7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNET 2023)

2023, Hong Kong SAR

Conference Venue: HKUST Campus

Technical Program

APNET 2023 Program Meeting (Tentative), in Beijing time

Session Time

Keynote Talk 60 mins total
APNET Paper 17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A
SIGCOMM/NSDI Talk 35 mins total
Industry Speech 35 mins total

June 29, 2023 (Day 1), Thursday

Beijing Time Event
8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remark
General Chairs: Jiannong Cao, Kai Chen
Program Chairs: Chuanxiong Guo, Arvind Krishnamurthy
8:45 - 9:45 Keynote 1
Session Chair: Chuanxiong Guo
60 mins total
8:45 - 9:45 Microsecond-scale Datacenter Computing with RDMA: Characterization, Optimization and Outlooking [slides][video]
Haibo Chen, Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; IEEE Fellow
9:45 - 9:55 Break
9:55 - 11:15 Session #1 Host Networking
Session Chair: Gaoxiong Zeng
17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A
9:55 - 10:15 FastWake: Revisiting Host Network Stack for Interrupt-mode RDMA [paper] [slides] [video]
Bojie Li, Zihao Xiang (Huawei); Xiaoliang Wang (Nanjing University); Han Ruan, Jingbin Zhou, Kun Tan (Huawei)
10:15 - 10:35 [Best Paper Award] Host Efficient Networking Stack Utilizing NIC DRAM [paper] [slides] [video]
ByeongKeon Lee, DongHyeon Lee, Jisu Ok, Wonsup Yoon, Sue Moon (KAIST)
10:35 - 10:55 Accurate and Scalable Rate Limiter for RDMA NICs [paper] [slides] [video]
Zilong WANG, Xinchen WAN, Chaoliang ZENG, Kai CHEN (HKUST)
10:55 - 11:15 sRDMA: A General and Low-Overhead Scheduler for RDMA [paper] [slides] [video]
Xizheng Wang (Tsinghua University); Shuai Wang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Dan Li (Tsinghua University)
11:15 - 11:25 Break
11:25 - 12:45 Session #2 Routing and Configuration
Session Chair: Ennan Zhai
17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A
11:25 - 11:45 Toward Privacy-Preserving Interdomain Configuration Verification via Multi-Party Computation [paper] [slides] [video]
Huisan Xu, Qiuyue Qin, Xing Fang, Qiao Xiang, Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University)
11:45 - 12:05 Diagnosing Distributed Routing Configurations Using Sequential Program Analysis [paper] [slides] [video]
Rulan Yang, Xing Fang, Lizhao You, Qiao Xiang, Hanyang Shao, Gao Han, Ziyi Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University); Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
12:05 - 12:25 Reducing Reconfiguration Time in Hybrid Optical-Electrical Datacenter Networks [paper] [slides] [video]
Shuyuan Zhang, Shu Shan, Shizhen Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
12:25 - 12:45 Heuristic Binary Search: Adaptive and Fast IPv6 Route Lookup with Incremental Updates [paper] [slides] [video]
Donghong Jiang, Yanbiao Li, Yuxuan Chen (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China); Jing Hu, Yi Huang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:20 Session #3 Cellular and Edge
Session Chair: Wei Bai
17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A
14:00 - 14:20 SegaNet: An Advanced IoT Cloud Gateway for Performant and Priority-Oriented Message Delivery [paper] [slides] [video]
Yeonho Yoo (Korea University & Microsoft Research); Zhixiong Niu (Microsoft Research); Chuck Yoo (Korea University); Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research)
14:20 - 14:40 FlexCore: Leveraging XDP-SCTP for Scalable and Resilient Network Slice Service in Future 5G Cor [paper] [slides] [video]
Bhavishya Sharma, Shwetha Vittal, A Antony Franklin (IIT Hyderabad)
14:40 - 15:00 Is large MTU beneficial to cellular core networks? [paper] [slides] [video]
Youngmin Choi, Junghan Yoon (KAIST); YoungGyoun Moon (Samsung Research); KyoungSoo Park (KAIST)
15:00 - 15:20 Quicklayer: A Layer-stack-oriented Accelerating Middleware for Fast Deployment in Edge Clouds [paper] [slides] [video]
Yicheng Feng, Shihao Shen (Tianjin University); Cheng Zhang (Tianjin University of Finance and Economics); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University)
15:20 - 16:00 Poster Session
Session Chairs: Bingyang Liu, Chen Tian, Chenren Xu
16:00 - 18:20 Sigcomm/NSDI sharing session
Session Chair: Guyue Liu
16:00 - 16:35 Designing SmartNIC-accelerated TCP stacks [slides] [video]
KyoungSoo Park (KAIST)
16:35 - 17:10 Accelerating Distributed Systems with In-Network Computing [slides] [video]
Wenfei Wu (Peking University)
17:10 - 17:45 You Don’t Need a Centralized Verifier: Scaling Data Plane Checking via Distributed, On-Device Verification [slides] [video]
Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University)
17:45 - 18:20 BMW Tree: Large-scale, High-throughput and Modular PIFO Implementation using Balanced Multi-Way Sorting Tree [slides] [video]
Yang Xu (Fudan University)
19:00 - 22:00 Dinner Banquet
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023
Duration: 19:00 - 22:00
Departure Time: 19:15
Location: Harbour Cruise - Bauhinia, Routing info
Ferry location: North Point East Ferry Pier
Shuttle Bus: From HKUST to North Point East Ferry Pier

