Toronto Networking Seminar

Abstract:

Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) has been proposed both as a technology to address challenges faced by 'extreme' network and as a way to deliver low-cost networking in underserved areas. Although this technology has great potential, the current DTN architecture suffers from several problems. In this talk, I will first present an overview of DTN motivations and the DTN Research Group architecture. I will then present the limitations of this architecture and ongoing work at UW that addresses them.

Bio:

S. Keshav is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing at the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Earlier in his career has was a researcher at Bell Labs, an Associate Professor at Cornell, and a co-founder of Ensim Corporation, a Silicon Valley startup. He is the author of a widely used graduate textbook on computer networking and has been awarded the Director's Gold Medal at IIT Delhi, the Sakrison Prize at UC Berkeley, and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. His current interests are in infrastructural issues underlying tetherless computing. Keshav received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Delhi in 1986 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991.