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
- T2: Infiniband and High-Speed Ethernet: Overview, Latest Status and Trends
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)
- T4: Flow and Congestion Controls for Multitenant Datacenters: Virtualization, Transport and Workload Impact
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
- A Subcarrier-Slot Partition Scheme for Wavelength Assignment in Elastic Optical Networks
- Performance and Cost Evaluation of a Novel Optical Packet Switch with Input Concentrators
- Survivable Lightpath Provisioning in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Session Chair: 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
- JA-trie: Entropy-Based Packet Classification
- Binary Search on Trie Levels with a Bloom Filter for Longest Prefix Match
Session Chair: Maria Yuang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
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
- Performance Evaluation of OpenFlow Controllers for Network Virtualization
- Cross-Control: A Scalable Multi-Topology Fault Restoration Mechanism Using Logically Centralized Controllers
Session Chair: 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
- High Performance Multipath Routing for Data Centers
- A Scalable Framework for Segment Routing in Service Provider Networks: The Omnipresent Ethernet Approach
- A Heuristic Routing Algorithm for Network Coding Aware 1+1 Protection Route Design for Instantaneous Recovery
Session Chair: Mitchell Gusat, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
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
- Best Paper Award Certificate
- An Efficient Data Exchange Algorithm for Chained Network Functions
- Best Paper Award Finalist Certificate
- A Subcarrier-Slot Partition Scheme for Wavelength Assignment in Elastic Optical Networks
- Best Paper Award Finalist Certificate (Honorable Mention)
- Performance and Cost Evaluation of a Novel Optical Packet Switch with Input Concentrators
- Best Paper Award Finalist Certificate
Session Chair: Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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
- An Efficient Data Exchange Algorithm for Chained Network Functions
- Weighted Periodic Scheduling of a Shared Resource
Session Chair: Po-Lung Tien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
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
- Measurement of Buffer Requirement Trends for Real Time Traffic Over TCP
- Big File Protocol (BFP): A Traffic Shaping Approach for Efficient Transport of Large Files
- On Shortest Single/Multiple Path Computation Problems in Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Access Networks
Session Chair: Arunabha Sen, 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
- Scaling Multi-Core Network Processors Without the Reordering Bottleneck
- Performance Modeling and Optimizations for Decomposition-based Large-scale Packet Classification on Multi-core Processors
- Implementation of the Multicast LDP protocol on the FPGA Chips
Session Chair: 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
- Blocking Probability of f-Cast Optical Banyan Networks on Vertical Stacking
Session Chair: Marek Michalski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland