Wednesday / CS Seminar
November 13th / 3:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514
Speaker
Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich
Talk Title
Reaching Escape Velocity for Layer-3 Innovation: Deployability of a Next-generation Internet Architecture
Abstract
It appears nearly impossible to deploy a new Internet architecture
that innovates at Layer 3 of the networking stack, as the obstacles
seem insurmountable: billions of deployed devices, legacy network
infrastructure with hardware-based packet processing with long
replacement cycles, operating systems of a sprawling complexity, and a
diverse application landscape with millions of developers. As a new
Internet architecture seemingly needs support by all of these
stakeholders, fundamental innovation at the network layer appears
hopeless.
We identify dependency loops as a core barrier to the deployment of a
next-generation Internet architecture. We propose to break the
dependency loops with a virtuous cycle: the availability of
applications using the NGN will result in increasing amount of
traffic, encouraging more NSPs to deploy the NGN, fueling user demand,
inviting more applications to deploy. We postulate that 1 million
users with access to the NGN connectivity suffice to set the virtuous
cycle in motion.
The aim of this talk is to imbue hope for the deployment of a
next-generation Internet architectures. With the expanding real-world
deployment of the SCION secure network architecture, we show how a
next-generation education network can be established and connected to
the commercial network. Applications running on hosts in these
networks can immediately make use of the next-generation
infrastructure thanks to a bootstrapping service, even without OS
support. To provide sufficient incentives to applications to build in
SCION support, we present a path towards reaching 1 million hosts in
SCIONabled networks. On the path toward this vision, 12 R&D
institutions on 5 continents are now connected with native SCION
connectivity ("BGP free"), reaching an estimated 250'000 users /
hosts. We present several applications and use cases that can be used
across these institutions.
Biography
Adrian Perrig is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at
ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he leads the network security group. He
is also a Distinguished Fellow at CyLab, and an Adjunct Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
From 2002 to 2012, he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science
(courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2007 to 2012, he served
as the technical director for Carnegie Mellon's Cybersecurity
Laboratory (CyLab). He earned his MS and PhD degrees in Computer
Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent three years during
his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his
BSc degree in Computer Engineering from EPFL. He is a recipient of the
ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award. Adrian is an ACM and IEEE
Fellow. Adrian's research revolves around building secure systems --
in particular his group is working on the SCION secure Internet
architecture.
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