演講訊息 TALKS

Abstract： The deployment of network infrastructure lies the foundation of many networking services as it decides how the clients are served. Currently, the majority of network infrastructure is built on physical facilities like base stations and Wi-Fi access points. When deploying such facilities, we must take the nature of wireless communication into account. The nature of wireless communication, however, poses many challenges. In the first part of the talk, I will talk about wireless network deployment and present some research results. Wireless networks are solutions for last mile networks, which provide Internet access for end users. To fully meet the requests of end users, e.g., HTTP requests, we must further consider the network deployment problem that takes place in the cloud, i.e., data center networks. This kind of network deployment involves facilities like load balancers and firewalls. Recently, due to the emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), there is a trend of transforming from physical facilities to software middleboxes. As a result, we instead deploy virtual facilities on virtual machines in data centers. In the second part of the talk, I will present the challenges and solutions for such network deployment problems.