[ Facebook Research - Networking request for proposals | Research Funding ]
Event details
| Date | 21.05.2020 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: Networking is fundamental to the large-scale, distributed systems that power the family of Facebook applications that are used by billions of people. Facebook focuses on making innovative and scalable networking technology by rethinking traditional approaches and designs and collaborating with research and open source communities to develop an ecosystem of open hardware and software.
Over the years, Facebook has developed and shared the details of numerous networking systems such as FBOSS, Robotron, Edge Fabric, Data Center Fabric, Express Backbone, Open/R, Proxygen, Katran, and many more. To foster further innovation in networking and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Facebook is pleased to invite faculty to respond to this call for research proposals pertaining to the topics below.
Awards will be made as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator’s host university.
Funding: USD $50’000
Eligibility: Applicants must be current full-time faculty at an accredited academic institution that awards research degrees to PhD students, and they must be the Principal Investigator on any resulting award. Awards must comply with applicable U.S. and international laws, regulations, and policies.
Award recipients will be listed on the Facebook Research website and will also be invited to an annual faculty summit in August, co-located with SIGCOMM’20 in New York City.
How to Apply: Proposals should include a summary of the project (1-2 pages) , a draft budget description (1 page), CVs of all involved researchers, administrative information about the institution, and a list of 1-2 keywords. For any assistance on the organizational details or tax information, please contact the Research Office. Budgets should be formulated to include 5% overhead (the maximum allowed in the program guidelines).
Deadline: 21 May, 2020 (5:00 pm AOE) (extended from 20 April 2020)
Further information
Over the years, Facebook has developed and shared the details of numerous networking systems such as FBOSS, Robotron, Edge Fabric, Data Center Fabric, Express Backbone, Open/R, Proxygen, Katran, and many more. To foster further innovation in networking and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Facebook is pleased to invite faculty to respond to this call for research proposals pertaining to the topics below.
- Host Networking: Innovation of host networking stack, such as NIC architectures, rate limiting, multi-tenant applications, low-latency/high-performance applications, and congestion control.
- Transport Security: Scaling encryption for very large quantities of data, formal verification of TLS, transparent encryption, and enforcement of encryption policies.
Awards will be made as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator’s host university.
Funding: USD $50’000
Eligibility: Applicants must be current full-time faculty at an accredited academic institution that awards research degrees to PhD students, and they must be the Principal Investigator on any resulting award. Awards must comply with applicable U.S. and international laws, regulations, and policies.
Award recipients will be listed on the Facebook Research website and will also be invited to an annual faculty summit in August, co-located with SIGCOMM’20 in New York City.
How to Apply: Proposals should include a summary of the project (1-2 pages) , a draft budget description (1 page), CVs of all involved researchers, administrative information about the institution, and a list of 1-2 keywords. For any assistance on the organizational details or tax information, please contact the Research Office. Budgets should be formulated to include 5% overhead (the maximum allowed in the program guidelines).
Deadline: 21 May, 2020 (5:00 pm AOE) (extended from 20 April 2020)
Further information
- More details on the call can be found on the RFP website.
- For any other questions, contact the Research Office.
Practical information
- General public
- Free