[talks] Yi Wang general exam

Thu May 10 16:41:53 EDT 2007

Yi Wang will present his research seminar/general exam on Wednesday May 16 
at 2PM in Room 402.  The members of his committee are Jennifer Rexford (advisor), 
Larry Peterson, and Kai Li.  Everyone is invited to attend his talk, and those 
faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.  His 
abstract and reading list follow below.
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Morpheus: Making Routing Programmable

Abstract:

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used by Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) to exchange reachability information with neighboring domains.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) express complex policies, affecting
everything from business relationships with their neighbors to traffic
engineering, scalability, and security, by configuring the BGP.
However, the routing architecture within an ISP, coupled
with the multi-step BGP route-selection algorithm running on the routers,
imposes significant restrictions on the policies that can be realized in
practice. These restrictions stand in the way of ISPs achieving policy
objectives that are important in practice, such as enabling new services
to customers.

We argue that the limitations of BGP can be overcome by providing
greater visibility into the candidate routes, a more flexible decision
process, and support for for multipath routing and forwarding. We
present Morpheus, a modular, open routing platform that enables
network operators to realize many useful policies that are infeasible
today through:
(1) flexible composition of multiple (possibly third-party developed)
policy modules, and
(2) programming the route-selection algorithms.
Morpheus also supports multipath routing, which is essential in enabling
many new customizable routing services. Morpheus can be readily
deployed without requiring changes in other domains.

We've implemented an Morpheus prototype as an extension to XORP,
the extensible open routing platform. Our evaluation of the prototype
demonstrates that the system can scale to the large number of address
blocks and BGP sessions present in large backbone networks. We are
currently working on demonstrating the flexibility of the prototype in
supporting new routing policies.

Reading list:

Textbook:
L. Peterson and B. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Morgan Haulmann, 3e, 2003

Papers:
[1] D. Clark,
" <http://www.cs.utah.edu/classes/cs7941-001/papers/e2e88.pdf> The Design Philosophy of
the DARPA Internet Protocols,"
ACM SIGCOMM, August 1988

[2] N. Feamster, H. Balakrishnan, J. Rexford, A. Shaikh, and J. van der Merwe,
" <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejrex/papers/rcp.pdf> The Case for Separating Routing
from Routers,"
ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, August 2004

[3] A. Greenberg, G. Hjalmtysson, D. Maltz, A. Meyers, J. Rexford, G. Xie, H. Yan, J.
Zhan, and H. Zhang,
" <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejrex/papers/ccr05-4d.pdf> A Clean Slate 4D Approach to
NetworkControl and Management,"
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, October 2005

[4] M. Handley, E. Kohler, A. Ghosh, O. Hodson, P. Radoslavov,
" <http://www.xorp.org/papers/xorp-nsdi.pdf> Designing Extensible IP Router Software,"
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2005

[5] Matthew Caesar, Donald Caldwell, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh, and
Jacobus van der Merwe,
" <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejrex/papers/rcp-nsdi.pdf> Design and implementation of a
Routing Control Platform,"
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2005

[6] B. Raghavan and A. Snoeren,
" <http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/%7Ebraghava/papers/platypus-sigcomm04.pdf> A System for
Authenticated Policy-Compliant Routing,"
ACM SIGCOMM, September 2004

[7] T. V. Lakshman, T. Nandagopal, R. Ramjee, K. Sabnani, and T. Woo,
" <http://www.sigcomm.org/HotNets-III/HotNets-III%20Proceedings/lakshman.pdf> The
SoftRouter Architecture,"
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, November 2004

[8] G. Goodell, W. Aiello, T. Griffin, J. Ioannidis, P. McDaniel, and A. Rubin,
" <http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/03/proceedings/papers/5.pdf> Working Around
BGP: An Incremental Approach to Improving Security and Accuracy for Interdomain Routing,"
Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, February, 2003

[9] T. Griffin, B. Shepherd, and G. Wilfong,
" <http://www.stanford.edu/%7Erjohari/336/Griffin_SPP.pdf> The Stable Paths Problem and
Interdomain Routing,"
IEEE Transactions on Networking, 10(2), April 2002

[10] M. Caesar and J. Rexford,
" <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejrex/papers/policies.pdf> BGP Routing Policies in ISP
Networks,"
IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Interdomain Routing, November/December 2005

[11] Hong Yan, T. S. Eugene Ng, David Maltz, Hui Zhang, Hemant Gogineni and Zheng Cai,
" <http://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Eeugeneng/papers/NSDI07-4D.pdf> Tesseract: A 4D Network
Control Plane",
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, April 2007

[12] Wen Xu and Jennifer Rexford,
" <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejrex/papers/multipath06.pdf> MIRO: Multi-path
Interdomain ROuting,"
ACM SIGCOMM, September 2006

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