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24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
(ICNP 2016)

Tentative Conference Program

TIME Nov 8th TIME Nov 9th TIME Nov 10th TIME Nov 11th
08:30 - 12:30 HotPNS Workshop


NetworkML Workshop
08:50 - 10:10 Welcome and Keynote 08:50 - 10:10 Session 4 (4 papers):
Routing
09:00 - 10:20 Session 8 (4 papers):
Algorithms 1
10:10 - 10:40 Break 10:10 - 10:40 Break 10:20 - 10:50 Break
10:40 - 12:00 Session 1 (4 papers):
Software Defined Networking
10:40 - 12:00 Session 5 (4 papers):
Middlebox
10:50 - 12:30 Session 9 (5 papers):
Cloud and data center
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:00 - 17:00 CoolSDN Workshop


R&D Testbeds Workshop
13:00 - 14:40 Session 2 (5 papers):
Wireless
13:00 - 14:40 Session 6 (5 papers):
Social networks, p2p networks, and Video
13:30 - 15:10 Session 10 (5 papers):
Potpourri
14:40 - 15:00 Break 14:40 - 15:00 Break 15:10 - 15:40 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 3 (3 papers):
Congestion control and transport
15:00 - 16:00 Session 7 (3 papers):
RFID
15:40 - 17:00 Session 11 (4 papers):
Algorithms 2
16:00 - 17:00 Panel discussion 16:00 - 17:00 Poster session
18:30 - 20:30 Reception* 19:00 - 21:00 Banquet
   * Reception Venue: Cluny & Dalvey (2nd Floor, Kent Ridge Guild House)

Wednesday, November 9th, 2016

08:50 - 10:10 Welcome and Keynote

Keynote: "Evolution of the Network Layer" by Kenneth L. Calvert (US National Science Foundation)

10:10 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 12:00 Session 1 (4 papers): Software Defined Networking
     Session chair: Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Real-time Update with Joint Optimization of Route Selection and Update Scheduling for SDNs
Hongli Xu, Zhuolong Yu, and Xiangyang Li (University of Science and Technology of China), Chen Qian (University of Kentucky), and Liusheng Huang (University of Science and Technology of China)

Redactor: Reconcile Network Control With Declarative Control Programs In SDN
Wen Wang and Wenbo He (McGill Univ) and Jinshu Su (National University Of Defense Technology)

A Sorted Partitioning Approach to High-speed and Fast-update OpenFlow Classification
Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai (Michigan State University), James Daly and Alex X. Liu (Michigan State Univeristy), and Eric Torng (Michigan State University)

Transparent Flow Migration for NFV
Yang WANG, Gaogang XIE, Zhenyu LI, and Peng HE (ICT CAS) and Kave Salamatian (Savoie University)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:40 Session 2 (5 papers): Wireless
     Session chair: Huan Li (Beihang University)

R-Cloud: A Cloud Framework for Enabling Radio-as-a-Service over a Wireless Substrate
Chenfei Gao, Gozde Ozcan, Jian Tang, and Mustafa Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University) and Weiyi Zhang (AT&T Labs Research)

RMIP: Resource Management with Interference Precancellation in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Chin-Jung Liu and Li Xiao (Michigan State University)

Compressing Backoffs in CSMA Networks
Mahanth Gowda, Nirupam Roy, and Romit Roy Choudhury (UIUC) and Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina)

Smogy-Link: Fingerprinting Interference for Predictable Wireless Concurrency
Meng Jin (Northwest University), Yuan He and Xiaolong Zheng (Tsinghua University), and Dingyi Fang, Dan Xu, Tianzhang Xing, and Xiaojiang Chen (Northwest University)

Omnidirectional Chargability with Directional Antennas
Haipeng Dai and Xiaoyu Wang (Nanjing University), Alex Liu (Michigan State University), and Fengmin Zhang, Yang Zhao, and Guihai Chen (Nanjing University)

14:40 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 3 (3 papers): Congestion control and transport
     Session chair: K.K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside)

Enabling Router-Assisted Congestion Control on the Internet
Marcel Flores, Alexander Wenzel, and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University)

Measurement-Based Performance Profiles and Dynamics of UDT Over Dedicated Connections
Qiang Liu and Nageswara S. V. Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Chase Q. Wu and Daqing Yun (New Jersey Institute of Technology), and Rajkumar Kettimuthu and Ian T. Foster (Argonne National Laboratory)

Models of TCP in High-BDP Environments and Their Experimental Validation
Gayane Vardoyan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Nageswara S. Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), and Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

