Program Details

The detailed technical program below is a draft schedule and will be updated as sessions, chairs, and rooms are finalized. All times are in U.S. Mountain Time (UTC-7).


Tuesday, August 18

11:00 am – 12:25 pm
Track ATrack B

Research Session 1: LLM Inference & Serving

KVServe: Service-Aware KV Cache Compression for Communication-Efficient Disaggregated LLM Serving
Zedong Liu, Xinyang Ma, Dejun Luo (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Hairui Zhao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Bing Lu (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wenjing Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yida Gu, Xingchen Liu, Zheng Wei (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jinyang Liu (University of California, Riverside), Dingwen Tao, Guangming Tan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

DualPath: Accelerating Agentic LLM Inference by Harvesting Disaggregated KV-Cache Storage I/O
Yongtong Wu (Peking University, DeepSeek-AI), Shaoyuan Chen (Tsinghua University, DeepSeek-AI), Rilin Huang (Peking University), Yixuan Tan (DeepSeek-AI), Yinmin Zhong (Peking University, DeepSeek-AI), Mingxing Zhang (Tsinghua University), Xin Jin (Peking University), Panpan Huang (DeepSeek-AI)

Efficient Remote KV Cache Reuse with GPU-native Video Codec
Liang Mi (Nanjing University and Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University), Weijun Wang (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University), Jinghan Chen (Nanjing University), Ting Cao (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University), Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University), Yunxin Liu (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University)

Connex: Endpoint Mobility Primitives for Dynamic LLM Serving
Yanying Lin (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Penn), Vincent Liu, Tao Luo (University of Pennsylvania), ChengZhong Xu (University of Macau), Kejiang Ye (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

TurboBus: Pooling PCIe Bandwidth for LLM Workloads via Scale-Up Fabrics
Xinyu Yang, Kaiqiang Xu, Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Research Session 2: Network Verification & Formal Methods

Towards Efficient Verification of Distributed In-Network Computing Programs
Mingyuan Song, Huan Shen, Jinghui Jiang, Qiang Su, Ziheng Zhang, Qingyu Song (Xiamen University), Yuchao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Wanjian Feng (Yealink), Fei Yuan (Xiamen University), Yitao Xing, Wenjia Wei (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.), Qiao Xiang, Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University)

When static verification is not enough: revealing BGP bugs at runtime
Pietro Ronchetti, Tibor Schneider, Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich)

Explainable Network Verification via Localized Subspecification
Yongzheng Zhang, Yaxuan Lin, Haoxian Chen, Ruize Ma (Shanghai Tech University), Amirmohammad Nazari, Mukund Raghothaman (University of Southern California), Peng Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

VeriLucid: A Verification-aware Data-plane Programming Language
John Sonchack, Pamela Zave, Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)

Elastispec: Formalizing Enterprise Firewall Management with Informal and Elastic Specifications
Chenan Wen, Yizhan Qing, Curt P Jansen, Xiaokang Qiu, Sanjay G Rao (Purdue University)


1:50 pm – 3:15 pm
Track ATrack B

Research Session 3: Collective Communication Algorithms

Trivance: Latency-Optimal AllReduce by Shortcutting Multiport Networks
Anton Juerss (Weizenbaum Institut Berlin), Vamsi Addanki (Purdue University), Stefan Schmid (Technische Universität Berlin)

OptCCL: Scalable Synthesis of Optimal Collective Communication Algorithms
Richard Shapley, Rachit Agarwal, David Shmoys (Cornell University)

DynamiQ: Accelerating Gradient Synchronization using Compressed Multi-hop All-reduce
Wenchen Han (University College London), Shay Vargaftik (Broadcom), Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University), Ran Ben Basat (University College London and Broadcom)

ZipCCL: Efficient Lossless Data Compression of Communication Collectives for Accelerating LLM Training
Wenxiang Lin (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen), Xinglin Pan, Ruibo FAN (Data Science and Analytics Thrust, HKUST(GZ)), Shaohuai Shi (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen), Xiaowen Chu (Data Science and Analytics Thrust, HKUST(GZ))

Theseus: Runtime-Adaptive GPU Collective Communication with Hot-Swappable Schedules
Rui Ding (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University), Xiandong Lu (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jiajun Wang (Yuanpei College, Peking University), Xunpeng Liu (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University), Feiyang Wang, Xuran Hao, Houyuan Zhu, Anyi Xu (School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University), Sinuo Cao (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University), Haifeng Sun (National University of Singapore), Qun Huang (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University), Jiamin Cao, Jiaqi Gao (Alibaba Cloud)

Research Session 4: Cellular & RAN Systems

CausalTune: Causal Learning based Automated Cellular RAN Configuration Tuning Framework
Leyang Xue, Bolun Zhang, Yibo Ma, Mahesh Marina (University of Edinburgh), He Yan, Yu Zhou, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Senthil Dhandapani, James Klosowski (AT&T)

