March 2009: IETF74 was held in San Francisco. Our project team gave a few talks at the Routing Research Group meeting:
• "Scaling FIBs with Virtual Aggregation: How Much Stretch? How Much FIB Savings?" by Dan Jen.
• "Evolution Towards Global Routing Scalability" by Varun Khare
• "Terminology Discussion" led by Lixia

Research Projects:

Biologically Inspired Network Designs
eFIT: Enabling Future Internet Innovation via Transit Wire
WIT: A Watchdog System For Internet Routing
Building the Next Generation Global Route Monitoring System
DNS Security Revisited: Enabling Cryptographic Defenses in Large-Scale Systems

• How to Secure Large Scale and Open Systems, such as the Domain Name System (DNS) and global Internet routing infrastructure?
  • There is a rich literature on cryptographic-based designs to secure distributed systems; there is also an increasing volume of work on securing large scale systems via non-crypto-based approaches. We are working on bootraping crypto-defenses through non-crypto means.
• Network Architecture Design: How many necessary pieces and how do we know they are necessary?
• Network Protocol Designs: Shall we start collecting a set of principles from past successes and lessons?
• Here is one of my favorite Feymann quotes.

Current IRL Students
Pei-Chun Cheng
Dan Jen
Michael Meisel
Ricardo Oliveira
Eric Osterweil
Jonathan Park
Jiangzhe Wang
Jiajie Zhu
Zhenkai Zhu


FAQ for prospective students

IRL Alumni
The best part of teaching is watching the students growing up!
Ying-Ju Chi (MS June 2008)
Mohit Lad, Sr. Internet Services Engineer at Nokia (PhD 2007)
Vasileios Pappas, Member of Research Staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (PhD 2006)
Dan Pei, Member of Technical Staff, ATT Labs (PhD 2005)
Lan Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Memphis (PhD 2004)
Fan Ye, Member of Technical Staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (PhD 2004)
Nelson Tang, Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman (PhD 2003)
Beichuan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Arizona (PhD 2003)
Yixin Jin, member of technical staff, Caymas Networks (PhD 2001)
Dan Massey, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Colorado State University (PhD 2000)
Andreas Terzis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Johns Hopkins University (PhD 2000)
Jun Wei, member of technical staff, French Telecom Research in San Jose, California (PhD 2000)

I normally take on new graduate students from CS217 classes. My suggestion to new students is to dive into research projects right away. Mohit showed me the pointer to some excellent advice on independent studies by Prof. Brian Kernighan of Princeton University.