[Nets-seminars] Seminar 14th February 16:30 Room 807, Roberts

[Richard G. Clegg]

For next week's seminar on 14th February, our guest speaker is James 
Sterbenz from Kansas and Lancaster Universities.  In order to allow 
guests from an EPSRC meeting occurring that day we have a slightly later 
than usual start time at 16:30.  Again we are over in the Roberts 
building (the main tall tower opposite the Waterstones on Gower Street), 
in room 807 (the Barlow Room).  If you are coming from outside UCL then 
please contact me to make arrangements to get in.  The building requires 
card access.  As usual, the talk will be followed by drinks and chat in 
a nearby pub. I look forward to seeing you all there.

James P.G. Sterbenz  --  Enhancing Network Structure to Increase 
Resilience and Survivability

Abstract:
Resilience and survivability of the Future Internet is increasingly 
important to preserve critical services, particularly against attackers 
with knowledge of the structure and vulnerabilities of the network, as 
well as against large scale disasters that affect a large area.  A brief 
motivation and introduction will be given to the the ResiliNets 
architecture, strategy, design principles, and analysis methodology.  
This presentation will then describe the graph-theoretic properties 
required for flow-robustness, and introduce our path diversity 
measures.  Two current research directions will then be described:  how 
to add links to existing graphs under cost constraints to increase flow 
robustness, and geographic diversity as a basis for multipath geodiverse 
end-to-end transport (ResTP) and routing (GeoDivRP).

Bio:
James P.G. Sterbenz is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & 
Computer Science and a member of technical staff at the Information & 
Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas, and is 
a Visiting Professor of Computing in InfoLab 21 at Lancaster University 
in the UK.  He has previously held senior staff and research management 
positions at BBN Technologies, GTE Laboratories, and IBM Research.  His 
research interests include resilient, survivable, and disruption 
tolerant networking, future Internet architectures, active and 
programmable networks, and high-speed networking and components.  He is 
director of the ResiliNets Research Group, and has been PI in a number 
of projects including the NSF FIND and GENI programs, the EU FIRE 
ResumeNet project, leads the GpENI international programmable network 
testbed project, and has lead a US DoD project in highly-mobile ad hoc 
disruption-tolerant networking.  He received a DsC in computer science 
from Washington University in 1991.  He has been program chair for IEEE 
GI, GBN, and HotI; IFIP RNDM, IWSOS, PfHSN, and IWAN; and was on the 
editorial board of IEEE Network.  He is principal author of the book 
High-Speed Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth 
Low-Latency Communication.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/