SAGE: A Real-Time AI System for Reducing Latency in NextG Cellular Networks
Aoyu Gong, Raphael Cannatà, Arman Maghsoudnia, Néstor Lomba Lomba (EPFL), Dan Mihai Dumitriu (Pavonis LLC), Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL)

RANPilot: Making AI Functionalities Robust to Dynamic O-RAN Reconfigurations
Shiming Yu, Leming Shen, Jianing Zhang, Xin Li, Xianjin Xia, Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY)

Synchronizing with the Scheduler: Dual-Loop Congestion Control for 5G Uplink on Commodity Devices
Qiang Wu, Yuxin Liu, Tianyang Zhang (University at Buffalo SUNY), Haoran Wan, Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University), Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY)

Unveiling Low-Altitude 5G Performance: Linking Key Influencing Factors with UAV Flight Parameters
Xinzhe Liu (Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China, and South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China), Jianer Zhou, Xiaoyong Ni, Ke Luo (Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China), Zhenyu Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS), Beijing, China), Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, and Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China), Weichao Li (Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China)


Wednesday, August 19

8:30 am – 9:55 am
Track ATrack B

Research Session 5: In-Network Aggregation for ML

Turbo: Efficiently Serving Long-Context Large Language Models with In-Network Aggregation
Ying Wan (Southeast University), Yuchen Xu (Peking University), Chuwen Zhang (Tsinghua Unigroup), Yingsheng Huang (Southeast University), Yong Feng, Wenquan Xu (Tsinghua University), Jialin Li (National University of Singapore), Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University), Wenfei Wu (Peking University), Congcong Miao (National University of Singapore)

HyNA: Taming Tail Latency in MoE Training with Hybrid Switch Silicon
Yang Liu, Tianxiang Liu, Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

EPIC: Abstraction and Polymorphism of In-Network Collectives on Ethernet
Yitao Yuan, Jianglong Nie, Tianyu Bai, Ruizhe Zhou, Siyuan Cao, Xujie Fan, Yuchen Xu, Junkai Chen, Chenqi Zhao, Nengyuan Zhang, Shaoke Fang (Peking University), Jiangyuan Chen (University of Science and Technology of China), Yuanfeng Chen (National University of Defense Technology), Jiaqi Sun (Peking University), Zhan Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiaohua Xu (University of Science and Technology of China), Yuchao Zhang, Yang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Xiangrui Yang (National University of Defense Technology), Jing Lin, Xiaohe Hu (Infrawaves), Yang Li, Chao Jiang, Limin Xiao, Weifeng Zhang (Lenovo Research), Junjie Wang, Wei Cheng (Beijing Centec Communications Co., Ltd.), Yazhu Lan, Jianbo Dong, Binzhang Fu (Alibaba Cloud), Wenfei Wu (Peking University)

PReCCL: Performant and Resilient Collective Communication via Integrated Inband Telemetry and Workload Reallocation
Zhiyong Chen (Tsinghua University), Kaihui Gao, Li Chen (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Rui Yan, Zihan Yan (Tsinghua University), Fei Gui (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Dan Li (Tsinghua University), Jiamin Cao, Jiaqi Gao (Alibaba Cloud)

UBEP: Re-architecting Expert Parallelism Communication Library for Production Superpods
Yipeng Liu, Chang Liu, Si Shen, Jiaqi Zheng (Nanjing University), Mingfan Li (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.), Yuyang Yang, Guanhua Li, Yuquan Zhang, Yimeng Xu (Nanjing University), Zhongzhe Hu, Zhiyuan Huang, Qihang Duan, Junsong Wang, Wenkai Ling, Baochuan Yang, Xianzhi Yu, Han Bao, Yijie Chen (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.), Guihai Chen (Nanjing University)

Research Session 6: Cloud Networking: DPUs, SmartNICs & Gateways

Dorado: Scaling SmartNIC Session Tables on Commodity DDRs
Heng Yu (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Kai Ren, Jiajun Liang, Baozeng Zhang (Tencent), Guozhi Lin (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Xinyi Zhang (CNIC CAS), Jian Wang, Jian Zhao (Tencent), Ziyue Zhai (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Liang Wang, Chao Pei (Tencent), Jilong Wang (Tsinghua University), Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS), Ang Chen (University of Michigan), Congcong Miao (National University of Singapore)

XFir: Accelerating New-Flow Setup on Host Servers of a Large Cloud Network
Shihan Lin (University of Michigan), Shunqiao Jiang, Liang Wang, Jian Wang, Chao Pei, Jian Zhao, Wenjun Wu, Kai Ren (Tencent), Lijun Zhuang, Qingmin Liu (JaguarMicro, Shenzhen), Heng Yu (Tsinghua University), Sirui Li (Tencent), Yibo Huang (University of Michigan), Yifei Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yunming Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), Ang Chen (University of Michigan), Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Congcong Miao (National University of Singapore)

