23rd of October at 16h00, Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR) will give a presentation entitled“NFV-COIN: Leveraging In-Network Computing with Network Function Virtualization”
Location: G4.1Online: https://meet.google.com/rqf-xofk-dck
Abstract
In this talk we will examine a phenomenon that can resignify communication networks as we know them. Instead of acting just as a data transport medium, multiple technologies have made it possible to leverage networks to run and provide user-level services. This paradigm has been alternately called Computing In the Network (COIN) and In-Network Computing (INC). INC has been mostly used in the context of programmable hardware, which provides support for the implementation of services on the data-layer level. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is another alternative technology to deploy novel types of services within the network. NFV allows the implementation in software of middleboxes traditionally available as specialized hardware. Network services can be implemented as SFCs (Service Function Chains) based on virtualization technologies that run on commodity hardware. Although most virtualized functions have classic middlebox functionalities (e.g. firewalls or intrusion detectors) arbitrary COIN services can be implemented using NFV technologies, which we call NFV-COIN. An NFV-COIN architecture has been proposed and published as an IETF Draft. We present case studies of NFV-COIN services for distributed abstractions that are notoriously relevant and hard to implement and maintain, including consensus, reliable and ordered broadcast, and failure detectors.
Bio
Elias P. Duarte Jr. is a Full Professor at Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil, where he is the head of the Computer Networks, Distributed Systems & Security Lab (LaRSiS). He has been twice (2005 and 2009) Visiting Associate Professor at Tohoku University (Japan) and Visiting Researcher at the University of California at Irvine (1997). His research interests include Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, their Dependability, Management, and Algorithms. He has published over 300 peer-reviewer papers and has supervised more than 130 students both on the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prof. Duarte has been Associate Editor of the Computing (Springer) journal and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and has served as chair of 30 conferences and workshops in his fields of interest, including chairing TCPs of SRDS’18, ICDCS’21, and GLOBECOM’24. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 1997, M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain, 1991, and both BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1987 and 1991. He chaired the Brazilian National Laboratory on Computer Networks (2012-2016). He is a member of the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing & Fault Tolerance, a Member of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
