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Cisco Routing Research Symposium, 29-30 Aug 2006

This symposium was designed as a forum to explore and highlight significant opportunities and challenges facing the future of routing and network design and to exchange ideas that may stimulate and guide industry and academic research efforts over the next 5-10 years. It included leading academic researchers in key focus areas of the Cisco Routing and Service Provider Technology Group.

System Power Challenges
Participants explored technology, design methodology, systems, and architectural perspectives that focus on dramatic reduction of power consumption of networking equipment as well as high-performance, cost-effective thermal management.
Garry Epps Cisco
Mark Horowitz Stanford University
Shekhar Borkar Intel Corporation
Ajith Amerasekera Texas Instruments
Evaldo Martins Miranda Analog Devices
Alfonso Ortega NSF and Villanova University
Optical and Quantum Switching Challenges
The session focused on methodologies for future packet-switching architectures including optical header processing, optical buffering/memory, optical switch fabrics, and packet switching based on quantum information processing paradigms.
Farzam Toudeh-Fallah Cisco
Daniel Blumenthal University of California Santa Barbara
John Bowers University of California Santa Barbara
Mario Dagenais University of Maryland
Rod Tucker University of Melbourne
Yavuz Oruc University of Maryland
Measuring Internet Quality
This Cisco-led discussion focused on the challenges presented by customers on quantifying path performance, interprovider connectivity, ISP service, traffic flow, and new service metrics. The development of common metrics definitions and common methodologies for applying these metrics is an important step in improving SLAs between users and providers and among providers. Measurement of these metrics and of traffic flows (important for understanding the inner workings of individual networks and the global Internet) remain lacking in the current commercial Internet.
David Ward and Clarence Filsfils Cisco
Next Generation Network Architectures
Participants discussed the state of Internet routing, including the strengths and weaknesses of the existing protocols and service and network architectures that are created due to these constraints; identified requirements for the next generation of protocols; and looked to create a "wish list" of important research problems, network management tools, and router features.
John Scudder Cisco
Jennifer Rexford Princeton University
Paul Francis Cornell University
Morley Mao University of Michigan
Nick McKeown Stanford University
Scott Shenker University of California Berkeley
Tim Griffin Cambridge University
Dina Katabi Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nick Feamster Georgia Tech
Hui Zhang Carnegie Mellon University
David Ward Cisco
Electronic Switching Challenges
This session addressed the architecture evolution of electronic packet switching. Focus areas were network processing and multiprocessing, deep packet inspection algorithms (such as string matching or regular expression matching) and implementation, packet classification, packet scheduling (or traffic management), and networking DRAM/TCAM architectures.
Will Eatherton Cisco
Jon Turner Washington University in St. Louis
George Varghese University of California San Diego
Tim Sherwood University of California Santa Barbara

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