Accepted Papers

We are delighted to announce the following list of accepted papers for ACM SIGCOMM 2016.

• An Analysis of Traffic Policing in the Web

  Tobias Flach (University of Southern California / Google), Pavlos Papageorge and Andreas Terzis (Google), Luis Pedrosa (University of Southern California), Yuchung Cheng and Tayeb Karim (Google), and Ethan Katz-Bassett and Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California)

• Top-down Network Management on a Massive Scale

  Eric Sung, Xiaozheng Tie, Starsky Wong, and Hongyi Zeng (Facebook)

• OpenBox: A Software-Defined Framework for Developing, Deploying, and Managing Network Functions

  Anat Bremler-Barr (The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel) and Yotam Harchol and David Hay (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

• Fast Control Plane Analysis Using an Abstract Representation

  Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Raajay Viswanathan, and Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research)

• The Deforestation of L2

  James McCauley (UC Berkeley / ICSI), Mingjie Zhao (UESTC / ICSI), Ethan J. Jackson and Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley), Barath Raghavan (ICSI), and Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley / ICSI)

• 2DFQ: Two-Dimensional Fair Queueing for Multi-Tenant Cloud Services

  Jonathan Mace (Brown University), Peter Bodik and Madanlal Musuvathi (Microsoft), Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown University), and Krishnan Varadarajan (Microsoft)

• Trumpet: Timely and Precise Triggers in Data Centers

  Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, and Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California) and Amin Vahdat (Google, inc)

• CODA: Toward Automatically Identifying and Scheduling Coflows in the Dark

  Hong Zhang, Li Chen, Bairen Yi, and Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Mosharaf Chowdhury (University of Michigan), and Yanhui Geng (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

• Scalable Symbolic Execution for Modern Networks

  Radu Stoenescu, Matei Popovici, Lorina Negreanu, and Costin Raiciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest)

• WebPerf: Evaluating What-If Scenarios for Cloud-hosted Web Applications

  Yurong Jiang (University of Southern California), Suman Nath and Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam (Microsoft Research), and Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California)

• Jumpstarting BGP Security with Path-End Validation

  Avichai Cohen (Hebrew University), Yossi Gilad (Boston University), Amir Herzberg (Bar Ilan University), and Michael Schapira (Hebrew University)

• Taking the Blame Game out of Data Centers Operations with NetPoirot

  Behnaz Arzani (University of Pennsylvania), Selim Ciraci (Microsoft), Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania), Assaf Schuster (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), and Geoff Outhred (Microsoft)

• Globally Synchronized Time via Datacenter Networks

  Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Vishal Shrivastav, and Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)

• PISCES: A Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch

  Muhammad Shahbaz (Princeton University), Sean Choi (Stanford University), Ben Pfaff (VMware), Changhoon Kim (Barefoot Networks), Nick Feamster (Princeton University), Nick McKeown (Stanford University), and Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)

• Dataplane Specialization for High-performance OpenFlow Software Switching

  László Molnár, Gergely Pongrácz, Gábor Enyedi, and Zoltán Kis (TrafficLab, Ericsson Research, Hungary) and Levente Csikor, Ferenc Juhász, Attila Körösi, and Gábor Rétvári (Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

• Scheduling Mix-flows in Commodity Datacenters with Karuna

  Li Chen, Kai Chen, and Wei Bai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT)

• Hypervisor-based Algorithmic Virtualization of TCP Congestion Control

  Bryce Cronkite-Ratcliff (Stanford), Aran Bergman and Shay Vargaftik (Technion), Madhusudhan Ravi (VMware), Nick McKeown (Stanford), Ittai Abraham (VMware), and Isaac Keslassy (Technion and VMware)

• NUMFabric: Fast and Flexible Bandwidth Allocation in Datacenters

  Kanthi Nagaraj and Dinesh Bharadia (Stanford University), Hongzi Mao (M.I.T), Sandeep Chinchali (Stanford University), Mohammad Alizadeh (M.I.T.), and Sachin Katti (Stanford University)

• Evolve or Die: High-Availability Design Principles Drawn from Failures in a Global-Scale Content Provider

  Ramesh Govindan (Google, USC) and Ina Minei, Mahesh Kallahalla, Bikash Koley, and Amin Vahdat (Google)

• SNAP: Stateful Network-Wide Abstractions for Packet Processing

  Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo and Yaron Koral (Princeton University), Michael Greenberg (Pomona College), and Jennifer Rexford and David Walker (Princeton University)

• Dynamic Pricing and Traffic Engineering for Timely Inter-Datacenter Transfers

  Virajith Jalaparti (Microsoft), Ivan Bliznets (St. Petersburg Academic University), and Srikanth Kandula, Brendan Lucier, and Ishai Menache (Microsoft)

• Bringing Backscatter Communication to Commodity Devices

  Vikram Iyer, Vamsi Talla, Bryce Kellogg, Shyamnath Gollakota, and Joshua Smith (University of Washington)

• Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next-Generation Cellular Networks

  Deepak Vasisht (MIT), Swarun Kumar (CMU), and Hariharan Rahul and Dina Katabi (MIT)

• Neutral Net Neutrality

  Yiannis Yiakoumis, Sachin Katti, and Nick McKeown (Stanford University)

• ClickNP: Highly Flexible and High-performance Network Processing with Reconfigurable Hardware

  Bojie Li (USTC and Microsoft Research), Kun Tan (Microsoft Research), Layong (Larry) Luo (Microsoft), Yanqing Peng (SJTU and Microsoft Research), Renqian Luo (USTC and Microsoft Research), and Ningyi Xu, Yongqiang Xiong, and Peng Cheng (Microsoft Research)

• CS2P: Improving Video Bitrate Selection and Adaptation with Data-Driven Throughput Prediction

  Yi Sun (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiaoqi Yin, Junchen Jiang, and Vyas Sekar (CMU), Fuyuan Lin and Nanshu Wang (ICT/CAS), Tao Liu (iQIYI), and Bruno Sinopoli (CMU)

• Programmable Packet Scheduling

  Anirudh Sivaraman and Suvinay Subramanian (MIT CSAIL), Anurag Agrawal (Barefoot Networks), Sharad Chole, Shang-Tse Chuang, and Tom Edsall (Cisco Systems), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT CSAIL), Sachin Katti and Nick McKeown (Stanford University), and Hari Balakrishnan (MIT CSAIL)

• Packet Transactions: High-level Programming for Line-Rate Switches

  Anirudh Sivaraman (MIT CSAIL), Mihai Budiu (Barefoot Networks), Alvin Cheung (University of Washington, Seattle), Changhoon Kim and Steve Licking (Barefoot Networks), George Varghese (Microsoft Research), Hari Balakrishnan and Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT CSAIL), and Nick McKeown (Stanford University)

• Enabling Practical Backscatter Communication for On-body Sensors

  Pengyu Zhang, Mohammad Rostami, Pan Hu, and Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

• Braidio: An Integrated Active-Passive Radio for Mobile Devices with Asymmetric Energy Budgets

  Pan Hu, Pengyu Zhang, Mohammad Rostami, and Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

• AC/DC TCP: Virtual Switch-based Congestion Control Enforcement for Datacenter Networks

  Keqiang He (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Eric Rozner (IBM Research), Kanak Agarwal, Yu (Jason) Gu, Wes Felter, and John Carter (IBM), and Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Optimizing Bulk Transfers with Software-Defined Optical WAN

  Xin Jin (Princeton University), Yiran Li and Da Wei (Tsinghua University), Siming Li and Jie Gao (Stony Brook University), Lei Xu (Sodero Networks), Guangzhi Li (AT&T Labs), Wei Xu (Tsinghua University), and Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)

• Real-time Distributed MIMO Systems

  Ezzeldin Hamed, Hariharan Rahul, Mohammed A. Abdelghany, and Dina Katabi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• One Sketch to Rule Them All: Rethinking Network Flow Monitoring with UnivMon

  Zaoxing Liu (Johns Hopkins University), Antonis Manousis (Carnegie Mellon University), Greg Vorsanger (Johns Hopkins University), Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University), and Vladimir Braverman (Johns Hopkins University)

• Via: Improving Internet Telephony Call Quality Using Predictive Relay Selection

  Junchen Jiang (Microsoft Research / CMU), Rajdeep Das, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Philip A. Chou, and Venkata Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research), Vyas Sekar (CMU), Esbjorn Dominique, Marcin Goliszewski, Dalibor Kukoleca, and Renat Vafin (Microsoft), and Hui Zhang (CMU)

• RDMA over Commodity Ethernet at Scale

  Chuanxiong Guo (Microsoft Research), Haitao Wu, Zhong Deng, Gaurav Soni, and Jianxi Ye (Microsoft), Jitu Padhye (Microsoft Research), and Marina Lipshteyn (Microsoft)

• Don't Mind the Gap: Bridging Network-wide Objectives and Device-level Configurations

  Ryan Beckett (Princeton University), Ratul Mahajan and Jitu Padhye (Microsoft Research), Todd Millstein (University of California, Los Angeles), and David Walker (Princeton University)

• The Good, the Bad, and the Differences: Better Network Diagnostics with Differential Provenance

  Ang Chen, Yang Wu, and Andreas Haeberlen (University of Pennsylvania), Wenchao Zhou (Georgetown University), and Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)

• ProjecToR: Agile Reconfigurable Datacenter Interconnect

  Monia Ghobadi, Ratul Mahajan, and Amar Phanishayee (Microsoft Research), Houman Rastegarfar, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Madeleine Glick, and Daniel Kilper (University of Arizona), and Janardhan Kulkarni, Gireeja Ranade, and Nikhil Devanur (Microsoft Research)