Technical Program
Session Time
| Keynote Talk | 50 mins total |
| Regular Paper | 10 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A (13 mins total) |
| Academic Insight Talk | 30 mins total |
| Industry Spotlight Talk | 30 mins total |
August 6, 2026 (Day 1)
| Time | Event |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am | Opening Remarks General/PC Chairs |
| 8:45 - 9:35 am | Keynote: Programmability in the Switch Data-Plane Prof. Mun Choon CHAN (Professor, NUS) |
| 9:35 - 10:30 am | Session 1: Network Efficiency Session Chair: Ori Rottenstreich |
| HyLink: Harnessing PCIe and Dedicated Interconnects for Efficient Collective Communication [paper]
Yuezheng Liu, Menghao Zhang, Xuebin Song, Juner Shen,Chunming Hu, Xudong Liu (Beihang University) |
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| OptiFlow: Towards LLM-Driven Optimization of Collective Communication Algorithms [paper] Fei Long (Tsinghua University); Ziyue Yang (Microsoft Research Asia); Kaihui Gao, Shuai Wang, Li Chen (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia); Dan Li (Tsinghua University) |
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| ProLet: Proactive Multi-path Load Balancing for Lossless RDMA [paper] Hong Wang, Jinhao Luo (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Jing Jie Tan (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman); Jingrong Wang, Kaiyang Liu (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
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| PIN: Less Is More for RDMA Load Balancing [paper] Jichun Wu (University of Cambridge); Ran Shu (Microsoft Research); Andrew Moore (University of Cambridge); Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:55 am | Session 2: Network Configuration Session Chair: Matt Caesar |
| Characterizing Network Configuration Repair Spaces with Localized Subspecifications [paper] Yongzheng Zhang, Haoxian Chen (ShanghaiTech University) |
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| Saving Lost Intents in Network Configurations [paper] Jianqiang Li, Wenlong Ding (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Zhixiong Niu, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia); Hong Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
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| PIVOT: Probability-Guided Synthesis of Network Updates via Transient Intermediate States [paper] Xiaowen Wang, Haifeng Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
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| AegisPath: Privacy-Preserving Interdomain Data-Plane Verification with Versioned Verifiable Evidence [paper] Mingjun Fang (Xiamen University); Shuhao Zheng, Zonglun Li(McGill University); Letian Zhu, Qingyu Song (Xiamen University); Lizhao You (Xiamen University, China); Qiang Su, Lu Tang (Xiamen University); Wanjian Feng (Yealink); Fei Yuan, Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University); Xue Liu (McGill University); Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University, Minjiang University) |
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| 11:55 am - 1:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:15 - 2:25 pm | Session 3: Learning in Networks Session Chair: Zhixiong Niu |
| KaeTE: Towards Practical Neural Traffic Engineering with Lagrangian Duality and Learning-to-optimize [paper] Zirui Ou (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University); Yanghao Zhang (School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University); Jie Gui, Qun Huang(National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University) |
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| EAGLE: Erroneous Traffic Analysis Framework using Graph Representation Learning [paper] Xiaoxiong Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Nanyang Technological University); Zhihao Wang, Dingde Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) |
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| Towards Learned Switch Behavior Modeling [paper] Daqian Ding, Ziqian Liu (The University of Hong Kong); Zhixiong Niu (Microsoft Research); Ziyu Mao (The University of Hong Kong); Jingyu Wang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research); Yiming Qiu (The University of Hong Kong) |
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| Learning Filters with Certainty [paper] Yuval Banoun (Technion); Daniel Sadoc Menasché (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro); Ori Rottenstreich (Technion) |
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| Turbolearn: Harnessing Accurate and Line-Rate Deep Learning on Programmable Switches [paper] Zhifan Jiang, Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Linying Zheng, Chunming Wu, Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University) |
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| 2:25 - 3:05 pm | Session 4: Network Security Session Chair: Qiao Xiang |
| Zephyr: A Zero-loss and Transparent TLS Connection Migration Framework [paper] Jiazhen Xu, Chengcheng Yu (Zhejiang University); Yueshang Zuo, Enge Song, Shaokai Zhang, Jiangu Zhao, Tian Pan, Yang Song (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen (Fudan University and Alibaba Cloud); Chengkun Wei (Zhejiang University); Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud); Wenzhi Chen (Zhejiang University) |
