First International Workshop on Architectural Support for Future Routers (ASFR 09)
October 26, 2009
Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1085, 1081HV Amsterdam
Lecture room S6.31 (6th floor)
The goal of this one-day research forum is to bring together academic and industry leaders who share an interest in the challenges of building tomorrow's high-performance Internet routers. Such systems are being designed as massive clusters and hence share a great deal with HPC computing platforms; indeed, a future router will be a kind of HPC data center specialized in the control of optical switching components that will run at data rates of 40Gb, 100Gb or higher. They will need to carry a wide range of network traffic, including traditional Internet content but also voice over IP, streaming media and real-time content. They will need to achieve telephony levels of availability: "five-nines" reliability or better, and to shape traffic dynamically so as to achieve QoS objectives, repel DDoS attacks and apportion router resources efficiently. Can these tasks be accomplished? What hardware and software architectures will be required?
| 09:00 | The key problems we face building core routers
Robert Broberg (Cisco) and Chase Cotton (University of Delaware) Slides: Chase Cotton PDF Web site Reliable Router Research (R3) |
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| 10:00 | Academic engagement opportunities at Cisco Robert Broberg (Cisco) |
| 10:30 | break |
| 10:45 | Resilience and security: routers as key elements
of overall network security Jonathan Smith (University of Pennsylvania) Slides: PDF |
| 11:30 | How to make routing protocols tolerant of
Byzantine failures
Robbert van Rennesse (Cornell University) Slides: PDF Paper: PDF | 12:00 | lunch break |
| 13:00 | RIB validation and analysis Chase Cotton (University of Delaware) Slides: PDF | 13:30 | "Streamlining" communication in HPC-based routers
Herbert Bos, Vrije Universiteit Slides: PDF |
| 14:00 | Extending Open MPI's RTE:
Resilient Operations and Embedded Applications Ralph Castain (Cisco) Slides: PDF Cisco will release its cluster manager software under a BSD license, soon. A Link to it will be inserted here once it will be available. |
| 15:00 | break |
| 15:15 | A DHT-based fault-tolerant storage substrate for
routing state Andrei Agapi (Vrije Universiteit) Slides: PDF |
| 15:45 | Transparent TCP failover with chain replication Robert Burgess (Cornell University) Slides: PDF |
| 16:30 | Discussion and wrap-up Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit) and Robert Broberg (Cisco) |
| 17:00 | Informal discussions (drinks provided) |
Access to the workshop is free of charge; however seating is limited.
Contact: Thilo Kielmann