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The Advanced Networking Laboratory (ANL) at NJIT engages in research to improve the performance, dependability, and trustworthiness of telecommunications networks. 

Our current and recent research projects focus on:

• All-optical networks (to increase the information-carrying capacity and  the utilization of network assets via the re-arrangability of network connectivity)
• Quality-of-Service (QoS) routing (to support networked applications requiring different qualities of service)
• Link state updating (to expedite the exchange of network state information)
• Active queue management (to control congestion and to reduce the occurrence of overflows of packet buffers associated with network routers)
• Traffic modeling and scheduling (to improve the ability to engineer and operate networks with predictable qualities of service)
• Broadband access (to provide end users at network edges with sufficient bandwidth and QoS)
• Network coding (to improve network performance by mixing/coding information received from multiple links at intermediate network nodes)
• Network security (to maintain the integrity of the Internet and other emerging networks)
• Specific network-based applications, such as electronic voting (e-voting) systems.

 The goals of the Advanced Networking Laboratory are to identify, model, simulate, and demonstrate next-generation networking technologies, and to add to the knowledge base for next generation networks; to train tomorrow's network engineering innovators; and to foster industrial collaboration and international partnerships. ANL innovations are disseminated via patent disclosures, journal publications, conference presentations, and presentations to funding sponsors and prospective users.

For example, ANL, in collaboration with NEC America, has made advances in Passive Optical Networks. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has supported investigations into finding a new way to provide services to a growing set of traffic classes in next generation networks. ANL is also leading an international collaboration between Japan and the U.S. to identify and to develop advanced security technologies for the next generation of ubiquitous networks, under the Strategic International Cooperative Program between the Japan’s Science and Technology Agency and NSF.

The laboratory is equipped with a variety of computers, including SUN servers, SUN blades, and PCs. Associated with ANL is the Teaching, Training and Testing Networking Laboratory (T3Net) which has been established for instructional and training purposes; T3Net is equipped with a number of CISCO routers and SUN machines.

• Read a research brief on our Next Generation Passive Optical Networks (NG-PONs) for Broadband Access project