Conference Program

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

8:00 am

Registration desk opens at 8:00 am.

9:00 am - 12:00 noon

Tutorials - Morning Sessions

Coffee Break (10:15 am - 10:45 am)

T1: Protocols for Data Center Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Raj Jain, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
T2: Infiniband and High-Speed Ethernet: Overview, Latest Status and Trends: Dhabaleswar K. Panda and Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University, USA

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Tutorials - Afternoon Sessions

Coffee Break (3:15 pm - 3:45 pm)

T3: OpenFlow, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Raj Jain, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
T4: Flow and Congestion Controls for Multitenant Datacenters: Virtualization, Transport and Workload Impact: Mitchell Gusat, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

8:00 am

Registration desk opens at 8:00 am.

8:30 am - 8:45 am

Opening Session

8:45 am - 10:00 am

Keynote Talk

Speaker: Kenneth Duda, Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Arista Networks

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Session 1: Optical Networks

Dynamic Routing and Spectrum Allocation in Elastic Optical Networks with Mixed Line Rates: Kaixuan Kuang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Xiong Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Sheng Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Shizhong Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology, P.R. China); Liu Hong (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China); Gordon Ning Liu (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China)
A Subcarrier-Slot Partition Scheme for Wavelength Assignment in Elastic Optical Networks: Waya Fadini (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Eiji Oki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Performance and Cost Evaluation of a Novel Optical Packet Switch with Input Concentrators: Shuna Yang (ITEM, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Norvald Stol (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Survivable Lightpath Provisioning in Multi-Domain Optical Networks: Praphan Pavarangkoon (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Eiji Oki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Session 2: Architecture of High Performance Switches and Routers

On Iterative Scheduling for Input-queued Switches with a Speedup of 2-1/N: Bing Hu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chunzhi He (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
JA-trie: Entropy-Based Packet Classification: Gianni Antichi (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Christian Callegari (University of Pisa, Italy); Andrew W. Moore (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy); Enrico Anastasi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Binary Search on Trie Levels with a Bloom Filter for Longest Prefix Match: Jungwon Lee (EwhaWomans University, Korea); Hyesook Lim (EwhaWomans University, Korea)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Session 3: Software Defined Networking

Load Balancing for Multiple Traffic Matrices Using SDN Hybrid Routing: Junjie Zhang (New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, USA); Kang Xi (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); Min Luo (Huawei Technologies, USA); H. Jonathan Chao (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA)
Performance Evaluation of OpenFlow Controllers for Network Virtualization: Daniel Turull (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Markus Hidell (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Peter Sjodin (KTH, Sweden)
Cross-Control: A Scalable Multi-Topology Fault Restoration Mechanism Using Logically Centralized Controllers: Daniel Philip Venmani (Orange Labs, France); Yvon Gourhant (Orange Labs, France)

Thursday, July 3, 2014

8:00 am

Registration desk opens at 8:00 am.

8:45 am - 10:00 am

Keynote Talk

Speaker: Fred Baker, Cisco Fellow, Cisco

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Panel: Network and Protocol (re)Design in the Age of Routine Attacks, Backdoors, and Government Snooping

Panel Chair: Mitchell Gusat, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

Panelists:
Patrick Crowley, Washington University, USA
Michael Hrybyk, BCNET, Vancouver, Canada
Raj Jain, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia, Canada

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Session 4: Routing

Dynamic Routing of Anycast and Unicast Traffic in Elastic Optical Networks with Various Modulation Formats - Trade-Off Between Blocking Probability and Network Cost: Michal Aibin (Wroclaw University Of Technology, Poland); Krzysztof Walkowiak (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
High Performance Multipath Routing for Data Centers: Nikolaos Ioa. Chrysos (IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland); Mitchell Gusat (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Fredy Neeser (IBM Research GmbH, Switzerland); Cyriel Minkenberg (IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland); Wolfgang E. Denzel (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Claude Basso (IBM Systems & Technology Group, Rochester, USA)
A Scalable Framework for Segment Routing in Service Provider Networks: The Omnipresent Ethernet Approach: Sarvesh Sanjay Bidkar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Ashwin A Gumaste (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Arun Somani (Iowa State University, USA)
A Heuristic Routing Algorithm for Network Coding Aware 1+1 Protection Route Design for Instantaneous Recovery: Abu Hena Al Muktadir (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Eiji Oki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Session 5: Best Paper Finalists

