Systems Seminar: Tom Anderson, University of Washington

A Case for RIP (Re-architecting the Internet Protocols)

Abstract

The Internet is remarkably robust, scalable, and flexible, and also at times, highly fragile, inefficient, and insecure. And like most systems with hundreds of millions of users, it is highly resistant to change. This talk will argue that much of the current networking research agenda is misguided by putting backward compatibility as the primary goal. Instead, the UW RIP project aims to develop the conceptual foundations of the next networking technology that will replace the Internet. Among the fundamental questions we are addressing: how do we design a scalable network that is completely free of DoS attacks? How should multiple organizations cooperate in the management of resources and routes? Is it possible to design efficient and flexible congestion control? I will discuss our answers to these questions in the context of two networking testbeds we are building at UW.

Speaker Bio

Tom Anderson is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interest span almost every aspect of computer systems design, from high-performance computer and network switch architectures, to operating systems, distributed file systems, wide area distributed systems, and most recently computer networks.