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Internet2 Names IDEA Award Winners From University of Virginia, IUPUI, ESnet, 
UC San Diego and Columbia University
Projects to advance innovation of next-generation networks worldwide

Internet2, the nation’s most advanced networking consortium, today announced 
two research and two student projects as the 2011 Internet2 Driving Exemplary 
Applications (IDEA) award winners for innovation in advanced network 
applications for collaborative research and education. Winners received their 
awards, and presented their applications at the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 
in Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 4.

Researcher winners Scott Deal from Indiana University-Purdue University 
Indianapolis, and Matthew Burtner from the University of Virginia won for 
Auksalaq--a Telematic Opera. Also, a team from the Department of Energy’s 
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
won for their application, On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation 
System (OSCARS). ESnet development collaborators include Chin Guok, Evangelos 
Chaniotakis, Andy Lake, Eric Pouyoul and Mary Thompson.

The IDEA student winners are Baris Aksanli, a Ph.D. student in computer 
science and engineering from the University of California San Diego, for 
Monitoring and Visualization of Energy consumed by Networks (MAVEN), and 
Kyung- Hwa Kim, a Ph.D. student in computer science from Columbia University, 
for DYSWIS, a Collaborative Network Fault Diagnosis System project.

"All of the winning applications have applied advanced networking technology 
to enable significant progress in research, teaching, learning or 
collaboration to increase the impact of next-generation networks around the 
world,” said Tom Knab, chair of the IDEA award judging committee and chief 
information officer, Case Western Reserve University’s College of Arts & 
Sciences. “The winning submissions were from an exceptionally strong 
nominations pool and represent a cross-section of the wide-ranging innovation 
that is occurring within the Internet2 member community. Also, for the first 
time, we added a category for applications developed by students and those 
were remarkable for their creativity and relevance.”

Auksalaq, a Telematic Opera represents a new generation of artistic works 
revolving around the exploitation of high bandwidth networks in the pursuit 
of live, interactive expression by combining computer interactivity with 
music, dance, drama, art and literature. The opera introduces an innovative 
toolkit of telematic software applications developed at the University of 
Virginia Interactive Media Research Group and the IUPUI Tavel Arts Technology 
Lab that facilitate a seamless, multi-site, integrated presentation entailing 
all of the artistic elements (music, media, movement, videography, audio 
processing and audience interactivity) to create an interactive, 
multi-dimensional experience. See www.Auksalaq.org for more details.

On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System (OSCARS) is an open 
source, software application that allows users to create and reserve virtual 
circuits with guaranteed end-to-end performance. These circuits are tuned for 
exchanging large data sets between collaboration sites and can do so across 
multiple network domains – especially important in the R&E community where 
various national, regional and local networks are used to connect 
collaborators. OSCARS provides users the ability to engineer, manage and 
automate bandwidth based on the specific needs of their work with 
geographically dispersed scientific instruments, supercomputing resources, 
and collaborations. Currently OSCARS circuits carry 50 percent of ESnet’s 
annual 60 petabytes of traffic and has also been implemented by many R&E 
networks worldwide including Internet2, U.S. LHCnet, NORDUNet, and RNP in 
Brazil to enable virtual circuit services for their respective communities. 
OSCARS’ development was funded by the Department of Energy, Office of 
Science. See www.es.net/services/virtual-circuits-oscars for more details.

Baris Aksanli’s project, Monitoring and Visualization of Energy consumed by 
Networks (MAVEN), is a prototype portal that intends to allow network 
engineers, energy efficiency researchers and network equipment vendors a 
real-time view of live network energy consumption and environmental 
conditions in advanced networks and equipment. The MAVEN software also will 
allow network operators to establish a power baseline for their current 
generation of network equipment, which saves money and allows better planning 
for power contracts with the collocation providers. Aksanli led the 
development of the first MAVEN prototype as part of his summer internship 
with ESnet. Inder Monga and Jon Dugan of ESnet provided mentorship and 
guidance for the project. ESnet intends to use MAVEN as a basis for 
monitoring power consumption on its network in the future.  As large-scale 
science continues to become more data-intensive, MAVEN will help provide 
valuable information to build the next generation of advanced networks and 
equipment.

Kyung-Hwa Kim’s project, DYSWIS, is a collaborative network fault diagnosis 
system, with a complete framework for fault detection, user collaboration and 
fault diagnosis for advanced networks. With the increase in application 
complexity, the need for network fault diagnosis for end-users has increased. 
However, existing failure diagnosis techniques fail to assist end-users in 
accessing applications and services. The key idea of DYSWIS is a 
collaboration of end-users to diagnose a network fault in real-time to 
collect diverse information from different parts of the networks and infer 
the cause of failure.

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breakthrough Internet technologies and applications and spark tomorrow’s 
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universities; corporations; government agencies; laboratories; higher 
learning; and other major national, regional and state research and education 
networks; and organizations representing more than 50 countries. Internet2 is 
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Todd Sedmak
Internet2
Communications Manager
202-331-5373