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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #5

Speaker: Thilan Ganegedara, PhD Student, Electrical Engineering USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Talk Title: High-Performance Networking on Reconfigurable Fabric

Series: EE598 Seminar Course

Abstract: The Internet is growing at a rapid pace with the proliferation of multimedia applications such as VoIP, video streaming and gaming. This rapid growth is facilitated by the underlying networking hardware, which is responsible for meeting Quality of Service (QoS) requirements while guaranteeing the throughput demands of a network. In this talk, we discuss how such time-critical tasks can be algorithmically mapped on to reconfigurable hardware platforms such as Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), exploiting the massive parallelism offered in these devices. Methodologies to device 100+ Gbps hardware firewalls that consume orders of magnitude lower power than state-of-the-art solutions will be presented.

Biography: Thilan Ganegedara is a PhD student in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on developing algorithms and architectures for high-performance IP lookup and packet classification engines, which includes solutions for large-scale router virtualization, IPv6 forwarding in backbone networks, and packet classification for hardware firewalls. He earned his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna

More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Janice Thompson