| The
18th IASTED International Conference on
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED
COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS
~ PDCS 2006 ~
November 13 – 15, 2006
Dallas, Texas, USA
Keynote
Speaker
Early
Experiences with the Clean Slate Design Approach to Networking
Research
Hui Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University
hzhang@cs.cmu.edu
Abstract
For the past three years, the NSF ITR 100x100 Clean Slate
Project has pursued networking research via a clean slate
approach by posing the following research question: How
would we design the network if we were not bound by existing
design decisions and could design it from the scratch? In
contrast, the prevailing networking research approach places
more emphasis on incremental evolution and backward compatibility.
Given the broad
scope of the formulation, we are far from having a complete
answer. In this talk, I will share our early experiences
in conducting this style of research. Using examples from
the 100x100 Clean Slate Project, I will show that the clean
slate research approach leads to novel problem formulations
and technical solutions that would otherwise been difficult
to obtain. In addition, the solutions and insights resulting
from a clean slate formulation may also be applicable to
existing networks. The 100x100 Clean Slate Research Project
consists of researchers from University of California at
Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Fraser Research, Rice
University, Stanford University, Internet 2, and ATT Research.
Biography
Hui Zhang is a professor in the School
of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is
currently leading the 100x100 Clean Slate Project, the 4D
Project, and the End System Multicast Project. He has done
research on Internet QoS, multicast, and peer-to-peer systems.
Algorithms and software packages resulteingfrom his research
have been widely adopted by industry and academic institutions.
Professor Zhang
was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER
Award in 1996 and the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000. He
held the CMU SCS Finmeccanica Junior Faculty Chair from
1998 to 2002. He was elected to be an ACM Fellow in 2006.
He was the Chief Technical Officer of Turin Networks in
2000-2003.
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