{"id":58,"date":"2011-09-09T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-09-09T11:25:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T15:25:46","slug":"58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/2011\/09\/09\/58\/","title":{"rendered":"Hourglass paper at SIGCOMM &#8217;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the most widely discussed paper in hallway conversations at this year&#8217;s SIGCOMM was this modeling paper:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.sigcomm.org\/sigcomm\/2011\/papers\/sigcomm\/p206.pdf\">The Evolution of Layered Protocol Stacks Leads to an Hourglass-Shaped Architecture,<\/a> by Saamer Akhshabi and Constantine Dovrolis    (Georgia Institute of Technology).<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who enjoy controversy, or who are prepping for this year&#8217;s DWE exam, I think reading this paper is worth your time.\u00a0 Advocates for this paper thought that the topic is a fascinating one, and that trying to understand and model how an hourglass-shaped architecture arose is a worthwhile research line.\u00a0 Detractors said (I&#8217;m paraphrasing using family-friendly language) that not only does the model fail to reflect or approximate reality, but the nature of an endeavor where you know the answer (hourglass) and contrive to build a model that produces the answer is bad science.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to take this paper at the PC meeting in spite of its warts, since we knew it would lead to intense discussion and debate, and, as Jeff and I wrote in our opening remarks as PC co-chairs: &#8220;&#8230; <span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.36340541875343213\" style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Times New Roman;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">we hope we took enough risky papers to get at least some of you upset.&#8221;\u00a0 We succeeded!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 64px\" border=\"0\" width=\"100\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the most widely discussed paper in hallway conversations at this year&#8217;s SIGCOMM was this modeling paper: The Evolution of Layered Protocol Stacks Leads to an Hourglass-Shaped Architecture, by Saamer Akhshabi and Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Institute of Technology). For those of you who enjoy controversy, or who are prepping for this year&#8217;s DWE exam, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}