Kirill Kogan - Towards intent-based self-driving networks

Growing complexity of network operations is the subject of many debates. In general, there are two major factors impacting complexity of network operations: the size and structure of a manageable state and frequency of its changes. Networks should be autonomous as possible, ideally, completely excluding operators from the operational loop. However, this can significantly increase the size of a manageable state and complexity of network infrastructure. Currently, there is no way to systematically quantify the implemented efficiency versus complexity of network operations by potential design principles. In this talk, we will consider this fundamental tradeoff. Our goal is to understand design principles and show their effectiveness allowing networks to become self-driving.

Date and Time: 
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 13:30 to 14:30
Speaker: 
Kirill Kogan
Location: 
C110
Speaker Bio: 

Kirill Kogan is currently a Research Assistant Professor at IMDEA Networks Institute. For over decade (2000-2012), he spent at Cisco Systems as a Technical Leader, where he worked on the design of two major routing platforms C12000 and ASR1000. During his work at Cisco, he completed a Ph.D. study at Ben-Gurion University, Israel (2008-2012). He spent one year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he worked with Srinivasan Keshav in ISS4E group and Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz in Algorithms and Complexity group. Later he worked with Patrick Eugster in DPDS group at the Purdue University, USA. His recent interests are in self-driving networks and in-network data processing.