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ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Test of Time Award
SIGCOMM Test of Time Award, 2019: “VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network” by Albert Greenberg, James R. Hamilton, Navendu Jain, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri, Dave A. Maltz, Parveen Patel, and Sudipta Sengupta. from SIGCOMM 2009
Live video analytics and research as Test Cricket with Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
In an era of unprecedented advances in AI and machine learning, current gen systems and networks are being challenged by an unprecedented level of complexity and cost. Fortunately, Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, a researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at…
In the news | Korea Economic Daily
Microsoft’s edge computing empowers everyone, at anytime and anyplace
‘Azure will be a platform for everyone, everywhere,’ Dr. Victor Bahl, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Mobility & Networking Research explained. ‘Microsoft has put considerable effort towards the development of edge computing technology’ and ‘our ultimate goal is to enable…
In the news | ZDNet
What’s next? Telecoms can’t solve this on their own
Korean telecommunication carriers will surely optimize 5G network with edge computing but that’s not where it will end. It’s not wise to be a solo player, it’s much better to collaborate with IT companies that have invested heavily on software…
In the news | IEEE Infocom
IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
The highest honor that can be bestowed on a researcher in the INFOCOM community: For work on indoor localization and on exploiting properties of radio frequency signals for goals beyond communications, which still serves as a model for much of…
In the news | ACM
ACM Distinguished Service Award 2019
For significant and lasting service to the broad community of mobile computing and wireless networking, and for building strong linkages between academia,industry, and government agencies.
High performance container networking
| Victor Bahl
Researchers and engineers from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure have contributed nine scientific papers to the technical program of the 16th Annual USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation – NSDI ‘19 – to be held in Boston, Massachusetts…
In the news | Windows Central
What is edge computing, and why does it matter to you?
The intelligent edge represents those devices from factory floor equipment to fitness trackers or smartphones and more that connect to the cloud but are closest to and directly interacted with by users.
In the news | Nature Electronics
Working on the edge
Edge computing processes data on infrastructure that is located close to the point of data creation. Mahadev Satyanarayanan recounts how recognition of the potential limitations of centralized, cloud-based processing led to this new approach to computing.