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CS Colloquium

Speaker: Minlan Yu, Princeton University

Talk Title: Scalable Management of Enterprise and Data Center Networks

Abstract: The networks in campuses, companies, and data centers are growing larger and becoming more complicated to manage. Today, network operators devote tremendous time and effort to various management tasks such as customized routing, access control, and troubleshooting. Rather than trying to make today's brittle networks easier to manage, we focus on new network designs that are inherently easier to manage and scale to many hosts, switches, and applications. We design and develop systems that scale routing, access control, and performance diagnosis, through a combination of new data structures and algorithms that make effective use of limited memory in switches and end-host based monitoring to reduce the overhead at switches. Our systems can be easily implemented with small modifications in today's switches and end hosts, as demonstrated by our prototypes built using the OpenFlow switches and Microsoft Windows servers, and our evaluation using data from AT&T networks and a deployment in a production data center.


Biography: Minlan Yu is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Princeton University. She received her B.A. in computer science and mathematics from Peking University in 2006 and her M.A. in computer science from Princeton University in 2008.
She has actively collaborated with companies such as AT&T, Microsoft, and Bell Labs. Her research interest is in solving real-world networking and distributed systems problems using efficient algorithms and data structures. Her thesis research focuses on enterprise and data center networks, by leveraging emerging techniques such as network virtualization and software-defined networking.



Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Kanak Agrawal