[Nets-seminars] FINAL REMINDER: Peter Steenkiste (CMU) talk, TODAY, 11 AM

[Brad Karp]

Last call! See everyone in Foster Court 132 at 11 AM...

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Subject: REMINDER: Peter Steenkiste (CMU) talk, TOMORROW 2/10, 11 AM
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:08:47 +0100
From: Brad Karp <bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To: nets <nets at cs.ucl.ac.uk>, nets-seminars at cs.ucl.ac.uk
CC: Brad Karp <bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk>

Just a quick reminder that Peter Steekiste of CMU, whose group won one
of the best paper awards at SIGCOMM 2014, will be giving a talk
*tomorrow*, the 2nd of October, at 11 AM in Foster Court 132.

All strongly encouraged to attend!

Original announcement follows.

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

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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.