Abstract
While the Internet has succeeded far beyond expectations, the success has also
stretched its initial design assumptions. Since applications operate in terms of data
and more end points become mobile, it becomes increasingly difficult and inefficient
to satisfy IP's requirement of determining exactly where (at which IP address) to find
desired data. The Named Data Networking project aims to carry the Internet into the
future through a conceptually simple yet transformational architecture shift, from
today's focus on where -- addresses and hosts -- to what -- the data that users and
applications care about. In this talk I will present the basic design of NDN and its
remaining research challenges.

Biography
Lixia Zhang received her Ph.D in computer science from MIT and joined Xerox Palo
Alto Research Center as a member of research staff. She is now a professor in the
Computer Science Department of UCLA. In the past she served as the vice chair of
ACM SIGCOMM, member of the editorial board for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, member of the Internet Architecture Board, and co-chair of the Routing
Research Group under IRTF. She is a fellow of ACM and IEEE. She received IEEE
Internet Award in 2009 and holds UCLA Postel Chair in Computer Science.