FlowTurbo: From Best-Effort to Hit-Driven MegaFlow Hardware Offloading in Open vSwitch
Zhongxian Liang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Sheng Lan (Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School), Ying Li (Southern University of Science and Technology), Zihan Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), Wenjun Li (Pengcheng Laboratory), Yao Xin (Guangzhou University), Han Wang (Pengcheng Laboratory), Tong Yang (Peking University), Yu Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Gaogang Xie (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Bin Liu (Tsinghua University), Weizhe Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CubeTrace: Microscopic Network Tracing for Heterogeneous Cloud Gateways
Yunming Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), Yinchao Yang (Tencent), Jiaqi Zheng (Nanjing University), Xuqian Li, Dongbo Gu, Jun Zhang, Miantao Wan, Chao Pei (Tencent), Chen Tian (Nanjing University), Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University), Ang Chen (University of Michigan), Congcong Miao (National University of Singapore)

Rethinking Cloud Optimization: Volatility-Driven for Better Outcomes
Baoqing Wang, Gongming Zhao, Hongli Xu, Shibo Wu, Zhuolong Yu, Jiawei Liu, Junhong Lu (University of Science and Technology of China), Shaohui Xu, Fanjie Meng (Tencent Cloud)


10:10 am – 11:35 am
Track ATrack B

Experience Session 1: AI Datacenter Networks & Communication

Connecting 100K+ GPUs: Building the Communication Stack for Large-Scale LLM Training
Hongyi Zeng, Min Si, Pavan Balaji, Yongzhou Chen, Ching-Hsiang Chu, Adithya Gangidi, Prashanth Kannan, Bingzhe Liu, Saif Hasan, Dong He, Deep Shah, Ashmitha Jeevaraj Shetty, Gregory R Steinbrecher, Srikanth Sundaresan, Yulun Wang, Yexin Wu, Mingran Yang, Kenny Yu, Minlan Yu (Harvard University), Cen Zhao, Shengbao Zheng, Wesley Bland, Denis Boyda, Suman Gumudavelli, Subodh Iyengar, Daniel Johnson, Cristian Lumezanu, Kai Luo, Rui Miao, Zhe Qu, Venkatraghavan Ramesh, Jingliang Ren, Maxim Samoylov, Jan Seidel, Qiye Tan, Feng Tian, Xinfeng Xie, Jingyi Yang, Yimeng Zhao, Shuqiang Zhang, Tiane “Art” Zhu (Meta)

DistDPU: A Disaggregated DPU Architecture for High-Performance and Cost-Efficient AI Clouds
Hao Mei (Fudan University), Lizhou Gao (Tencent), Yuanyi Zhu (Fudan University), Liang Wang, Peng Yang, Chao Pei (Tencent), Chuhao Chen, Zijian Li (Fudan University), Jian Zhao, Dongbo Gu, Hongchen Ren, Jiyuan Chen, Junpeng Zhang, Yunpeng Guan, Jianye Yuan, Jian Wang (Tencent), Yibo Huang (University of Michigan), Yang Xu (Fudan University)

Pegasus: A Data Center Network for Bare-Metal AI Cloud
Xianneng Zou (Tsinghua), Yadong Liu (Tencent), Yiran Zhang (Unaffiliated), Jian Zhao, Zhaoxun Zhou (Tencent), Qing Wang (Nanjing University), Xingyi Li, Liang Wang (Tencent), Xingda Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Xiaojie Huang, Zhaohe Chen, Yinben Xia (Tencent), Yuxi Wang (Unaffiliated), Kai Ren, Lizhou Gao, Jiajun Liang, Jian Wang, Chunxu Zhao, Weifeng Zhang, Lu Shi, Xin Li, Jiewei Yang, Hao Lu, Yunpeng Guan, Dongbo Gu, Chao Pei, Xiang Li, Zekun He (Tencent), Yong Jiang (Tsinghua), Yachen Wang (Tencent)

Balancing and Beyond: Communication-Centric Optimizations in Expert Parallelism
Jiamin Cao, Qingxu Li, Yaozhong Liu, Jiaqi Gao, Yan Zhang, Shangfeng Shi, Zian Chen, Yizhi Wang, Jun Zhang, Kunling He, Ennan Zhai, Jianbo Dong, Binzhang Fu, Dennis Cai (Alibaba Cloud)

Sponsored Session: Meta

Talk title TBD

Research Session 7: Wireless, Backscatter & Sensing

FlowForm: Scalable Passive Metasurface Network for mmWave Coverage Expansion
Wuqiong Zhao, Baicheng Chen, Kai Zheng, Xingyu Chen, Wenqian Zhang, Xinyu Zhang (University of California San Diego)

Concurrent OFDM Backscatter with a Single Commercial Receiver
Caihui Du, Jihong Yu (Beijing Institute of Technology), Rongrong Zhang (Capital Normal University)

Deep-Soil Acoustic Backscatter Networking for Electrical Substation Grounding Assessment
Fengrui Zhang, Shanyue Wang, Bowen Xue (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Lei Yang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Concord: Airtime-Aware Contention Control for Taming Tail Latency from Wi-Fi Frame Bursting
Fengqian Guo, Siqi Wei, Sihao Miao (University of Science and Technology of China), Xinle Du (Tsinghua University), Hancheng Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)

