Intel Planet Lab
Intel Planet Lab at DCE
The Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) has been selected by Intel Technology
Pvt. Ltd. and ERNET to join Planet Lab Consortium, which already has one
hundred fifty of the world's top universities and industrial research labs
including MIT, Stanford, Princeton University, UC Berkeley, University of
Washington, AT&T Labs, Cambridge University, France Telecom, HP, NEC
Labs, as its members.
Planet Lab is an open, globally distributed test bed for developing, deploying
and accessing planetary-scale network services. It provides an environment
for testing the next generation of distributed applications and services.
There are currently 599 nodes at 284 sites world wide available to support
both short-term experiments and long-running network services.
In the present scenario, the Internet is highly vulnerable to multiple types
of attacks, says Dr. M. Kulkarni, Head of IT and Computer Centre. DCE will
use Planet Lab approach that integrates a new overlay network constituting
of its own intelligent routers and servers on top of the Internet to add
new features and services to include a security layer as a component of
the present Internet technologies. This security layer would work for the
individual node and can also act together with security layer of other nodes
in unison to maintain the robustness of the network. Design and development
of virtual nodes would be another innovative application. These virtual
nodes would ensure that nodes are not dependent on the failure of their
physical implementation. Another intelligent capability would involve the
design of a protocol suite for wireless Internet with optimal features especially
for voice and multimedia applications. All these applications are distributed
in nature implying thereby that they run on many machines that are geographically
distributed across the global Internet.
Prof. D. Goldar, Principal DCE further adds that ‘DCE has come a long
way from being a teaching institute to a hub of research and consultancy
activities. We, at DCE also promote research activities that are socially
relevant and that motivates our younger minds to engage into technology
innovations which make the DCEites a class apart among the graduating new
generation professionals. The Intel Planet Lab shall strengthen the research
capabilities of the students in the cutting age areas of knowledge technologies
of tomorrow’.
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