**** Columbia Network Research Group Seminar ****

Title:    Edge-based Traffic Management (TM) Building Blocks for The Internet
Speaker:  Shivkumar Kalyanaraman 
          Assistant Professor
          Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
          Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY (RPI)
When:     December 6, 2000 - 10 am
Where:    Interschool Lab, CEPSR Building, 7th floor
          Columbia University

Abstract:

With an explosion of bandwidth on the Internet, a natural question is
what is the new focus for traffic management, congestion control and
QoS research. This talk will focus on that question and motivate the
need for new TM building blocks for the next generation internet. The
aim of these blocks is to deal with scalability issues and enable new
economic models for provisioning and contracting bandwidth in the
Internet.  Specifically, we will discuss a new overlay feedback-based
architecture to scale congestion control and move bottlenecks to the
edges of the network. With all bottlenecks at the edges, it becomes
possible to do edge-based dynamic provisioning of services. With
congestion-information available at edges new capabilities such as
dynamic contracting, congestion-pricing of such bandwidth services are
enabled. Bottlenecks at the edge also allow TCP-friendly end-to-end
services such as near zero-timeout and near zero-loss services.

Biography:

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman is an Assistant Professor at the Department of
Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, NY.  He received a B.Tech degree from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras, India in July 1993, followed by M.S. 
and and Ph.D.  degrees in Computer and Information Sciences at the Ohio
State University in 1994 and 1997 respectively.  His research interests
are in the area of computer networking, concentrated around the theme of
traffic management.  He also works in the areas of automated network
management, multicast and multimedia networking.  His special interest
lies in developing the interdisciplinary areas between traffic and
network management, control theory, economics, scalable simulation
technologies and video compression.  He is a co-inventor in three
patents and has authored several papers, IETF drafts and ATM forum
contributions.  He is an active consultant to several networking and
telecom companies, and a member of the technical advisory board of
Packeteer Inc.  He was recently selected by MIT's Technology Review
Magazine as one of the TR100:  100 top innovators for the new millenium.