Technical Program
APNet 2024 Program Schedule, in Australian Eastern Standard TimeConference Venue: Ainsworth G03, building J17
Session Time
| Keynote Talk | 50 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A (60 mins total) |
| APNET Paper | 12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A (15 mins total) |
| SIGCOMM/NSDI Talk | 30 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A (35 mins total) |
| Industry Speech | 30 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A (35 mins total) |
August 3, 2024 (Day 1)
| Time | Event |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am | Opening Remarks General/PC Chairs |
| 8:45 - 9:45 am | Keynote 1: Building Better Network Simulators with Machine Learning [slides] 50 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT) |
| 9:45 - 10:45 am | Session #1: Learning 12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A Session Chair: Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University) |
| 9:45 - 10:00 am | Understanding Communication Characteristics of Distributed Training [paper] Wenxue Li, Xiangzhou Liu, Yuxuan Li, Yilun Jin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Han Tian (USTC); Zhizhen Zhong (MIT); Guyue Liu (Peking University); Ying Zhang (Meta); Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | Fast Learning Enabled by In-Network Drift Detection [paper] Bruno Missi Xavier (Federal Institute of Espírito Santo/Brazil); Magnos Martinello (Federal University of Espírito Santo/Brazil); Celio Trois (Federal University of Santa Maria/Brazil); Brenno M. Alenca Ricardo A. Rios (Federal University of Bahia/Brazil) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | UniFL: Enabling Loss-tolerant Transmission in Federated Learning [paper] Zixuan Chen, Yifan Ruan, Sen Liu, Yang Xu (Fudan University) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am | ShieldGPT: An LLM-based Framework for DDoS Mitigation [paper] Tongze Wang, Xiaohui Xie (Tsinghua University); Lei Zhang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Chuyi Wang (Tsinghua University); Liang Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd); Yong Cui (Tsinghua University) |
| 10:45 - 11:05 am | Morning Tea Break |
| 11:05 am - 12:20 pm | Session #2: RDMA Networking 12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A Session Chair: Grace Liu (Peking University) |
| 11:05 - 11:20 am | HF2T: Host-Based Flowlet Fine-Tuning for RDMA Load Balancing [paper] [slides] Chuhao Chen, Jiarui Ye, Yongbo Gao, Sen Liu, Yang Xu (Fudan University) |
| 11:20 - 11:35 am | Rethinking Intra-host Congestion Control in RDMA Networks [paper] [slides] Zirui Wan, Jiao Zhang, Yuxiang Wang, Kefei Liu, Haoyu Pan, Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
| 11:35 - 11:50 am | LEFT: LightwEight and FasT packet Reordering for RDMA [paper] [slides] Peihao Huang (Central South University & Hunan University); Xin Zhang (Hunan University); Zhigang Chen (Central South University); Can Liu, Guo Chen (Hunan University) |
| 11:50 am - 12:05 pm | LubeRDMA: A Fail-safe Mechanism of RDMA [paper] [slides] Shengkai Lin, Qinwei Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Zengyin Yang, Yuchuan Wang (Huawei); Shizhen Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
| 12:05 - 12:20 pm | Software-based Live Migration for Containerized RDMA [paper] [slides] Xiaoyu Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Microsoft Research); Ran Shu, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist)) |
| 12:20 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:30 pm | Session #3: Clouds and programmable networks 12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A Session Chair: Haoyu Song (Futurewei Technologies) |
| 1:30 - 1:45 pm | Pyramis: A Domain Specific Language for Developing Multi-tier Systems [paper] [video] Ashwin Kumar (IIT Bombay); Ajinkya Tanksale (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Armaan Chowfin (BITS Goa); Mohan Rajasekhar Ajjampudi (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Arnav Mishra (Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay); Abuhujair Khan, Vishal Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Priyanka Naik (IBM Research); Mythili Vutukuru (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) |
| 1:45 - 2:00 pm | Cross-Platform Transpilation of Packet-Processing Programs using Program Synthesis [paper] [video] Xiangyu Gao (New York University); Jiaqi Gao (Alibaba Cloud); Karan Kumar G (New York University); Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud); Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers University); Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University) |
| 2:00 - 2:15 pm | CMDRL: A Markovian Distributed Rate Limiting Algorithm in Cloud Networks [paper] [video] Lilong Chen, Xiaochong Jiang, Xiang Hu, Tianyu Xu (Zhejiang University); Ye Yang (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University, Alibaba Cloud); Bingqian Lu, Chengkun Wei, Wenzhi Chen (Zhejiang University) |
| 2:15 - 2:30 pm | QuarkTable: Building Compact Forwarding Tables for Programmable Switches on Public Clouds [paper] [video] Jianyuan Lu, Huaiyi Zhao, Yu Qi, Yehao Feng, Xinyu Guo, Shengru Li, Enge Song, Xionglie Wei, Biao Lyu, Rong Wen, Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud) |
| 2:30 - 3:30 pm | Poster Session & Afternoon Tea Break |
| 3:30 - 5:50 pm | Sigcomm/NSDI Sharing Session 30 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A Session Chair: Chen Tian (Nanjing University) |
| 3:30 - 4:05 pm | Knowledge Delivery Network: Faster LLM Serving via Knowledge Sharing [video] [slides] Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago) |
