VISA 2009

An ACM SIGCOMM 2009 workshop
AUGUST 17, BARCELONA, SPAIN

For the Call for Paper, click here. For the Organizing Committees, click here.

Technical Program

09:00-09:05 Welcome: Guru Parulkar & Cedric Westphal (PC co-chairs)
09:05 - 09:50 Invited Talk #1 Yousef Khalidi (Microsoft)
  Architecture of Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform
09:50 - 10:30 Virtualized Data Plane (Chair: Akihiro Nakao, University of Tokyo)
  Building a Fast, Virtualized Data Plane with Programmable Hardware (slides)
  Muhammad Bilal Anwer (Georgia Tech); Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech)
  PdP: Parallelizing Data Plane in Virtual Network Substrate (slides)
  Yong Liao (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Dong Yin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Applications (Chair: Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University and NICT)
  Mobitopolo: A Portable Infrastructure to Facilitate Flexible Deployment and Migration of Distributed Applications with Virtual Topologies (slides)
  Richard Potter (NICT); Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo, NICT)
  Accountability in Hosted Virtual Networks (slides)
  Eric Keller (Princeton University); Ruby Lee (Princeton University); Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)
  Enhancing Dynamic Cloud-based Services using Network Virtualization (slides)
  Fang Hao (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent); T.V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent); Sarit Mukherjee (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent); Haoyu Song (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
12:00 - 12:45 Invited Talk #2 Nick McKeown (Stanford University)
  OpenFlow as a Substrate for Virtualization
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:50 Architectures (Chair: Lars Eggert, Nokia)
  A Virtual Platform for Network Experimentation (slides)
  Olaf Landsiedel (RWHT Aachen University); Georg Kunz (RWHT Aachen University); Stefan Götz (RWHT Aachen University); Klaus Wehrle (RWHT Aachen University)
  Crossbow: From Hardware Virtualized NICs to Virtualized Networks (slides)
  Nicolas Droux (Sun Microsystems); Sunay Tripathi (Sun Microsystems); Thirumalai Srinivasan (Sun Microsystems); Kais Belgaied (Sun Microsystems)
  Network Virtualization Architecture: Proposal and Initial Prototype (slides)
  Gregor Schaffrath (Deutsche Telekom/ TU-Berlin); Christoph Werle (University of Karlsruhe); Panagiotis Papadimitriou (Lancaster University), Anja Feldmann (Deutsche Telekom/ TU-Berlin); Roland Bless (University of Karlsruhe); Adam Greenhalgh (University College London); Mario Kind (Deutsche Telekom/ TU-Berlin); Olaf Maennel (Deutsche Telekom/ TU-Berlin); Laurent Mathy (Lancaster University)
  Network virtualisation – a view from the bottom (slides)
  Jorge Carapinha (PT Inovacao); Javier Jiménez (Telefonica)
15:50 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:00 Invited Talk #3 Anja Feldmann (Deutsche Telekom/ TU-Berlin)
  A Telecom Perspective on Infrastructure Virtualization (slides)
17:00 - 18:00 Resource Management (Chair: Cedric Westphal, Docomo USA Labs)
  A Virtual Network Mapping Algorithm based on Subgraph Isomorphism Detectionm (slides)
  Jens Lischka (Paderborn University); Holger Karl (Paderborn University)
  Economic Issues in Shared Infrastructures (slides)
  Costas Courcoubetis (Athens University of Economics and Business); Richard Weber (University of Cambridge)
  Experiences in emulating 10K AS topology with massive VM multiplexing (slides)
  Shinsuke Miwa (NICT); Mio Suzuki (NICT); Hiroaki Hazeyama (NAIST); Satoshi Uda (JAIST); Toshiyuki Miyachi (NICT); Youki Kadobayashi (NAIST/NICT); Yoichi Shinoda (NICT/JAIST)