DATE: Thursday March 28, 2002
TIME: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: Wean Hall, 8220

SPEAKER:
Edward Knightly
Rice University

TITLE:
DVSR: A High-Performance Protocol to Tame the Metro Bottleneck

ABSTRACT:
The Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) standard is under development as a new technology for high-speed metropolitan backbone networks. A key performance objective of RPR is to simultaneously achieve high utilization, spatial reuse, and fairness, an objective not achieved by current technologies such as SONET and (Metro) Gigabit Ethernet nor by legacy ring technologies such as FDDI. The core technical challenge for RPR is the design of a bandwidth allocation algorithm that dynamically achieves these three properties. The difficulty is in the distributed nature of the problem - that upstream ring nodes must
inject traffic at a rate according to congestion and fairness criteria downstream. Unfortunately, the proposed algorithms in the current draft standards have a number of critical limitations that result in permanent wide-ranging oscillations, throughput loss, and slow convergence. In this talk, I will describe the technological challenges and goals of networking at the "metro-edge". Moreover, I will introduce Distributed Virtual-time Scheduling in Rings (DVSR), a new bandwidth allocation algorithm for packet rings that overcomes the limits of state-of-the-art protocols. Finally, I will present the results of our implementation and measurement study on a Gb/sec network processor testbed.

BIO:
Ed Knightly received the B.S. degree from Auburn University in 1991, the M.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Since 1996, he has been an assistant professor in the ECE/CS Departments at Rice University. He is an editor of the Computer Networks Journal, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and previously, IEEE Network Magazine. He served as co-guest editor of IEEE Network Magazine's special issue on integrated and differentiated services for the Internet. He served as co-chair and on the steering committee for IWQoS, as the finance chair for MOBICOM, and on the program committee for numerous networking conferences including INFOCOM, IWQoS, MOBICOM, and SIGMETRICS. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1997 and the Sloan Fellowship in 2001. His research interests are in the areas of quality-of-service, scheduling, admission control, and media access protocols in wireless and wireline networks.

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