Kenneth Calvert
University of Kentucky, KY·Computer Science
Today's Internet sends information to a computer's address. This "host-centric" design makes some goals, such as strong security, hard to reach.
- Fields
Computer Science
Engineering
- Topics
Named-data Networking
inter-domain routing
Border Gateway Protocol
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2027
What they work on
- Determine where and how to connect Named-data Networking (NDN), which fetches data by name, inside a network domain with SCION, a secure routing system that carries traffic between domains.
- Work out how application trust, which decides what data is authentic, interacts with network trust, which decides how requests for named data are routed.
- Build a prototype NDN+SCION global name-based network service and test it on the FABRIC research testbed, making SCION available to other experimenters there.
More about the research
Named-data Networking (NDN) takes a different approach: users request data by its name, and the network delivers it from wherever it is stored. Each piece of data is cryptographically tied to its name, so its authenticity can be checked no matter which server supplied it. NDN works within single networks, but scaling it to the whole globe is hard because the set of names is unlimited and names are not tied to locations.
Why it matters
A global name-based network could make Internet data delivery more secure, since data authenticity would no longer depend on trusting a particular server. This project could help show how such a service can work at Internet scale. Making SCION available on the FABRIC testbed would also let other network researchers experiment with secure inter-domain routing.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Lixin Gao
University of Massachusetts, MA·Computer Science
Design and implement CIRCA, a logically centralized architecture that offloads BGP route computation from thin-client routers to a cloud service, and release it as an open-source prototype.
Xiaowei Yang
Duke University, NC·Computer Science
Use randomized algorithms to reduce the number of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) experiments needed to predict anycast catchments, the set of users routed to each replica site.
Fahad Dogar
Tufts University, MA·Computer Science
Measure how much delay, or slack, popular applications can tolerate, through user studies and application analysis at the intersection of networking and human-computer interaction.
The school
University of Kentucky: 34 labs on PI Pages, $528M a year on research, 319 research doctorates a year.
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