Colloquium Details
Scalable Policy Enforcement for Switches and Middleboxes
Speaker: Minlan Yu, University of Southern California
Location: Warren Weaver Hall 412
Date: November 11, 2014, 11 a.m.
Host: Lakshmi Subramanian
Synopsis:
With software-defined networking, operators start to manage their enterprise and data center networks with many fine-grained policies (e.g., for traffic steering and access control). However, these networks often have a diversity of network devices (switches, hosts, and middleboxes), all with limited resources. To improve the scalability and reduce the complexity of policy enforcement, we proposed two systems: (1) vCRIB which improves the scalability of policy enforcement at switches by identifying the right tradeoffs memory and bandwidth resources (2) FlowTags, which ensures correct policy enforcement under middlebox dynamics by using tags to export middlebox internal states.
Notes:
In-person attendance only available to those with active NYU ID cards.