KOSEN 한인과학기술자네트워크

인터넷 아키텍쳐 및 네트워크 전반에 관한 연구를 하는 연구실입니다.

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In today’s Internet, almost all end devices have multiple interfaces built in. This enables users to switch between different access networks or even use them simultaneously, helping them to better use the available resources and better match their communication needs. However, end devices in the conventional Internet architecture are typically not involved in any kind of path selection, despite choosing among a set of access networks by taking the application into account has an enormous potential. To exploit this, we approach the question of how to best leverage the available path diversity from the end host's perspective and transport each application’s traffic on the best suited access network.
 

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With respect to the evolution of its architecture, the Internet has been a victim of its own success. While the Internet has driven remarkable innovation in the applications which run over it, its rapid growth in size and complexity has introduced critical looming challenges and problems. One result of this growing complexity is referred to as “Internet Ossification” – namely, an inability to experiment with, evolve, or redesign the underlying protocols and mechanisms comprising the Internet's architecture.  Moreover, as the resource and performance demands placed by users upon today's Internet continue to increase, the network's predisposition against experimentation and evolution makes finding (and more importantly, deploying) solutions to these demands highly challenging to say the least.  In recent years, a number of approaches have been undertaken toward attacking the ossification problem on different fronts. One particular approach to this problem is known as “Software Defined Networking” (SDN), whereby evolvability is introduced into the underlying Internet infrastructure through flexible, programmable networking hardware with standardized interfaces. Numerous architectures to realize SDNs have been proposed, and most notably, the OpenFlow initiative has been gaining traction and widening deployment in campus networks around the United States, Europe, and Asia. The programmability introduced by SDN offers an appealing mechanism toward enabling experimentation, virtualization, and deployment of new protocols and network architectures within today's networks. While the introduction of programmability into the network architecture creates significant potential for new approaches in network design, it also raises significant questions about the scalability and limitations of these approaches.