Researchers mold model for more nimble networks

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Roughly three decades since the dawn of the World Wide Web, the process by which data pings around the internet and to our devices has, by design, remained largely unchanged.

Seeking to modernize the internet’s architecture through software-defined networks, scholars from Cornell and the Open University of the Netherlands have developed a programmable network model that offers researchers and network administrators an option they’ve long sought: the ability to customize packet scheduling—the air traffic control mechanism built onto the network switches that make the internet possible.
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