16:00 - 17:00 Panel discussion

Title: "Future Networking Research and Applications"
Panel members:
     K.K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside)
     Ken Calvert (University of Kentucky)
     Toru Hasegawa (Osaka University, Japan)
     Lim Teng Joon (National University of Singapore)
     Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Moderator:
     John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong)


Thursday, November 10th, 2016

08:50 - 10:10 Session 4 (4 papers): Routing
     Session chair: Haiying Shen (Clemson University)

Trading Routing Diversity for Better Network Performance
Xiaoyu Zhang, Wei Dong, and Wei Ren (Zhejiang University)

Optimal Link-Disjoint Node-"Somewhat Disjoint" Paths
Jose Yallouz (Technion), Ori Rottenstreich (Princeton University), Péter Babarczi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), and Avi Mendelson and Ariel Orda (Technion)

Optimizing Internet Transit Routing for Content Delivery Networks
Faraz Ahmed (Michigan State University), M. Zubair Shafiq (The University of Iowa), Amir R. Khakpour (Verizon Digital Media Services), and Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University)

We've Got You Covered: Failure Recovery with Backup Tunnels in Traffic Engineering
Jiaqi Zheng and Hong Xu (City University of Hong Kong), Xiaojun Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Guihai Chen (Nanjing University), and Yanhui Geng (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

10:10 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 12:00 Session 5 (4 papers): Middlebox
     Session chair: Alex Liu (Michigan State University)

msocket: System Support for Mobile, Multipath, and Middlebox-Agnostic Applications
Aditya Yadav and Arun Venkataramani (Umass Amherst)

Optimizing Virtual Backup Allocation for Middleboxes
Ori Rottenstreich (Princeton University), Yossi Kanizo (Tel-Hai College), Jose Yallouz (Technion), and Itai Segall (Bell Labs, Nokia)

Bringing Practical Execution Assurances to Outsourced Middleboxes
Xingliang Yuan, Huayi Duan, and Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Dynamic Service Function Chaining in SDN-Enabled Networks with Middleboxes
Linqi Guo and John Z. Pang (CMS, California Institute of Technology) and Anwar Walid (Bell Labs, Nokia)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:40 Session 6.1 (3 papers): Social networks and p2p networks
     Session chair: Ken Calvert (University of Kentucky)

Profit Maximization for Viral Marketing in Online Social Networks
Jing TANG, Xueyan TANG, and Junsong YUAN (Nanyang Technological University)

Piggyback Game: Efficient Event Stream Dissemination in Online Social Network Systems
Fan Zhang, Hanhua Chen, and Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

NSFA: Nested Scale-Free Architecture for Scalable Publish/Subscribe over P2P Networks
Huanyang Zheng and Jie Wu (Temple University)

Session 6.2 (2 papers): Video
     Session chair: Ken Calvert (University of Kentucky)

On-demand Video Processing in Wireless Networks
Zongqing Lu (Pennsylvania State University), Kevin Chan (Army Research Laboratory), Rahul Urgaonkar (Amazon), and Thomas La Porta (Pennsylvania State University)

CTCV: A protocol for Coordinated Transport of Correlated Video in Smart Camera Networks
Vinay Kolar and Vikram Munishwar (Cisco) and Israat Tanzeena Haque and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (University of California, Riverside)

14:40 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 7 (3 papers): RFID
     Session chair: Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore)

Efficient Anonymous Category-level Joint Tag Estimation
Min Chen (University of Florida), Jia Liu (Nanjing University), Shigang Chen (University of Florida), and Qingjun Xiao (SouthEast University of China)

Let's Work Together: Fast Tag Identification by Interference Elimination for Multiple RFID Readers
Xuan Liu (Hunan University), Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Feng Zhu (Nanjing University), and Shigeng Zhang (Central South University)

LocP: An Efficient Localized Polling Protocol for Large-scale RFID Systems
Binbin Li (Yanshan University), Yuan He (Tsinghua University), and Wenyuan Liu, Lin Wang, and Hongyan Wang (Yanshan University)

16:00 - 17:00 Poster session (24 posters)

#101: A Sorted Partitioning Approach to High-speed and Fast-update OpenFlow Classification
Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai (Michigan State University), James Daly and Alex X. Liu (Michigan State Univeristy), and Eric Torng (Michigan State University)

#102: Optimizing Internet Transit Routing for Content Delivery Networks
Faraz Ahmed (Michigan State University), M. Zubair Shafiq (The University of Iowa), Amir R. Khakpour (Verizon Digital Media Services), and Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University)

