[Nets-seminars] talk by Peter Steenkiste, CMU CS, 2nd Oct, 11 AM

[Brad Karp]

Greetings, everyone.

I'm pleased to announce that Peter Steenkiste, a renowned networking researcher on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, will be visiting us this Thursday, the 2nd of October. Peter will give a talk at 11 AM in Foster Court 132 that day.

Peter's work has spanned high-performance network host interface design, wireless networking, network protocol design, and Internet architecture. His paper on APIP, a privacy-enhancing Internet architecture, was one of the best paper award winners at SIGCOMM 2014.

Please join us!

Title, abstract, and bio follow.

-Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk

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Speaker: Professor Peter Steenkiste, CMU Computer Science Department

Time: 11 AM, Thursday 2nd October

Location: Foster Court 132

Title: The eXpressive Internet Architecture: From Architecture to Network

Abstract:

The eXpressive Internet Architecture defines a single network that offers inherent support for communication between multiple communicating principals--including hosts, content, and services--while accommodating unknown future entities. XIA also offers intrinsic security in which the integrity and authenticity of communication is guaranteed.  In this talk I will give an overview of the XIA architecture and how it addresses the evolvability and trustworthiness challenges. I will also present some use cases of the architecture and discuss how our collaboration with researchers in user studies and public policy have helped us identify important control points in the “tussle” between actors (end user, network administrators, ISPs, …).

Bio:

Peter Steenkiste is a Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the degree of Electrical Engineer from the University of Gent in Belgium in 1982, and the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1983 and 1987, respectively. His current research is in the areas of future Internet architecture and wireless networking.

Peter Steenkiste's research interests are in the areas of networking and distributed computing. While at CMU, Peter Steenkiste worked on Nectar, the first workstation clusters built around a high-performance, switch-based local area network. He contributed both to the optimization of the communication subsystem and to the development of programming tools for workstation clusters. The optimization of application-level communication performance over commodity networks was further explored in the Gigabit Nectar and Credit Net projects. All these projects developed prototype systems that were used by a wide range of application groups, allowing a realistic evaluation of the research. 

Peter Steenkiste's current research is in the areas of wireless networking and future Internet architecture. The wireless landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Not only have we seen a rapid growth in the use of wireless, but we are also seeing different types of deployments (e.g. unplanned and managed residential deployments in addition to traditional campus-style deployments) and more diversity in the technologies (e.g. Bluetooth, sensors, ..). Peter Steenkiste is involved in wireless projects in a number of areas, including self-management techniques for residential networks, emulation as a basis for evaluating wireless technologies, and the use of software radios as a platform for flexible, self-optimizing wireless protocols.   In the area of future Internet architecture, Peter Steenkiste heads the eXpressive Internet Architecture (XIA) project. The eXpressive Internet Architecture defines a single network that offers inherent support for communication between multiple communicating principals - including hosts, content, and services - while accommodating unknown future entities. XIA also offers intrinsic security in which the integrity and authenticity of communication is guaranteed. XIA is currently exploring a wide range of topics, including security, transport protocols, network diagnostics, services, management, etc.

Peter Steenkiste is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has served as general co-chair for ACM SIGCOMM'02 and program co-chair for MobiCom 2008.
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