Speaker: Larry Peterson
Princeton University
Monday, May 14, 2007
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
EBU3b 1202

ABSTRACT
PlanetLab is a global platform for evaluating and deploying network services. It currently includes over 750 nodes, spanning nearly 380 sites and 30 countries, and hosts over 600 experimental services. PlanetLab must satisfy a unique set of sometimes contradictory requirements: based on our experiences building PlanetLab over the past three years, we are now able to define an architecture that satisfies these requirements. This talk identifies the requirements, presents the design principles that follow from them, and outlines the resulting PlanetLab architecture. It also briefly discusses some of the lessons we learned about building large network systems.

BIO
Larry Peterson is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium and recently chaired the planning group that helped launch the GENI Initiative. He is also a co-author of the best selling networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach." His research focuses on the design and implementation of networked systems.

Professor Peterson has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, on the Editorial Board for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Journal on Select Areas in Communication, and as program chair for SOSP, NSDI, and HotNets. Peterson is a Fellow of the ACM. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1985.