June 30, 2023 (Day 2), Friday

Beijing Time Event
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote 2
Session Chair: Kai Chen
60 mins total
8:30 - 9:30 John Kim, KAIST
8:30 - 9:30 Domain-Specific Interconnection Networks in the Era of Domain-Specific AI Supercomputer [slides] [video]
John Kim, Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST
9:30 - 9:40 Break
9:40 - 11:00 Session #4 Flow and Congestion Control
Session Chair: Chuan Wu
17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A
9:40 - 10:00 Scaling Switch-driven Flow Control With Aquarius [paper] [slides] [video]
Wenxue Li; Chaoliang Zeng; Jinbin Hu; Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
10:00 - 10:20 Toward Fair and Efficient Congestion Control: Machine Learning Aided Congestion Control (MLACC) [paper] [slides] [video]
Ahmed Elbery, Cherry Lian, Geng Li (Huawei Technologies Canada)
10:20 - 10:40 Amphis: Rearchitecturing Congestion Control for Capturing Internet Application Variety [paper] [slides] [video]
Tian Pan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Shuihai Hu (Huawei); Guangyu An (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Xincai Fei, Fanzhao Wang, Yueke Chi (Huawei); Minglan Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Hao Wu (Huawei); Jiao Zhang, Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Jingbin Zhou, Kun Tan (Huawei)
10:40 - 11:00 TOD: Trend-Oriented Delay-Based Congestion Control in Lossless Datacenter Network [paper] [slides] [video]
Kaixin Huang, Wentao Liu, Weihang Li, Lang Cheng (JaguarMicro)
11:00 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:30 Session #5 Network Monitoring
Session Chair: Marco Canini
17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A
11:10 - 11:30 Online Detection of 1D and 2D Hierarchical Superspreaders in High-speed Networks [paper] [slides] [video]
Hao Su, Qingjun Xiao (Southeast University of China)
11:30 - 11:50 In-Network Probabilistic Monitoring Primitives under the Influence of Adversarial Network Inputs [paper] [slides] [video]
Harish S A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad); K Shiv Kumar, Anibrata Majee, Amogh Bedarakota (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad); Praveen Tammana (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad); Pravein Govindan Kannan (IBM Research - India); Rinku Shah (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
11:50 - 12:10 EasyQuantile: Efficient Quantile Tracking in the Data Plane [paper] [slides] [video]
Bo Wang, Rongqiang Chen, Lu Tang (Xiamen University)
12:10 - 12:30 Towards Fine-Grained, High-Coverage Internet Monitoring at Scale [paper] [slides] [video]
Hongyu Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Qi Ling (University of Michigan); Penghui Mi, Chaoyang Ji, Yinliang Hu (Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.); Yibo Pi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:50 Session #6 Application and Technology
Session Chair: Praveen Tammana
17 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A
13:30 - 13:50 SlimeMold: Hardware Load Balancer at Scale in Datacenter [paper] [slides] [video]
Ziyuan Liu (Beihang University & Microsoft Research); Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu (Microsoft Research); Liang Gao, Guohong Lai (Ragile networs Inc.); Na Wang, Zongying He (Broadcom Inc.); Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports (Microsoft Research); Lihua Yuan (Microsoft); Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research)
13:50 - 14:10 Gleaning the Consensus for Linearizable and Conflict-Free Per-Replica Local Reads [paper] [slides] [video]
Jian Yi (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School); Qing Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory); Bin Zhang (Pengcheng Laboratory); Yong Jiang (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School); Dan Zhao (Peng Cheng Laboratory); Yuan Yang (Tsinghua University); Zhenhui Yuan (Northumbria University)
14:10 - 14:30 Beyond the Content: Considering the Network for Online Video Recommendation [paper] [slides] [video]
Lihui Lang, Meiqi Hu (Hunan University); Changhua Pei (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Guo Chen (Hunan University)
14:30 - 14:50 MEB: an Efficient and Accurate Multicast using Bloom Filter with Customized Hash Function [paper] [slides] [video]
Zihao Chen, Jiawei Huang, Qile Wang, Jingling Liu, Zhaoyi Li, Shengwen Zhou, Zhidong He (Central South University)
14:50 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 17:20 Industry spotlights session
Session Chair: Kun Tan
15:00 - 15:35 RDMA at Hyperscale: Experience and Future Directions [slides] [video]
Wei Bai (Microsoft Research)
15:35 - 16:10 Systematic approaches to optimizing high-performance networks
BingYang Liu (Huawei Central Research Institute)
16:10 - 16:45 FlexWAN: Software Hardware Co-design for Flexible and Cost-Effective Optical Backbones [slides]
Congcong Miao (Tencent)
16:45 - 17:20 Towards AI-oriented high computing power data center network [slides] [video]
Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud)
17:20 - 18:30 Panel discussion (joint by academia & industry)