[Nets-seminars] Talk by Lucian Popa (UCBerkeley) on December 7th

[Costin Raiciu]

Hi,

The next nets seminar will be on December 7th 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