LITE: Loss-resilient Immersive Telepresence with Multi-modal Semantics
Ruizhi Cheng (George Mason University), Harshvardhan Takawale (University of Maryland, College Park), Nan Wu (George Mason University), Nirupam Roy, Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, College Park), Matteo Varvello (Nokia), Eugene Chai (Nokia Bell Labs), Bo Han (George Mason University)


1:50 pm – 3:00 pm
Track ATrack B

Research Session 8: Scale-Up Fabrics: Measurement & Design

FabricPerf: Measuring NIC-less Scale-Up Network through GPU Communication Kernel Profiling
Songlin Huang, Chenshu Wu (The University of Hong Kong)

Efficient and Flexible Datapaths for Fine-Grained Rack-Scale Interconnects with Elastic QP
Chenxingyu Zhao (University of Washington), Yibo Wu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Hongtao Zhang, Jaehong Min (University of Washington), Ming Liu (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington)

Balanced Sparse Tree: A Scalable Network Topology for Large Language Models
Shaoteng Liu (Huawei), Dejun Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Huitian Wang (Huawei), Hongji Dong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Xiangyu Chen, Yi Zhang, Xiaotian Zhou, Peng Dong, Rui Meng, Fuguang Huang, Xia Zhu (Huawei), Xiaofeng Gao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Bingyang Liu (Huawei), Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Understanding and Profiling the Accelerator Chiplet Network Using PingPoint
Junyeol Ryu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ming Liu (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Matthew D. Sinclair (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Experience Session 2: Content Delivery & Video Streaming

Prefetching for Short Video Streaming: Experiences from a Longitudinal Evolution at Planetary Scale
Yinjie Zhang, Ying Chen, Yuming Hu, Aoyang Zhang, Pengcheng Chen, Zhixiang Luo, Shaopeng Li, Zhendong Zhong, Haiqing Tao, Lan Xie, Shenglan Huang, Zhiwei Fan, Feng Qian (ByteDance)

Adaptive Bitrate Live Streaming over HTTP-FLV: A Practical System Perspective
Le Zhang, Tong Meng (ByteDance), Bingcong Lu (SJTU and ByteDance), Jinghao Yuan, Lu Chen, Huanting Liu, Lei Xiao, Nailiang Wu, Zhou Sha, Changqing Yan, Jianrong Zhang, Jianxin Kuang (ByteDance), Li Song (SJTU)

Horizon: A Hyper-Edge Observability Engine for Live Streaming Networks
Ziqian Liu, Daqian Ding (The University of Hong Kong), Rui Han (ByteDance), Shixian Guo (ByteDance), Zhendong Xie, Aifang Xu, Changqian Wang, Kefei Liu (ByteDance), Jialin Li (National University of Singapore), Yunming Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), Heming Cui, Yiming Qiu (The University of Hong Kong)

CacheFlare: Optimizing Cold Content Performance in CDNs
Tiansheng Zhang, Yuling Chen, Ahmed Kamal, Liang Zhou, Jianfeng Tang, Huapeng Zhou, Thilan Ganegedata, Yuhan Guo, Sanjay Sane, Ben Vallis (Meta Platform Inc.), Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University), Ying Zhang (Meta Platform Inc.)


3:10 pm – 4:20 pm
Track ATrack B

Experience Session 3: Diagnosis & Root-Cause Analysis

AIDA: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis for Multi-Vendor Device Failures with LLM-Powered Reasoning
Haoran Xu (Sun Yat-sen University and Alibaba Cloud), Xuan Zeng, Xumiao Zhang (Alibaba Cloud), Xiaoxi Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University), Yang Lv, Peng Zhang (Alibaba Cloud), Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University), Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud)

Networked Agent Memory and Causality Representation: Experiences towards Interpretable Cloud-Scale Root-Causing
Yanyu Ren (Tsinghua University), Xianshang Lin (Alibaba Cloud), Chenxu Wang (Nanjing University), Li Chen, Shuai Wang, Kaihui Gao (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Dan Li, Yunfeng Bai (Tsinghua University), Chen Tian (Nanjing University), Xinlei Zhang, Yunguang Li, Tao Lin, Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud)

Detection and Localization of End-to-end Bitflip Errors in Data Centers
Abhigyan Sharma, Neil Spring, Srikanth Sundaresan, Francesco Caggioni, Laurent Virot, Arber Mancaj (Meta)

Anytest: Localizing the Root Cause of Hardware Transport Performance Anomalies
Zhaochen Zhang (Nanjing University), Jiaqi Gao, Sheng Cheng, Peiwen Yu, Feiyang Xue, Chang Liu (Alibaba Cloud), Boliang Liu (Fudan University), Kun Liu, Yubin Li (Alibaba Cloud), Rui Li, Li Wang, Peirui Cao, Qingkai Meng, Guihai Chen (Nanjing University), Gang Lu, Bo Shi, Shuguang Cheng, Shu Ma, Yongqing Xi, Binzhang Fu, Dennis Cai (Alibaba Cloud), Chen Tian (Nanjing University)

