Technical Program
August 17, 2019
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Opening and Welcome |
| 09:10 - 10:25 | Keynote 1 Chair: Dongsu Han |
| Designing a High-performance Networking Stack for the Next Generation Kyoungsoo Park (KAIST) |
|
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 - 11:40 | Session 1: Improving and Rethinking Transport Protocols Chair: Qun Huang |
| DTP: Deadline-aware Transport Protocol [Slides] Hang Shi, Yong Cui (Tsinghua University); Feng Qian (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities); Yuming Hu (Tsinghua University) |
|
| DDT: Mitigating the Competitiveness Difference of Data Center TCPs [Slides] Tao Zhang, Jiawei Huang, Shaojun Zou, Sen Liu, Jinbin Hu, Jingling Liu, Chang Ruan, Jianxin Wang (Central South University); Geyong Min (University of Exeter) |
|
| Rethinking transport layer design for distributed machine learning [Slides] Jiacheng Xia, Gaoxiong Zeng, Junxue Zhang, Weiyan Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Wei Bai (Microsoft Research); Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago); Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
|
| 11:40 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 2: NFV and Better Support for Applications Chair: Boon Thau Loo |
| A Closer Look at NFV Execution Models [Slides] Peng Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong University and University of Minnesota); Arvind Narayanan (University of Minnesota); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota) |
|
| FlexGate: High-performance Heterogeneous Gateway in Data Centers [Slides] Kun Qian (Tsinghua University); Sai Ma, Mao Miao, Jianyuan Lu (Alibaba); Tong Zhang (Tsinghua University), Peilong Wang, Chenghao Sun (Alibaba); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University) |
|
| A Multipath QUIC Scheduler for Mobile HTTP/2 [Slides] Jing Wang, Yunfeng Gao, Chenren Xu (Peking University) |
|
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Break |
| 14:45 - 16:30 | Invited Industrial Spotlight Talk Session 1 Chair: Kyoungsoo Park |
| Congestion Control in Hyper-Speed Networks Hongqiang Liu (Alibaba) |
|
| Hardware Accelerated Networking for Distributed Machine Learning [Slides] Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research) |
|
| Accelerating Distributed Deep Learning with In-Network Computing Technology [Slides] Gil Bloch (Mellanox) |
|
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Break |
| 16:30 - 17:45 | Session 3: Programmable Data Planes and Smart NICs Chair: Dan Li |
| On the Impact of Cluster Configuration on RoCE Application Design [Slides] Yanfang Le (UW--Madison); Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki, Brent Stephens (UIC); Aditya Akella, Michael M. Swift (UW--Madison) |
|
| Towards Stateless RNIC for Data Center Networks [Slides] Pulin Pan, Guo Chen, Xizheng Wang (Hunan University); Huichen Dai, Bojie Li, Binzhang Fu, Kun Tan (Huawei) |
|
| Ether: Providing both Interactive Service and Fairness in Multi-Tenant Datacenters [Slides] Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki, Brent Stephens, Balajee Vamanan (UIC) |
|
| Elastic RSS: co-Scheduling Packets and Cores using Programmable NICs [Slides] Alexander Rucker, Tushar Swamy, Muhammad Shahbaz, Kunle Olukotun (Stanford) |
|
| 18:30 | Banquet |
August 18, 2019
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:10 - 10:25 | Keynote 2 Chair: Wenfei Wu |
| Networking in the era of machine learning and other emerging trends Sujata Banerjee (VMWare) |
|
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 - 12:00 | Session 4: Systems, Network Policies and Performance Chair: Keon Jang |
| Toward Scalable Replication Systems with Predictable Tails Using Programmable Data Planes [Slides] Sean Choi, Seo Jin Park, Muhammad Shahbaz, Balaji Prabhakar, Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford Unversity) |
|
| Rethinking Network Policy Coordination: A Database Perspective Anduo Wang (Temple University); Seungwon Shin (KAIST); Eduard Dragut (Temple University) |
|
| Accelerating Distributed Machine Learning by Smart Parameter Server [Slides] Jinkun Geng, Dan Li, Shuai Wang (Tsinghua University) |
|
| TMC: Pay-as-you-Go Distributed Communication Max Demoulin, Nikos Vasilakis, John Sonchack, Isaac Pedisich, Vincent Liu, Boon Thau Loo, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Jonathan M. Smith (University of Pennsylvania), Irene Zhang (Microsoft Research) |
|
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:40 | Invited Industrial Spotlight Talk Session 2 Chair: Kai Chen |
| The Computer Networks behind the Social Network [Slides] James Hongyi Zeng (Facebook) |
|
| Accelerating networking of Bare Metal Server in Huawei Cloud Shui Cao (Huawei) |
|
| 14:40 - 14:55 | Break |
| 14:55 - 16:10 | Keynote 3 Chair: Zhi-Li Zhang |
| The Evolution of a Content Delivery Network: A 20-Year Retrospective [Slides] Bruce Maggs (Duke/Akamai) |
|
| 16:10 - 18:00 | Poster Session & Social |
| TT-DNS: Trustworthy Third-Party DNS Service with Privacy Preserving Qingxiu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Wenfei Wu, Qingsong Liu (Tsinghua University); Ying Zhang (Facebook) |
|
| RCCF: Accelerating the Redeployment of Congestion Control Algorithms to Provide Near-Optimal Service for Different Flows Bo Su, Xianliang Jiang, Guang Jin, Haiming Chen (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University) |
|
| Towards Tunable RDMA Parameter Selection at Runtime for Datacenter Applications Kai Wang, Dian Shen, Fang Dong, Chengtian Zhang (Southeast University) |
|
| HaPT: Handover Prediction Using Temporal Data for Improved QoS in RAN Ayush Bhardwaj, Ajay Rahul, Shivam Maloo, Nipun Pruthi, Sateesh K. Peddoju (IIT Roorkee) |
|
| Network verification on periodically changed topology Fangdan Ye, Yahui Li, Zhiliang Wang (Tsinghua University); Jiangyuan Yao (Hainan University); Yazheng Chen, Tianming Lan, Hewu Li, Xingang Shi, Xia Yin (Tsinghua University) |
|
| DGT: A Communication-Efficient Differential Gradient Transmission Protocol For Distributed Deep Learning Huaman Zhou, Zonghang Li, Hongfang Yu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) |
|
| Minerva: Decentralized Collaborative Query Processing over InterPlanetary File System Bowen Ding, Yuedong Xu (Fudan University) |
|
| TSN-Insight: An Efficient Network Monitor for TSN Networks Tianyu Bu, Yi Yang, Xiangrui Yang, Wei Quan, Zhigang Sun (National University of Defense Technology) |