#103: Omnidirectional Chargability with Directional Antennas
Haipeng Dai and Xiaoyu Wang (Nanjing University), Alex Liu (Michigan State University), and Fengmin Zhang, Yang Zhao, and Guihai Chen (Nanjing University)

#104: OpenFunction: An Extensible Data Plane Abstraction Protocol for Platform-independent Software-Defined Middleboxes
Chen Tian (Nanjing University), Alex X. Liu and Ali Munir (Michigan State University), and Jie Yang (Nanjing University)

#105: CatCharge: Deploying Wireless Charging Lane in Metropolitan Scale through Categorization and Clustering of Vehicle Mobility
Li Yan (Clemson University), Juanjuan Zhao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology), Haiying Shen (Clemson University), Chengzhong Xu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology), and Feng Luo (Clemson University)

#106: Macroflow: A Fine-grained Networking Abstraction for Job Completion Time Oriented Scheduling in Datacenters
Chen Tian and Junhua Yan (Nanjing University), Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University), and Yizhou Tang, Yuankun Zhong, and Zi Li (Nanjing University)

#107: Boosting Powerline Communications for Ubiquitous Connectivity in Enterprises
Kamran Ali (Michigan State University), Ioannis Pefkianakis (HPE Labs), Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University), and Kyu-Han Kim (HPE Labs)

#108: ORSAP: Abstracting Routing State on Demand
Kai Gao (Tsinghua University), Chen Gu (Tongji University), Qiao Xiang (Yale University), Xin Wang (Tongji University), Yang Richard Yang (Yale University), and Jun Bi (Tsinghua University)

#109: Luopan: Sampling based Load Balancing in Data Center Networks
Peng Wang (City University of Hong Kong), George Trimponias (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab), Hong Xu and Hongyuan Liu (City University of Hong Kong), and Yanhui Geng (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

#110: Consistent Replication Protocol for Named Data Networking
Lijing Wang (Tsinghua University), Wentao Shang (University of California, Los Angeles), and Wenbo He and Dongsheng Wang (Tsinghua University)

#111: A Communication Model for Stateless Networked Tags
Jia Liu (Nanjing University), Youlin Zhang, Min Chen, and Shigang Chen (University of Florida), and Lijun Chen (Nanjing University)

#112: Viewing 360 Degree Videos: Motion Prediction and Bandwidth Optimization
Yanan Bao, Huasen Wu, Xin Liu, and Albara Ah Ramli (UC Davis)

#113: SliM: Enabling Efficient, Seamless NFV State Migration
Leonhard Nobach (TU Darmstadt), Ivica Rimac and Volker Hilt (Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart), and David Hausheer (TU Darmstadt)

#114: PPCU: Proportional Per-packet Consistent Updates for Software Defined Networks
Radhika Sukapuram and Gautam Barua (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

#115: Distributed Privacy-Protecting DTN Routing: Concealing the Information Indispensable in Routing
Kang Chen (Southern Illinois University) and Haiying Shen (Clemson University)

#116: Fit the Elephant in a Box - Towards IP Lookup at On-chip Memory Access Speed
Tong Yang (Peking University), Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University), Qiaobin Fu (Boston University), Dongsheng Yang (Peking University), Steve Uhlig (University of London), and Xiaoming Li (Peking University)

#117: DEME: DEcouple packet Marking from Enqueuing for multiple services in data center networks
Chengxi Gao and Victor C.S. Lee (City University of Hong Kong)

#118: Towards Verifiable Outsourced Middleboxes
Xingliang Yuan, Huayi Duan, and Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

#119: ASCEND: A Search Engine for Online Industrial Control Devices
Xuan Feng (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Qiang Li (Beijing Jiaotong University), Haining Wang (University of Delaware), and Limin Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

#120: GUIDE: Graphical User Interface Fingerprints Physical Devices
Qiang Li (Beijing Jiaotong University), Xuan Feng (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhi Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Haining Wang (University of Delaware), and Limin Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

#121: Gavel: Towards a Graph Database Defined Network
Osamah L. Barakat, David Koll, and Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen)

#122: A Template Approach to Group Key Establishment in Dynamic Ad-hoc Groups
Bruhadeshwar Bezawada, Xiaojiang Liang (Nanjing University), Alex Liu (Michigan State University), and Rui Li (Hunan University)

#123: Topological Ordering Based Iterative TCAM Rule Compression Using Bi-partite Graphs
Rui Li , Wenjie Li (Hunan University), Bruhadeshwar Bezawada (K.L.University), Zheng Qin (Hunan University)

