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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Building Scalable Network Stacks for Modern Applica
 tions
DTSTART:20210415T131500
DTEND:20210415T141500
DTSTAMP:20260415T011220Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Ahmet Saeed - MIT\nIC Faculty candidate\n\nAbstract\nThe n
 etwork stack in today's operating systems is a remnant from a time when a
  server had a handful of cores and processed requests from a few thousand 
 clients. It simply cannot keep up with the scale of modern servers and the
  requirements of modern applications. Specifically\, real-time application
 s and high user expectations enforce strict performance requirements on th
 e infrastructure. Further\, there is a fundamental shift in the way hardwa
 re capacity scales from simply relying on Moore's law to deliver faster ha
 rdware every couple of years to leveraging parallel processing and task-sp
 ecific accelerators. This talk covers innovations in three key components 
 of the network stack.  First\, I will cover my work on scalable packet sc
 heduling in software network stacks\, improving the control of traffic out
 going from large-scale servers. Second\, I will move on to my work on impr
 oving overload control for servers handling microsecond-scale remote proce
 dure calls\, providing better control over incoming traffic to large-scale
  servers. Then\, the talk covers my work on Wide Area Network (WAN) conges
 tion control\, focusing on network-assisted congestion control schemes\, w
 here end-to-end solutions fail. The talk will conclude with a discussion o
 f plans for future research in this area.\n\nBio\nAhmed is a postdoctoral 
 associate at MIT working with Prof. Mohammad Alizadeh. His research intere
 sts broadly cover the theory\, design\, and implementation of scalable com
 puter networks and systems\, including resource scheduling\, congestion co
 ntrol\, wireless networks\, and cyber-physical systems. Before joining MIT
 \, Ahmed received his PhD in computer science from Georgia Tech\, where he
  was advised by Prof. Mostafa Ammar and Prof. Ellen Zegura. His PhD was pa
 rtially supported by the Google PhD Fellowship in Systems and Networking. 
 He received his bachelor's degree from Alexandria University in 2010.\n\nM
 ore information\n 
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