List of Accepted Papers

We are pleased to announce that the following papers have been accepted for HotNets 2024.

Towards Safer Heuristics With Xplain
Pantea Karimi (MIT, Microsoft), Solal Pirelli (EPFL), Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla (Microsoft), Ryan Beckett (Microsoft), Santiago Segarra (Rice University), Beibin Li (Microsoft Research), Pooria Namyar (University of Southern California), Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft)
A case for server-scale photonic connectivity
Abhishek Vijaya Kumar (Cornell University), Arjun Devraj (Cornell University), Darius Bunandar (Lightmatter), Rachee Singh (Cornell University)
If Layering is useful, why not Sublayering?
Rathin Singha (UCLA), Chang Yang Liu (UCLA), Caleb Terrill (UCLA), Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley), Todd Millstein (UCLA), Scott Shenker (ICSI and UC Berkeley), George Varghese (UCLA)
Buffy: A Formal Language-Based Framework for Network Performance Analysis
Amir Seyhani (University of Waterloo), Junyi Zhao (Princeton University), Aarti Gupta (Princeton University), David Walker (Princeton University), Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (University of Waterloo)
Shape-shifting Elephants: Multi-modal Transport for Integrated Research Infrastructure
Nik Sultana (Illinois Institute of Technology), Yatish Kumar (ESnet), Chin Guok (ESnet), James B Kowalkowski (Fermilab), Michael H L S Wang (Fermilab)
Beyond Throughput and Compression Ratios: towards High End-to-end Utility of Gradient Compression
Wenchen Han (University College London), Shay Vargaftik (VMware Research), Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University), Brad Karp (University College London), Ran Ben Basat (University College London)
Revisiting Cache Freshness for Emerging Real-Time Applications
Ziming Mao (UC Berkeley), Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley), Scott Shenker (ICSI and UC Berkeley), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
What is the next hop to more granular routing models?
Ege Cem Kirci (ETH Zürich), Valerio Torsiello (ETH Zürich), Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich)
Semi-Oblivious Reconfigurable Datacenter Networks
Nitika Saran (Cornell University), Daniel Amir (Cornell University), Tegan Wilson (Cornell University), Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University), Vishal Shrivastav (Purdue University), Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University and Exostellar, Inc.)
SurfOS: Towards an Operating System for Programmable Radio Environments
Ruichun Ma (Yale University), Lili Qiu (UT Austin, MSR Asia Shanghai), Wenjun Hu (Yale University)
Ultra-Reliable Low Latency in 5G: A Close Reality or Wishful Thinking?
Arman Maghsoudnia (EPFL), Eduard Vlad (RWTH Aachen), Aoyu Gong (EPFL), Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL)
From Foe to Friend: The Surprising Turn of Mega Constellations in Radio Astronomy
Ali Abedi (UC Berkeley), Josh Sanz (UC Berkeley), Mariya Zheleva (University at Albany), Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley)
Towards Seamless 5G Open-RAN Integration with WebAssembly
Raphael Cannatà (EPFL), Haoxin Sun (EPFL), Dan Mihai Dumitriu (Pavonis LLC), Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL)
Lightweight 💡 Automated Reasoning for Network Architectures
Rahul Bothra (UIUC), Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom), Venkat Arun (UT Austin), Akshay Narayan (Brown University), Ahmed Saeed (Georgia Tech)
A Roadmap for the Democratization of Space-Based Communications
Veronica Muriga (Carnegie Mellon University), Swarun Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University), Akshitha Sriraman (Carnegie Mellon University), Assane Gueye (CMU-Africa)
Mind the Misleading Effects of LEO Mobility on End-to-End Congestion Control
Zeqi Lai (Tsinghua University), Zonglun Li (Tsinghua University), Qian Wu (Tsinghua University), Hewu Li (Tsinghua University), Weisen Liu (Tsinghua University), Yijie Liu (Tsinghua University), Xin Xie (Tsinghua University), Yuanjie Li (Tsinghua University), Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)
Designing Network Algorithms via Large Language Models
Zhiyuan He (Microsoft Research), Aashish Gottipati (UT Austin), Lili Qiu (Microsoft Research and UT Austin), Xufang Luo (Microsoft Research), Kenuo Xu (Peking University), Yuqing Yang (Microsoft Research), Francis Y. Yan (Microsoft Research and UIUC)
Crowdsourced Distributed Domain Validation
Jens Friß (TU Darmstadt), Haya Schulmann (Goethe-Universität), Michael Waidner (ATHENE, TU Darmstadt, Fraunhofer SIT)
Incremental Specialization of Network Programs
Fabian Ruffy (New York University), Zhanghan Wang (New York University), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano), Aurojit Panda (New York University), Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University)
Opportunities and Challenges in Service Layer Traffic Engineering
Gangmuk Lim (UIUC), Aditya Prerepa (UIUC), Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom), Radhika Mittal (UIUC)
Self-maintaining [networked] systems: The rise of datacenter robotics!
