ICIN 2020 Program
2020
For nearly fifty years, beginning with Kleinrock's pioneering work on using queueing theory to model packet flows in communication networks, network modeling has adopted the individual packet as primary level of granularity for network modeling and analysis.With the advent of terabit-switching capabilities, information-centric networking, and data centers with complex workloads and hundreds of thousands of components, the time would seem ripe to raise the level of abstraction beyond the packet.In this talk, we identify higher-level modeling abstractions are already proving useful as well as new needed abstractions.But also we identify cases where packet-level models are still crucial in providing important insights.