Recent Advances in Network Functions Virtualization
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Recent Advances in Network Functions Virtualization
Fri, 02/10/2015 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Speaker:
Bo Han
Affiliation:
AT&T
Synopsis:
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) was recently proposed to improve the flexibility of network service provisioning and reduce the time to market of new services. By leveraging virtualization technologies and commercial off-the-shelf programmable hardware, NFV decouples the software implementation of network functions from the underlying hardware. This talk will start with a brief overview of NFV, including its requirements and architectural framework. It will then present a few use cases of NFV, summarize its research challenges and provide several future research directions. This talk will end with a description of EdgePlex, a flexible and reliable provider edge platform that decomposes and virtualizes the functions performed by a traditional edge router.
Biography:
Dr. Bo Han is a Senior Inventive Scientist at AT&T Labs -- Research. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, his M.Phil. degree from the City University of Hong Kong, and his Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, all in Computer Science. Dr. Han’s research interests focus on developing simple yet efficient and elegant solutions for real-world networking and systems problems in the areas of wireless networking, mobile computing, software defined networking, network functions virtualization, etc. He has published a number of research papers in prestigious international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Han has served on technical program committees for top-notch conferences in networking and communications (e.g., IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, etc.)