Schedule
All times are in US Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00).Please note that in the US, daylight savings time ends on November 5th, 2023.
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| 08:15 - 9:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00 - 9:15 | Introduction and Opening Remarks |
| 09:15 - 10:30 | Session 1: On the process of research.
Session Chair: Katerina Argyraki (EPFL) |
| Of Apples and Oranges: Fair Comparisons in Heterogenous Systems Evaluation
Hugo Sadok (Carnegie Mellon University); Aurojit Panda (New York University); Justine Sherry (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Physical Deployability Matters
Jeffrey C. Mogul, John Wilkes (Google) | |
| A Case Against CXL Memory Pooling
Philip Levis, Kun Lin, Amy Tai (Google) | |
| Logical memory pools: Flexible and local disaggregated memory
Emmanuel Amaro (VMware Research); Stephanie Wang (UC Berkeley); Aurojit Panda (New York University); Marcos K. Aguilera (VMware Research) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - noon | Session 2: Can LLMs reason about networking problems, and their solution?
Session Chair: Ranjita Bhagwan (Google) |
| Towards Interactive Research Agents for Internet Incident Investigation
Yajie Zhou, Nengneng Yu (Boston University); Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland) | |
| PROSPER: Extracting Protocol Specifications Using Large Language Models
Prakhar Sharma, Vinod Yegneswaran (SRI International) | |
| Towards Integrating Formal Methods into ML-Based Systems for Networking
Fengchen Gong, Divya Raghunathan, Aarti Gupta, Maria Apostolaki (Princeton University) | |
| Toward Reproducing Network Research Results Using Large Language Models
Qiao Xiang, Yuling Lin, Mingjun Fan, Bang Huang, Siyong Huang, Ridi Wen (Xiamen University); Franck Le (IBM Research); Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University) | |
| noon - 1:15pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:15pm - 2:45pm | Session 3: The architecture of the Internet, and datacenter networks.
Session Chair: Radhika Mittal (UIUC) |
| Caching and Neutrality
Muhammad Abdullah, Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Katerina Argyraki (EPFL) | |
| The Central Problem with Distributed Content: Common CDN Deployments Centralize Traffic In A Risky Way
Kevin Vermeulen (LAAS-CNRS); Loqman Salamatian, Sang Hoon Kim (Columbia University); Matt Calder (Meta / Columbia University); Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University) | |
| Where on earth is the Spatial Name System?
Ryan Gibb, Anil Madhavapeddy, Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge) | |
| Simplifying Cloud Management with Cloudless Computing
Yiming Qiu, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Jiarong Xing, Yibo Huang, Hongyi Liu (Rice University); Xinyu Wang, Peng Huang, Mosharaf Chowdhury (University of Michigan); Ang Chen (Rice University) | |
| Application Defined Networks
Xiangfeng Zhu, Weixin Deng (University of Washington); Banruo Liu (Tsinghua University); Jingrong Chen, Yongji Wu (Duke University); Thomas Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington); Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington, Amazon); Danyang Zhuo (Duke University) | |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Session 4: Measure twice, solve once.
Session Chair: Maria Apostolaki (Princeton) |
| Don’t Forget the User: It’s Time to Rethink Network Measurements
Aryan Taneja (Microsoft Research); Rahul Bothra (Microsoft Research and UIUC); Debopam Bhattacherjee, Rohan Gandhi (Microsoft Research); Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research India); Ranjita Bhagwan (Google); Nagarajan Natarajan, Saikat Guha (Microsoft Research India); Ross Cutler (Microsoft) | |
| Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons
Thomas Alfroy, Thomas Holterbach (University of Strasbourg); Thomas Krenc, kc Claffy (UC San Diego / CAIDA); Cristel Pelsser (UCLouvain) | |
| Learning a QoE Metric from Social Media and Gaming Footage
Catalina Alvarez, Katerina Argyraki (EPFL) | |
| Datacenter Network Deserves Better Traffic Models
Sijiang Huang, Lingfeng Peng (Tsinghua University); Mowei Wang, Yashe Liu, Zhenhua Liu (Huawei Technologies); Xin Wang (SUNY Stony Brook); Yong Cui (Tsinghua University) | |
| Generative, High-Fidelity Network Traces
Xi Jiang, Shinan Liu (University of Chicago); Aaron Gember-Jacobson (Colgate University); Paul Schmitt (University of Hawaii, Manoa / Invisv); Francesco Bronzino (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon); Nick Feamster (University of Chicago) | |
| 4:30pm - 4:45pm | Break |
| 4:45pm - 6:00pm | Session 5: Beam me up, Scotty!
