I am in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil for IEEE NOMS 2008,

There seems to be considerable interest in the cloud computing domain, which imports considerations from software-as-a-service and seamless computing. Some of the speakers and audience were highly skeptical about cloud, particularly citing issues of Service Level Agreement and privacy.

This morning’s keynote is about cognitive radio, where devices can make use of reserved (but unused) frequencies in a specific space and time to improve their performance without interrupting or interfering with the primary licensee.

The research space also seems to include a lot of interest in the policy-based-management space. The idea is basically about translating high level business objectives to intermediate properties and ultimately down to low-level changes in network devices automatically.