Sue Moon

Sue Moon received her B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1988 and 1990, respectively, all in computer engineering. She received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2000. From 1999 to 2003, she worked in the IPMON project at Sprint ATL in Burlingame, California. In August of 2003, she joined KAIST and now teaches in Daejeon, Korea.

Evolution of Software Routers into the Cloud

Abstract:

For most of the 20th century networking platforms have remained mostly dedicated hardware with proprietary software stacks. As the number of networking applications such as QoS controllers, VPN gateways, WAN optimizers, and firewalls, has increased, demand for flexible network configuration has never been stronger. Furthermore, the exponential growth of the datacenter networking market has pushed technological breakthroughs in high-performance networking.

In this talk we cover past history of software routers based on commodity hardware with a focus on projects in our Advanced Networking Lab, namely PacketShader and NBA. From PacketShader to NBA, we have put batching as the first principle in high-performance networking platform design and exploited not just for IO but also for computing. We have expanded our research on high-speed networking platforms to elastic scaling of NFVs in datacenters. Also we are looking at RDMA as an alternative high-speed interconnect for disaggregated datacenters. We conclude with remaining technical challenges and emerging relevant trends.

Sue Moon received her B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1988 and 1990, respectively, all in computer engineering. She received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2000. From 1999 to 2003, she worked in the IPMON project at Sprint ATL in Burlingame, California. In August of 2003, she joined KAIST and now teaches in Daejeon, Korea. She served as TPC chair for WWW2013, APSys 2012, ACM Multimedia 2004, as well as in the IEEE Internet Award Committee. She served as general chair for ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2017 and vice general chair for WWW 2014. She won the 2012 Knowledge Creation Award by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, the 2012 Young Engineer’s Award by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, 2009 Amore Pacific Award for Outstanding Women in the Sciences, and several awards for excellence at KAIST. She is currently serving in the ACM publication board.