Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode

Abstract:

PlanetLab is a geographically distributed overlay network designed to support the deployment and evaluation of planetary-scale network services. Two high-level goals shape its design. First, to enable a large research community to share the infrastructure, PlanetLab provides distributed virtualization, whereby each service runs in an isolated slice of PlanetLab's global resources. Second, to support competition among multiple network services, PlanetLab decouples the operating system running on each node from the network-wide services that define PlanetLab, a principle referred to as unbundled management. This talk describes how PlanetLab realizes these two goals, and highlights several novel network services running on PlanetLab.

Speaker Bio:

Larry Peterson is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Princeton University. He recently helped launch the PlanetLab project while on sabbatical at Intel Research, and is now serving as Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium. His research focuses network systems, and he is a co-author of the textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach".

Professor Peterson recently stepped down as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, and he has served on the editorial boards for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, and the ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems. He was co-chair of the inaugural HotNets workshop and program chair for the 19th SOSP. Peterson received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1985.