题目: PacketCloud: a Cloudlet-based Open Platform for In-network Services

报告时间：2015年11月18日晚7点—9点

报告地点：西区第三教学楼3C123教室

主办单位：研究生院，信息学院电子工程与信息科学系

 

摘要: The Internet was designed with the end-to-end principle where the network layer provided merely the best-effort forwarding service. This design makes it challenging to add new services into the Internet infrastructure. However, as the Internet connectivity becomes a commodity, users and applications increasingly demand new in-network services. We propose PacketCloud, a cloudlet-based open platform to host in-network services. Different from standalone, specialized middleboxes, cloudlets can efficiently share a set of commodity servers among different services, and serve the network traffic in an elastic way. PacketCloud can help both Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and emerging application/content providers deploy their services at strategic network locations. We have implemented a proof-of-concept prototype of PacketCloud. PacketCloud introduces a small additional delay, and can scale well to handle high-throughput data traffic. We have evaluated PacketCloud in both a fully functional emulated environment, and the real Internet.

 

报告人简介: Yang Chen is an Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science at Fudan University.  Before that he was a Postdoctoral Associate within the Department of Computer Science at Duke University from Apr. 2011 to Sep. 2014. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include Internet architectures, online social networks, and cloud computing. He is a senior member of the IEEE.