On Iterative Scheduling for Input-queued Switches with a Speedup of 2-1/N: Bing Hu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chunzhi He (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Best Paper Award Certificate
An Efficient Data Exchange Algorithm for Chained Network Functions: Ivano Cerrato (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Guido Marchetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Fulvio Risso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Riccardo Sisto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Matteo Virgilio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Best Paper Award Finalist Certificate
A Subcarrier-Slot Partition Scheme for Wavelength Assignment in Elastic Optical Networks: Waya Fadini (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Eiji Oki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Best Paper Award Finalist Certificate (Honorable Mention)
Performance and Cost Evaluation of a Novel Optical Packet Switch with Input Concentrators: Shuna Yang (ITEM, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Norvald Stol (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Best Paper Award Finalist Certificate

Friday, July 4, 2014

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Session 6: Algorithms and Design Optimization

A Novel Regular Expression Matching Algorithm Based on Multi-Dimensional Finite Automata: Yangyang Gong (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technology R&D Center, P.R. China); Qinrang Liu (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technology R&D Center (NDSC), P.R. China); Xiangyu Shao (National Digital Switching System R&D Center, P.R. China); Cong Pan (Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Huijuan Jiao (China University of Petroleum, P.R. China)
An Efficient Data Exchange Algorithm for Chained Network Functions: Ivano Cerrato (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Guido Marchetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Fulvio Risso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Riccardo Sisto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Matteo Virgilio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Weighted Periodic Scheduling of a Shared Resource: Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel); Yoram Revah (Industry- Marvell Israel, Israel)

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Session 7: Traffic Characterization, Measurement, and Engineering

The System for Delay Measurement in Ethernet Networks on NetFPGA Cards: Marek Michalski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Measurement of Buffer Requirement Trends for Real Time Traffic Over TCP: Etuate Cocker (The University of Auckland, New Zealand); Firas Ghazzi (The University of Auckland, New Zealand); Ulrich Speidel (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Ming Chui Dong (University of Macau, Macao); Vincent Chan Tang Wong (University of Macau, Macao); Han Vinck (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Hirosuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Hidetoshi Yokoo (Gunma University, Japan); Hiroyoshi Morita (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Hendrik C Ferreira (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Allan Ashraf Emleh (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Robert McFadzien (Telecom Cook Islands, Cook Islands); Siosifa Palelei (Ministry of Revenue, Tonga); Raimund Eimann (Private, New Zealand)
Big File Protocol (BFP): A Traffic Shaping Approach for Efficient Transport of Large Files: Ilijc Albanese (University of Victoria, Canada); Yagiz Yazir (University of Victoria, Canada); Stephen W. Neville (University of Victoria, Canada); Sudhakar Ganti (University of Victoria, Canada); Thomas E. Darcie (University of Victoria, Canada)
On Shortest Single/Multiple Path Computation Problems in Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Access Networks: Chenyang Zhou (Arizona State University, USA); Anisha Mazumder (Arizona State University, USA); Arunabha Sen (ASU, USA); Martin Reisslein (Arizona State University, USA); Andrea Richa (Arizona State University, USA)

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Session 8: High Speed Packet Processors and Designs

High-throughput Traffic Classification on Multi-core Processors: Da Tong (University of Southern California, USA); Yun Qu (University of Southern California, USA); Viktor K. Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA)
Scaling Multi-Core Network Processors Without the Reordering Bottleneck: Alexander Shpiner (Technion, Israel); Isaac Keslassy (Technion, Israel); Rami Cohen (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)
Performance Modeling and Optimizations for Decomposition-based Large-scale Packet Classification on Multi-core Processors: Yun Qu (University of Southern California, USA); Shijie Zhou (University of Southern California, USA); Viktor K. Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA)
Implementation of the Multicast LDP protocol on the FPGA Chips: Vukota Soskic (Telekom, Serbia); Aleksandra Smiljanic (Belgrade University, Serbia); Zoran Chicha (Belgrade University, Serbia)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Session 9: Network Management

Line Graph Based Fast Rerouting and Reconfiguration for Handling Transient and Permanent Node Failures: Prashant Joshi (Intel Corporation, USA); Said Hamdioui (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Blocking Probability of f-Cast Optical Banyan Networks on Vertical Stacking: Lisheng Ma (Chuzhou University, P.R. China); Xiaohong Jiang (Future University-Hakodate, Japan); Bin Wu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)