Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley

Title: Internet Indirection Infrastructure

Abstract: The original Internet was built around the point-to-point
communication abstraction.  The simplicity of this abstraction is one
of the main reason behind the scalability and efficiency of today's
Internet.  However, as the Internet evolves into a global economic
infrastructure, there is an increasing need to support more general
services such as multicast, anycast, and host mobility. Attempts to
generalize the Internet's point-to-point communication abstraction to
provide these services have faced challenging technical problems and
deployment barriers.

To address this problem, in this talk I will present an overlay-based
Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3) that offers a
rendezvous-based communication abstraction.  Instead of explicitly
sending a packet to a destination, each packet is associated with an
identifier; this identifier is then used by the receiver to obtain
delivery of the packet. This level of indirection decouples the act of
sending from the act of receiving, and allows i3 to efficiently
support a wide variety of fundamental communication services such as
multicast, anycast, mobility and service composition.


Short bio: Ion Stoica received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University
in 2000. He is an Assistant Professor in the EECS Department at
University of California at Berkeley, where he does research on
peer-to-peer network technologies in the Internet, resource
management, and network architectures.  Stoica is the recipient of a
Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2003), a Presidential Early Career Award
for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) (2002), and of the ACM doctoral
dissertation award (2001). He has also received the IEEE 2004 William
R. Bennett Prize for the best paper in the ACM/IEEE Transaction on
Networking (2003). He is a member of ACM.