| Title | Knowledge-Defined Networking: Towards Self-Driving Network |
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| Speaker | Albert Cabellos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) |
| Abstract | The research community has considered in the past the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to control and operate networks. A notable example is the Knowledge Plane proposed by D.Clark et al. However, such techniques have not been extensively prototyped or deployed in the field yet. We argue that the rise of two recent paradigms: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Analytics (NA), will facilitate the adoption of AI techniques in the context of network operation and control. In this talk we will describe the paradigm that results from the combination of SDN, NA and AI referred as Knowledge-Defined Networking, we will describe relevant use-cases, early results and the important challenges that needs to be addressed before the full realization of truly self-driving autonomous networks. |
| Bio |
Albert Cabellos is an associated prof. at Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya (UPC), he received a BSc (2001), MSc (2005) and PhD (2008)
degree in Computer Science Engineering from UPC. In 2010 he joined the
NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (http://www.n3cat.upc.edu) where he
is the Scientific Director. He is an editor of the Elsevier Journal on
Nano Computer Network and founder of the ACM NANOCOM conference, the
IEEE MONACOM workshop and the N3Summit. He has also founded the Open
Overlay Router open-source initiative (http://openoverlayrouter.org)
along with Cisco. He has been a visiting researcher at Cisco Systems
and Agilent Technologies and a visiting professor at the Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH), the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and UC Berkeley. Since 2015 he is the Vice-Dean for
International and Institutional Relations at FIB-UPC. He has
participated in several national (Cicyt), EU (FET), USA (NSF) and
industrial projects (Samsung, Intel, CA and Cisco). He has given more
than 15 invited talks (MIT, Cisco, INTEL, CA, Northeastern Univ. UC
Berkeley, MIT, etc) and co-authored more than 40 journal and 100+
conference papers
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