[Tutorial] Net SILO: Architectural Support for Internet Evolution and Innovation
Net SILO
[Tutorial] Net SILO: Architectural Support for Internet Evolution and Innovation
TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, USA
Date: October 7th, 2010
Location: Verizon, 7701 E. Telecom Pkwy
Temple Terrace, FL 33637
Time: 5:45 to 7:30pm
IEEE SP/COM Chapter brings to you a Distinguished Lecturer Tutorial. You will learn about the Net SILO architecture of fine-grain services for the Future Internet (http://net-silos.net/). The design of the architecture is based on three fundamental principles…
First, SILO generalizes the concept of layering and decouples layers from services, making it possible to introduce new functionality and innovations. Second, cross-layer interactions are explicitly supported by extending the definition of a service to include control interfaces that can be tuned externally so as to modify the behavior of the service. The third principle is “design for change”. The architecture does not dictate the services to be implemented, but provides mechanisms to introduce new services and compose them to perform specific communication tasks. We will present the components of the architecture and the prototype software implementation. We will also describe ongoing work on deploying SILO within the GENI test bed to enable advanced cross-layer experimentation in the optical substrate by harnessing new capabilities available within an emerging intelligent and programmable optical layer.
BIOGRAPHY: George Rouskas is a Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He received the Ph.D. and MS degrees in 
Computer Science from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece. His research interests are in network design and optimization, network architecture, and performance evaluation. He is the author of a book on “Internet Tiered Services” (Springer, 2009), co-editor of the book “Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks” (Springer, 2008), and co-editor of the upcoming book “Next-Generation Internet Architectures and Protocols” (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
He is a recipient of a 1997 NSF AREER Award, the 2004 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award and the 2003 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award, and he was inducted in the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers in 2004. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Optical Switching and Networking journal, and is serving as the co-chair of the Optical Networks and Systems Symposium for IEEE Globecom 2010 and as co-chair of the IEEE ICCCN 2011 conference. He has served as associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the Computer Networks journal, and he has organized several networking conferences.