| 4:05 - 4:40 pm | Leveraging Network Hardware in Distributed Systems Design [video] [slides] Jialin Li (National University of Singapore) |
| 4:40 - 5:15 pm | Enabling Trustworthy Network Outsourcing [video] [slides] Guyue Liu (Peking University) |
| 5:15 - 5:50 pm | Enabling System Innovation of Optical Data Center Networks with an Open Framework [video] [slides] Yiting Xia (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) |
August 4, 2024 (Day 2)
| Time | Event |
| 8:30 - 9:30 am | Keynote 2: A decade of network verification: Lessons learned and open challenges 50 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington) |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am | Session #4: Verification and diagnosis 12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A Session Chair: Qianyi Huang (Sun Yat-sen University) |
| 9:30 - 9:45 am | Scaling Data Plane Verification via Parallelization [paper] [slides] Sisi Wen, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar (ByteDance Inc); Chenyang Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Weirong Jiang (ByteDance Inc) |
| 9:45 - 10:00 am | Rethinking DNS Configuration Verification with a Distributed Architecture [paper] [slides] Yao Wang, Kexin Yu, Ziyi Wang (Xiamen University); Kaiqiang Hu, Haizhou Du (Shanghai University of Electric Power); Qiao Xiang, Xing Fang (Xiamen University); Geng Li (Huawei); Ruiting Zhou (Southeast University); Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | An Integrated Solution for High-efficiency In-band Network Telemetry [paper] [slides] Xinxin Xiong, Yi Xie (School of Informatics, Xiamen University); Xiaochou Chen, Shaojie Zheng (Information and Network Services Center, Xiamen University); Wenju Huang, Jiahao Feng (School of Informatics, Xiamen University) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Hostmesh: Monitor and Diagnose Networks in Rail-optimized RoCE Clusters [paper] [slides] Kefei Liu, Jiao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Zhuo Jiang (Douyin Vision Co. Ltd.); Xuan Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Shixian Guo, Yangyang Bai, Yongbin Dong, Zhang Zhang, Xiang Shi, Lei Wang, Haoran Wei, Zicheng Wang (Douyin Vision Co. Ltd.); Yongchen Pan, Tian Pan, Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Morning Tea Break |
| 10:50 - 11:50 am | Session #5: Routing and Virtualization 12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A Session Chair: Rongfei Zeng (Northeastern University) |
| 10:50 - 11:05 am | vSwitchLB: Stratified Load Balancing for vSwitch Efficiency in Data Centers [paper] [slides] Xin Yin (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Enge Song, Ye Yang, Yi Wang, Bowen Yang, Jianyuan Lu (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li, Biao Lyu (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen (Alibaba Cloud); Shibo He, Yuanchao Shu (Zhejiang University); Shunmin Zhu (Tsinghua University and Alibaba Group) |
| 11:05 - 11:20 am | FlexMem: Proactive Memory Deduplication for Qcow2-Based VMs with Virtual Persistent Memory [paper] [slides] Weinan Liu, Zhihao Zhang, Xiangrong Liu (School of Informatics, Xiamen University); Yiming Zhang (Xiamen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Storage and Computing) |
| 11:20 - 11:35 am | TAR: Traffic Adaptive IPv6 Routing Lookup Scheme [paper] [slides] Xinyi Zhang (CNIC CAS); Zhiyuan Xu (UCAS); Huaiyi Zhao (Institute of Computing Technology CAS); Yanbiao Li, Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS China) |
| 11:35 - 11:50 am | SAROS: A Self-Adaptive Routing Oblivious Sampling Method for Network-wide Heavy Hitter Detection [paper] [slides] Enhan Li (Hangzhou Innovation Institute. Beihang University); Wenhao Wu (Institute of Computing Technology. Chinese Academy of Science); Wang Zhaohua (Computer Network Information Center Chinese Academy of Sciences); Zhenyu Li (Institute of Computing Technology. Chinese Academy of Science); Jianwei Niu (Hangzhou Innovation Institute. Beihang University) |
| 11:50 am - 12:35 pm | Session #6: Wireless LEO 12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A Session Chair: Yang Xu (Fudan University) |
| 11:50 am - 12:05 pm | A Little Certainty is All We Need: Discovery and Synchronization Acceleration in Battery-Free IoT [paper] [slides] Gaosheng Liu, Vinod Nigade, Henri Bal (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Lin Wang (Paderborn University) |
| 12:05 - 12:20 pm | Revisiting Congestion Control for WiFi Networks [paper] [slides] Xinle Du, Jie Li, Yiyang Shao, Wei Wang, Shuihai Hu, Jingbin Zhou, Kun Tan (Huawei) |
| 12:20 - 12:35 pm | OpenSN: An Open Source Library for Emulating LEO Satellite Networks [paper] [slides] Wenhao Lu, Zhiyuan Wang, Shan Zhang, Qingkai Meng, Hongbin Luo (Beihang University) |
| 12:35 - 1:20 pm | Lunch |
| 1:20 - 3:40 pm | Industry Spotlights Session 30 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A Session Chair: Bingyang Liu (Huawei) |
| 1:20 - 1:55 pm | Network management in the age of AI [video] Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft) |
| 1:55 - 2:30 pm | Alibaba HPN7.0: Revolutionizing AI Infrastructure with Next-Gen Network Architecture [video] Dennis Cai (Alibaba) |
| 2:30 - 3:05 pm | Serverless AI on SuperPODs [video] Kun Tan (Huawei) |
| 3:05 - 3:40 pm | AI Networking at Meta [video] James Hongyi Zeng (Meta) |
| 3:40 - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Tea Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | Panel Discussion (Joint by academia & industry speakers) |
| 7:00 - 10:00 pm | APNet’24 Banquet (Cruise Route & Attractions) |
