The IP Networking Lab organises a graduate networking course on September 4th 2008, September 15th and September 16th, 2008 in Louvain-la-Neuve. The course will be given by Maoke Chen from Tsinghua University and Olivier Bonaventure. Maoke Chen will explain the Design of a Large-scale Networking Experiment Platform (LEP) while Olivier Bonaventure will discuss the evolution of the Internet architecture.

Course outline

Thursday September 4th, 2008 (10.00-18.00)

This day will be presented by Maoke Chen.

1. Introduction
   • Background: new architecture designs
   • The necessity of building LEP
   • Slice computing and its basic concepts
   • Discussion: requirements of research on slice computing
2. Design of 6P-User Oriented Architecture
   • Slice computing and PlanetLab
   • Virtual machine: advantages and drawbacks
   • Case study: 4-octet ASN transition experiment
   • User-oriented addressing model (UOA)
   • Implementation of UOA
   • Discussion: UOA or User-oriented Address-Interface-Routing ?
3. 6P-UOA Deployment Practices
   • Comparison between 6P-UOA and PlanetLab
   • Joining 6P-UOA as a user
   • Contributing a node to 6P-UOA
   • Homework: deploying an experiment or application over 6P-UOA

Monday September 15th, 2008

(10.00-18.00)

The first part will be presented by Olivier Bonaventure, the second by Maoke Chen.

1. Evolution of the Internet architecture : recent proposals discussed within the IRTF Routing Researcg Group
   • Host Identity Protocol (HIP)
   • shim6 IPv6 host-based multihoming
   • Locator-Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP)
   • 6/One
   • ILNP
2. Design of 6P-UOA II: Challenges in Management
   • 6P-UOA monitoring scenario
   • Self-recovery from node troubles
   • Resource scheduling: slice-fair or process-fair
   • Discussion: the theoretical aspect of fairness

Tuesday September 16th, 2008

(10.00-16.00)

This day will be presented by Maoke Chen.

1. Towards a User-driven, Service-oriented Slice Computing Platform
   • Slice vs. other types of “cloud”
   • Discussion: advantages and challenges of slice-based cloud computing
   • User incentive problem: economical and technical aspects
   • Guarantee of promised quality
   • Case study: peer-to-peer backup system
   • Homework: design a potential application based on slice computing
2. Conclusions and Future Work

   The afternoon will be devoted to discussions about the utilisation of the 6P platform to perform experiments.

About the presenters

• Dr. Maoke Chen is an Associate Researcher in Network Research Centre of Tsinghua University. His current research activities are focused on the architecture of addressing, monitoring and indexing services for planetary computation environment, including: 1) large-scale network application/innovation platform with user-oriented addressing; 2) user incentive in peer-to-peer distributed systems; 3) IPv4-IPv6 migration and mutual communications. He is the coordinator of 6P-UOA – a large-scale network experiment platform supported by user-oriented addressing model..
  Maoke was granted with Ph.D of Information and Communications Engineering by Tsinghua University in July 2004. He also holds Sc.M and Bachelor degrees of the same university.

• Olivier Bonaventure is currently a professor in the Department of Computing Science and Engineering at Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium where he leads the
  IP Networking Lab. From 1998 to 2002 he was a professor at the Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium. Before that, he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Liege and spent one year at the Alcatel Corporate Research Center in Antwerp. He received the Wernaers and Alcatel prizes awarded by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research in 2001. He is on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and was TPC co-chair of CoNEXT 2007. His current research interests include the evolution of the Internet architecture, intra- and interdomain routing, traffic engineering, and network security.

Registration

The course is open to all graduate students and researchers. The number of participants is limited to 30 persons.

The participation fee for the graduate course is 100 Euros. It is free for graduate and undergraduate students.

Registration is mandatory and must be received before September 1st, 2008. For information and registration, contact Stéphanie Landrain by email.

Practical information

The course will be held in Auditoires Sainte-Barbe on the Louvain-la-Neuve campus. Coffee break and printed copies of the tutorial notes will be provided to registered attendees.