

Her parent’s abilities were passed down to her as well. Both of her parents worked for government contractors. Her mother, Hope Rae Sonne, was a mathematician and computer programmer. Her father, Julius Perlman, was an engineer. She has been recognized with many industry honors including induction into the National Academy of Engineering, the Inventor Hall of Fame, The Internet Hall of Fame, Washington State Academy of Science, and lifetime achievement awards from Usenix and SIGCOMM. Radia Perlman was born on December 18th, 1951 in Portsmouth, Virginia. She is the author of the textbook “Interconnections” (about network layers 2 and 3) and coauthor of “Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World” (the 3rd edition of which was published this year). She also has made contributions in network security, including scalable data expiration, distributed algorithms despite malicious participants, and DDOS prevention techniques. She also invented the spanning tree algorithm which transformed Ethernet from a technology that supported a few hundred nodes within a single building, to something that could support large networks. She is known for inventing fundamental networking technology enabling robust, largely self-managing, and scalable link state routing, used in the specific protocol she designed (IS-IS), and similar protocols (OSPF). Radia Perlman developed the bridge spanning algorithm which allows network bridges to connect networks without loops.
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So the right question is “why do we use to layer 3 protocols?” The answer is subtle and leads to discussion of how Ethernet became a “layer 3” protocol, and evolution to TRILL and other overlay networks.Radia Perlman is a Fellow at Dell Technologies. The full title is Interconnections, Second Edition: Bridges, Routers, Switches and Internetworking Protocols.

For instance, why do we need both Ethernet and IP? The “obvious” answer is that IP is “layer 3” and Ethernet is “layer 2”, but in fact, once Ethernet stopped being a single wire (layer 2), and something that is forwarded (layer 3’s job) it became a layer 3 protocol. So much of what “everyone knows” about network protocols is, actually false. The main point of this lecture is to encourage critical thinking. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is inducted into the internet Hall of Fame, and the inventor Hall of Fame. She has received numerous awards including lifetime achievement awards from ACM’s SIGCOMM and Usenix. She wrote the textbook Interconnections, and co-wrote the textbook Network Security. She has made many contributions to the fields of network routing and security protocols including robust and scalable network routing, spanning tree bridging, storage systems with assured delete, and distributed computation resilient to malicious participants. However, she did invent Spanning Tree Protocol, transparent interconnection of lots of links (TRILL), and Link-State Routing which makes her responsible for transforming ethernet from single-unit use to a robust multi-unit communication. Radia Perlman received her PhD in EECS from MIT and is currently a Fellow at EMC. Radia Perlmans Interconnections is recognized as a leading text on networking theory and practice. Perlman believes this title does not belong to a single individual.

This talk will demystify these, as time follows. There are also buzzwords such as “SDN”, and fads such as “active networks” and “information-centric networking”. So the right question is “why do we use to layer 3 protocols?” The answer is subtle and leads to discussion of how Ethernet became a “layer 3” protocol, and evolution to TRILL and other overlay networks. Unique opportunities for Align students bring new CS perspectives to Amazon Web Services.Įxplore our research presented at the CHI Conference. Align Students Bring New CS Perspectives to AWS.Keep up to date with the latest news from Khoury.īreak into tech, without a computer science background.īe at the forefront of CS research and education. News: Past, Present, Future: Khoury College Comes Together to Conclude 40th Anniversary Celebration.
