Schedule

All times are in US Pacific Standard Time (UTC-08:00).
Please note that in the US, daylight savings time ends on November 3, 2024.

Note: The PDFs will be available on the first day of the workshop.

Day 1 / Monday, November 18, 2024

08:00am - 8:45am

Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am

Opening Remarks
09:00am - 10:45am

Session 1: Live long and router.

Session Chair: Rachee Singh (Cornell)
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, Nishanth Sastry (University of Surrey); Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
From Foe to Friend: The Surprising Turn of Mega Constellations in Radio Astronomy
Ali Abedi, Joshua Sanz (University of California-Berkeley); Mariya Zheleva (University at Albany); Anant Sahai (University of California-Berkeley)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
A Roadmap for the Democratization of Space-Based Communications
Veronica Muriga, Swarun Kumar, Akshitha Sriraman (Carnegie Mellon University); Assane Gueye (CMU-Africa)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
A Call for Decentralized Satellite Networks
Seoyul Oh, Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Mind the Misleading Effects of LEO Mobility on End-to-End Congestion Control
Zeqi Lai, Zonglun Li, Qian Wu, Hewu Li, Weisen Liu, Yijie Liu, Xin Xie, Yuanjie Li, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Unraveling Physical Space Limits for LEO Network Scalability
Yimei Chen, Lixin Liu, Yuanjie Li, Hewu Li, Qian Wu, Jun Liu, Zeqi Lai (Tsinghua University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Panel
10:45am - 11:15am

Break
11:15am - 12:00pm

Session 2: Networks unmasked.

Session Chair: Aurojit Panda (NYU)
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)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
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)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Towards Safer Heuristics With Xplain
Pantea Karimi (MIT); Solal Pirelli (EPFL, Sonar); Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla, Ryan Beckett (Microsoft Research); Santiago Segarra (Rice University); Beibin Li (Microsoft Research); Pooria Namyar (University of Southern California); Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft Research)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch Break
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Session 2 (continued): Networks unmasked.

Session Chair: Aurojit Panda (NYU)
6G-XSec: Explainable Edge Security for Emerging OpenRAN Architectures
Haohuang Wen (Ohio State University); Prakhar Sharma, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Ashish Gehani (SRI International); Zhiqiang Lin (Ohio State University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
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, Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla, Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Buffy: A Formal Language-Based Framework for Network Performance Analysis
Amir Seyhani (University of Waterloo); Junyi Zhao, Aarti Gupta, David Walker (Princeton University); Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (University of Waterloo)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Panel
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Session 3: Layers of radio and light.

Session Chair: Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft)
Athena: Seeing and Mitigating Wireless Impact on Video Conferencing and Beyond
Fan Yi, Haoran Wan, Kyle Jamieson, Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University); Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo); Oliver Michel (Princeton University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency in 5G: A Close Reality or a Distant Goal?
Arman Maghsoudnia (EPFL); Eduard Vlad (RWTH Aachen); Aoyu Gong (EPFL); Dan Mihai Dumitriu (Pavonis LLC); Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Towards Seamless 5G Open-RAN Integration with WebAssembly
Raphael Cannatà, Haoxin Sun (EPFL); Dan Mihai Dumitriu (Pavonis LLC); Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
SurfOS: Towards an Operating System for Programmable Radio Environments
Ruichun Ma (Yale University); Lili Qiu (UT Austin, MSR Asia Shanghai); Wenjun Hu (Yale University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
3:00pm - 3:30pm

Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm

Session 3 (continued): Layers of radio and light.

Session Chair: Harsha V. Madhyastha (USC)
If Layering is useful, why not Sublayering?
Rathin Singha, Chang Yang Liu, Caleb Terrill (UCLA); Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley); Todd Millstein (UCLA); Scott Shenker (ICSI and UC Berkeley); George Varghese (UCLA)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Semi-Oblivious Reconfigurable Datacenter Networks
Nitika Saran, Daniel Amir, Tegan Wilson, Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University); Vishal Shrivastav (Purdue University); Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University and Exostellar, Inc.)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Self-maintaining [networked] systems: The rise of datacenter robotics!
Freddie Hong, Iason Sarantopoulos, Elliott Hogg, David Richardson, Yizhong Zhang, Hugh Williams, David Sweeney, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Antony Rowstron (Microsoft Research)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Panel
4:30pm - 6:05pm

Session 4: God created the integers, all the rest is the work of an LLM.

Session Chair: Akshay Narayan (Brown University)
MLTCP: A Distributed Technique to Approximate Centralized Flow Scheduling For Machine Learning
Sudarsanan Rajasekaran, Sanjoli Narang, Anton A. Zabreyko, Manya Ghobadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
When ML Training Cuts Through Congestion: Just-in-Time Gradient Compression via Packet Trimming
Xiaoqi Chen (Purdue University); Shay Vargaftik (VMware Research); Ran Ben Basat (University College London)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
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, Ran Ben Basat (University College London)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
I've Got 99 Problems But FLOPS Ain't One
Alexandru Mihai Gherghescu, Vlad-Andrei Badoiu, Alexandru Agache, Mihai-Valentin DUMITRU, Iuliu Vasilescu, Radu Mantu (University Politehnica of Bucharest); Costin Raiciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest and Broadcom Inc)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
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)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Student talk by Pooria Namyar
Panel
6:05pm - 9:00pm

Reception

Day 2 / Tuesday, November 19, 2024

08:00am - 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am - 10:45am

Session 5: Sleeping soundly at night with math.