Experience Session 4: Cloud Data Planes & Network Virtualization

Rules Offload Engine (ROE): Accelerating Host SDN Policy Evaluation
Anshuman Verma, Tian Tan, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Milan Dasgupta, Jonathan Hunter, Zach Libby, Narayanan Ravichandran, Harish Srinivasan, Matt Reat, Nadeen Gebara, Vishal Gondaliya (Microsoft), Ezz Hamed (Meta), Rahul Garlapati, Lok Chand Koppaka, Abdullah Mughrabi, Dev Desai, Alexander Malysh, Shwetha Bhat, Rohan Kandi, Megan Sng (Microsoft), Tushar Garg (Meta), Muluken Hailesellasie, Andrew Putnam, Derek Chiou, Osman Ertugay (Microsoft), Alireza Dabagh (Microsoft Azure), Vivek Bhanu, Daniel Firestone (Microsoft)

Spillway: Orchestrating DPU and Host into a Unified vSwitching Fabric
Xiaochong Jiang (Zhejiang University), Dian Fan, Yilong Lv, Naixuan Guan (Alibaba Cloud), Qiming Zhao, Sihan Fu (Zhejiang University), Ye Yang, Yu Zhou, Xuyang Ge, Denghui Wu, Yibin Shen, Guochun Hong, Zhipeng Zhang, Yijian Dong, Yiquan Chen, Shaoliang An, Zhixiong Guo, Yixin Xie, Yisong Qiao, Hongwei Ding, Haitao Jiang, Yimin Liu, Tao Shen, Baosheng Wang, Shize Zhang, Bowen Yang, Zikang Chen, Xiaomin Wu, Rong Wen, Yang Song, Jun Liang, Zhigang Zong, Xing Li (Alibaba Cloud), Chengkun Wei (Zhejiang University), Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud), Wenzhi Chen (Zhejiang University)

From Nimitz to NetPila: The Evolution of Production-Scale Container Network
Jiaqi Gao, Chao Qin, Sheng Cheng, Jiamin Cao, Guodong Yang, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuhong Zhu, Ennan Zhai, Dennis Cai (Alibaba Group)

Open the Floodgates in a Digital Twin: Experiences of Building Spillway for 100M+-User Signaling Storms in Cellular Core Network
Hongtao Xie (China Mobile), Jianmin Liu (Tsinghua University), Ce Yang, Yu He (China Mobile), Li Chen (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Dan Li (Tsinghua University), Mineng Fu, Xi Chen, Siyu Chen (China Mobile)


Thursday, August 20

9:00 am – 10:25 am
Track ATrack B

Research Session 9: Optical & Photonic Fabrics

λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics
Vaibhav Mehta, Arjun Devraj (Cornell University), Bill Owens (Nysernet), Justin Hsu, Rachee Singh (Cornell University)

Opus: Photonic Rail-Optimized Fabric in ML Datacenters
Eric Ding (Cornell University), Barry Lyu (University of Michigan), Bhaskar Kataria, Rachee Singh (Cornell University)

Special Session 1: Best of CCR

Best of CCR paper #1
Authors & title TBD

Best of CCR paper #2
Authors & title TBD

Additional Best of CCR selections TBD

Research Session 10: Internet Measurement & Routing

OmniPath Ping: Active Network Measurement in the Era of Packet Spraying
Kaicheng Yang, Zongwei Lv, Peijun Huang, Kaitai Zhang, Qiuheng Yin, Yaoming Li, Feiyu Wang, Zhuochen Fan (Peking University), Yikai Zhao, Chen Sun (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.), Xia Zhu (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd), Tong Yang (Peking University)

HERMES: Repurposing User-Driven Speed Tests to Monitor the Internet
Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University), Kevin Vermeulen (Ecole Polytechnique), David Choffnes (Northeastern University), Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University), Phillipa Gill (Google)

A Global Inference and Assessment of Large Shared IP Addresses
Vasileios Giotsas (Cloudflare), Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University), Antoine Cordelle, Nick Wood (Cloudflare), Marwan Fayed (Cloudflare, and University of St Andrews (UK))

LARS: Keeping Local Traffic Local with Latency-Aware Route Servers at IXPs
David de Andres Hernandez (IMDEA Networks Institute, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Yasin Alhamwy (University of Kassel), Daniel Wagner (DE-CIX / MPI-INF), Maximilian Stephan (Technische Universität München), Matthias Wichtlhuber (DE-CIX), Oliver Hohlfeld (University of Kassel)

Near-optimal Online Traffic Engineering
Arvin Ghavidel (University of Southern California), Pooria Namyar (Microsoft Research), Nikolai Matni (University of Pennsylvania), Walter Willinger (Northwestern University), Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California)


10:50 am – 12:15 pm
Track ATrack B

Research Session 11: Scheduling for ML Training Clusters

MonkeyTree: Near-Minimal Congestion for Multi-tenant Training via Migration
Anton A. Zabreyko, Weiyang Wang, Manya Ghobadi (MIT)

