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[PAST EVENT] Designing New Abstractions for High-Performance Network Functions
Speaker: Guyue Liu (http://grace-liu.github.io/), George Washington University
Title: Designing New Abstractions for High-Performance Network Functions
Abstract:
Today?s networks are responsible for more than routing packets and
perform a wide range of functionality such as firewalls, proxies, and
caches to improve performance and security. Specialized hardware
devices used to run these functions but are no longer a great choice
for cloud providers and large carriers due to high cost and low
flexibility. Software-based networking technologies such as Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
promise to offer agility, flexibility and reduce the expenditures for
network operators. However, there are challenges across the system,
application, and service layers to fully achieve these benefits.
In this talk, I will present my research on designing new abstractions
for network functions to run in software-based environments. First, I
will present OpenNetVM, an open source NFV platform that allows
researchers and developers to quickly develop and deploy network
services inside of containers. I will show how OpenNetVM achieves high
performance and flexibility by decoupling service management from the
packet processing. Then, I will present Microboxes, a novel service
chaining abstraction designed to support transport and application
layer network functions. I will show how Microboxes eliminates
redundant processing and enables a modular design by breaking the
?packet-centric? model used by existing NFV frameworks.
Bio
Guyue Liu (http://grace-liu.github.io/) is a Ph.D. candidate in the
Department of Computer Science at George Washington University,
advised by Professor Timothy Wood. Her research interests are in the
areas of networking systems, cloud computing, and edge computing. She
has published research papers in prestigious conferences, including
SIGCOMM and CoNEXT. She has interned and collaborated with leading
research institutes, such as Microsoft Research and Hewlett Packard
Labs. She received a bachelor?s degree from Beijing University of
Posts and Telecommunications in 2012. She has won the HP Helion
OpenStack Scholarship, the First Place in GENI Competition, and an
RTAS Best Student Paper Award.
Contact
Xu Liu