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| Not All Pretrained Representation has The Sweet Danger of Sugar: Robust and Trustworthy Representation Learning for Encrypted Malicious Traffic Identification [paper] Mingyu Qiao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Zulong Diao (Hunan University of Science and Technology); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Wanhua Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Le Wang (University of Liverpool-department of Computer Science; Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute); Haiyang Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xiao Liang (Iowa State University); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China) |
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| EdgePoW: Intent-Aware Adaptive SDN Defense with PoW Against multi-domain SYN Floods [paper] Wenyang Jia (Georgia Institute of Technology); JingJing Wang (Peking University); Xianneng Zou (Tencent); Kai LEI (Peking University) |
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| 3:05 - 4:00 pm | Poster Session + Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 5:10 pm | Session 5: Network Congestion Session Chair: Ran Shu |
| Multi-CDN as a Collective Service: Towards Hot Start in Congestion Control at Scale [paper] Tong Li, Jiuxiang Zhu (Renmin University of China); Bo Wu, Cheng Luo (Tencent Technologies); Haoyi Fang (Renmin University of China); Xiaofei Yu (Tencent Technologies); Ke Xu (Tsinghua University) |
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| eCCA: Deploying In-Network Congestion Control Algorithms in Practice with eBPF [paper] Xinshu Wang, Bin Yang, Jiantao Cheng, Kai Huang, Dian Shen (Southeast University) |
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| Towards Truly Burst-Aware Evaluation of Data Center Congestion Control [paper] Pragna Mamidipaka (Carnegie Mellon University); Srikanth Sundaresan (Meta); Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| Congestion Quarantine in Lossless Ethernet [paper] Dongkang Hu (Tsinghua University); Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng (Microsoft Research Asia); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University) |
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| SprayCast: Congestion-Adaptive Native Multicast for Dynamic Sparse All-to-All Communication [paper] Yingying Zeng, Ning Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China); Xiaobin Tan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China); Xuan Zhao, Shenzhi Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China); Feng Yang (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China) |
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| 5:15 - 9:30 pm | APNet'26 Banquet |
August 7, 2026 (Day 2)
| Time | Event |
| 8:30 - 10:30 am | Academic Spotlight Talks Session Chair: Kai Chen |
| Taming the Long Tail: Infrastructure for RL Post-Training of Large Language Models Prof. Wei Wang (Associate Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
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| From Prototypes to Protocols: Building the Ecosystem for In-Network Computing Prof. Wenfei Wu (Assistant Professor, Peking University) |
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| AI Data Center Networks: Traffic Characteristics, Technical Challenges, and System Optimization Prof. Yang Xu (Professor, Fudan University) |
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| How Can We Reduce Token Costs in the Agent Era? Prof. Mingxing Zhang (Associate Professor, Tsinghua University University) |
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| 10:30 - 11:15 am | Coffee Break + Poster Session (Part 2) |
| 11:15 am - 12:10 pm | Session 6: Systems for AI Session Chair: Wenfei Wu |
| Argus: Scalable and Deterministic Network Fault Localization for AI Training Clusters [paper] Yuxiang Wang, Jiao Zhang, Xianyu Huang, Yubo Ruan, Yuxuan Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yingjie Duan, Shoushou REN, Xianjun He (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.); Junlong Chen, Yuan Li, Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
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| Semantic-Aware Loss Recovery for Cross-Datacenter Model Training [paper] Xingjian Zhang, Yutong Zhao, Jiaxue Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Lizhuang Tan (Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Ji'nan)); Shangguang Wang, Yiran Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
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| CheckWork: Enabling Trace-Driven Analysis of Checkpointing Overhead in Distributed ML Training [paper] Eldar Hasanov (Imperial College London); Adel Sefiane (NVIDIA & Imperial College); Alireza Farshin (NVIDIA); Marios Kogias (Imperial College London) |
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| Towards Efficient Serving of Network-intensive LLM Inferences [paper] Weiye Wang, Chen Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Junxue Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China); Zhusheng Wang, Hui Yuan, Zixuan Guan, Xiaolong Zheng (Huawei); Qizhen Weng, Yin Chen (Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom); Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
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| 12:10 pm - 1:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:15 - 2:10 pm | Session 7: Satellite and Mobile Networks Session Chair: Jialin Li |
| SCOPE: Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Caching and Proactive Transfer in LEO Satellite Networks [paper] yuyu liu, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai, Hewu Li, Yuanjie Li, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University) |
