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A secure decentralized workspace built over Named Data Networking.
Welcome to the Internet Research Laboratory (IRL), part of the Computer Science department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The IRL's research primarily focuses on Named Data Networking. Previously, our research covered fault tolerance in large scale distributed systems, Internet routing infrastructure, inter-domain routing, and protocol design principles for large-scale, self-organizing systems. Our group has produced numerous publications over the years.
The Internet Research Laboratory is headed by Prof. Lixia Zhang.
A secure decentralized workspace built over Named Data Networking.
A secure NDN-based storage service running on multiple clouds.
Open-source implementations of NDN core software, libraries, tools, and applications.
A zero-trust overlay for cloud-native 5G core networks built with Named Data Networking.
Research on naming, identity, trust, and verifiable delegation for secure AI-agent communication.
A secure, decentralized storage federation for scalable, resilient publication and access of large scientific datasets.
Automated cryptographic access control and real-time synchronization for secure mobile-health data sharing.
An NDN-based, petascale data distribution, caching, and access system for data-intensive scientific research.
Here are the most recent blog posts from the members of the IRL team.
June 14, 2026
Congratulations to Tianyuan Yu on earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA!
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Congratulations to Varun Patil on earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA!
Read moreJune 16, 2024
Congratulations to Xinyu Ma on earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA!
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