§Report for Huwawi Studentship Update
Sent to Ben Karniely.
My research over the past year has focused on addressing a fundamental limitation in the current Internet architecture - the lack of support for naming physical locations and resolving them to various addressing mechanisms beyond IP. To address this gap, we have proposed the Spatial Name System (SNS), which enables the assignment of hierarchical location-based names and provides global and local resolution schemes. The SNS extends the Domain Name System (DNS), allowing the integration of spatial names into existing applications and opening up new possibilities for sensor networks and augmented reality.
Thanks to Huawei’s Hisilicon Studentship I had the opportunity to present this research at HotNets-XXIII in the session on “The architecture of the Internet, and datacenter networks” at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This presentation allowed me to share our findings and receive valuable feedback from experts in the field. We are currently planning to implement the Spatial Name System based on an experimental tested DNS server written using OCaml 5’s new effect-based IO, and intend to write a comprehensive conference paper on it in the new year.
In addition to the Spatial Name System project, I am also actively involved in other research topics. I am working on reproducible self-hosted infrastructure using functional software and configuration deployments and have a research internship project proposal focused on polyglot package management, expressing dependencies across different language ecosystems. These projects align with my broader research goals and provide opportunities for collaboration.
In conclusion, the past year has been productive and promising in advancing our understanding of spatial naming within the Internet architecture. I look forward to continuing these efforts and contributing to the broader research community.