Information-Driven Networking: Opportunities, Challenges, and Performance Evaluation

Information-Driven Networking: Opportunities, Challenges, and Performance Evaluation

时间：2012年9月17日 地点：九龙湖校区计算机楼313室

报告简介：

Although computer networks in general are purposed for information delivery, existing network architectures like the Internet are usually not information driven in the sense that network nodes (e.g., routers and switchers) only care about packets instead of the information inside. As a common principle, network nodes as well as the whole network system are designed to support quality of service (QoS) with respect to promised data throughput and bounded (end-to-end) packet delay. The traditional meaning of QoS for guaranteed per packet delivery and end-to-end delay is actually overkill, since all we care is information. The traditional solutions focusing on packets instead of the information inside have the historical reason: the network protocol stack is layered and network protocols should not mix up with application-layer information. With the emergence of new technologies such as sensor networks, however, the layering principle is not necessarily a rule of thumb, and the redundancy in the information sources should be fully utilized in network protocol design. A network node should not be purely a data-forwarding device. Instead, it should be aware of information forwarded and should be able to perform information processing whenever necessary. The ultimate goal of the whole network system is no longer to guarantee service for individual packets, but to guarantee a certain amount of information to be successfully transported. We call this type of networking systems information-driven networks. This talk is to present the research opportunities and challenges in information-driven networking, and to introduce several interesting research topics/projects in this field.

报告人简介：

Dr. Kui Wu received the B.S. degree in Computer Science in 1990 and the Master's degree in Computer Engineering in 1993, both from Wuhan University, China, and the PhD degree in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2002. He worked as a lecturer in Wuhan University during 1993-1998 and a development manager in Haven Software Inc. during 1995-1998. He joined the Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Canada, in 2002, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2008, and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) visiting scholar at University of Tsukuba in 2009. His research interests include performance analysis and protocol design of computer networks, wireless sensor networks, online social networks, smart grid, and network security.

计算机网络和信息集成教育部重点实验室（东南大学）