Network Orchestration(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT))

Research Staff

  • Professor Kazumasa KOBAYASHI

    Professor
    Kazumasa KOBAYASHI

  • Associate Professor Eiji KAWAI

    Associate Professor
    Eiji KAWAI

Research Areas

Virtualization technologies for network infrastructure

  • Switch/router virtualization
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Networking for cloud computing

Next- and new-generation network infrastructure technologies

  • IPv6 and beyond-IPv6 technologies
  • Infrastructure technology for service-oriented networks such as mobile networks, sensor networks, content-centric networks, etc.

Orchestration technology for large-scale network infrastructures

  • Management of wide-area and virtualized networks
  • Advanced Traffic engineering
  • Multi-domain networks

Key Features

The Network Orchestration Laboratory is a collaborative laboratory with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). In particular, we are developing the JGN-X network testbed, a nation-wide experimental network infrastructure founded by NICT. JGN provides high-speed international connectivity to the United States, China, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand, and forms part of a global R&E network infrastructure. Those students who are interested in real-world ICT infrastructure technologies find great opportunities to conduct research not only utilizing the facilities of JGN, but also applying their products to JGN.