Freddie Hong (Microsoft Research), Iason Sarantopoulos (Microsoft Research), Elliott Hogg (Microsoft Research), David Richardson (Microsoft Research), Yizhong Zhang (Microsoft Research), Hugh Williams (Microsoft Research), David Sweeney (Microsoft Research), Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research), Antony Rowstron (Microsoft Research)
Rethinking Web Caching: An Optimization for the Latency-Constrained Internet
Mohammad Hosseini (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)), Sina Darabi (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)), Patrick Eugster (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)), Mahmood Choopani (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)), Amir Hossein Jahangir (Sharif University of Technology)
The Case for Validating Inputs in Software-Defined WANs
Alexander Krentsel (Google / UC Berkeley), Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley), Sylvia Ratnasamy (Google / UC Berkeley), Rob Shakir (Google), Anees Shaikh (Google)
End-to-End Performance Analysis of Learning-enabled Systems
Pooria Namyar (University of Southern California), Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California), Santiago Segarra (Rice University), Ryan Beckett (Microsoft), Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla (Microsoft), Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft)
Internet Architecture Evolution: Found in Translation
Guilherme Ribeiro (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon), Luis Pedrosa (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon), Salvatore Signorello (Telefonica Research), Fernando M. V. Ramos (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon)
NeuroMIMO: Employing the Neuromorphic Computing Principles to Achieve Power-Efficient MU-MIMO Detection
Georgios Ntavazlis Katsaros (5G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey), Juan Carlos De Luna Ducoing (5G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey), Konstantinos Nikitopoulos (5G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey)
Approximating Centralized Flow Scheduling with Congestion Control for DNN Training
Sudarsanan Rajasekaran (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sanjoli Narang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anton A. Zabreyko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Manya Ghobadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
It's a bird? It's a plane? It's CDN!: Investigating Content Delivery Networks in the LEO Satellite Networks Era
Rohan Bose (Technical University of Munich), Saeed Fadaei (University of Surrey), Nitinder Mohan (Delft University of Technology), Mohamed Kassem (University of Surrey), Nishanth Sastry (University of Surrey, UK), Jorg Ott (Technical University of Munich)
When ML Training Cuts Through Congestion: Just-in-Time Gradient Compression via Packet Trimming
Xiaoqi Chen (VMware Research), Shay Vargaftik (VMware Research), Ran Ben Basat (University College London)
6G-XSec: Explainable Edge Security for Emerging OpenRAN Architectures
Haohuang Wen (Ohio State University), Prakhar Sharma (SRI International), Vinod Yegneswaran (SRI International), Phillip Porras (SRI International), Ashish Gehani (SRI International), Zhiqiang Lin (Ohio State University)
Toward Data-Centric Service Composition
Silvery D. Fu (Systems Design Studio & UC Berkeley), Hong Zhang (University of Waterloo), Ryan Teoh (Systems Design Studio & UC Berkeley), Taras Priadka (Systems Design Studio & UC Berkeley), Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley)
The Case for Decentralized Fallback Networks
James Lynch (MIT), Ziqian Liu (MIT), Chenning Li (MIT), Manya Ghobadi (MIT), Hari Balakrishnan (MIT)
Unraveling Physical Space Limits for LEO Network Scalability
Yimei Chen (Tsinghua University), Lixin Liu (Tsinghua University), Yuanjie Li (Tsinghua University), Hewu Li (Tsinghua University), Qian Wu (Tsinghua University), Jun Liu (Tsinghua University), Zeqi Lai (Tsinghua University)
Towards Synthesis of Application-Specific Forward Error Correction (FEC) Codes
Jedidiah McClurg (Colorado State University), Lauren Zoe Baker (Colorado School of Mines), Ronaldo Canizales (Colorado State University), Dilochan Karki (Colorado State University)
Edge/core Performance Consistency
Seyed Mahdi Hosseini (EPFL), Pavlos Nikolopoulos (EPFL), Katerina Argyraki (EPFL), Georgia Fragkouli (ETH Zurich)
Localized Explanations for Automatically Synthesized Network Configurations
Amirmohammad Nazari (University of Southern California), Yongzheng Zhang (ShanghaiTech University), Mukund Raghothaman (University of Southern California), Haoxian Chen (ShanghaiTech University)
Athena: Seeing and Mitigating Wireless Impact on Video Conferencing and Beyond
Fan Yi (Princeton University), Haoran Wan (Princeton University), Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo), Oliver Michel (Princeton University)
Network Design Considerations for Trading Systems
Andy Myers (Jane Street), Nate Foster (Cornell and Jane Street)
Toward Applying Quantum Computing to Network Verification
Kahlil Dozier (Columbia University), Kylie Noelani Berg (Columbia University), Justin Beltran (Columbia University), Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University), Hugo Matousek (Columbia University), Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University), Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University)
I've Got 99 Problems But FLOPS Ain't One
Alexandru Gherghescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Vlad-Andrei Badoiu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Alexandru Agache (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Mihai-Valentin DUMITRU (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Iuliu Vasilescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Radu Mantu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Costin Raiciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest and Broadcom Inc)
Toward Trustworthy Learning-Enabled Systems with Concept-Based Explanations
Sagar Patel (University of California, Irvine), Dongsu Han (KAIST), Nina Narodytska (VMware Research), Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (UC Irvine & VMware Research)
Automatic Configuration Repair
Xu Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Peng Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar (ByteDance), Jiawei Chen (ByteDance), Weirong Jiang (ByteDance)
A Call for Decentralized Satellite Networks
Seoyul Oh (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Application-Defined Coflow Processors
Alberto Lerner (University of Fribourg), Davide Zoni (Politecnico di Milano), Paolo Costa (Microsoft Research), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano)