Program

• All sessions in Grand Ballroom H (except ONS Plenary in Mission City Ballroom)
• Note: schedule updated 3/13/2016

• Monday, March 14, 2016

• 7:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast (Hyatt Mezzanine)

• 9:00 - 10:00 am Session 1: Opening

  Session Chair: Martin Casado (VMware), Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Veriflow)

• Conference Kickoff & Best Paper Award

  Martin Casado (VMware), Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Veriflow)

  Best Paper: "CacheFlow: Dependency-Aware Rule-Caching for Software-Defined Networks" by Naga Katta, Omid Alipourfard, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker

• Keynote

  Bruce Davie (VMware)

• 10:00 - 11:05 am Session 2: Mobile, ISP, and Enterprise

  Session Chair: Nathan Farrington (Rockley Photonics)

• Paper

  Incremental Deployment of SDN in Hybrid Enterprise and ISP Networks

  David Ke Hong (University of Michigan), Yadi Ma (Hewlett Packard Labs), Sujata Banerjee (Hewlett Packard Labs), Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)

• Paper

  KLEIN: A Minimally Disruptive Design for an Elastic Cellular Core

  Zafar Ayyub Qazi (Stony Brook University), Phani Krishna (Stony Brook University), Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University), Vijay Gopalakrishnan (AT&T Research), Kaustubh Joshi (AT&T Research), Samir Das (Stony Brook University)

• Paper

  P2P Offloading in Mobile Networks using SDN

  Ryan Saunders (School of Computing, University of Utah), Junguk Cho (School of Computing, University of Utah), Frederico Rocha (School of Computing, University of Utah), Arijit Banerjee (School of Computing, University of Utah), Jacobus Van der Merwe (School of Computing, University of Utah)

• 11:05 - 11:25 am Coffee Break

• 11:25 am - 12:35 pm Session 3: Control abstractions

  Session Chair: Marco Canini (Universite catholique de Louvain)

• Paper

  Beehive: Simple Distributed Programming in Software-Defined Networks

  Soheil Hassas Yeganeh (University of Toronto), Yashar Ganjali (University of Toronto)

• Paper

  Ravel: A Database-Defined Network

  Anduo Wang (Temple University), Xueyuan Mei (UIUC), Jason Croft (UIUC), Matthew Caesar (UIUC), Brighten Godfrey (UIUC)

• Paper

  CacheFlow: Dependency-Aware Rule-Caching for Software-Defined Networks

  SOSR 2016 Best Paper

  Naga Katta (Princeton University), Omid Alipourfard (University of Southern California), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), David Walker (Princeton University)

• 12:35 - 2:15 pm Lunch (Hyatt Mezzanine)

• 2:15 - 3:30 pm Session 4: Reliability

  Session Chair: Sujata Banerjee (HP Labs)

• Paper

  Isolating and Tolerating SDN Application Failures with LegoSDN

  Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (Duke University), Brendan Tschaen (Duke University), Theophilus Benson (Duke University)

• Paper

  Safe and Flexible Controller Upgrades for SDNs

  Karla Saur (Intel Labs), Joseph Collard (UMass Amherst), Nate Foster (Cornell University), Arjun Guha (UMass Amherst), Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich), Michael Hicks (University of Maryland, College Park)

• Paper

  Scalable Multi-Failure Fast Failover via Forwarding Table Compression

  Brent Stephens (UW-Madison), Alan L. Cox (Rice University), Scott Rixner (Rice University)

• 3:30 - 3:50 pm Coffee Break

• 3:50 - 5:00 pm Session 5: Switch hardware: More or less?

  Session Chair: Anduo Wang (Temple University)

• Paper

  HULA: Scalable Load Balancing using Programmable Data-Planes

  Naga Katta (Princeton University), Mukesh Hira (VMware), Changhoon Kim (Barefoot Networks), Anirudh Sivaraman (MIT), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)

• Paper

  Improving SDN with InSPired Switches

  Roberto Bifulco (NEC Laboratories Europe), Julien Boite (Thales Communications & Security), Mathieu Bouet (Thales Communications & Security), Fabian Schneider (NEC Laboratories Europe)

• Paper

  Your Data Center Switch is Trying Too Hard

  Xin Jin (Princeton University), Nathan Farrington (Rockley Photonics), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)

• Tuesday, March 15, 2016

• 7:30 - 8:30 am Breakfast (in front of Hyatt Ballroom C-F)

• 8:30 - 9:25 am ONS Plenary Session (Mission City Ballroom)

• Welcome Remarks

  Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation & Guru Parulkar, Program Chair, ONS

• Keynote

  John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President - AT&T Technology and Operations (ATO), AT&T

• 9:30 - 10:40 am Session 6: Measurement

  Session Chair: Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Veriflow)

• Paper

  MOZART: Temporal Coordination of Measurement

  Xuemei Liu (University of Southern California), Meral Shirazipour (Ericsson Research), Minlan Yu (University of Southern California), Ying Zhang (HP Labs), Ying Zhang (HP Labs)

• Paper

  Felix: Implementing Traffic Measurement on End Hosts Using Program Analysis

  Haoxian Chen (Tsinghua University), Nate Foster (Cornell University), Jake Silverman (Cornell University), Michael Whittaker (Cornell University), Brandon Zhang (Cornell University), Rene Zhang (Cornell University), Haoxian Chen (Tsinghua University)

• Paper

  Contextual Router: Advancing Experience Oriented Networking to the Home

  Ilker Nadi Bozkurt (Duke University), Theophilus Benson (Duke University)

• 10:40 - 11:00 am Coffee Break

• 11:00 - 11:45 am Session 7: Interdomain

  Session Chair: Minlan Yu (University of Southern California)

• Paper

  Authorizing Network Control at Software Defined Internet Exchange Points

  Arpit Gupta (Princeton University), Nick Feamster (Princeton University), Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich)

• Paper

  Stitching Inter-Domain Paths over IXPs

  Vasileios Kotronis (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Rowan Kloeti (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Matthias Rost (TU Berlin, Germany), Panagiotis Georgopoulos (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Bernhard Ager (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin, Germany & T-Labs, Germany), Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece)

• 11:45 am - 12:30 pm Closing Panel: Enterprise Customer Views of SDN Research

  Session Chair: Teemu Koponen (Styra), Pere Monclus (PLUMgrid), Ashwin Raveendran (eBay)

• 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch (Buffet in Exhibit Hall A&B, boxed lunch in front of rooms C-F)

• 5:45 pm ONS Reception (Expo Hall)