National LambdaRail Networking Research Council
The purpose of the National LambdaRail (NLR) Network Research Council (NNRC) is to work with the NLR Board, the Chief Scientist and the NLR staff to ensure that the NLR Backbone operates as a highly efficient and effective network research tool; that it continually evolves and remains an up to date state-of-the-art research infrastructure available to a broad range of research and scientific communities.
The NNRC, established by the NLR Board, oversees and guides the major activities related to the NLR Board’s commitment to network research. The scope of its responsibilities include:
- Establishing and maintaining a framework (NLR network research roadmap) and set principles, policies and procedures for the use of the NLR Backbone for network research purposes;
- Promoting the extensive and active use of the NLR Backbone by diverse groups within the network research community, ensuring that network research is a centerpiece of the NLR on an on-going basis;
- Administering NLR’s intention to allocate 50% of the capacity of the NLR Backbone capacity for network research purposes;
- Guiding the development, operations and uses of the NLR Experiments Support Center to ensure it remains current and responsive to the network research and science community;
- Advising the Engineering and Architecture Committee on major NLR infrastructure changes to ensure the NLR Backbone remains an up to date research tool offering the latest network technology advances to the research community and that it continues to operate as a fluid, evolutionary network research environment.
- Developing strategies that improve the interaction and integration of the activities of the network research community with those in other disciplines in the science community; and,
- Advising the NLR Board on future directions and goals that NLR, Inc. might pursue to assist in advancing network research and science in the United States.
Members
- Paul Barford, University of Wisconson, Madison
- Daniel J. Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Javad Boroumand, Cisco Systems
- Hank Dardy, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Konstantinos Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology
- David Farber, Carnegie Mellon University
- Gerald Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania
- Paul Francis, Cornell University
- Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group
- Jason Leigh, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
- Mike O'Dell, New Enterprise Associates
- Phil Papadopoulos, University of California, San Diego
- Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies
- Harry Perros, North Carolina State University