Don P. Giddens Lecture Series
While the Internet provides compelling reach, cost and capacity, emerging applications have created critical demands: low latency interactivity for VoIP, point-to-multipoint reliability for live TV, perfect reliability and timeliness for remote surgery, and intrusion resiliency for clouds and critical infrastructure. In this talk, Professor Amir will survey a decade-long journey developing a network paradigm to meet these needs. He will describe the overlay architecture and associated protocols that were invented and present a cloud networking service that actualizes this paradigm at scale. Deployed globally over the last two years, this service is changing the world of live TV transport and delivery.
Amir, who joined the Johns Hopkins Computer Science faculty in 1995, seeks to invent high performance, survivable and secure distributed systems that make a difference. Amir is a creator of the widely used Spread group communication toolkit. He led Secure Spread, developing the first robust key agreement protocols, as well as the SMesh wireless mesh network. Amir holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.