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Seminar
Part1: Studying in the land or rising sun;
Part2: PlanetLab as a global stage for research on networking and distributed computing.
Speaker: Farzana Yasmeen.
Institute: University of Canterbury.
Time: 3:10 pm, Nov 7, Friday, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
Abstract
The history of overlay networks goes back as far as the history of the Internet, the Internet being an overlay itself on top of local-area networks and telephone networks. Today, overlays usually are implemented at the application layer and provide virtualization from the underlying link structure, along with a number of custom-defined services. PlanetLab is a testbed for overlay networks, where research groups can experiment with a variety of planetary-scale services, including file sharing and network-embedded storage, content distribution networks, routing and multicast overlays, QoS overlays, scalable object location, scalable event propagation, anomaly detection mechanisms, network measurement tools, etc. There are currently over 600 active projects running on PlanetLab. A project, in which I am involved, is related with studying Delay and Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTNs), a relatively new breed of overlays that operate above the transport layers of the networks they interconnect. DTNs are intended for environments characterized by very long delay paths and frequent network partitions. Having presented main research issue related with DTNs, I will summarize my research activities at the University of Canterbury, where I have made contributions towards distributing Akaroa2 in PlanetLab. Akaroa2 is a controller for distributed quantitative discrete-event simulation of telecommunication networks, developed by Simulation Research Group from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Speaker Biography
Farzana Yasmeen is a Ph.D. Student at the National Institute of Informatics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan. Farzana is currently visiting Network Research Laboratory (Protocols, Distributed Processing and Simulation), Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Canterbury.
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