[Nets-seminars] [nets] Talk today at 4pm by Lucian Popa (UCBerkeley)
Costin Raiciu
c.raiciu at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Sun Dec 6 22:19:17 GMT 2009
Hi,
The next nets seminar takes place today at 4pm and will be given by Lucian
Popa, from UC Berkeley. Lucian will present his work on Internet
Architecture entitled Rule Based Forwarding, which was recently published in
HotNets 2009.
Where: 6.12 MPEB
When: 4pm, monday December 7th
Title: Rule-based Forwarding (RBF): improving the Internet’s flexibility and
security
Abstract: From active networks to the more recent efforts on GENI, a
long-held goal of Internet research has been to arrive at a network
architecture that is flexible. An unfortunate stumbling block in these
efforts has been that flexibility is fundamentally at odds with another
long-held goal: that of devising a secure network architecture.
In this paper, we propose a new architectural concept – that of packet
rules – and develop a rule-based forwarding architecture (RBF) that we argue
is both flexible and secure. A rule is a simple if-then-else construct that
describes the manner in which the network should – or should not – forward
packets. In RBF, instead of sending packets to a destination (IP) address,
end-hosts send packets using the destination's rule. At a high-level, the
reason RBF achieves both security and flexibility is that, with rules, a
user can specify both what packets it is willing to receive as well as how
it wants these packets forwarded and processed by the network.
Short bio: Lucian Popa is a PhD student at the EECS department of the
University of California Berkeley, advised by Ion Stoica. His research
interests span the area of networking, including network architecture,
network monitoring, energy efficient networks and wireless networks. Lucian
Popa has a BS and an MS in computer science from the Politehnica University
of Bucharest in 2003 and respectively in 2004.
This is exciting work. All welcome!
Cheers,
Costin
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