#124: Long-Term Observation With Passive Wi-Fi Scanning
XiangFa Guo, Hande Hong, Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore), and Li-Shiuan Peh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

19:00 - 21:00 Banquet

Venue: Majestic Bay


Friday, November 11th, 2016

09:00 - 10:20 Session 8 (4 papers): Algorithms 1
     Session chair: Kate Lin (National Chiao Tung University)

FIB Efficiency in Distributed Platforms
Kirill Kogan (IMDEA Networks Institute), Sergey Nikolenko (Steklov Math. Institute.), Patrick Eugster (Purdue University and TU Darmstadt), Alexander Shalimov (Moscow State University), and Ori Rottenstreich (Princeton University)

Rules in Play: On the Complexity of Routing Tables and Firewalls
H. B. Acharya (None) and Satyam Kumar, Mohit Wadhwa, and Ayush Shah (IIIT Delhi)

Scheduling Dynamic Wireless Networks with Limited Operations
Haoyang Lu and Wei Gao (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Optimization Based Network Flow Deadline Scheduling
Andrey Gushchin, Shih-Hao Tseng, and Kevin Tang (Cornell University)

10:20 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 12:30 Session 9 (5 papers): Cloud and data center
     Session chair: Sergey Gorinsky (IMDEA Networks Institute)

Maximizing Container-based Network Isolation in Parallel Computing Clusters
Shiyao Ma, Jingjie Jiang, and Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Baochun Li (University of Toronto)

Friends or Foes: Revisiting Strategy-Proofness in Cloud Network Sharing
Wei Wang (HKUST) and A-Long Jin (HKUST and University of Waterloo)

Stream: Decentralized Opportunistic Inter Coflows Scheduling for Datacenter Networks
Hengky Susanto (Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology) and Hao Jin and Kai Chen (Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Tech)

Cache Contention Aware Virtual Machine Placement and Migration in Cloud Datacenters
Liuhua Chen, Haiying Shen, and Stephen Platt (Clemson University)

Traffic-aware Virtual Machine Migration in Topology-adaptive DCN
Shihan Xiao and Yong Cui (Tsinghua University), Xin Wang (Stony Brook University, USA), Zhenjie Yang and Shenghui Yan (Tsinghua University), and Liu Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:10 Session 10 (5 papers): Potpourri
     Session chair: Richard T. B. Ma (National University of Singapore)

Chase: Taming Concurrent Broadcast for Flooding in Asynchronous Duty Cycle Networks
Zhichao Cao (Tsinghua University), Daibo Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), and Xiaolong Zheng and Jiliang Wang (Tsinghua University)

Characterizing Industrial Control System Devices on the Internet
Xuan Feng (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Qiang Li (School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Haining Wang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, USA), and Limin Sun (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

FairCache: Introducing Fairness to ICN Caching
Liang Wang (University of Cambridge, UK), Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary University London, UK), Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, Finland), and Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)

Communication Based on Per-Packet One-Time Addresses
Taeho Lee, Christos Pappas, Pawel Szalachowski, and Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich)

Harmony: Exploiting Coarse-Grained Received Signal Strength from IoT Devices for Human Activity Recognition
Zicheng Chi, Yao Yao, Tiantian Xie, Zhichuan Huang, Michael Hammond, and Ting Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

15:10 - 15:40 Break
15:40 - 17:00 Session 11 (4 papers): Algorithms 2
     Session chair: Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore)

Decentralized Search in Expert Networks: Generic Models and Performance Bounds
Liang Ma and Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY, USA), Derya Cansever (Army CERDEC, Aberdeen, MD, USA), Xifeng Yan (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA), and Sue Kase and Michelle Vanni (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA)

An Efficient Framework for Data-plane Verification with Geometric Windowing Queries
Takeru Inoue (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories), Richard Chen (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories / University of Waterloo), Toru Mano, Kimihiro Mizutani, Hisashi Nagata, and Osamu Akashi (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories)

Fast Shortest Path Queries on Large-Scale Graphs
Qiongwen Xu, Xu Zhang, Jin Zhao, and Xin Wang (Fudan University) and Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Deadline-Sensitive User Recruitment for Mobile Crowdsensing with Probabilistic Collaboration
Mingjun Xiao (University of Science and Technology of China), Jie Wu (Temple University), He Huang (Soochow University), and Liusheng Huang and Chang Hu (University of Science and Technology of China)