Multipath Resilient Transport and Routing for the Future Internet and IoT

Speaker:        Professor James P.G. Sterbenz
                University of Kansas

Title:          "Multipath Resilient Transport and Routing for the Future
                 Internet and IoT"

Date:           Monday, 5 June 2017

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Room 5506 (via lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society,
the consequences of disruption are increasingly severe. Thus it is
critical to increase the resilience and survivability of the future
networks in general, and the Internet in particular.  We define resilience
as the ability of the network to provide desired service even when the
network is challenged by attacks, large-scale disasters, and other
failures.  Resilience subsumes the disciplines of survivability,
fault-tolerance, disruption-tolerance, traffic-tolerance, dependability,
performability, and security.  This presentation will provide a brief
introduction to the disciplines and challenges to network resilience, and
to our complex-systems analysis and heuristics to improve infrastructure
resilience under cost constraints.  Then, this presentation will describe
our work in the design and analysis of a new composable, cross-layered
resilient transport (ResTP) and geodiverse multipath routing protocol
(GeoDivRP).  These protocols are designed and being developed to provide
resilience and survivability in the face of targeted attacks and
large-scale disasters to the network infrastructure.  Finally, thus
presentation will describe our work-in-progress to apply these techniques
to the IoT and smart cities.


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Biography:

James P.G. Sterbenz 司徒傑莫 is Professor of Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science and director of the Network Systems Laboratory in the
Information & Telecommunication Technology Center at The University of
Kansas, is a Visiting Professor of in the School of Computing and
Communications in InfoLab 21 at Lancaster University in the UK, an Adjunct
Professor in the Computing Department at Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and
has been a Visiting Guest Professor in the Communication Systems Group at
ETH Zurich.  He has previously held senior staff and research management
positions at BBN Technologies, GTE Laboratories, and IBM Research.  His
research interests include resilient, survivable, and disruption tolerant
networking, Future Internet architectures including the Internet of Thing,
active and programmable networks, and high-speed networking and
components.  He is director of the ResiliNets Research Group, and has been
PI in a number of projects including the NSF FIND and GENI programs, the
EU FIRE ResumeNet project, and has lead a US DoD project in highly-mobile
ad hoc disruption-tolerant networking.  He received a DSc in computer
science from Washington University in 1991.  He has been program
(co-)chair for IEEE GI, GBN, and HotI; IFIP Networking, RNDM, IWSOS,
PfHSN, and IWAN; was on the editorial board of IEEE Network, chair of the
IEEE /ComSoc TCCC.  He is principal author of the book High-Speed
Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth Low-Latency
Communication.