Van Jacobson content-centric networking insights at the 4Ward Future Internet Summer School

It was a great week in Bremen!
The Future Internet Summer School has met by far my expectations. Good organized, excellent talks, multi-cultural interactions, technical discussions, tasty beer, and so on.
You can find most of the presentations and course material online.
I want to point you to the insightful presentation by Van Jacobson on thr work [...]

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Hot topics in networking [Infocom09]

Last week I had the chance to participate in this year’s edition of the IEEE Infocom conferences in the “cidade maravilhosa” of Rio de Janeiro!
Great location, great technical program, and great panel discussion and keynotes. The first day there was an excellent tutorial on sensor networks by Jim Kurose, free of charge thanks to the [...]

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Research on happiness

I just watched a TED talk from Dan Gilbert (Psychologist; happiness expert) on his research work around “happiness”.  In a funny and insightful talk Dan explains the human behaviour around happiness and provides counter intuitive examples. 
Don´t miss his videos on TED if you want to understand:

the answer on what makes you fell happy or
why we do not [...]

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Reading recommendation in the digital era

In the digital-intense world we are living, one could argue that there is decreasing tendency in consuming content and sharing information in the form of traditional paper books. At the same time, my experience in consuming books in audio form (audible.com) and eBook pdfs (did no tried yet the Amazon Kindle or the Sony e-reader) [...]

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Networking revolution: 1) circuit switching, 2) packet switching, 3) network coding based information switching?

Continuing the enterprise of research in re-architecting the future Internet, I have started to delve into the world of “network coding”, a recent field of study (Ahlswede, 2000) that aims at solving an “information flow problem”
by leveraging forwarding nodes in a network with “content mixing” capabilities of data flows (packets) in addition to simply forwarding [...]

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Towards an information-oriented future Internet

For a long time now, funding agencies around the world have been promoting the research towards the so-called future Internet. Clean-slate design has been a buzz term for networking project proposals.
Today’s use of the Internet arises well known limitations in terms of mobility, security, address space exhaustion, routing and content delivery efficiency. Continuously patching the [...]

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Who killed the electric car, Beta, HD-DVD, IPv6?

History has shown that business (plus some timing components) and not pure technology is what turns prototypes into reality. In case there are alternatives competing for exactly the same place in the ecosystem, as in nature, only one will survive – and probably not the best from a technology point of view. So far, so [...]

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What is behind ITU´s Advanced Multimedia System (AMS) project?

This week I stumbled across the Advanced Multimedia System (AMS) term and my immediate reaction was to think in a new buzz flavour of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). After a first look at the available documentation I recalled having seen some ITU H.XYZ activities over a year ago in the very recommendable ITU seminars. [...]

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Blog start – Motivation and goals

I have resisted, myself, for a long time, to start a blog… What was I suppose to write about? My private life? My friends already know what I up to and others would not care what I am doing… My job? My concerns? Mmhhh, may be…
During this last year, I have been fed by a [...]

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