Princeton S* Network Systems

Jen Rexford and I are jointly seeking to hire a post-doc to join us at Princeton.   We are looking for somebody to start sometime between February and June 2010 (ideally, as soon as possible) and stay for a duration of 18-24 months.

This research opportunity is part of the SCAFFOLD project.  SCAFFOLD is a new network architecture that focuses on better supporting distributed and wide-area services.  These services, run over multiple hosts distributed across many locations, need to respond quickly to server and network churn: both unexpected changes (due to equipment failures and physical mobility) and intentional changes (during planned … Continue Reading

This year’s HotNets workshop was held over the past two days in the faculty club at NYU; it was nice being on old turf.   The HotNets workshop has authors write 6-page “position” or “work-in-progress” papers on current “hot topics in networking” (surprise!).  Tucked into a cosy downstairs room, the workshop was nicely intimate and it saw lots of interesting questions and discussion.

One topic that was of particular interest to me were new ideas about datacenter networking; HotNets included two papers in each of two different research areas.

The first thematic area was addressing the problem of bisectional … Continue Reading