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I’m going to spend this Summer in stealth mode at Microsoft Research, Cambridge working with Christos Gkantsidis and Hitesh Ballani on a super-secret project. Hopefully, we’ll have some cool results on a hot topic.
This will be my first time in England/UK as well. Looking forward to the English weather that I’ve heard so much about! A Schengen visa is also accompanying me. So don’t be surprised if I’m seen in random European cities.
Our paper, “PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains” is set to appear in VISA’2010 workshop (with SIGCOMM’2010) in New Delhi. I worked on it during my last few months in Waterloo (circa Winter/Spring 2009), and it has been lying around ever since because everyone had been busy. Finally, its going to wake up and smell a workshop.
Intra-domain virtual network embedding (ViNE) is a well studied problem in the network virtualization literature. For most practical purposes, however, virtual networks (VNs) must be provisioned across heterogeneous administrative domains managed by multiple infrastructure providers (InPs).
In this paper we present PolyViNE, a policy-based inter-domain VN embedding framework that embeds end-to-end VNs in a decentralized manner. PolyViNE introduces a distributed protocol that coordinates the VN embedding process across participating InPs and ensures competitive prices for service providers (SPs), i.e., VN owners. We also present a location aware VN request forwarding mechanism — based on a hierarchical addressing scheme (COST) and a location awareness protocol (LAP) — to allow faster embedding and outline scalability and performance characteristics of PolyViNE through quantitative and qualitative evaluations.
As always, the paper can be found in my publications page. once I upload it (not yet).
Somehow I never managed to upload the reading list after I finished my Prelim. Here it is finally, or they are – too many of them (not my fault).
This zipped file contains reading lists for the grad networking/network security courses from different years along with the grandfather of all reading lists for networking prelim compiled a decade ago. I didn’t read all of them, but most of them are good/great papers anyway.
All credits to Sara and Sameer for prodding me to put the files together. Best of luck to them!
Download: Berkeley CS Networking Prelim Reading List (Spring’10 Edition) [ZIP]
An initial overview of our ongoing work on Spark, an iterative and interactive framework for cluster computing, has been accepted at HotCloud’10. I’ve been joined the project last February, while Matei has been working on it since last Fall. I will have uploaded the paper in the publications page. once we have taken care of the reviewer comments/suggestions, meanwhile you can read the technical report version.
This year HotCloud accepted 18 papers (24% of the submitted papers), and the PC are thinking about extending the workshop to a 2nd day from next year.