Session Chair: Mina Tahmasbi (University of Waterloo)
Automatic Configuration Repair
Xu Liu, Peng Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong University); Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Jiawei Chen, Weirong Jiang (ByteDance)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Toward Applying Quantum Computing to Network Verification
Kahlil Dozier, Kylie Noelani Berg, Justin Beltran, Loqman Salamatian, Hugo Matousek, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Towards Synthesis of Application-Specific Forward Error Correction (FEC) Codes
Jedidiah McClurg (Colorado State University); Lauren Zoe Baker (Colorado School of Mines); Ronaldo Canizales, Dilochan Karki (Colorado State University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Lightweight Automated Reasoning for Network Architectures
Rahul Bothra (UIUC); Venkat Arun (UT Austin); Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom); Akshay Narayan (Brown University); Ahmed Saeed (Georgia Tech)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
The Case for Validating Inputs in Software-Defined WANs
Alexander Krentsel (UC Berkeley / Google); Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley); Isaac Keslassy (Technion); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley / Google); Rob Shakir, Anees Shaikh (Google)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Flow/Path Performance Consistency
Seyed Mahdi Hosseini (EPFL); Georgia Fragkouli (ETHZ); Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Katerina Argyraki (EPFL)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Panel
10:45am - 11:15am

Break
11:15am - 12:05pm

Session 6: Program all the things!

Session Chair: Ran Ben Basat (University College London)
Incremental Specialization of Network Programs
Fabian Ruffy, Zhanghan Wang (New York University); Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano); Aurojit Panda, Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Rethinking the Switch Architecture for Stateful In-network Computing
Alberto Lerner (University of Fribourg); Davide Zoni (Politecnico di Milano); Paolo Costa (Microsoft Research); Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Network Design Considerations for Trading Systems
Andy Myers, Brian Nigito (Jane Street); Nate Foster (Cornell and Jane Street)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Student talk by Vamsi Addanki
12:05pm - 1:00pm

Lunch Break
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Session 6 (continued): Program all the things!

Session Chair: Sujata Banerjee (Microsoft)
A case for server-scale photonic connectivity
Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Arjun Devraj (Cornell University); Darius Bunandar (Lightmatter); Rachee Singh (Cornell University)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Internet Architecture Evolution: Found in Translation
Guilherme Ribeiro, Luis Pedrosa (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon); Salvatore Signorello (Telefonica Research and LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, University of Lisbon); Fernando M. V. Ramos (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Shape-shifting Elephants: Multi-modal Transport for Integrated Research Infrastructure
Nik Sultana (Illinois Institute of Technology); Yatish Kumar, Chin Guok (ESnet); James B Kowalkowski, Michael H L S Wang (Fermilab)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Panel
2:00pm - 3:05pm

Session 7: Cache rules everything around me

Session Chair: Francis Y. Yan (MSR and UIUC)
Crowdsourced Distributed Domain Validation
Jens Frieß (TU Darmstadt, ATHENE); Haya Schulmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, ATHENE); Michael Waidner (TU Darmstadt, ATHENE)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Rethinking Web Caching: An Optimization for the Latency-Constrained Internet
Mohammad Hosseini (Shahid Beheshti University); Sina Darabi, Patrick Eugster (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)); Mahmood Choopani (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)); Amir Hossein Jahangir (Sharif University of Technology)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Revisiting Cache Freshness for Emerging Real-Time Applications
Ziming Mao, Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (ICSI AND UC Berkeley); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Student talk by Jhonatan Tavori
Panel
3:05pm - 3:30pm

Break
3:30pm - 5:00pm

Session 8: Routing, Resilience, and Neuromorphic Computing FTW!

Session Chair: Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano)
What is the next hop to more granular routing models?
Ege Cem Kirci, Valerio Torsiello, Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Opportunities and Challenges in Service Layer Traffic Engineering
Gangmuk Lim, Aditya Prerepa (UIUC); Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom); Radhika Mittal (UIUC)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Toward Data-Centric Service Composition
Silvery D. Fu (Systems Design Studio & UC Berkeley); Hong Zhang (University of Waterloo); Ryan Teoh, Taras Priadka (Systems Design Studio & UC Berkeley); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
NeuroMIMO: Employing the Neuromorphic Computing Principles to Achieve Power-Efficient MU-MIMO Detection
Georgios Ntavazlis Katsaros, Juan Carlos De Luna Ducoing, Konstantinos Nikitopoulos (5G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
The Case for Decentralized Fallback Networks
James Lynch, Ziqian Liu, Chenning Li, Manya Ghobadi, Hari Balakrishnan (MIT)
[PDF] [Digital Library]
Panel
5:00pm - 5:05pm

Closing Remarks