Redesigning How Networks Work to make the Net"work"

Seminar talk titled Redesigning how networks work to make the net”work”

Title Of the Talk: Redesigning how networks work to make the net”work”
Speaker: Dr. Praveen Tammana
Host Faculty: Dr. Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma
Date &Time: Thursday, 20th Feb 2020 11:00
Venue: Room No C-LH2

Abstract:

Solving network-management problems in real-time becomes increasingly difficult with a human in the middle and ever-growing demands of modern applications for high performance, high availability, and high security. An alternative for making network management easier while meeting the demands is to work on an ambitious goal of self-managing networks that are able to manage themselves with minimal human involvement.
Practically deployable self-managing networks heavily rely on fine-grained telemetry data to understand what is going on in the network (visibility) and then make appropriate network management decisions. However, it is extremely challenging and technically expensive to monitor and collect the telemetry data that provides network-wide visibility. In this talk, I will highlight a scalable network telemetry system, SwitchPointer, which obtains high visibility by looking across network entities (e.g., switches, servers) in a large-scale data center network for the right division of labor to get the telemetry data. The main challenge is how to effectively use limited resources at switches and obtain high in-network visibility. I will discuss in detail how SwitchPointer addresses this challenge and enables taking fast and accurate management decisions.

Speaker Profile:

Praveen Tammana is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. His research interests are in Systems and Networking. He develops scalable, fast, and easy-to-use real-world networked systems. His recent work focuses on two aspects of network management: network telemetry and traffic engineering. Prior to Princeton, he received his Ph.D. from The University of Edinburgh, UK, and his Master’s degree from IIT-Madras, India. He has over three years of industrial experience working with Intel technology and Juniper Networks, at Bangalore, and Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA.

Dates:
Thurday, 20th Feb 2020 11:00