Aegis: Contract-Bounded Online Adaptation for Networked Accelerator Clusters
Rui Li, Shuang Cao (Dawn Computing)

LEVELLER: Fair Communication Scheduling via Progress-Rate Awareness in Multi-Tenant Training Clusters
Geng Li (China Telecom Cloud Computing Research Institute), Yang Li (China Telecom Cloud Computing Research Institute; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Mingyuan Zang (China Telecom Cloud Computing Research Institute), Jie Wu (China Telecom Cloud Computing Research Institute; Temple University)

GeoOrchestra: Orchestrating Heterogeneous Geo-Distributed Training with Network-Aware Scheduling
Ting Liu, Qinghua Wu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jun Zhou, Yuan Sun (Purple Mountain Laboratories), Jingbin Yang, Jinglei Pei (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Chen Zhang (Purple Mountain Laboratories), Heng Pan (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhenyu Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yunjie Liu (Purple Mountain Laboratories)

Dynamic Compute and Network Orchestration for Disaggregated RL
Xin Tan, Yicheng Feng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yu Zhou, Yimin Jiang, Yibo Zhu (StepFun), Hong Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Research Session 12: Host Networking & Packet Processing

Understanding Host Network Stack Latency
Tianyu Zuo (University of Virginia), Jaehyun Hwang (Sungkyunkwan University), Ao Tang, Rachit Agarwal (Cornell University), Qizhe Cai (University of Virginia)

Don't Stall Me Now: Hiding Memory Latency in eBPF
Farbod Shahinfar, Marco Molè (Politecnico di Milano), Aurojit Panda (NYU), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano & Queen Mary University of London)

PacketExpress: Fully Exploiting Large MTUs for Internet Traffic in Private Networks
Junghan Yoon (Seoul National University), Youngmin Choi (KAIST), Juyoung Park (Seoul National University), Daehyeok Kim (The University of Texas at Austin), Changhoon Kim (Unaffiliated), KyoungSoo Park (Seoul National University)

Honey, I Shrunk the Headers With Flow.ZIP
Yinda Zhang (University of Pennsylvania), Liangcheng Yu (Microsoft Research), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano & Queen Mary University of London), Ran Ben Basat (University College London and Broadcom), Vincent Liu (University of Pennsylvania)

Simplifying Prioritization and Scheduling with P2CS
Ali Munir, Xiaolin Pang, Junyi Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.)


3:05 pm – 4:30 pm
Track ATrack B

Research Session 13: Datacenter Transport: RDMA & Congestion Control

STORM: Enabling Traffic Scheduling for RDMA
Jichun Wu (University of Cambridge), Ran Shu (Microsoft Research), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano & Queen Mary University of London), Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research), Jon Crowcroft, Andrew Moore (University of Cambridge)

PSN-PATH: When Multipath RDMA Meets Lossy Networks
Zhexiong Li, Shugui Wei, Puyu Zhao, Feifan Wang, Yuepeng Li (China University of Geosciences), Lin Gu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Deze Zeng (China University of Geosciences), Xiaoliang Wang (Nanjing University), Laiping Zhao (Tianjin University)

InfiniFlow: Decoupling Virtual Channel Scalability from Buffer Requirements in Lossless Datacenter Networks
Zerui Tian, Sen Liu, Minkun Xue, Hao Shangguan, Ruyi Yao, Hao Mei, Deli Huang, Songchen Xue, Yang Xu (Fudan University)

Odin: Rethinking Congestion Control under All-to-All Traffic
Wanchun Jiang, Yujie Hu, Kai Wang, Xiao Han (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China), Haoran Wei, Yong Zhang, Jianxi Ye, Huichen Dai (ByteDance)

CSIG: Congestion Signaling for Datacenter Transports
Abhiram Ravi, Nandita Dukkipati, Weiwu Pang, Neal Cardwell (Google), Brad Karp (Google and UCL), Mohammad Jafar Akhbarizadeh, Weida Huang, Konstantinos Prasopoulos, Kok Kiong Yap, Arjun Singh, Amin Vahdat (Google)

Research Session 14: Security, Privacy & Networked Systems

Towards High-Performance Intrusion Detection with Robustness Guarantees on Programmable Switches at ISP Scale
Han Zhang, Xuefeng Liu, Linqiang Qian (Tsinghua University), Guyue (Grace) Liu (Peking University), Tianyu Zhang, Kaiyang Zhao, Yantu Tong, Zeji Xiao (Tsinghua University), Dongbiao He (Sangfor Technologies Inc), Yahui Li (Tsinghua University), Ke Ruan (China Telecom), Jilong Wang (Tsinghua University), Yongqing Zhu (Institute of Network Technology & China Telecom Corporation Limited Research Institute), Xia Yin (Tsinghua University)

Zero-Knowledge Cloud Analytics
Zeying Zhu, Clarence Lam, Alexander Frolov, Ian Miers, Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland)

