International Workshop on Traffic Management and Traffic Engineering for the Future Internet
(FITraMEn 08)
Porto, Portugal, 11-12 December, 2008
Andreas Kind joined IBM Research in 2000 and leads the Systems Management activities at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bath (UK) in 1998, and worked on open programmable networks and network processors in the past. From 1998 to 2000, he worked as project manager at NEC Europe. His current scientific focus is on network traffic analysis and visualization.
The Future Internet will require new monitoring approaches that address the transformation of the Internet into network and service infrastructures based on cloud computing and internet-scale data centers. The talk will highlight the management challenges with this transformation and will present the vision of an awareness plane that integrates data from monitoring technologies at different levels.
Nandita Dukkipati is at Cisco's Advanced Architecture and Research. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University (CA, USA) in 2007. The focus of her research is to make large-scale networked systems and infrastructures efficient, adaptable, fault-tolerant, evolvable, and cost-effective. To that end, her research interests lie in several areas of networking including protocol design, router/switch architectures, performance analysis and modeling, resource management, peer-to-peer networks, and wireless networks.
Traffic management through congestion control and traffic engineering is one of the basic building blocks of our network infrastructure. Although, we have made tremendous progress over the past 25 years of building the Internet, we are nowhere close to the end of the road. In this talk, I will focus on two kinds of challenges we face. First, while we often have an excellent understanding of our traffic management mechanisms through simulations, experiments, and theoretical analysis, there exists a huge chasm for their deployment in real networks. I will articulate why this gap exists and what we can do to bridge it. Second, I will go on to describe the challenges in traffic management that will be increasingly important in future networks, including data-centers, vehicular networks, as well as the wide area networks.