Technical Program
APNet 2020 Program Online Virtual Meeting (Tentative), in Korean Time (Beijing time +1 hour)Session Time
| Keynote Talk | 1 hour talk + 10 mins Q&A |
| APNET Paper | 20 min talk + 5 mins Q&A |
| SIGCOMM Talk | 17 min talk + 3 mins Q&A |
| Industry Speech | 40 min talk + 5 mins Q&A |
August 3, 2020 (Day 1)
| Korean Time | Beijing Time | Event |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | 8:00 - 8:10 | Opening Remark |
| 9:10 - 10:20 | 8:10 - 9:20 | Keynote 1 Session Chair: KyoungSoo Park (KAIST) 1 hour talk + 10 mins Q& A |
| 9:10 - 10:20 | 8:10 - 9:20 | Learning to Make Decisions Optimally for Self-Driving Networks [slides] [video]
Dr. Song Chong, Head of AI Graduate School, KAIST |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | 9:20 - 9:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:10 | 9:30 - 11:10 | Network Programming Session Chair: Asim Jamshed (Intel) 20 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | 9:30 - 9:55 | Leveraging SIMD parallelism for accelerating network applications [slides] [video] Hejing Li, Juhyeng Han, Dongsu Han (KAIST) |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | 9:55 - 10:20 | An Intermediate Representation for Network Programming Languages [slides] [video] Hao Li, Peng Zhang, Guangda Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Chengchen Hu (Xilinx Labs Asia Pacific), Danfeng Shan (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Tian Pan (BUPT); Qiang Fu (Victoria University of Wellington) |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | 10:20 - 10:45 | A Case for SmartNIC-accelerated Private Communication [slides] [video] Duckwoo Kim, SeungEon Lee, KyoungSoo Park (KAIST) |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | 10:45 - 11:10 | Fast Configuration Change Impact Analysis for Network Overlay Data Center Networks [slides] [video] Lizhao You, Hao Tang, Jiahua Zhang, Xiao Li (Huawei) |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | 11:10 - 12:30 | Break |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | 12:30 - 14:30 | Sigcomm Talks Session 1 Session Chair: Dan Li (Tsinghua University) 120 mins in total: 20 mins/paper 17+3 |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | 12:30 - 12:50 | Hoyan, an accurate and scalable network verifier on Alibaba’s global WAN [video] Hongqiang Harry Liu (Alibaba) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | 12:50 - 13:10 | OmniMon: Re-architecting Network Telemetry with Resource Efficiency and Full Accuracy [slides] [video] Qun Huang (Peking University) |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | 13:10 - 13:30 | Flow Event Telemetry on Programmable Data Plane [video] Chen Sun (Alibaba) |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | 13:30 - 13:50 | Turboboosting Visible Light Backscatter Communication [slides] [video] Yue Wu (Peking University) |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | 13:50 - 14:10 | Interpreting Deep Learning-Based Networking Systems [slides] [video] Zili Meng (Tsinghua) |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | 14:10 - 14:30 | Understanding Operational 5G: A First Measurement Study on Its Coverage, Performance and Energy Consumption [slides] [video] Dongzhu Xu (BUPT) |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | 14:30 - 14:50 | Break |
| 15:50 - 18:05 | 14:50 - 17:05 | Industrial Spotlight Talks 1 Session Chair: Kai Chen (HKUST) 45 mins each: 40 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A |
| 15:50 - 16:35 | 14:50 - 15:35 | Scalable and Elastic Routing Service for Tencent Cloud [slides] [video] Allen Lv (Chief Architect, Tencent Cloud) |
| 16:35 - 17:20 | 15:35 - 16:20 | End-2-End Zero Trust Network Security Framework [slides] [video] Philip Wong (Principal Solution Architect, Cisco Greater China) |
| 17:20 - 18:05 | 16:20 - 17:05 | InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap [slides] [video] Gilad Shainer (SVP, NVIDIA Mellanox) |
August 4, 2020 (day 2)
| Korean Time | Beijing Time | Event |
| 9:10 - 10:20 | 8:10 - 9:20 | Keynote 2 Session Chair: Harry Liu (Alibaba) 1 hour talk + 10 mins Q& A |
| 9:10 - 10:20 | 8:10 - 9:20 | Challenges on Next-Generation Mobile Communications Dr. Sunghyun Choi, Senior VP of Samsung Electronics |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | 9:20 - 9:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:45 | 9:30 - 11:45 | Industrial Spotlight Talks 2 Session Chair: Kun Tan (Huawei) 45 mins per each: 40 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | 9:30 - 10:15 | Building the Predictable DC Network for Next 10 Years [video] Dennis Cai (Chief Network Architect, Alibaba) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | 10:15 - 11:00 | Reliability and Performance in Azure Data Center Networks [video] Jitu Padhye (Partner Development Lead, Microsoft) |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | 11:00 - 11:45 | Accelerating Distributed DNN Training with BytePS [slides] [video] Chuanxiong Guo (Director, Bytedance AI Lab) |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | 11:45 - 13:00 | Break |
| 14:00-15:40 | 13:00-14:40 | Datacenter Networking Session Chair: Keon Jang (MPI-SWS) 20 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | 13:00 - 13:25 | Tail-tolerance as a Systems Principle not a Metric [slides] [video] Marios Kogias, Edouard Bugnion (EPFL) |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | 13:25 - 13:50 | One Rein to Rule Them All: A Framework for Datacenter-to-User Congestion Control [slides] [video] Kefan Chen (Tsinghua), Danfeng Shan (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Xiaohui Luo (Tsinghua), Tong Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Yajun Yang (Tencent) |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | 13:50 - 14:15 | Irina: Accelerating DNN Inference with Efficient Online Scheduling [slides] [video] Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu (City University of Hong Kong), Yi Wang (Peng Cheng Laboratory) |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | 14:15 - 14:40 | RAT - Resilient Allreduce Tree for Distributed Machine Learning [slides] [video] Xinchen Wan (HKUST), Hong Zhang (UC Berkeley), Hao Wang (HKUST); Shuihai Hu (Clustar), Junxue Zhang, Kai Chen (HKUST) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | 14:40 - 15:00 | Break |
| 16:00-18:00 | 15:00-17:00 | Sigcomm Talks Session 2 Session Chair: Qun Huang (Peking University) 20 mins per paper: 17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | 15:00 - 15:20 | Lyra: A Cross-Platform Language and Compiler for Data Plane Programming on Heterogeneous ASICs [slides] [video] Ennan Zhai (Alibaba) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | 15:20 - 15:40 | Aeolus: A Building Block for Proactive Transport in Datacenters [slides] [video] Shuihai Hu (HKUST and Clustar) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | 15:40 - 16:00 | MasQ: RDMA for Virtual Private Cloud [slides] [video] Zhiqiang He (USTC and Huawei) |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | 16:00 - 16:20 | NFC+: Next Generation RFID Technology for Large-scale Logistic Applications [video] Yunfei Ma (Alibaba) |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | 16:20 - 16:40 | TACK: Improving Wireless Transport Performance by Taming Acknowledgments [slides] [video] Tong Li (Huawei) |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | 16:40 - 17:00 | VTrace: Automatic Diagnostic System for Persistent Packet Loss in Cloud-Scale Overlay Network [video] Biao Lyu (Alibaba) |