Paradoxes in Internet Architecture

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Speaker:        Prof Srinivasan Keshav
                Cisco Systems Research Chair in Smart Grid
                University of Waterloo

Title:          "Paradoxes in Internet Architecture"

Date:           Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Time:           2:30pm - 4:00pm

Venue:          Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H, near lifts 27/28), HKUST


Abstract:

The architectural elements of the Internet that led to its great success
are now, paradoxically, the same elements that are the source of many of
its severest problems. For example, the use of autonomous systems to
geographically decouple topology and governance allowed rapid growth and
scaling, but has made the network unmanageable, and unable to provide
end-to-end quality of service. In this lecture, the speaker will examine
this and other key design elements of Internet architecture, show how they
have contributed to its success, and how they now severely constrain it.
He will then use this framework to identify some key challenges that we
need to address in the next decades of Internet research.


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About the speaker

Prof Srinivasan Keshav received his BTech in Computer Science and
Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1986 and PhD in Computer Science from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1991. He was subsequently a
researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories and, from 1996 to 1999, an Associate
Professor at Cornell University. In 1999, he left academia to co-found
Ensim Corporation and GreenBorder Technologies Inc. He was an Associate
Professor at the University of Waterloo from 2003 to 2008 and has been a
Professor since, holding a Canada Research Chair (2004-14) and the Cisco
Chair in Smart Grid (since 2012).

Prof Keshav has published two graduate textbooks on computer networking,
namely An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking in 1997 and
Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking in 2015. He is also the
co-author of Integration of Renewable Generation and Elastic Loads into
Distribution Grids in 2016. Besides, he is currently the steering
committee member of ACM SIGMETRICS PACM Series.

Prof Keshav is an awardee of the Director's Gold Medal from IIT Delhi in
1986, the Sakrison Prize from UC Berkeley in 1991, two Test of Time awards
from ACM SIGCOMM in 2006, and Best Paper awards at both ACM SIGCOMM 1991
and ACM MOBICOM 2009. He is the co-director of the Information Systems and
Science for Energy Laboratory, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, an ACM Fellow,
and currently Chair of ACM SIGCOMM.


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