Work of XIA Team Featured on the Google Open Source Blog
The work of three international students mentored by BU CS postdoctoral researcher Michel Machado and BU CS Ph.D. students Cody Doucette and Qiaobin Fu, funded by the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) initiative, was featured on the Google Open Source Blog. Each of the students provided an open source contribution to the XIA project, a large-scale collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation to design a clean-slate Internet architecture of the future, spanning CMU, Boston University, Duke University and the University of Wisconsin. Pranav Goswami (India) implemented perfect hashing algorithms to facilitate high-speed forwarding, Andre Eleuterio (Brazil) designed a new principal type within XIA to support longest-prefix matching lookups, and Aryaman Gupta (India) augmented functionality to create network topologies used extensively in XIA testing. Professor John Byers is the lead investigator on XIA at Boston University.