Jim Kurose
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Friday December 5, 2014, 1:30-2:30pm, DBH 6011
Title:
Design and Analysis of Content Caching Networks
Abstract:
Interconnected networks of caches – whether at the network layer in
content-centric networking or at the application layer in content
distribution networks – are a common feature in several different
network architectures. In this talk, we discuss several challenges in
the design and analysis of cache networks. We begin with the challenge
of opportunistically locating and storing cached content and then
consider the problem of analyzing the performance of networks of
interconnected caches. We describe both approximate (iterative,
fixed-point) and bounding (using a cache network calculus) approaches.
Throughout, we focus on open challenges.
Speaker Bio:
Jim Kurose is currently Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at
the University of Massachusetts. Professor Kurose has been a Visiting
Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM , the University of
Paris, and Technicolor Research Labs. He has previously served in a
number of campus administrative roles including Chair of the
Department of Computer Science, and Dean of the College of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics. His research interests include network
protocols and architecture, network measurement, cyber-physical
systems, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance
evaluation. Dr. Kurose has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of
the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has served as Technical
Program C-chair for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS and the
ACM Internet Measurement conference. He has won several conference
best paper awards and received the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award and
the IEEE Infocom Achievement Award. He has also received a number of
awards for his educational activities, including the IEEE Taylor Booth
Education Medal. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the
Computing Research Association, the NSF CISE advisory council, and the
boards of several research institutes. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and
the ACM. With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the textbook,
Computer Networking, a top down approach, now in its 6th edition.
In January 2015, Dr. Kurose will begin serving as Assistant Director
of the US National Science Foundation, leading the Directorate of
Computer and Information Science and Engineering.