Exploring the network/software boundary: a telecommunications perspective

As large networked systems steadily increase in size, complexity, and criticality, the importance of designing and implementing them correctly also continues to increase. Many system-building challenges arise at the boundary between application/system software and the underlying network. Researchers in these fields must collaborate to a much greater extent than today in order to make significant progress in some areas. This talk gives a telecommunications-centric perspective of some problems that live at the network/software boundary, and whose solutions require the cooperation of both networking and software researchers. Technical approaches for addressing some of these problems are also suggested. The talk concludes with recommendations for further research in this area.