Keynote Talk
Abstract: The arrival of programmable switching ASICs has made it possible to rethink the design of many network control and management functions. In this talk, I will present some work I have done on using programmable switch to support in-network programmability over the last few year, including time synchronization, in-network recovery, monitoring, load balancing and 5G network acceleration. These mechanisms are specifically designed to run efficiently in the data-plane. The proposed work have been implemented and evaluated on the Barefoot Tofino Switch using the P4 language.
Speaker Bio: Mun Choon CHAN graduated with a BS in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was a Member of Technical Staff in the Networking Research Laboratory, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies before joining the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2004. He is currently a Professor and Vice Dean of Graduate Studies of the School of Computing (SoC). He has published more than 140 conference/journal papers and has been awarded 7 US patents. He has won three best paper awards (ICNP 2019, SOSR 2019, ICDCN 2016) and was awarded the Facebook Networking Systems Research Award in 2019. His current research includes mobile sensing, programmable networks and 5G/6G networks.
