Network Function Virtualization Research Group - Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a key emerging area for network operators, hardware and software vendors, cloud service providers, and in general network practitioners and researchers.

Information-Centric Networking Research Group - Distributing and manipulating named information is a major application in the Internet today.

Internet Congestion Control Research Group - Key to the correct functioning of the Internet is TCP’s congestion control mechanism, which serves to match offered load to available bandwidth.

The Internet Society’s Global Internet User Survey 2012 reveals that a large majority of respondents believe that Internet access should be considered a basic human right.