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The first talk of this year is next Friday, 15th January at 16:00 in
GS/102 66-72 Gower Street. Our speaker is Justine Sherry from UC
Berkeley. Please find our full talk schedule for this term here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/research/comminfosys/seminars">http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/research/comminfosys/seminars</a><br>
and at the bottom of this email.<br>
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Title: "Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network<br>
Processing as a Cloud Service".<br>
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Abstract:<br>
Modern enterprises almost ubiquitously deploy middlebox processing<br>
services to improve security and performance in their networks.<br>
Despite this, today’s middlebox infrastructure is expensive,
complex<br>
to manage, and creates new failure modes for the<br>
networks that use them. Given the promise of cloud computing to<br>
decrease costs, ease management, and provide elasticity and fault<br>
tolerance, middlebox processing can benefit from<br>
outsourcing the cloud. Arriving at a feasible implementation,
however,<br>
is challenging due to the need to achieve functional equivalence
with<br>
traditional middlebox deployments without sacrificing<br>
performance or increasing network complexity.<br>
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In this talk, I will present APLOMB, a<br>
practical service for outsourcing enterprise middlebox processing<br>
to the cloud. APLOMB's motivation and design are data-driven, guided
by<br>
a survey of 57 enterprise networks, the first large-scale academic<br>
study of middlebox deployment. Our analysis shows that APLOMB solves
real<br>
problems faced by network administrators, can outsource over 90%<br>
of middlebox hardware in a typical large enterprise network, and,<br>
in a case study of a real enterprise, imposes an average latency<br>
penalty of 1.1ms and median bandwidth inflation of 3.8%.<br>
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Bio: Justine Sherry is a third year PhD student advised by<br>
Sylvia Ratnasamy at UC Berkeley . Her interests are in computer<br>
networking, including middleboxes, measurement, Internet
architecture,<br>
and cloud computing. Justine<br>
received her MS from UC Berkeley in 2012, and her BS/BA from the<br>
University of Washington in 2010.<br>
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<ul>
<li>18th January -- Justine Sherry (Berkeley) -- Making
Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network Processing as a
Cloud Service</li>
<li>1st February -- Lorenzo Saino (UCL) -- FNSS: A Toolchain for
Simplifying Network Simulation Setup </li>
<li>15th February -- Daphne Tuncer (UCL) -- More Control Over
Network Resources: An ISP Caching Perspective</li>
<li>1st March -- David Griffin (UCL) -- ENVISION project </li>
<li>15th March -- Miguel Rodrigues (UCL) -- TBA</li>
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a>
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