High Performance Networking Group

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High Performance Networking Group
Nick McKeown Departments of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science nickm_at_stanford.e
du http//www.stanford.edu/nickm
Students Nandita Dukkipati, Yashar Ganjali,
Sundar Iyer, Isaac Keslassy, Pablo Molinero
Fernandez, Rui Zhang.Anton An (UG), Siva Gaggara
(MS), Giulio Galante (visitor).
Recent Alum Pankaj Gupta, Adisak Mekkittikul.
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Networking Activities at Stanford

• Stanford Networking Research Center (SNRC)
• Networking Seminars
• Networking Seminar
• Distributed Systems Seminar (CS548)
• Optics and Routing Seminar (weekly)
• Networking Classes (a selection)
• CS244a/EE284 Introduction to Networking
• EE384a Network Protocols
• EE384b Multimedia Networking
• EE384x/y Packet Switch Architectures
• EE384s Network Modeling
• CS244b Distributed Systems
• CS241 Internet Services
• CS444N Mobile and Wireless Networks and
  Applications

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Some Past Projects

• Input-queued crossbars
• Theorems
• First proof of 100 throughput for input queued
  switches.
• First proof of emulating output queueing with
  speedup 2.
• Algorithms
• iSLIP, iLQF, LPF, iLPF,
• Prototyping
• The Tiny Tera 320Gb/s MPLS switch.

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Some Past Projects (2)

• 2. IP Lookup and Packet Classification
• Algorithms 24-8, RFC, HiCuts.
• 3. Packet Buffer Design
• Ping-pong buffers.

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Current Projects Research

• Load-balancing and parallelism
• Parallel packet switches. Sundar Iyer
• Packet buffers and shared memory switches. Sundar
  Iyer
• Load-balancing across networks. Yashar Ganjali
  and Sundar Iyer
• Integrating optics and routing
• TCP Switching. Pablo Molinero Fernandez
• Optics in routers. All. With Professors Mark
  Horowitz, David Miller and Olav Solgaard

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Current Projects Research (2)

• 3. Scheduling input-queued crossbars
• Various theorems. Isaac Keslassy
• Tying together 2 results. Isaac Keslassy with
  Professor Balaji Prabhakar
• Congestion Control
• Modeling and controlling mice. Rui Zhang
• Routing Protocols
• New work. Yashar Ganjali

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Current Projects Teaching Tools

• NetFPGA A networking hardware teaching tool.
• Virtual Router A user-space router teaching
  tool.

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Finding out more

• Group web page http//klamath.stanford.edu
• Weekly group meetings (see web page)
• Papers http//klamath.stanford.edu/nickm