DeepSFU: Scalable Deepfake Detection for Video Conferencing
Tuan Tran, Shirin Ebadi, S. M. H. Hosseini, Woongsub Shin, Evan Ram, Youngwook Son (University of Colorado Boulder), Seyeon Kim (Korea University), Nam Bui (University of Colorado Denver), Kyunghan Lee (Seoul National University), Eric Keller, Sangtae Ha (University of Colorado Boulder)

Integrating 2PC with Consensus for Fast Replication
Yan Chen (SJTU & Tsinghua University), Xinyi Yu, Shengyun Liu, Ruofan Xiong, Tianjing Xu (SJTU), Yongwei Wu (Tsinghua University), Yiming Zhang (SJTU)

Tuning into the Web: A Low-Cost Access Solution for Developing Countries
Ayush Pandey, Rohail Asim (New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)), Jean Louis K. E. Fendji (University of Ngaoundere), Talal Rahwan (New York University Abu Dhabi), Matteo Varvello (Nokia Bell Labs), Yasir Zaki (New York University Abu Dhabi)


Friday, August 21

8:30 am – 9:55 am
Track ATrack B

Research Session 15: Programmable Switches & Data-Plane Hardware

Presto: A Match-Action TCP Stack for the Terabit Era
Rajath Shashidhara (University of Washington), Antoine Kaufmann (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)), Simon Peter (University of Washington)

OBM: Optimal Shared Packet Buffer Management in Switches
Dan Mani Binu, Jason Lei, Vishal Shrivastav (Purdue University)

Scale-up PIFO: Interleaving Multiple Priority Queues for High Speed Programmable Scheduling
Hao Mei, Shili Chen, Xu Chen (Fudan University), Zixuan Chen (China Telecom), Ruyi Yao, Zhiyu Zhang, Hao Wang, Deli Huang, Weiyi Chen (Fudan University), Yibo Fan (State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, Fudan University), Yang Xu (Fudan University)

Trie-Structure-Guided Compression, Allocation, and Mapping for Storage-Efficient IPv6 Lookup Pipelines
Donghong Jiang, Zhenhao Yuan, Yanbiao Li, Shi Meng (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China), Yuxuan Chen (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Taiji Chen (Peking University), Xian Yu (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China)

Capybara: Dynamic Load Balancing with Microsecond-Scale TCP Migration
Inho Choi (National University of Singapore), Nimish Wadekar (ETH Zürich), Guangda Sun (National University of Singapore), Raj Joshi (Red Hat / Harvard University), Joshua Fried, Omar S. Navarro Leija (University of Pennsylvania), Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang (Microsoft Research), Jialin Li (National University of Singapore)

Research Session 16: Satellite & Non-Terrestrial Networks

CommSAR: Enabling Bidirectional Communication in SAR Imaging Satellites via Shared Waveform
Yimin Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Zhenning Li (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Hao Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Hua Li (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Minhao Cui (Seoul National University), Jie Xiong (Nanyang Technological University), Yihai Wei, Yang Liu, Haonan Zhao, Mohan Zhang (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Weibo Wang, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Kaiyu Liu (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Planet-Scale IoT Connectivity via LEO Satellites
Ziyue Zhang, Xianjin Xia, Ruonan Li, Jinhong Liu, Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Mo Li (HKUST)

Dissecting the StarLink: Characterizing Queuing and Flow Dynamics in the Starlink Network
Hendrik Cech (Technical University of Munich), Nitinder Mohan (TU Delft), Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich)

Achieving Efficient Storage and Communication via Collaboration
Ruichen Li, Yufan Wu, Zhengyi Hu, Sheng-Jyun Cai, Lang Wei, Qifan Yang, Ting Zhu (The Ohio State University)


10:10 am – 11:35 am
Track ATrack B

Research Session 17: Congestion, Rate & Schedule Control

Improving Evaluation of Heterogenous Congestion Control Algorithm Interactions
Ranysha Ware (Swarthmore College), Haochen Zhang (Tsinghua University), Isabel Suizo, Srinivasan Seshan, Justine Sherry (Carnegie Mellon University)

Forewarned is Forearmed: A Responsive Congestion Control with Non-intrusive Uplink Dynamics Capture
Mu Wang, Yiying Lin, Shenghui Wei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Enhuan Dong, Kang Chen (Tsinghua University), Tong Li (Renmin University of China), Yinchao Zhang (Tsinghua University), Renjie Xie (Guilin University of Electronic Technology), Su Yao, Ke Xu (Tsinghua University), Changqiao Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

Queueless and Dropless Rate Control
Ammar Tahir (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Yongzhou Chen (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Radhika Mittal (UIUC)

Credit-Guided Congestion Control on Wafer-Scale On-Chip Networks for Molecular Dynamics
Tao Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shixiong Qi (University of Kentucky), Zhan Wang, Ning Kang, Fan Yang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yuanzhe Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zejun Li, Guanglei Chen, Jing Xu, Wenzhe Li, Guangming Tan, Guojun Yuan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Harvest: Adaptive Photonic Switching Schedules for Collective Communication in Scale-up Domains
Mahir Rahman, Samuel Joseph, Nihar Kodkani (Purdue University), Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft), Vamsi Addanki (Purdue University)

