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WE EXPLORE THE

Communication Mechanisms
that Make the Internet Tick

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Hi! I'm Michael

I'm a professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I co-lead the Fraunhofer Cybersecurity Center. I am also the co-founder and chief scientist of Compira Labs.

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My goal is to design practical (Inter)network architectures and protocols with provable guarantees (in terms of performance, security, incentive compatibility, and beyond).

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(How) Can The Internet Be Fixed?

The demands of Internet services are steeply rising (high-resolution video, live communications, augmented/virtual reality, IoT, etc.).

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Yet, the Internet's communication infrastructure is already struggling to provide reasonable user experience. 

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My research aims to devise principled and practical solutions to the performance and security problems plaguing the Internet.

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RESEARCH FOCI

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Learning-Driven Networking 

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We leverage ideas and machinery from machine learning to devise data-driven alternatives for today's handcrafted network protocols (e.g., for routing, traffic management).

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Securing the Internet

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We design provably secure and practically deployable solutions for the alarming vulnerabilities of the Internet infrastructure (pertaining to routing, time synchronization, and more).

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Next-Generation Network Protocols

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We propose alternative algorithmic approaches to fundamental networking challenges such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, and more.

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Next-Generation Networks

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We explore new network architectures and designs to address the performance and scalability limitations of today's (e.g., datacenter) networks.

DID YOU KNOW?

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Internet routing is the Internet’s biggest security hole.

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Sending 100GB of data across the Internet from the US to Slovenia could take over a week to complete.

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Even premium-tier subscribers of broadband Internet access view movies in HD less than 40% of the time.

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Data centers have gone from 1000s to 100,000s of servers, but there is increasing concern that traditional network fabrics cannot keep up with the constant rise in traffic demands.

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The time shown by your laptop/mobile device is set by synchronizing with servers across the Internet. Attackers can cause considerable damage by “shifting time”.

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Baron-Muenchhausen-pulls-himself

“At another time, when caught in a swamp, Munchausen rescued himself and the horse by lifting them both up by his pigtail...”

 

This is very much like bootstrapping new Internet architectures...

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