title: Publish or perish: Death in the publication performance

authors: Piercy, Gemma Louise

abstract: The purpose of this paper is to share a poem I wrote as I seek to publish findings from my PhD. The poem, which can be considered as a form of evocative autoethnography, expresses trauma incurred during childhood triggered by feedback accompanying a desk reject. The poem echoes internalised judgement but also seeks to provide hope that achievement is possible even in the face of what feels insurmountable. The backdrop of the poem is the neo-liberal university, the emotive and perilous demand to publish or perish, as well as patriarchal mansplaining.

text: Publish or perish: Death in the publication performance The purpose of this paper is to share a poem I wrote as I seek to publish findings from my PhD. The poem, which can be considered as a form of evocative autoethnography, expresses trauma incurred during childhood triggered by feedback accompanying a desk reject. The poem echoes internalised judgement but also seeks to provide hope that achievement is possible even in the face of what feels insurmountable. The backdrop of the poem is the neo-liberal university, the emotive and perilous demand to publish or perish, as well as patriarchal mansplaining.

year: 2023-03-01

title: A Scalable and Fault Tolerant OpenFlow Controller

authors: Sharma, Karthik Neelakanta

subjects: OpenFlow

abstract: OpenFlow provides a protocol for updating flow tables in switches. Most current OpenFlow deployments rely on a single controller to control all switches. However, as the number and size of production networks deploying OpenFlow
increases, relying on a single controller for the entire network might not be feasible for several reasons. First, the amount of control traffic destined towards the centralized controller grows with the number of switches. Second, since the system is bound by the processing power of the controller, low setup times can grow significantly as demand grows with the size of the network. Finally single controller architecture has zero fault tolerance which makes it non-ideal for large enterprise level deployments. In this thesis, the existing work that has been done to build scalable and fault tolerant controllers has been explored. After learning and understanding different systems we have built our own database backed scalable and fault tolerant controller. The database that was used for this purpose is Titan Graph database, with a Cassandra backend. A custom version of a simple switch application was built to demonstrate the scalability and fault tolerance of
our architecture. Some performance comparisons between our version of simple switch and the original version were also carried out. Finally in this thesis some
future enhancements that we would like to implement are outlined.

text: A Scalable and Fault Tolerant OpenFlow Controller OpenFlow provides a protocol for updating flow tables in switches. Most current OpenFlow deployments rely on a single controller to control all switches. However, as the number and size of production networks deploying OpenFlow
increases, relying on a single controller for the entire network might not be feasible for several reasons. First, the amount of control traffic destined towards the centralized controller grows with the number of switches. Second, since the system is bound by the processing power of the controller, low setup times can grow significantly as demand grows with the size of the network. Finally single controller architecture has zero fault tolerance which makes it non-ideal for large enterprise level deployments. In this thesis, the existing work that has been done to build scalable and fault tolerant controllers has been explored. After learning and understanding different systems we have built our own database backed scalable and fault tolerant controller. The database that was used for this purpose is Titan Graph database, with a Cassandra backend. A custom version of a simple switch application was built to demonstrate the scalability and fault tolerance of
our architecture. Some performance comparisons between our version of simple switch and the original version were also carried out. Finally in this thesis some
future enhancements that we would like to implement are outlined.

year: 2015

title: Tangi and final responsibilities

authors: Nikora, Linda Waimarie

abstract: Death is an ordinary everyday event in the Maori world. We have templated ways of responding to the disturbance it causes. This instructive and comforting institution helps us to hold each other close during such distressing times. In this address, Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora who co-leads the Tangi research programme at the University of Waikato, will critically reflect on the responsibilities incumbent upon the living to support, care and heal lives and spirits, living and newly departed.

text: Tangi and final responsibilities Death is an ordinary everyday event in the Maori world. We have templated ways of responding to the disturbance it causes. This instructive and comforting institution helps us to hold each other close during such distressing times. In this address, Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora who co-leads the Tangi research programme at the University of Waikato, will critically reflect on the responsibilities incumbent upon the living to support, care and heal lives and spirits, living and newly departed.

year: 2016