BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Towards a More Stable Network Infrastructure
DTSTART:20180412T101500
DTEND:20180412T113000
DTSTAMP:20260509T100952Z
UID:d9f3cc73bfb547a64108ea002efbe391206159199383b86ac67f4464
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Radhika Mittal - UC Berkeley\nIC Faculty candidate\n\nAbst
 ract:\nThere have been many recent proposals to change the network infrast
 ructure in order to meet different performance objectives. These changes a
 re often difficult to deploy\, either requiring specialized network switch
 ing hardware or greatly complicating network management. Rather than conti
 nuing to add new features to the network in an ad-hoc manner\, my work adv
 ocates a principled approach for meeting different performance objectives\
 , that leads to a more stable network infrastructure. This approach is bas
 ed on the following two questions: First\, can we avoid making changes to 
 the network infrastructure by looking for solutions that only change the e
 nd-points? Second\, when infrastructure changes are needed\, can we make t
 hem universal in nature? In this talk\, I will primarily focus on the seco
 nd question\, where I explore whether we can have a universal packet sched
 uling algorithm\, that can mimic all other scheduling algorithms. Towards 
 the end\, I will briefly present three examples in the context of wide-are
 a and datacenter congestion control\, where I tackle the first question of
  avoiding changes to the network infrastructure.\n\nBio:\nRadhika Mittal i
 s a Phd candidate in the Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley\, wher
 e she is advised by Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy and Prof. Scott Shenker. Her wo
 rk has covered several topics in computer systems and networking. Before s
 tarting at UC Berkeley in 2012\, she received her bachelor degree in Compu
 ter Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in India.\n\nMore informati
 on
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR