2022 Schedule

Day 1 - Monday, February 28

8:20-8:30am

Welcome

8:30-9:05am

Keynote

Amin Vahdat, Google

9:05-9:15am

Break

9:15-10:20am

Host/SmartNIC

Session Moderator:  Marc de Kruijf

  • Aurojit Panda, New York University - Extensible Network Stacks
  • Danyang Zhuo, Duke University - Collie: Finding Performance Anomalies in RDMA Subsystems 
  • Ahmed SaeedGeorgia Tech - High Performance Network Stacks for Edge Servers

10:20-10:40AM

Break

10:40-11:40AM

Datacenter Networking

Session Moderator:  Andrew Ferguson

  • Katerina Argyraki, EPFL - Performance Interfaces (for Network Functions and Beyond) 
  • Nate Foster, Cornell University - Runtime Network Verification
  • Ming Liu, University of Wisconsin, Madison - CAS2: An Edge-Centric Networking Architecture for Disaggregated Storage

11:40-11:50AM

Break

11:50am-12:30pm

Googler Panel on End Hosts/SmartNIC/DCN 

Session Moderator:  Nandita Dukkipati

Panelist:  Nupur Kothari, Prashant Chandra, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Culler & Joon Ong

 

12:30pm

Wrap-up

12:30-12:40pm

Break

12:40-1:40pm

Water Cooler Chats

  • Water Cooler Chat 1 -  Hosted by Jeff Mogul
  • Water Cooler Chat 2 -  Hosted by David Culler
  • Water Cooler Chat 3 - Chat with Women in Networking | Hosted by Priya Mahadevan, Nandita Dukkipati, Rupa Krishnan and Daniela Raijman

Day 2 - Tuesday, March 1

8:20-8:30am

Welcome

8:30-9:00am

Keynote

Bikash Koley, Google

9:00-9:05am

Break

9:05-9:40AM

Googler Panel on Reliability/Availability

Session Moderator:  Priya Mahadevan

Panelist:  Rich Alimi, Jessica McCarthy & Arjun Singh

9:40-9:50AM

Break

9:50-10:50AM

Cloud

Session Moderator:  Arunkumar Jayaraman

  • Keith Winstein, Stanford University - Computation as a Service: New Models of Serverless Computing
  • Anirudh SivaramanNew York University - Designing Networked Systems for Cloud Tenants
  • Ramesh GovindanUniversity of Southern California - CloudCluster: Unearthing the Functional Structure of a Cloud Service

10:50-11:00am

Break

11:00-11:40am

Application-Network Integration

Session Moderator:  Malveeka Tewari

  • Eugene NgRice University - Closed-Loop Designs for Better Application-Network Integration
  • Radhika MittalUIUC - Enabling Users to Control Their Internet

11:40-11:50AM

Break

11:50am-12:30pm

Googler Panel on WAN/Cloud

Session Moderator:   Daniela Raijman

Panelist:  Rob Enns, Subhasree Mandal, Ashok Narayanan & Alok Kumar

12:30PM

Wrap-up

12:30-12:45PM

Break

12:45-1:54PM

Student Lightning Talks

Session Moderators:  Malveeka Tewari & Gautam Kumar

  • Xinhao KongDuke University - Collie: Finding Performance Anomalies in RDMA Subsystems
  • Satadal Sengupta, Princeton University - Optimizing Video Conferencing QoE in the Data Plane
  • Stewart GrantUniversity of California, San Diego - In-network Techniques for Resource Disaggregation
  • Rukshani AthapathuUniversity of California, San Diego - Energy Consumption of TCP (Specific Focus on Congestion Control Algorithms)
  • Rajath ShashidharaUniversity of Washinhgton, Seattle - FlexTOE:  Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism
  • Yuhan DengStanford University - Fixpoint: A Functional Operating System
  • Pooria NamyarUniversity of Southern California - A Throughput-centric View of the Performance of Datacenter Topologies
  • Nikita LazarevCornell University - CPU-free Data Movement in Datacenters
  • Weitao WangRice University - MXDAG: A Hybrid Abstraction for Emerging Applications
  • Jessica Berg, New York University - Snicket: Query-Driven Distributed Tracing Using Service Mesh Extensions
  • Anup AgarwalCarnegie Mellon University - HeteroSketch: Coordinating Network Monitoring in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Networks
  • Zhizhen ZhongMassachuetts Institute of Technology - Building Highly-Available WAN with Reconfigurable Networks

Day 3 - Wednesday, March 2

7:30-8:15am

Student Lightning Talks

Session Moderators:  Phillipa Gill & Mojgan Ghasemi

  • Abhik BoseIndian Institute of Technology Bombay - Leveraging Programmable Dataplanes for a High Performance 5G User Plane Function
  • Andrea D'AmicoPolitecnico di Torino - Lightpath Computation and Optimization in Multi-band Optical Networking
  • Georgia Fragkouli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne - Internet Performance Transparency
  • Tao WangNew York University - Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines
  • Hugo SadokCarnegie Mellon University - We Need Kernel Interposition Over the Network Dataplane
  • Sophia YooPrinceton University - SmartCookie: Distributed In-Network SYN Flooding Mitigation
  • Robin Matzner, University College London - Ultra-fast Optical Network Throughput Prediction Using Graph Neural Networks

8:15-8:30AM

Break

8:30-8:40AM

Welcome

8:40-9:10AM

Keynote

Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University

9:10-9:15AM

Break

9:15-9:50AM

Googler Panel on Data Sharing & Academic Collaborations

Session Moderator:  Rupa Krishnan

Pre-reading:  "Data-driven Networking Research: models for academic collaboration with Industry (a Google point of view)" (10-minute read)

Panelist: Jeff Mogul, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Marco Lohse & Aditya Akella

9:50-10:05AM

Break

10:05-11:25AM

Networks for ML

Session Moderator:  Minlan Yu

  • Manya Ghobadi,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Optimizing the Network Topology for Distributed DNN Training
  • Noa ZilbermanUniversity of Oxford - In-network Machine Learning
  • Arpit GuptaUniversity of California, Santa Barbara - Democratizing Networking Research in the Era of AI/ML
  • Aditya Akella - Network-acclereated Multi-tenant Distributed Training

11:25-11:35AM

Break

11:35AM-12:30pm

Closing Session

12:30pm

Wrap-up