Collaborative Networks and Applications (CNA)

We focus on co-design of networks and applications (CNA) to improve the usability and performance for huge data networking use cases.

Our participants are working on multiple protocol standards related to CNA in IETF ALTO working group.

Use Cases

Resource Discovery and Orchestration for Exascale Multidomain Data Sciences

Resource Discovery in Data Center Networks

Traffic Optimization over Internet

Featured Publications

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Enric Pujol, Ingmar Poese, Johannes Zerwas, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann

January 2019 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments And Technologies, CoNEXT 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, December 09-12, 2019

Steering hyper-giants' traffic at scale

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Danny Lachos, Christian Rothenberg, Qiao Xiang, Y. Richard Yang, Börje Ohlman, Sabine Randrimasay, Farni Boten, Luis M. Contreras

January 2019 Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop

Supporting Multi-Domain Use Cases with ALTO

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Haiyong Xie, Yang Richard Yang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yanbin Grace Liu, Abraham Silberschatz

January 2008 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications, Seattle, WA, USA, August 17-22, 2008

P4p: provider portal for applications

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RFCs

Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem Statement

Jan Seedorf, Eric Burger

PDF DOI RFC5693

Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Requirements

Sebastian Kiesel, Stefano Previdi, Martin Stiemerling, Richard Woundy, Y. Richard Yang

PDF DOI RFC6708

Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Protocol

Sebastian Kiesel, Wendy Roome, Richard Woundy, Stefano Previdi, Stanislav Shalunov, Richard Alimi, Reinaldo Penno, Y. Richard Yang

PDF DOI RFC7285

Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Server Discovery

Haibin Song, Sebastian Kiesel, Martin Stiemerling, Nico Schwan, Michael Scharf

PDF DOI RFC7286

Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Deployment Considerations

Martin Stiemerling, Sebastian Kiesel, Michael Scharf, Hans Seidel, Stefano Previdi

PDF DOI RFC7971

Multi-Cost Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)

Sabine Randrimasay, Wendy Roome, Nico Schwan

PDF DOI RFC8189

Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Cross-Domain Server Discovery

Sebastian Kiesel, Martin Stiemerling

PDF DOI RFC8686

WG Documents

ALTO Extension: Path Vector

Kai Gao, Sabine Randrimasay, Y. Richard Yang, J. (Jensen) Zhang

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ALTO Incremental Updates Using Server-Sent Events (SSE)

Wendy Roome, Y. Richard Yang

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ALTO Performance Cost Metrics

Qin Wu, Y. Richard Yang, Dhruv Dhody, Sabine Randrimasay, Luis M. Contreras

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Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Cost Calendar

Sabine Randrimasay, Y. Richard Yang, Qin Wu, Deng Lingli, Nico Schwan

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Unified Properties for the ALTO Protocol

Wendy Roome, Sabine Randrimasay, Y. Richard Yang, J. (Jensen) Zhang, Kai Gao

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Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI) Request Routing: CDNI Footprint and Capabilities Advertisement using ALTO

Jan Seedorf, Y. Richard Yang, Kevin J. Ma, Jon Peterson, Jingxuan Jensen Zhang

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