Personal Virtual Networks

Lead PI

• David Choffnes

Abstract

The Personal Virtual Network describes a new networking abstraction which provides each device with its own virtual network that a user can configure and control. PVN will allow devices to establish trusted network configurations inside the providers, define policies for their network traffic and even deploy software that interposes on the traffic.

The idea of ubiquitous PVN will open up numerous research challenges that need to be determined to deploy such a model in practice. It also offers numerous opportunities to provide brand-new functionalities to mobile device users.

Funding

NSF

Related Publications

• Choffnes, David. “A case for personal virtual networks.” Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. 2016. DOI: 10.1145/3005745.3005753