Toronto
Networking Seminar 2005
Moving
Application-Driven Networking into the Optical Layer: A Case for
Network Control Plane and Extensible Services-on-Demand
Admela
Jukan
INRS/Université du Quebec, Montreal
Date:
November 4, 3pm
Location: BA1210, Bahen Center
Abstract
Large-scale, data-intensive, and real-time applications for E-science
represent a new generation of applications that combine distributed
scientific instruments, data archives, sensors, and computing resources
to solve complex scientific problems. To support global E-science
applications and Grid computing, significant research activity has been
carried out aiming at redefining the broad role of networking and, in
particular, understanding the intelligent use of the vast bandwidth of
fiber optic networks. In contrast to the common belief, however, the
use of optical networks for E-science is not about installing dedicated
high-speed connections between remote research centers; instead, it is
how these connections are utilized by the driving applications. This
presentation will address the evolutionary progress and visionary
roadmap in application-driven networking within the optical layer,
focusing on novel paradigms for network control plane and extensible
services-on-demand. Several important new design principles will be
highlighted. First, end-to-end optical connections now extend from
traditional network elements to the application end-points, such as
sensors, instruments, CPU and storage. Second, the coordination of
heterogeneous computing resources is based on near-real-time network
feedback, posing significant design challenges for signaling,
provisioning and fault-tolerant operation. Finally, the convergence of
optical networks, Internet and applications - with combined control and
management - is driving the network beyond an isolated technology and
towards a cohesive and configurable communication infrastructure.
During the presentation, recent developments in the telecommunication
industry and Grid computing will be discussed, along with trends and
future research directions.
Bio:
Admela Jukan received the M.Sc. degree in Information Technologies and
Computer Science from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, and the Ph.D.
degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Habilitation
degree (venia legendi) in Communication Networks, from the Vienna
University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria. She is currently Associate
Professor at INRS/Univ of Quebec in Montreal and she is also Visiting
Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
(UIUC). Prior to joining UIUC, she served as Program Director in
Computer and Networks System Research at the National Science
Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA, and she was Research Assistant
Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. While
at NSF, she was responsible for funding and coordinating US-wide
university research, education and technology transfer activities in
the area of network technologies and systems. For seven years, she has
been with the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, first as
Assistant Professor and then as University Lecturer. In 1999
and 2000,
she was Visiting Scientist at Bell Labs, NJ. Dr. Jukan is the
author
of numerous papers in the field of networking, and she has authored and
edited several books. Her work has produced seminal contributions to
the field, and she is recognized for having introduced the concept of
Quality-of-Service and constraint-based routing in optical networks.
She is the recipient of numerous research grants in Europe and in the
US, and she also received the Best Innovative Research Award of the
Vienna Academic Anniversary Foundation, in 1999, and the Best Research
Proposal Award from Sprint, in 2002. She serves as a member of the
Quality Assurance Committee of the Network of Excellence research
initiative, currently the largest pan-European research program. Dr.
Jukan has chaired and co-chaired several international conferences and
she is a Liaison Editor of the IEEE Communication Magazine Feature
Topic on Optical Control Plane for the Grid Community: Opportunities,
Issues and Vision, to appear in March 2006.
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