Research Session 18: Learning-Based & Data-Driven Network Systems

Nüwa: A Generative Control Plane for AI Network Simulation
Wenkai Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Ran Shu (Microsoft Research Asia), Peng Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Yiren Zhao (University of Toronto), Danfeng Shan (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia)

EMA: Efficient Model Adaptation for Learning-based Systems
Daiyang Yu, Xinyu Chen, Yihan Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Yan Liang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Yaqi Qiao (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Fan Lai (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

RepLLM: Toward Automatically Reproducing Network Research Results
Yining Jiang, Yunxin Xu, Wenyun Xu, Yufan Zhu, Rui Liu, Tangtang He, Haiying Huang, Letian Zhu, Qingyu Song, Qiang Su, Lizhao You, Lu Tang (Xiamen University), Wanjian Feng (Yealink), Yuchao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University), Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University, Tsinghua University)

Artic: AI-oriented Real-time Communication for MLLM Video Assistant
Jiangkai Wu, Zhiyuan Ren, Junquan Zhong, Liming Liu, Xinggong Zhang (Peking University)

Critical Path Guided Decision Making with CALLIGATOR
Meghna Pancholi (Columbia University), Lee Baugh (Open AI), Olaf Schnapauff, David Culler (Google), Kostis Kaffes (Columbia University), Yu Gan, Brent Stephens (Google)


11:45 am – 12:55 pm
Track ATrack B

Experience Session 5: WAN, Configuration & Verification

GGN: Experiences in Designing and Deploying the Next-Generation Google Global Network
Mohammad Al-Fares, Anees Shaikh, Arjun Muralidharan, Bikash Koley, Charith Wickramaarachchi, Chi-Yao Hong, Jonathan Zolla, Min Zhu, Namrata Kadam, Priya Mahadevan, Subhasree Mandal, Rob Shakir, Aman Shaikh, Arda Balkanay, Arjun Singh, Dennis Fetterly, Nachikethas A. Jagadeesan, Richard Alimi, Sankalp Singh, Warren Martins (Google)

Achieving Network Efficiency Through Service Collaborative Capacity Sharing and Enforcement
Vinayak Dangui (Meta), Guyue (Grace) Liu (Peking University), Alaleh Razmjoo, Guanqing Yan, Mahesh Nayak, Mansi Babbar, Brian Bierig, Tejas Birajdar, Prabhakaran Ganesan, Lilian Liu, Matt Maia, Jerry Yang, Shrinivas Petale (Meta), Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Abhinav Triguna (Meta Platforms, Inc), Ying Zhang (Meta)

Verifying Non-Deterministic Convergence on a Global Production WAN
Xing Fang (Xiamen University), Fangdan Ye, Yifei Yuan (Alibaba Group), Zhongyu Guan (Alibaba Cloud), Duncheng She (Alibaba Group), Xiaobo Zhu (Alibaba Cloud), Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University)

Evolution of AliYANG: Model-driven and LLM-assisted Network Configuration Management
Mohan Yu (Jilin University and Alibaba Cloud), Xumiao Zhang, Zhe An (Alibaba Cloud), En Wang (Jilin University), Bin Zheng (Alibaba Cloud)

Experience Session 6: Deployment Experiences: Security, Transport & Core

Comprehensive Revocation Checking at Scale: the Deployment of CRLite in Mozilla Firefox
Nehal Fooda (University of Maryland), James Larisch (Cloudflare), John Schanck (Mozilla), Tijay Chung (Virginia Tech), Dave Levin (University of Maryland), Bruce Maggs (Duke University and Emerald Innovations), Christo Wilson (Northeastern University)

Rethinking Transparent TCP Replacement: Practical Lessons from SMC-R in the Cloud
Jingxuan Li, Wen Gu, Wei Shi, Yang Lu, Guangguan Wang, Lie Lu, Yong Yang, Jinhu Li (Alibaba Cloud), Teng Ma (Alibaba Group), Tao Ma (Alibaba Cloud)

Planogram: A Multi-dimensional Physical Location Planning System for DC Networks
Richard Cziva, Alexander Mafusalov, Shrinivas Petale, Varun Gupta, Abhinav Triguna, Jason Wilson, Manikantan KR, Susana Contrera, Jimmy Williams, Alexey Andreyev, Tian Fang, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Ying Zhang (Meta Platforms, Inc)

Gryphon: Scaling Hyperscale Multi-Tenant Gateways Beyond the Petabit-Era via DPU-Augmented Hierarchical Co-Offloading
Yuemeng Xu (Peking University), Haoran Chen (ByteDance), Jiarui Guo (Peking University), Mingwei Cui (ByteDance), Qiuheng Yin (Peking University), Cheng Dong, Peng He, Chenmin Sun (ByteDance), Yangyujia Wang (Peking University), Daxiang Kang, Xian Wu, Yang Gao, Lirong Lai, Kai Wang (ByteDance), Zhuochen Fan, Tong Yang (Peking University), Hongyu Wu (ByteDance)