The Serval project focuses on service-centric networking and a newly-extensible end-host stack. It is part of the systems and networking group at Princeton University’s Computer Science Department.

This website is served by a Serval-enabled Nginx web server via a TCP/IP-to-Serval translator.

Contributors

• Erik Nordström (postdoc) — main developer, v1 end-host stack
• David Shue (phd) — service routers, registration and resolution
• Rob Kiefer (phd) — migration protocols
• Matvey Arye (phd) — protocol formal analysis, security
• Torin Rudeen (undergrad) — multipath support
• Jen Rexford (coPI) – architecture and protocol design
• Mike Freedman (PI) — lead, architecture and protocol design

Past Contributors

• Prem Gopalan (phd) — transport protocols, v0 end-host stack
• Steven Ko (postdoc) — Serval-aware memcached
• Brandon Podmayersky (undergrad) — TCP-to-Serval translator

Funding

Special thanks to the National Science Foundation (Award #0904729 and #1040708), DARPA (CSSG), Office of Naval Research, GENI Project Office (#1759) and Cisco Systems for funding. This project does not represent the opinions or policy of these organizations.