Technical Program
APNet 2021 Program Meeting (Tentative), in Beijing timeSession Time
| Keynote Talk | 55 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
| APNET Paper | 20 min talk + 3 min Q&A |
| SIGCOMM/NSDI Talk | 35 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
| Industry Speech | 40 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
June 24, 2021 (Day 1), Thursday
| Beijing Time | Event |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Opening Remark General Chair: Xiaoming Fu, Yunjie Liu Program Chairs: K. K. Ramakrishnan, Minlan Yu |
| 9:10 - 11:10 | Sigcomm/NSDI Talks Session 1 Session Chair: Kai Chen (HKUST) 35 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
| 9:10 - 9:50 | ATP: In-Network Aggregation for Multi-Tenant Training [video]
Wenfei WU, Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University |
| 9:50 - 10:30 | Perception-Driven Optimization: A New Frontier for Scaling Internet Applications[slides] [video]
Junchen JIANG, Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago |
| 10:30 - 11:10 | When In-Network Processing Meets Distributed Systems [video]
Bojie LI, Senior Engineer at Huawei |
| 11:10 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 12:24 | Network Measurement and Congestion Control Session Chair: Dongsu Han (KAIST) 20 min talk + 3 min Q&A |
| 11:15 - 11:38 | A Sketch Algorithm to Monitor High Packet Delay in Network Traffic [paper] [slides] [video] Jiaqi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Qun Huang (Peking University) |
| 11:38 - 12:01 | HierCC: Hierarchical RDMA Congestion Control [paper] [slides] [video] Jiao Zhang (BUPT); Yali Zhang (Huawei); Zixuan Guan (Huawei); Zirui Wan (BUPT); Yinben Xia (Huawei); Tian Pan (BUPT); Tao Huang (BUPT); Dezhi Tang (Huawei); Yun Lin (Huawei) |
| 12:01 - 12:24 | Conjecture: Existence of Nash Equilibria in Modern Internet Congestion Control [paper] [video] Ayush Mishra, Jingzhi Zhang (Wuhan University), Melodies Sim, Sean Ng, Raj Joshi, Ben Leong (National University of Singapore) |
| 12:24 - 13:00 | Break |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Poster Session 10 min per poster |
| 13:00 - 13:10 | FlowDiviner: Spatio-Temporal Network Traffic Prediction Method Based on Graph Neural Network [paper] [video] Liang Qin; Wenting Wei; Yinghao Ma |
| 13:10 - 13:20 | Combined Shared-Memory and Buffered-Crossbar Architecture for High-Bandwidth Onboard Switching Fabric [paper] [video] Ling Zheng; Chen Yi; Weitao Pan; Huan Liu |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | Learning Based Deadline Aware Congestion Control [paper] [video] Rongji Liao; Jinyao Yan; Tao Lin;Yuhao Chen |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Physical-Layer Informed Multipath Redundancy Optimization for Mobile Real-Time Communication [paper] [video] Jing Chen; Zili Meng; Mingwei Xu |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Towards Optimization for Large-scale Earth Observation Missions from a Global Perspective [paper] [video] Yaning Guo;Jing Chen; Zili Meng; Mingwei Xu |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Exploring the Impact of Attacks on Ring AllReduce [paper] [video] Jiayu Wang; Peng Liu; Zehua Guo; Sen Liu; Chao Yao |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Keynote 1 Session Chair: K. K. Ramakrishnan (UCR) 55 min talk + 5 min Q& A |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Experiencing a new Internet Architecture [slides] [video] Adrian Perrig, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich |
| 15:00 - 15:05 | Break |
| 15:05 - 16:14 | Network Programming Session Chair: Qun Huang (Peking University) 20 min talk + 3 min Q&A |
| 15:05 - 15:28 | HyperParser: A High-Performance Parser Architecture for Next Generation Programmable Switch and SmartNIC [paper] [slides] [video] Huan Liu, Zhiliang Qiu, Weitao Pan, Jiajun Li, Jinjian Huang (Xidian University) |
