**** Columbia Network Research Center Seminar ****

Title:    An Extensible Router Architecture
Speaker:  Prof. Larry Peterson
          Princeton University
When:     January 10, 2001 - 10 am
Where:    Interschool Lab, CEPSR Building, 7th floor
          Columbia University
          Refreshments will be served

Abstract:

We recognize two trends in router design:  (1) increasing pressure to
extend the set of services provided by the router, and (2) increasing
diversity in the hardware components used to construct the router.  The
consequence of these two trends is that it is becoming increasingly
difficult to map the services onto the underlying hardware.  Our
response to this situation is to define a virtual router architecture
that hides the hardware details from the forwarding functions.  In this
talk I will describe this architecture, and report our early experiences
implementing the architecture on emerging hardware components.

Bio: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~llp/

Larry is a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Before
that, he was on the faculty at the University of Arizona. Along with
co-author Bruce Davie, he has recently updated his networking textbook:
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 2e. His research focuses on
end-to-end issues related to computer networks. Current projects can be
found on the Network System Group home page.

Larry is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems, has been on the Editorial Board for IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking and IEEE Journal on Select Areas in Communicatoin, and has
served on program committees for SOSP, SIGCOMM, OSDI, and ASPLOS.  Larry
is also a member of the Internet's End-to-End research group.  He
received his Ph.D.  degree from Purdue University in 1985.