Topic Preview Sessions

Are you new to SIGCOMM? Are you an expert on data centers but have not dabbled in wireless or privacy topics? Do you want to learn how to navigate the alphabet soup of acronyms (CDN, DCN, SDN?) Join us for the SIGCOMM preview sessions in which experts will give short introductions on a variety of topics to enhance your understanding of this year's paper presentations.

Program

Monday, August 22, 2016
5:30pm - 6:45pm Topic Preview 1

Room: Topazio 1 and Topazio 2
Topic Preview 1
5:30pm-5:45pm — Scheduling

Isaac Keslassy (Technion/VMWare)

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5:45pm-6:00pm — SDN/NFV 1: Software Defined Networking & Network Function Virtualization

Christian Esteve Rothenberg (University of Campinas)

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6:00pm-6:15pm — SDN/NFV 2: Software Defined Networking & Network Function Virtualization

Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown University)

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6:15pm-6:30pm — DCN 1: Datacenter Networking

Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell)

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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
12:40pm - 1:30pm Topic Preview 2

Room: Diamante
Topic Preview 2
12:40pm-12:54pm — Wireless

Vamsi Talla (University of Washington)

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12:54pm-1:06pm — Verification

Zach Tatlock (University of Washington)

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1:06pm-1:18pm — DCN 2/TCP: Datacenter Networking & TCP

Tobias Flach (USC/Google)

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1:18pm-1:30pm — Policies and Neutrality

Te-Yuan Huang (Netflix)

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