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SUMMARY:Data Plane programmability: the next step in Software Defined Netw
 orkingData Plane programmability: the next step in Software Defined Networ
 king - Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
DTSTART:20171026T140000Z
DTEND:20171026T150000Z
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CONTACT:Liang Wang
DESCRIPTION:Software-Defined Networking (SDN) emerged as an attempt to int
 roduce network innovations faster and to radically simplify and automate t
 he management of large networks. Most of the traditional SDN work promoted
  the neat separation of the “smart” network control and management pla
 ne from the “dumb” packet forwarding plane. However\, we believe that 
 this rigid\, physical\, separation is by no means a conceptual principle\,
  but it is just the consequence of the inability to emerge\, so far\, with
  pragmatic device-level programming interfaces more expressive than OpenFl
 ow\, i.e.\, which permit to program and deploy inside the switch more comp
 lex and dynamic per-flow “behavioral rules” rather than static forward
 ing rules. In the talk\, we discuss pragmatic and viable ways to formally 
 describe stateful per flow processing while retaining platform independenc
 y and portability across different network devices and nodes. We posit tha
 t the unprecedented ability to locally deploy\, in each network switch\, t
 hird-party programmed platform-agnostic control functions\, not only quest
 ions the rigid control/data plane separation that so far has driven SDN ef
 forts\, but rather might even pave the road towards the viable return of s
 ome “active networking” ideas in the SDN arena.\n\nBio: Giuseppe bianc
 hi is Full Professor of Networking at the School of Engineering\, Universi
 ty of Roma Tor Vergata since January 2007. His research activity includes 
 programmable network systems\, wireless networks\, privacy and security\, 
 traffic control\, and is documented in about 220 peer-reviewed internation
 al journal and conference papers\, having received more than 14.000 citati
 ons (source scholar.google.com). He has carried out pioneering research wo
 rk on WLAN modelling and assessment\, and is currently interested in netwo
 rk programmability in both wireless and wired domains. He has been general
  or technical co-chair for several major conferences and workshops (IEEE I
 NFOCOM 2014\, ACM CoNext 2015\, IEEE LANMAN 2016\, IEEE WoWMoM 2007 and 20
 10\, ACM WinTech 2011\, ACM SRIF 2013\, track chair at IEEE PIMRC 2008\, e
 tc). G. Bianchi has held general or technical coordination roles in severa
 l European projects (FP6-DISCREET\, FP7-FLAVIA\, FP7-PRISM\, FP7-DEMONS\, 
 H2020-BEBA\, H2020-SCISSOR)\, and currently participates to seven EU proje
 cts on wireless\, network programmability and network security topics. He 
 has been (or still is) editor for several journals in his field\, includin
 g IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking\, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Comm
 unications\, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management\, and Els
 evier Computer Communications.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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