Colloquium Details
The Future of Service Infrastructure Research
| Author: | Markus Hofmann Bell Labs |
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| Date: | November 11, 2010 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Reza Rejaie |
Abstract
Imagine a world in which communication is fantastically convenient. People effortlessly converse and share information. They immediately find communication services or easily build their own new ones. They access services when and where they want, using devices that are handy.
The Service Infrastructure Research Domain at Bell Labs is helping make such a world possible. Conveniently and widely available services require support from advanced computing and communication infrastructures. These infrastructures make underlying resources available to application software through dynamic and flexible interfaces. This foundation allows applications to become more network-aware, and the network to become more application-aware. Therefore, the domain's work centers on one main objective--bridging the gap between applications and networks.
This talk will provide an overview of our work on Service Infrastructure research, focusing on work in Peer-to-Peer Communication, network-aware cloud computing (NetComputing) and advanced multimedia technologies.
Biography
Markus Hofmann is Vice President of Service Infrastructure Research at Bell Labs Research/Alcatel-Lucent in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. He received his Ph.D. with honors in Computer Engineering from University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1998 and joined Bell Labs Research the same year. For the spring 2005, spring 2006, and spring 2007 semesters, Markus also accepted a position as adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York, USA, teaching a graduate course on Content Networking.
Markus is known for his pioneering work on reliable multicasting over the Internet and for defining and shaping fundamental principles of content networking. At Bell Labs, he is in charge of defining and leading a comprehensive research program in the areas multimedia communications, content networking, user-aware communications and cloud computing. Markus has been active in several professional organizations, and the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), in particular. He has served as Chair of the Internet Technical Committee (ITC), a joint committee of the Internet Society and the IEEE Communications Society. He has also served as the Chair of the Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) Working Group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and is also serving on the Editorial Board of the Computer Communications Journal and the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. For more information, see http://www.mhof.com/.