1. Benchmark current alternatives to Corelink (https://dev.hsrn.nyu.edu/corelink/corelink-server/-/wikis/Comparison (Milestone 1) 2. White Paper Rationale for Corelink Server Infra 3. Data relay analysis on current architecture - Async & multithreading considerations - Language choices - Find $\Delta$ in latency - Find $\Delta$ in Data Throughput - No current packet drop policy - Comparative Analysis (latency/jitter/CPU/Memory/…) 4. What problems do we want Corelink to outperform the alternatives? - Is this in latency? - Data throughput? - How does each choice affect applications we can support now and in the future if we strongly adopt this focus? 5. Is corelink easy to use? 6. Consider distributed broker system - Federation → A managing methodology for controlling micro-services over a network - Why do we want this over our current broker system? - Is this worth our time? - Security improvements or considerations - Complexity