| 15:28 - 15:51 | Leveraging Programmable Dataplanes for a High Performance 5G User Plane Function [paper] [slides] [video] Abhik Bose, Diptyaroop Maji, Prateek Agarwal, Nilesh Unhale, Rinku Shah, Mythili Vutukuru (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) |
| 15:51 - 16:14 | Flexible Routing with Policy Exchange [paper] [slides] [video] Bin Gui, Fangping Lan, Anduo Wang (Temple University) |
| 16:14 - 16:20 | Break |
| 16:20 - 18:35 | Industrial Spotlight Talks 1 Session Chair: Chenren Xu (Peking University) 40 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
| 16:20 - 17:05 | XLINK: Alibaba's Multi-path QUIC Transport for Large-scale Video Applications [video] Yunfei MA, Researcher at XG Lab in the Alibaba Damo Academy |
| 17:05 - 17:50 | OpenNetLab: Open Networking Platform for Machine Learning Based Real Time Communications [video] Yongqiang XIONG, Senior principal researcher and research manager in MSRA |
| 17:50 - 18:35 | Tencent Cloud cellular Network Accelerator (TCNA): a new paradigm for connecting to the cloud anywhere [video] Feng YANG, Chief Architect of Tencent Cloud |
June 25, 2021 (day 2), Friday
| Beijing Time | Event |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote 2 Session Chair: Minlan Yu (Harvard University) 55 min talk + 5 min Q& A |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Ray: A universal framework for distributed computing [video] Ion Stoica, Professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley |
| 10:00 - 10:05 | Break |
| 10:05 - 12:20 | Industrial Spotlight Talks 2 Session Chair: Dan Li (Tsinghua University) 40 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
| 10:05 - 10:50 | Towards Compute-Native Networking [video] Kun TAN, Vice President of Central Software Institute, Huawei |
| 10:50 - 11:35 | Top-down network management at scale [video] Ying ZHANG, Software Engineering Manager in Facebook |
| 11:35 - 12:20 | Telemetry at scale in massive cloud network infrastructure Christophe Diot, Principal Engineer in Google |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 - 15:09 | Network Stack and Framework Session Chair: Chuanxiong Guo (Bytedance) 20 min talk + 3 min Q&A |
| 14:00 - 14:23 | pHPA: A Proactive Autoscaling Framework for Microservice Chain [paper] [slides] [video] Byungkwon Choi (KAIST); Jinwoo Park (KAIST); Chunghan Lee (Toyota Motor Corporation); Dongsu Han (KAIST) |
| 14:23 - 14:46 | Evaluating Network Stacks for the Virtualized Mobile Packet Core [paper] [video] Ashwin Kumar (IIT, Bombay); Priyanka Naik (IBM Research, India); Sahil Patki (IIT, Bombay); Pranav Chaudhary (IIT, Bombay); Mythili Vutukuru (IIT, Bombay) |
| 14:46 - 15:09 | FLAG: Flow Representation Generator based on Self-supervised Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification [paper] [video] Wenting Wei (Xidian University); Tianjie Ju (Xidian University, Shanghai Jiaotong University); Han Liao (Jianghan University); Weike Zhao (Xidian University); Huaxi Gu (Xidian University) |
| 15:09 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 17:55 | Sigcomm/NSDI Talks Session 2 Session Chair: Henry Xu (CUHK) 35 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
| 15:15 - 15:55 | Software-Defined Self-Driving Cloud Networks [video]
Xin JIN, Associate Professor at Peking University |
| 15:55 - 16:35 | Congestion Detection in Lossless Networks[slides] [video]
Fengyuan REN, Professor at Tsinghua University |
| 16:35 - 17:15 | Automatic ECN Tuning for High-Speed Datacenter Networks[slides] [video]
Xiaoliang WANG, Associate professor at Nanjing University. |
| 17:15 - 17:55 | Lightweight and Elastic Network Measurement Algorithms and Systems [video]
Tong YANG, Associate Professor at Peking University |