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ALCATEL - PARIS - In-network storage management in Content Centric Networking
Thesis in external company 
Thesis abroad
keywords CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORKING, CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS, INTERNET
Reference persons MARCO MELLIA
External reference persons Diego Perino – Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent - diego.perino@alcatel-lucent.com
Research Groups Telecommunication Networks Group
Thesis type SIMULATION AND DESIGN
Description Internship description
The Internet communication model designed in the 60 and 70s and centered on a host-to-host conversation is currently under debate as it shows its inadequacy in following the radical changes in the network use. Nowadays Internet users are in fact more interested on the content the network can provide them rather than on the location at which the resource is physically stored. Recently, the research community has proposed a novel network paradigm, Content Centric Networking (CCN) [1]-[3], that builds on the content users wish to retrieve.
Most CCN designs advocate the usage of widely distributed storage, i.e. storage capabilities embedded in the network infrastructure, which can be exploited to transparently cache data packets to serve future requests. A number of challenging research issues related to the management of these storage capabilities arise. In our previous works we focused on storage management techniques that can be used in a single node to allocate resources to different applications [4], and we considered lightweight coordination techniques among different nodes in presence of traffic of a single application in rather simple topologies [5].
The internship will focus on:
1) Analysis of node coordination techniques in more complex network topologies (access and core networks, inter-AS topologies, datacenter networks, etc.), taking into account technological constraints [6], and considering scenarios with multiple applications (streaming, file-sharing, cloud applications, etc.)
2) Design and evaluation of network-level management and coordination techniques to allocate storage resources of different nodes among applications in order to provide service differentiation and performance guarantees
The evaluation will be carried out by means of analysis, simulation and/or experimental evaluation.
The intern will potentially collaborate with other research laboratories, either academic (INRIA, Telecom ParisTech, Lip6) and industrial entities (Orange Labs France Telecom R&D), and will probably contribute to scientific papers. The work carried on during the internship could potentially lead to a Ph.D. thesis.
References:
[1] V. Jacobson, D. Smetters, J. Thornton, M. Plass, N. Briggs, R. Braynard, “Networking Named Content”, in Proc. of ACM CoNext 2009.
[2] A. Carzaniga and C.P.Hall, "Content-Based Communication: a Research Agenda", in Proc. of ACM SEM 2006.
[3] T. Koponen, M. Chawla, B.-G. Chun, A. Ermolinskiy, K. Kim, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica. A Data-Oriented (and Beyond) Network Architecture. In SIGCOMM ’07, Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 2007.
[4] G.Carofiglio, V. Gehlen, D. Perino, “Experimental Evaluation of Storage Management in Content-Centric Networking”, in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2011.
[5] Girolamo Piccinni, “Evaluation of in-network storage mechanisms for Content-Centric Networking”, Eurecom Mater thesis 2011
[6] D. Perino and M. Varvello, “A reality check for Content-Centric Networking”, in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Information Centric Networking 2011
Required skills Excellent programming skills
Excellent knowledge of Internet Protocols
Notes The thesis will be held in
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Centre de Villarceaux
Route de Villejust
91620 NOZAY
Deadline 22/11/2012
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