Program

DAY 1

8:30: Breakfast

9:00-9:15: Opening remarks

9:15-10:30:  SESSION 1: Revisiting old beliefs  Chair: Vincent Liu

• On Eliminating Root Nameservers from the DNS
  Mark Allman (ICSI)
• Beating BGP is Harder than We Thought
  Todd Arnold (Columbia University), Matt Calder (Microsoft), Ítalo Fernando Scotá Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Columbia University); Arpit Gupta (UC Santa Barbara / Columbia University), Harsha V. Madhyastha (University of Michigan), Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University)
• Beyond Jain’s Fairness Index: Setting the Bar For The Deployment of Congestion Control Algorithms
  Ranysha Ware (Carnegie Mellon University); Matthew Mukerjee (Carnegie Mellon University & Nefeli Networks); Justine Sherry, Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University)

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-12: SESSION 2: The role of learning in networking  Chair: Behnaz Arzani

• Do Switches Dream of Machine Learning? Zhaoqi Xiong, Noa Zilberman (University of Cambridge)
• (Self) Driving Under the Influence: Intoxicating Adversarial Network Inputs
  Roland Meier, Thomas Holterbach, Stephan Keck, Matthias Stähli (ETH Zürich); Vincent Lenders (armasuisse); Ankit Singla, Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich)
• Towards Oblivious Network Analysis using Generative Adversarial Networks
  Zinan Lin, Soo-Jin Moon, Carolina M. Zarate, Ritika Mulagalapalli, Sekar Kulandaivel, Giulia Fanti, Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University)

12-1:10: Lunch

1:10-2: SESSION 3: Server designs for networking Chair: Jeff Mogul

• The Case for a Network Fast Path to the CPU
  Stephen Ibanez, Muhammad Shahbaz, Nick McKeown (Stanford University)
• Mind the Gap: A Case for Informed Request Scheduling at the NIC
  Jack Tigar Humphries, Kostis Kaffes, David Mazières (Stanford University); Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University, Google)

2-2:15: Break

2:15-3:30: SESSION 4:  Network verification  Chair: Anirudh Sivaraman

• Learning Network Design Objectives Using A Program Synthesis Approach
  Yanjun Wang, Chuan Jiang, Xiaokang Qiu, Sanjay Rao (Purdue University)
• Putting Network Verification to Good Use
  Ryan Beckett (Microsoft); Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington, Intentionet)
• Robustifying Network Protocols with Adversarial Examples
  Tomer Gilad (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Nathan H. Jay (UIUC); Michael Shnaiderman (Open University of Israel); Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Veriflow); Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

3:30-3:45: Break

3:45-5:00: Panel: "Why aren't we all working on ..."

6:00-9:00: Dinner @ Prospect House Garden Room, Princeton University

DAY 2

8:30: Breakfast

9:00-9:50: SESSION 5: On how we do research  Chair: Srini Seshan

• An Effort to Democratize Networking Research in the Era of AI/ML
  Arpit Gupta (UC Santa Barbara); Chris Mac-Stoker (NIKSUN Inc.); Walter Willinger (NIKSUN, Inc.)
• BatteryLab, A Distributed Power Monitoring Platform For Mobile Devices
  Matteo Varvello (Brave Software); Kleomenis Katevas (Imperial College London); Mihai Plesa, Hamed Haddadi, Ben Livshits (Brave Software)

9:50-10:00: Break

10:00-11:15: SESSION 6: New directions  Chair: Radhika Mittal

• Wi-LE: Can WiFi Replace Bluetooth? Ali Abedi, Omid Abari, Tim Brecht (University of Waterloo)
• ShareAR: Communication-efficient Multi-User Mobile Augmented Reality
  Xukan Ran, Carter Slocum (University of California, Riverside); Maria Gorlatova (Duke University); Jiasi Chen (University of California, Riverside)
• Using Ground Relays for Low-latency Wide-area Routing in Megaconstellations
  Mark Handley (University College London)

11:15-12:15: KEYNOTE: Mark Handley

12:15-1:20: Lunch

1:20-3:00: SESSION 7: Programmable network infrastructure  Chair: Theo Benson

• Event-Driven Packet Processing
  Stephen Ibanez (Stanford University); Gianni Antichi (Queen Mary University of London); Gordon Brebner (Xilinx Labs); Nick McKeown (Stanford University)
• Accelerated Service Chaining on A Single Switch ASIC
  Dingming Wu, Ang Chen, T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University); Guohui Wang, Haiyong Wang (Alibaba Group)
• Autogenerating Fast Packet-Processing Code Using Program Synthesis
  Xiangyu Gao, Taegyun Kim, Aatish Kishan Varma, Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University); Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers University)
• Architecting Programmable Data Plane Defenses into the Network with FastFlex
  Jiarong Xing, Wenqing Wu, Ang Chen (Rice University)

3:00: Closing remarks