The Design and Implementation of a Consolidated MiddleBox Architecture

Principal Investigator(s): 
Sylvia Ratnasamy

Researchers are designing infrastructures for specialized network appliances, called middleboxes, that consolidate their management, reducing the cost of deploying new middleboxes and simplifying network management. Middleboxes fill a number of needs and include network intrusion detection systems and WAN optimizers. They are typically added to a network as a need arises, and each has its own management interface. In this project, researchers will explore architectures that provide centralized control. This will allow resources to be shared across different middleboxes and will also allow middleboxes to be extended more easily.

Funding provided by NSF grant 1217654, NeTS: Small: The Design and Implementation of a Consolidated MiddleBox Architecture.