Session Chair: Venkat Arun (UT Austin) |
| Boosting Application Performance using Heterogeneous Virtual Channels: Challenges and Opportunities
Talal Touseef, William Sentosa, Milind Kumar Vaddiraju (UIUC); Debopam Bhattacharjee (Microsoft Research); Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and VMware); Shubham Tiwari (Microsoft Research) | |
| Enriching Telepresence with Semantic-driven Holographic Communication
Ruizhi Cheng, Kaiyan Liu, Nan Wu, Bo Han (George Mason University) | |
| Automatic Calibration in Crowd-sourced Network of Spectrum Sensors
Ali Abedi (Stanford University, UC Berkeley); Josh Sanz, Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley) | |
| Cosmic Backscatter: New Ways to Communicate via Modulated Noise
Zerina Kapetanovic (Stanford University); Shanti Garman, Dara Stotland, Joshua Smith (University of Washington) | |
| 06:00pm - 9:00pm | Reception |
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| 08:15 - 9:15 | Breakfast |
| 9:15am - 10:30am | Session 6: Can LLMs Manage Networks?
Session Chair: Nate Foster (Cornell) |
| Adapting Foundation Models for Operator Data Analytics
Manikanta Kotaru (Microsoft) | |
| A Holistic View of AI-driven Network Incident Management
Pouya Hamadanian (Microsoft Research, MIT); Behnaz Arzani, Sadjad Fouladi, Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla (Microsoft Research); Rodrigo Fonseca (Azure Systems Research); Denizcan Billor, Ahmad Cheema, Edet Nkposong (Microsoft); Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research) | |
| What do LLMs need to Synthesize Correct Router Configurations?
Rajdeep Mondal, Alan Tang (UCLA); Ryan Beckett (Microsoft Research); Todd Millstein, George Varghese (UCLA) | |
| Enhancing Network Management Using Code Generated by Large Language Models
Sathiya Kumaran Mani (Microsoft); Yajie Zhou (Microsoft and Boston University); Kevin Hsieh (Microsoft Research); Santiago Segarra (Microsoft and Rice University); Trevor Eberl, Eliran Azulai, Ido Frizler, Ranveer Chandra, Srikanth Kandula (Microsoft) | |
| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am - noon | Session 7: What should we worry about when managing congestion?
Session Chair: Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano and Queen Mary University of London) |
| Slowdown as a Metric for Congestion Control Fairness
Adrian Zapletal, Fernando Kuipers (Delft University of Technology) | |
| Harnessing ML For Network Protocol Assessment: A Congestion Control Use Case
Parsa Pazhooheshy, Soheil Abbasloo, Yashar Ganjali (University of Toronto) | |
| Green With Envy: Unfair Congestion Control Algorithms Can Be More Energy Efficient
Serhat Arslan, Sundararajan Renganathan, Bruce Spang (Stanford University) | |
| How I Learned to Stop Worrying About CCA Contention
Lloyd Brown (UC Berkeley); Yash Kothari (CMU); Akshay Narayan (UC Berkeley); Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington); Aurojit Panda (New York University); Justine Sherry (Carnegie Mellon University); Scott Shenker (ICSI AND UC Berkeley) | |
| noon - 1:15pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:15pm - 2:30pm | Session 8: New hardware for new networks.
Session Chair: Justine Sherry (CMU) |
| QVISOR: Virtualizing Packet Scheduling Policies
Albert Gran Alcoz, Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich) | |
| Mars Attacks! Software Protection Against Space Radiation
Haoda Wang (Columbia University); Steven Myint, Vandi Verma (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology); Yonatan Winetraub (Cryptosat); Junfeng Yang, Asaf Cidon (Columbia University) | |
| The Future is Analog: Energy-Efficient Cognitive Network Functions over Memristor-Based Analog Computations
Saad Saleh (University of Groningen); Boris Koldehofe (Technische Universität Ilmenau) | |
| On-Fiber Photonic Computing
Mingran Yang, Zhizhen Zhong, Manya Ghobadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Break |
| 2:45pm - 4:00pm | Session 9: Who keeps us safe...?
Session Chair: Aurojit Panda (NYU) |
| Securing Public Clouds using Dynamic Communication Graphs
Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Kevin Hsieh, Santiago Segarra, Trevor Eberl, Ranveer Chandra, Eliran Azulai, Narayan Annamalai, Deepak Bansal, Srikanth Kandula (Microsoft) | |
| Expressive Policies For Microservice Networks
Karuna Grewal (Cornell University); Brighten Godfrey (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign); Justin Hsu (Cornell University) | |
| Lightweb: Private web browsing without all the baggage
Emma Dauterman (UC Berkeley); Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (MIT) | |
| No Root Store Left Behind
James Larisch (Harvard University); Waqar Aqeel (Google); Taejoong “Tijay” Chung (Virginia Tech); Eddie Kohler (Harvard University); Dave Levin (University of Maryland); Bruce Maggs (Duke University and Emerald Innovations); Bryan Parno (Carnegie Mellon University); Christo Wilson (Northeastern University) | |