This page contains contributions by the networking research community to the discussion on network virtualization and related topics. Please send new contributions (white papers, presentation slides, links to related sites) to the web site coordinator (David Taylor) for posting.

White papers & slides

• Overcoming the Internet Impasse through Virtualization, Scott Shenker, Larry Peterson, Jon Turner, ACM Hot Nets III, 2004.
• Virtualizing the Net - a strategy for network de-ossification, by Jon Turner. Keynote presentation at Hot Interconnects, 2004.
• The case for separating routing from routers, Nick Feamster, Hari Balakrishnan, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh, Jacobus van der Merwe, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, August 2004.
• Virtual Internet Architecture, J. Touch, Y. Wang, L. Eggert, G. Finn, ISI Technical Report ISI-TR-2003-570, March 2003.
• An End-to-End Approach to Globally Scalable Programmable Networking, Micah Beck, Terry Moore, James S. Plank, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture (FDNA'03), Karlsruhe, Germany, August, 2003.
• Towards a Diversified Internet, David Taylor and Jonathan Turner, November 2004.
• VIOLIN: A Network Virtualization Middleware for Virtual Networked Computing, Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, November 2004.
• A Global Communications Infrastructure: A Way Forward, Tom Anderson, Larry Peterson, Scott Shenker, Jonathan Turner, December 2004.
• Dynamic Topology Adaptation In Virtual Networks of Virtual Machines, A. Sundararaj, A. Gupta, P. Dinda, Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Langauges, Compilers and Run-time Support for Scalable Systems (LCR 2004). Talk Slides
• Towards Virtual Networks for Virtual Machine Grid Computing, A. Sundararaj, P. Dinda, Proceedings of the third USENIX Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (VM 04), May, 2004. Technical Report. Talk Slides.
• Network Pointers, Christian Tschudin, Richard Gold, ACM HotNets-I, 2002.
• A Virtualized Link Layer with Support for Indirection, Richard Gold, Per Gunningberg, Christian Tschudin, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, August 2004.
• Virtual Playgrounds for Worm Behavior Investigation, X. Jiang, D. Xu, H. J. Wang, E. H. Spafford, CERIAS Technical Report 2005-24, Purdue University, 2005.
• Towards Virtual Distributed Environments in a Shared Infrastructure, P. Ruth, X. Jiang, D. Xu, S. Goasguen, Purdue University, December 2004.
• The Genesis Kernel: A Programming System For Spawning Network Architectures, M. E. Kounavis, A. T. Campbell, S. Chou, F. Modoux, J. Vicente and H. Zhuang, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 19, No 3, pg. 511-526, March 2001.
• Programming Network Architectures, M. E. Kounavis, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, June 2003.

Links

• PlanetLab
• National LambdaRail (NLR)
• Emulab
• X-Bone
• Resilient Overlay Networks (RON)
• Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3)
• Logistical Computing and Internetworking (LoCI)
• VIOLIN
• Virtuoso
• SelNet
• Genesis