Speaker: Leon Poutievski, Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
Place  : Alltel Room, on the 1st floor of Hardymon Building
Time   : Thursday, November 14th, 2:30-3:30pm

Internet Indirection Infrastructure.
Ion Stoica, Daniel Adkins, Shelley Zhuang, Scott Shenker, Sonesh Surana
(University of California, Berkeley)

Abstract.

Attempts to generalize the Internet's point-to-point communication
abstraction to provide services like multicast, anycast, and mobility have
faced challenging technical problems and deployment barriers.  To ease the
deployment of such services, this paper proposes an overlay-based Internet
Indirection Infrastructure (i3) that offers a rendezvous-based
communication abstraction.  Instead of explicitly sending a packet to a
destination, each packet is associated with an identifier; this identifier
is then used by the receiver to obtain delivery of the packet. This level
of indirection decouples the act of sending from the act of receiving, and
allows i3 to efficiently support a wide variety of fundamental
communication services.  To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach,
a prototype based on the Chord lookup protocol has been designed and
built.