The Phoebus project seeks to encourage a paradigm shift in the way traditional edge and backbone networks are utilized in order to improve end-to-end throughput over long distances. By augmenting the current Internet model with an additional service layer, Phoebus embeds ``intelligence'' in the network that allows a connection to become articulated and adapt to the environment on a segment by segment basis. The system includes a protocol and software infrastructure that addresses many of the fundamental issues in long distance data movement and allows the Internet infrastructure to evolve.

• Allows existing applications to utilize dynamic circuit allocation with no changes.
• Allows adaptation to segment-specific transport protocols.
• Automatically improves end-to-end performance without extensive host tuning.

Links:

• Phoebus Wiki page
  
• Trac ticket system and Subversion browser
• Internet2 Phoebus page
• Phoebus is based on the Logistical Session Layer, an old page is here
  

Resources:

• Phoebus Technical Report
  Brown, A., Kissel, E., Swany, M., Almes, G. (2008). Phoebus: A Session Protocol for Dynamic and Heterogeneous Networks. University of Delaware. 2008:334


• Phoebus and GridFTP Performance
  Kissel, E., Brown, A., Swany, M. (2009). Improving GridFTP Performance Using the Phoebus Session Layer. To appear at SC09 in Portland, OR