Jennifer Rexford

Jennifer Rexford, Professor

Department of Computer Science
Affilliated faculty in Center for Information Technology Policy and Electrical Engineering.

35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540-5233

Office: CS 306
Phone: 609-258-5182 (no voicemail messages, please)
Fax: 609-258-1771
E-mail: jrex (at) cs (dot) princeton (dot) edu
Links: teaching, projects, students, publications, resume, short bio

Jennifer joined the Network Systems Group of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University in February 2005 after eight and a half years at AT&T Research. Her research focuses on Internet routing, network measurement, and network management, with the larger goal of making data networks easier to design, understand, and manage. Jennifer is co-author of the book Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement (Addison-Wesley, May 2001) and co-editor of She's an Engineer? Princeton Alumnae Reflect (Princeton University, 1993). Jennifer served as the chair of ACM SIGCOMM from 2003 to 2007, and has served on the ACM Council and the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. She received her BSE degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991, and her MSE and PhD degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1993 and 1996, respectively. She was the winner of ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professional of the year for 2004.

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Research Projects

Ongoing research projects include: More generally, my recent publications fall into the following main areas: virtualized network infrastructures, enterprise and data-center networks, scalable Internet routing protocols, traffic-management protocols from optimization theory, secure interdomain routing and forwarding, network-wide control plane, theoretical models of interdomain routing, and Internet policy issues.

My earlier publications fall into the following main areas: traffic measurement and anomaly detection, BGP measurement and anomaly detection, traffic engineering with IP routing protocols, Internet topology measurement, IP router configuration, Web protocols and workloads, video proxy services, load-sensitive routing, packet-scheduling architectures, multicomputer router architectures, and fault tolerance and parallel computing.

Several of these papers are surveys on the inner workings of Internet Service Provider networks. I also have some non-refereed position papers online that describe the way I think about data networks. See, for example, a recent CCR paper on "My Ten Favorite "Practical Theory" Papers. On a related note, I had the pleasure of giving an talk on "Building a Strong Foundation for a Future Internet" (and short write-up) at STOC'08.

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