The data-centric revolution in networking

  • Authors:
  • Scott Shenker

  • Affiliations:
  • ICSI and U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Historically, there has been little overlap between the database and networking research communities; they operate on very different levels and focus on very different issues. While this strict separation of concerns has lasted for many years, in this talk I will argue that the gap has recently narrowed to the point where the two fields now have much to say to each other. Networking research has traditionally focused on enabling communication between network hosts. This research program has produced a myriad of specific algorithms and protocols to solve such problems as error recovery, congestion control, routing, multicast and quality-of-service. It has also led to a set of general architectural principles, such as fate sharing and the end-to-end principle, that provide widely applicable guidelines for allocating functionality among network entities.