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| BiCayley: Traffic-Aware 3-ISL Topology Optimization via Bipartite Cayley Graph [paper] yuze liu, yanbiao li, gaogang xie (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
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| LFRI: Efficient Routing Emulation for LEO Mega-Constellations [paper] Wenhao Lu, Zhiyuan Wang, Shan Zhang, Hongbin Luo (Beihang University) |
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| Shielding Mobile Battery from Middlebox Timeouts via Server-Driven Zero-Wakeup Keep-Alives [paper] Xun Sun (Xiamen University, China); Jiahua Zhang, Jiaxin Liang (Huawei, China); Lizhao You (Xiamen University, China); Jie Li, Jingbin Zhou (Huawei, China) |
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| 2:10 - 3:05 pm | Session 8: Cloud and User-space Systems Session Chair: Junxue Zhang |
| Single-Core Hotspots on Your VNF? Break Them Up! [paper] Changgang Zheng, Bowen Yang, Jin Ke, Ye Yang, Enge Song, Haonan Li, Zihao Fan, Mingxin Li, Yilong Lv, Yisong Qiao, Jun Liang, Donglin Lai, Bengbeng Xue, Yang Song (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen (Fudan and Alibaba Cloud); Zhigang Zong, Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud) |
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| Achieving Unified Memory for FPGA-Based String Matching [paper] Zhuoxuan Sun, Jincheng Zhong, Jiayao Wang, shuhui chen (National University of Defense Technology) |
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| Integrating AI Clusters into Virtual Private Cloud [paper] Yinhe Wang (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Enge Song, Zihao Fan, Changgang Zheng, Haonan Li (Alibaba Cloud); Shengyao Gao (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Juncheng Xiang (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Ye Yang, Junnan Cai, Chang Liu, Haoxiang Pan, Yang Song, Yilong Lv (Alibaba Cloud); Qiang Fu (School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University); Zhigang Zong (Alibaba Cloud); Heng Pan (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud) |
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| FreeProbe: Towards Low-Overhead Runtime Observability for High-Performance User-Space Systems [paper] Kai Huang, Bin Yang, Xinshu Wang, Beilun Wang, Dian Shen (Southeast University) |
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| 3:05 - 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 5:30 pm | Industry Spotlight Talks Session Chair: Kun Tan |
| Unlocking AI Inference: Mastering EP Load Balancing and Communication in Diverse AI Applications Dr. Bingzhang Fu (Director of Alibaba High Performance (AI & Storage) Network) |
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| FlexNPU: Transparent NPU Virtualization for Dynamic LLM Prefill-Decode Co-location Dr. Dennis Gu (Huawei Fellow, Chief Architect of Huawei Cloud Service, Head of Cloud Innovation Lab) |
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| Challenges in LLM Inference Infrastructure and How Networks Can Help Dr. Yibo Zhu (CTO, StepFun) |
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| Rethinking AI for Network Security: Solving Architectural Rigidity Before Building Foundation Models Dr. Dinil Mon Divakaran (Senior Principal Scientist at A*STAR Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing) |
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| 5:30 - 6:30 pm | Session 9: Next Gen Internet and Cloud Session Chair: Sujata Banerjee |
| RAG on the Decentralized Web: An Empirical Study of Akash and Golem [paper] Suting Chen (Northwestern University); Matteo Varvello (Nokia Bell Labs); Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University); Yunming Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) |
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| Fine-Grained Energy Accounting in Production LLM Serving [paper] Xianyi Yuan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Hanlong Liao (National University of Defense Technology); Kunming Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University); Guoming Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) |
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| Not All Flows are Worth N Packets: Robust Encrypted Traffic Classification via Dynamic Patch-level Feature Learning [paper] Mingyu Qiao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Zulong Diao (Hunan University of Science and Technology); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Le Wang (University of Liverpool-department of Computer Science; Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute); Kai Lv (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Xiao Liang (Iowa State University); Yi Gong (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Haiyang Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Junwei Wang (Capital University of Economics and Business); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China) |
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| Towards Option-Based IPv4 Address Extension: A Measurement Study and Testbed Deployment [paper] Yi Li, Rundong Liu, Zhen Chen, Bing Swen Sun (Peking University) |
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| ISP4x: Restoring IPv4 End-to-End Connectivity via Stateless Address Extension [paper] Yi Li, Rundong Liu, Zhen Chen, Bing Swen Sun (Peking University) |
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| 6:30 - 6:40 pm | Concluding Remarks General/PC Chairs |
For full author lists and any late adjustments, please refer to the latest Technical Program PDF.
