. Of the 42 proposals received, six new projects were selected for the Advanced Internet Program and four others for the Advanced Services Program.
RNP works in partnership with the scientific community, through the GT Program, following the open innovation management model. An announcement is published annually so that national research groups can submit proposals for new services and products in the areas of distributed networks and applications that are of interest to RNP users.
Among the proposals received by the bidding published on January 31, 2017:
Advanced Services Program
- GT-AMPTo: Multi-factor Authentication for Everyone
Coordinator: Emerson Ribeiro de Mello (IFSC)
- GT-SAP: Digital Document Authentication and Preservation Service
Coordinator: Guido Lemos (UFPB)
- GT-CoFee: A Federated Identity Management Schema for IoT
Coordinator: Leonardo B. Oliveira (UFMG)
- GT-MCU: Development of a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) scalable and cost-effective
Coordinator: Valter Roesler (UFRGS)
Advanced Internet Program
- GT-IPÊ Analytics: Transforming raw monitoring data to generate valuable information for network management
Coordinator: Marinho Barcelos (UFRGS)
- GT-BIS: Mechanisms for Big Data Analysis in Information Security
Coordinator: Daniel Batista (USP)
- GT-SOFTWAY4IoT: SOFTware-defined gateWAY and fog computing for IoT (Internet of Things)
Coordinator: Kleber Cardoso (UFG)
- GT-FENDE: Federated Ecosystem for Offering, Distribution and Execution of Virtualized Network Functions
Coordinator: Carlos Raniery (UFSM)
- GT-NosFVeraTO: NFV Open-Source com SDN using Tacker in Openstack
Coordinator: Moises Ribeiro (Ufes)
- GT-CIRD: Remote Device Characterization and Identification
Coordinator: João Paulo Souza Medeiros (UFRN)
The products and services created within the Working Groups can be integrated into the organization's portfolio and made available to the customer institutions. In the first phase, which lasts one year, the groups create and demonstrate the prototype of a new product or service for RNP. In the second stage, the prototype should be developed with a view to the implantation of a pilot in the academic network.
This year, the announcement issued by RNP was more comprehensive and divided into two R & D Programs: Advanced Services and Advanced Internet. The Advanced Services R & D Program seeks proposals that may contribute to the evolution or expansion of RNP's portfolio of advanced services. Therefore, the edict encourages the submission of projects that explore topics such as videoconferencing, digital content distribution and identity management.
On the other hand, the R&D Program in Advanced Internet will cover products or services proposals that help to optimize or automatize the network infrastructure, as well as monitoring analysis application and new architectures allowing evolution of academic network, as the use of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
For more information on the projects, send an email to RNP Research and Development at the address gt2017@rnp.br (link sends e-mail) or visit the website Working Groups.
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