Nate Foster is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. The primary goal of his research is to develop languages and tools that make it easy for programmers to build secure and reliable systems. Professor Foster’s current work focuses on the design and implementation of domain-specific programming languages for software-defined networks. In the past, he has worked on bidirectional languages (also known as “lenses”), database query languages, data provenance, type systems, mechanized proof, and formal semantics. Professor Foster received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University, and a B.A. in Computer Science from Williams College. His awards include a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Most Influential POPL Paper Award, a Tien ’72 Teaching Award, a Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, two Google Research Awards, a Yahoo! Academic Career Enhancement Award, and the Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award.
Enhancing Your SDN With Special BoxesCornell Course
Course Overview
Scaling an SDN-enabled network often requires the integration of new physical boxes such as load balancers, content caches, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems into the network. In this course, you will explore how to customize routing to integrate network functions. With SDN, you can program your network to offload some network functionality to these boxes, giving you the ability to orchestrate the flow of packets through a pipeline of middle boxes. You will discover how to scale up network functions by offloading to hardware and scale out applications using SDN and network functions.
You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:
- Building Your First Software-Defined Network
- Optimizing the Flow of Data Through Your Network Using SDN
- Getting Visibility Into Network Conditions Using SDN
Key Course Takeaways
- Customize routing to integrate network functions
- Scale up network functions by offloading to hardware
- Scale out an application using SDN and network functions
How It Works
Course Authors
Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo is a postdoctoral researcher working with Professors Nate Foster and Rachit Agarwa in the computer science department at Cornell University. Dr. Arashloo received her Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University, where she was honored to have Professor Jennifer Rexford as her advisor. Prior to Princeton, she earned her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Department of Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Dr. Arashloo’s research is primarily focused on networked systems, with an emphasis on software-defined networking (SDN) and programmable data planes. She has recently been focusing on how to exploit programmability to create networks that are verifiably robust across the stack, from the protocols themselves down to the switch and network interface card (NIC) hardware that processes packets.
Who Should Enroll
- Network administrators and architects
- Network engineers and operators
- Aspiring SDN engineers
- Enterprise network system installers
- System administrators and integrators
- Solutions designers
- DevOps teams
- NFV technologists
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