[Colloq] Talk, Thursday, December 2 - Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium

presents
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

who will speak on:
Building Blocks for Engineering QoS Expectations over Best-Effort Networks

Thursday, December 2, 2004
12:00pm
200 Richards Hall
Northeastern University

ABSTRACT
This talk will explore how techniques like closed-loop control and 
distributed multi-path traffic engineering can be used in multi-homed, 
overlay or peer-to-peer network contexts to engineer QoS expectations 
over best-effort networks. The goal is to enable home-to-home (H2H) 
multimedia applications such as streaming, instant multimedia messaging 
and conferencing. In our closed-loop control work, we show how the 
parameters of a class of "accumulation-based" congestion control 
techniques can be modified to support QoS expectations as an extension 
of "fairness" ideas. In our traffic engineering work, we develop an 
evolutionary architectural framework ``BANANAS'' aimed at simplifying 
the introduction of multipath routing in the Internet. A key idea in the 
framework is the observation that a path can be encoded as a short hash 
(``PathID'') of a sequence of globally known identifiers, thereby 
avoiding the need for explicit signaling protocols. Finally, we show how 
the performance diversity in a large number of overlay paths can be 
aggregated and matched to inherent content diversity in multimedia 
streaming applications to build the abstraction of an "end-to-end 
broadband pipe".
Biography
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman is an Associate Professor at the Department of 
Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute in Troy, NY. He received a B.Tech degree from the Indian 
Institute of Technology, Madras, India in July 1993, followed by M.S. 
and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Sciences at the Ohio State 
University in 1994 and 1997 respectively. His research is in topics such 
as congestion control architectures, quality of service (QoS), last-mile 
community wireless and free-space optical networks, network management, 
multimedia networking, and performance analysis. His special interest 
lies in developing the inter-disciplinary areas overlapping with 
networking. He was selected by MIT's Technology Review Magazine in 1999 
as one of the top 100 young innovators for the new millennium.