I am ashamed! I am ashamed of not having held to my promise of continuously blogging on the topics I am interested and believe are worth to share with Internet fellows. It is not that I have been unemployed or in sabbatical, on the contrary, many achievements and good things happened since the last post on the QuagFlow developments (dated on July 7, 2010).
Lazy to blog about them? To be honest, it may be part of the reason… Priorities change over time, both in personal and professional affairs. Fortunately, the spirit of openness and intellectual sharing is very much alive, only not through this blog (or my underutilized twitter accounts @chesteve @futnetcpqd, more reasons for shame), a fact I intend to turn over. I have at least three unfinished post drafts that should have seen the light… Better never than ever! In this welcome back post I will report on some highlights during the past 12 months. In upcoming posts I will finish and release the existing drafts and provide regular updates on my current activities (if lucky, some of them even with some technical talent) as a Research Scientist at CPqD and happy human being settled in Campinas, Brazil.
What has happened since 07/07/2011?
- Spain wins 2010 soccer world cup (ok… out-of-topic but worth to include provided that today is exactly one year after the final held on 11 Jul 2010)
- Attended ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference in New Delhi, India (August 30 – September 03, 2010) and present our early work on QuagFlow. (Picasa Album on the trip to India.)
- My first visit to Schloss Dagstuhl: Seminar on User-Centric Networking. Check the workshop report! Excellent organization by Jorge Mendes and Rute Sofia from IAN – University Lusofona and great conversations with Jon Crowcroft, James Kempf, and all the participants.
- A few months later I was lucky to attend my second Dagstuhl seminar, this time on Information-Centric Networking, a topic on which I have been working for my PhD and tried to contribute by talking about Compact forwarding in content-oriented networks [Talk] [Abstract] . It felt honored with the invitation, big pleasure of talking again to Van Jacobson! Needles to say that the event was a big success (exec summary), that has lead to the organization of a SIGCOMM workshop on ICN and the proposal of the IRTF Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG). Join the ICN interest list!
- Attended the 9th GENI Engineering Conference in Washington. Great opportunity to meet top US researches and see OpenFlow at meso scale! First modest steps of CPqD to join GENI were demoed!
- My PhD defense! A topic that deserves a post on its own
On December 15th 2010 I defended my thesis entitled “Compact forwarding: A probabilistic approach to packet forwarding in content-oriented networks.” [PDF] [Talk] - Infocom 2011 paper: “Forwarding Anomalies in Bloom Filter Based Multicast” presented by Mikko Särelä in Shangai, China. [PDF]
- First co-advised MSc defense: Carlos Macapuna worked hard on novel data center networking approaches: ““In-packet Bloom filter based data center networking with distributed OpenFlow controllers”. [PDF] [Talk] Full thesis and talk in Portuguese.
- RouteFlow evolves from QuagFlow and takes off as the first open source project at CPqD!
- Attended SBRC 2011 and our paper on RouteFlow received a distinguished award!
Me and Carlos Macapuna, the day of Paragliding in Andradas. Looking forward to continue flying high!
Man, thanks for the nice mention!!
And thanks for being such a “hub” and, yourself, a source of good ideas, vision and challenges!
You should blog because surely, you still have many incredible things to think and share with the world.
I’ll be here to hear =)