ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Workshop on Networking for Emerging Applications and Technologies (NEAT 2019)
Workshop Program
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- Welcome
- Session 1: Keynote I
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Network Support for Emerging Applications: Flexible Network Services as Frameworks?
Prof, Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA
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Abstract: Classical IP-based Internet provides only a best-effort service where a network can delay or drop packets with no deterministic performance guarantees. The ascent and dominance of servers virtualization and cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way how we develop large-scale applications and services, giving rise to "application frameworks" that are developed to facilitate and support various classes of application development in cloud environments. In this talk, we will use some examples to motivate and illustrate the new challenges posed by these application frameworks as well as emerging applications such as ML/AI, AR/VR and IoT services. We argue that better network support is needed for co-design of application frameworks, emerging applications and network services.
Bio: Zhi-Li Zhang received Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1997, where he is currently the McKnight Distinguished University Professor and Qwest Chair Professor in Telecommunications. He currently also serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota. Prof. Zhang's research interests lie broadly in computer and communication networks, Internet technology, multimedia systems and content distribution networks, cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things, and (applied) machine learning and data mining. Prof. Zhang has published more than 100 journal and conference/workshop papers, many of them in top venues in networking and related fields. He is co-recipient of several Best Papers awards including IEEE INFOCOM10, ICNP03, ACM SIGMETRICS96 and RAID13 conferences as well as ACM SIGCOMM APNet’18 and NetAI’19 workshops. Prof. Zhang has chaired several major conferences in networking including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE ICNP, IFIP Networking and ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), and served on the Editorial Board of several journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM TOMPECS, and PACM MACS. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
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10:00am - 10:30am Break
- Break
- Session 2: Paper Presentation-I (Topic: Emerging Network Services)
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10:30am - 10:35am Introduction
Stuart Clayman
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11:30am - 13:30pm Lunch Break
- Lunch Break
- Session 3: Keynote II
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13:30pm - 13:35pm Introduction
Kiran Makhijani
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(13:35pm - 14:15pm) FlexNGIA – A Fully Flexible Novel Architecture for the Next-Generation Tactile Internet
Prof. Mohamed Faten Zhani, ÉTS Montreal, Canada
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Abstract: From virtual reality and teleportation, to telepresence, augmented reality, holograms, and remotely controlled robotics, these future network applications promise an unprecedented development for society, economics and culture by revolutionizing the way we live, learn, work and play. Unfortunately, today’s Internet falls short when it comes to providing the stringent performance requirements imposed by such applications. This is due to several fundamental limitations in the design of the current network architecture and communication protocols. As a result, there is a pressing need to rethink the network architecture and protocols, and efficiently harness recent technological advances in terms of virtualization and network softwarization to design the Tactile Internet of the future. In this talk, we start by analyzing the characteristics and requirements of future networking applications and highlight the limitations of the current network architecture and protocols. We then draw a rough sketch of FlexNGIA, a Flexible Next-Generation Internet Architecture that is able to satisfy the requirements of future Internet applications and services. We also discuss through some use-cases how FlexNGIA could ensure the service level guarantees required by some of the future network applications.
Bio: Mohamed Faten Zhani is an associate professor with the department of software and IT engineering at l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS Montreal) in Canada. His research interests include cloud computing, network function virtualization, software-defined networking and resource management in large-scale distributed systems. Faten has co authored several book chapters and research papers published in renowned conferences and journals including IEEE/IFIP/ACM CNSM, IEEE/IFIP IM/NOMS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE transactions on cloud computing and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). He served as the general or technical program chair of several international workshops and conferences. He is also co-editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine series on "Telecom Software, Network Virtualization, and Software Defined Networks", associate editor of the IEEE Transactions of Network and Service Management, Wiley international journal of network management, and managing editor of the IEEE softwarization newsletter. He is co founder and vice-chair of the IEEE Network Intelligence Emerging Technology Initiative and a cluster lead at the IEEE P1916.1 SDN/NFV Performance standard group. Faten recently received the IEEE/IFIP IM 2017 Young Researchers and Professionals Award as a recognition for outstanding research contribution and leadership in the field of network and service management. More details are available on his web page: http://etsmtl.ca/Professeurs/mfzhani/Accueil?lang=en-CA.
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- Session 4: Presentation-II (Topic: Internet Architecture)
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14:20pm - 14:25pm Introduction
Dr. Richard Li
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14:25pm - 14:40pm KolmoLD: Data Modelling for the Modern Internet
Dmitry Borzov (Huawei Canada), Tingqiu Yuan (Huawei Technologies), Jian Li (Huawei Technologies), Mikhail Ignatovich (Huawei Canada)
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15:05pm - 15:30pm Break
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- Session 5: Paper Presentation (III) (Emerging Media applications at the Edge)
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15:30pm - 15:35pm Introduction
Prof Stuart Clayman
- Session 6: Panel discussion in NEAT
- Closing remarks
Call for Papers
The 2nd NEAT workshop aims to provide a forum for both industry and academia to exchange ideas about network architectures, technologies, and protocols specifically in the context of emerging applications, with a particular focus on internetworking technologies that achieve accurate prescribed latency, high throughput, and meet service level objectives in complex and high scale networks.
Beyond the Internet of today, applications in Industrial Internet, Vehicular Networks, Tactile Internet, etc. are soon going to be the mainstream. A non-exhaustive list of such applications are Smart cities, Smart health, Smart agriculture, Industrial automation Remote-controlled operations, etc.; The insatiable demand of network resources from such new and emerging applications continue to grow and in the near future networks will be limited by how much and how fast can they deliver services within the framework of currently available technologies.
