Dr. Aaron Striegel,
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Abstract
Over the past decade, the Internet has emerged as one of the
primary tools for media dissemination. The traditional
point-to-point nature of the Internet has created a natural
trend of increasingly redundant data across the network as applications
and information sources increase in both scope and
scale. As a result of this trend, a
wide variety of techniques have emerged to
increase the efficiency of the network through the reduction
of redundant traffic with varying degrees of success. On one
extreme, the applications and network work together for
efficiency such as seen in IP multicast. In the other extreme, the techniques
operate transparently to the applications and network such as in the various caching approaches (media, packet, etc.).
In this talk, I will discuss a novel concept entitled
stealth multicast that allows for practical adoption of network-level multicast
on a domain-wise basis rather than global scale. With the stealth multicast framework,
redundant unicast packets are
dynamically assembled into virtual groups for multicast transmission
across the domain. At the edge of the domain, the packets
are converted back to unicast, thus hiding the existence of
stealth multicast from the external Internet. True to its namesake, stealth
multicast operates in complete stealth, providing seamless interoperability
without requiring modifications to end-user applications nor
requiring inter-domain support. I will present preliminary results of our work through simulation
as well as applications of stealth multicast
to other complementary areas such as ALM (Application Layer Multicast) and single hop wireless networks.
Biography
Aaron Striegel received his Ph.D. degree in computer
engineering from Iowa State University in 2002. He has been with the University of
Notre Dame in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as an assistant professor since the spring of 2003. His research interests are in the area of Internet QoS, computer security, and grid computing. He has published in over 20 international journals and peer-reviewed conferences. He is a member of IEEE and was the recipient of a NSF CAREER award in 2004.