Project ID:
RFP-2008-055
Title:
Content Aware Networks (open call)
Summary:
This RFP is part of the Content Aware Networks area, and covers high-level aspects, long term research, and additional topics related to content aware networking.
Full Description:
Modern networks are increasingly becoming content aware, either to improve data delivery via classifying and controlling messages in terms of content, application and individual subscribers, or to improve network security via content-based monitoring and filtering. Content-aware networking requires new levels of support in network devices in form of the ability to store, comprehend, and transform inter-application messages, using network-wide policies. While realizing these at current data rates is challenging and is an important research topic in itself, it also opens up new frontiers in development of innovative applications that leverage the network-wide support for storing and processing content. Such applications include but are not limited to signature based network security, protocol recognition, anomaly detection, content aware caching, content based forwarding, application aware load balancing, etc.
This area-wide RFP also covers research proposals not directly related to the specific topics of other RFPs in this area.
Constraints and other information:
IPR will stay with the University. Cisco expects customary scholarly dissemination of results, and hopes that promising results would be made available to the community without limiting licenses, royalties, or other encumbrances.
Proposal submission:
Please use the link below to submit a proposal for research responding to this RFP. After a preliminary review, we may ask you to revise and resubmit your proposal.
Create/submit a proposal for this RFP 
RFPs may be withdrawn as research proposals are funded, or interest in the specific topic is satisfied. Researchers should plan to submit their proposals as soon as possible. Submissions-to-date are reviewed at the beginning of each quarter (the first business day of: January, April, July, October).
Questions? Contact: research@cisco.com