“New Media” based applications are foreseen as well. They include not only Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) but hologram-based applications demanding a new communication methodology called Holographic Type Communications (HTC). Collectively they are going to influence not just the entertainment and gaming industry but are expected to inspire the next generation of immersive and visualization technologies in the fields of personal & social communications, education, design, medicine etc.
Overall, applications are advancing to be lot more immersive, remotely controlled, and fully automated. The interactions in future society, industry and manufacturing comprises of robotic automation of both mundane and sophisticated tasks, real-time interactive control between digital replica and their real counterparts. These applications mandate very tight resource constraints of reliability, performance, throughput, short latencies, etc. as well as programmability, customizability, and security. The challenge is a non-trivial one and asks researchers to think beyond traditional techniques of coarse-grained quality of service, congestion / management / traffic engineering, and flow control.
These applications may demand new kinds of absolute and precise communication attributes such as on-time, in-time and coordinated guarantees of services or alternatively, may allow networks with certain entropy or qualitative attributes such as tolerable degradation, partial packet reliability, recoverable loss of information as long as networks ensure that mandatory information is delivered intact.
The goal is to explore possibilities such as those beyond statistical resource scheduling in favor of deterministic packet delivery techniques, exploring new precision-based packet delivery, algorithms, switching and multiplexing technologies where ever necessary in large scale networks. Potential authors will be able to share their viewpoints, the latest research and project findings.
Topics of Interest
We solicit stimulating, original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers in the form of extended abstracts. We further encourage papers that propose new research directions or could stimulate lively debate at the workshop.
We invite submissions on a wide range of topics of interest, including, but not limited to:
- Architecture and frameworks for delivering high precision of services
- Convergence and optimizations of protocols for Industrial and Tactile networks
- Solutions for deterministic services in Industrial and Tactile networks
- Investigations, survey and techniques in data plane for Industrial and Tactile internet.
- Network challenges and requirements for emerging, resource-sensitive applications
- Mechanisms to support ultra-low-latency in packet based networks
- Internetworking frameworks for deterministic multi-access edge applications
- Maximizing link utilization for high-throughput applications
- Architecture and protocols for reliable packet delivery
- Network security and privacy issues in Industrial and Tactile interne
- Resource allocation mechanisms deterministic and reliable data transmission
- Requirements and challenges in Holographic type communications
- Networking requirements and challenges of VR/AR
- High-throughput transport for VR/AR and Holographic type communications
- Adaptive video streaming for network/user dynamics
- Video analytics and smart offloading for VR/AR
- Measurement study of existing VR/AR and HTC applications
Submission Instructions
Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must use the new ACM template (using sigconf document type) from the 2018 ACM consolidated template package (you can also use this barebone LaTeX template). The font size must be 9 points. The length of the final paper with all its content except references must not exceed 6 pages. Papers must include author’s names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.
Paper Submission:
Please submit your paper via https://sigcomm19neat.hotcrp.com/.
Authors Take Note
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to TWO WEEKS prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Registration
Attendance of the workshop is by open registration and subject to the same registration fees and rules as all the other SIGCOMM 2019 workshops. The registrants of the workshop may freely attend any workshop on the same day.
Camera-ready instructions
For the final paper to be published, please refer to Camera-ready instructions for workshops.
Important Dates
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June 23, 2019
Camera-ready deadline
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August 19, 2019
Workshop date
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May 27, 2019
Paper acceptance notification
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April 17, 2019
Submission deadline (firm)
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April 17, 2019
Paper registration deadline (firm)
Committees
- General Chairs
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K.K. Ramakrishnan
University of California, Riverside, USA
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Kiran Makhijani
Future Networks, Futurewei, CA, USA
- Program Committee Chairs
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Richard Li
Future Networks, Futurewei, CA, USA
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Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Winlab, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
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Stuart Clayman
University College London, London, UK
- Technical Program Committee
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Barbara Martinii
CNIT, Italy
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Daphne Tuncer
Imperial College. UK
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Diego R. Lopez
Telefonica, Spain
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Federica Paganelli
University of Florence, Italy
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Feng Qian
UMN, USA
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Flavio Esposito
Saint Louis University, USA
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Francesco Tusa
UCL, UK
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Imen Grida Ben Yahia
Orange, France
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Javier Rubio Loyola
CINVESTAV, Mexico
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Jo Zhang
Fujitsu Laboratories, USA
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Larysa Globa
Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine
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Lefteris Mamatas
University of Macedonia, Greece
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Lixia Zhang
UCLA, USA
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Marinos Charalambedes
UCL, UK
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Martin Serrano
DERI, Ireland
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Mehmet Toy
Verizon, USA
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Mohamed Faten Zhani
l'École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada
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Mostafa Essa
Vodafone, Egypt
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Muge Sayit
Ege University, Turkey
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Ning Wang
University of Surrey, UK
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Panagiotis Papadimitriou
University of Macedonia, Greece
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Pedro Martinez-Julia
NICT, Tokyo
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Rui Aguiar
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
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Stefano Secci
LIP6, France
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Stewart Bryant
University of Surrey, UK
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Tao Huang
BUPT, China
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Tim Wauters
University of Gent, Belgium
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TV Lakshman
Nokia Bell Labs, USA
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Walter Cerroni
University of Bologna, Italy
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Yong liu
New York University, USA
