Conference Program

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Conference Program 12. - 16. September 2016

The technical program is presented in the form of double-track sessions spanning three days, from September 13 to 15, 2016. The demo session, the three keynote speeches, and two selected sessions are presented as plenary sessions.

A PDF version of the full Conference Program can be found here.

The preface for ITC 28 as well as the welcome message from the general chairs and the TPC co-chairs is available for download.

Maps of the internals of the computer science building showing the rooms used by the ITC and its co-hosted workshops can be found here.

Monday 12th September, 2016

Turing lecture hall

PROCON-Workshop
Workshop on Programmability for Cloud Networks and Applications (PROCON)

Tuesday 13th September, 2016

09:00 - 09:30

Turing lecture hall

Opening by Phuoc Tran-Gia

09:30 - 10:30

Turing lecture hall

Keynote by Nikhil Jain (Qualcomm Technologies) (Chair: Phuoc Tran-Gia)
Internet of Everything: Engineering Challenges and Opportunities

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:20

Turing lecture hall

Session 1.A: Clouds and Data Centers (Session chair: Andreas Timm-Giel)
Offering Resilient and Bandwidth Guaranteed Services in Multi-Tenant Cloud Networks: Harnessing the Sharing Opportunities by Hyame Assem Alameddine; Sara Ayoubi; Chadi Assi
Dynamic Virtual Network Traffic Engineering with Energy Efficiency in Multi-Location Data Center Networks by Mirza Mohd Shahriar Maswood; Chris Develder; Edmundo Madeira; Deep Medhi
An Energy-Aware Embedding Algorithm for Virtual data Centers by Tran Manh Nam; Nguyen van Huynh; Le Quang Dai; Nguyen Huu Thanh

Zuse lecture hall

Session 1.B: Traffic and Network Management (Session chair: Peter Reichl)
Disaster Avoidance Control Against Tsunami by Phuong Nga Tran; Hiroshi Saito
Building a Low Latency Linux Software Router by Alexander Beifuß; Torsten M. Runge; Daniel Raumer; Paul Emmerich; Bernd E. Wolfinger; Georg Carle
Traffic-Driven Implicit Buffer Management - Delay Differentiation Without Traffic Contracts by Martin Karsten; Daniel S. Berger; Jens Schmitt

12:20 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 15:15

Turing lecture hall

Session 2: Wireless (Session chair: Michaela Meo)
Full Demo 1: Self-Optimization of Software Defined Radios Through Evolutionary Algorithms by Zubair Shaik; André Puschmann; Andreas Mitschele-Thiel
Opportunistic Channel Estimation for Implicit 802.11af MU-MIMO by Ryan E. Guerra; Narendra Anand; Clayton Shepard; Edward W. Knightly
DiVote: A Distributed Voting Protocol for Mobile Device-to-Device Communication by Peter Danielis; Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva; Gunnar Karlsson

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:05

Turing lecture hall

Session 3.A: Cellular (Session chair: Zhisheng Niu)
Joint Optimization of User Association and User Satisfaction in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks by Farah Moety; Mustapha Bouhtou; Taoufik En-Najjary; Ridha Nasri
Joint Resource Allocation and User Association for Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks by Ying Loong Lee; Li-Chun Wang; Teong Chee Chuah; Jonathan Loo
Performance-Oriented Association in Large Cellular Networks with Technology Diversity by Abishek Sankararaman; Jeong-woo Cho; François Baccelli

Zuse lecture hall

Session 3.B: Video Streaming (Session chair: Poul Heegaard)
Bridging the Gap Between QoE and User Engagement in HTTP Video Streaming by Christian Moldovan; Florian Metzger
A Markov Model for Evaluation Resource Sharing Policies for DASH Assisting Network Elements by Jan Willem Kleinrouweler; Sergio Cabrero; Rob van der Mei; Pablo Cesar
Mobile Live Video Upstreaming by Philip Lundrigan; Mojgan Khaledi; Makito Kano; Naveen Dasa Subramanyam; Sneha Kasera

18:30 - 20:00

Würzburg city hall

Welcome Reception
Afterwards Dr. Süß will offer the possibility to take part in a guided city tour of Würzburg (presented in English)

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Wednesday 14th September, 2016

09:00 - 10:00

Turing lecture hall

Keynote by Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany) (Chair: Tobias Hoßfeld)
Towards Flexible Networking in Dynamically Changing Environments

10:00 - 10:30

Turing lecture hall

Full Demo 2 (Chair: Mark Berman)
PlanetIgnite: A Self-Assembling, Lightweight, Infrastructure-as-a-Service Edge Cloud by Andy Bavier; Rick McGeer; Glenn Ricart

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:20

Turing lecture hall

Session 4.A: Caching Strategies (Session chair: Hans van den Berg)
Dynamic Cache Partitioning for Encrypted Content Delivery by Andrea Araldo; György Dán; Dario Rossi
Access-time Aware cache Algorithms by Giovanni Neglia; Damiano Carra; Mingdong Feng; Vaishnav Janardhan; Pietro Michiardi; Dimitra Tsigkari
Asymptotically Exact TTL-Approximations of the Cache Replacement Algorithms RLU(m) and h-LRU by Nicolas Gast; Benny Van Houdt

Zuse lecture hall

Session 4.B: Performance Analysis (Session chair: Markus Fiedler)
Meeting Soft Deadlines in Single- And Multi-Server Systems by Esa Hyytiä; Rhonda Righter; Jorma Virtamo
Performance Analysis of CoDel and PIE for Saturated TCP Sources by Fabian Schwarzkopf; Sebastian Veith; Michael Menth
Stochastic Upper and Lower Bounds for General Markov Fluids by Florin Ciucu; Felix Poloczek; Jens Schmitt

12:20 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 15:15

Turing lecture hall

Session 5: Demo Session (Session chairs: Michael Jarschel, Mark Berman, Rick McGeer)

Madness Session (Turing HS, 13:45-14:15): All demos will be briefly introduced in a plenary session session (3 min. per demo). Afterwards, all demos will be presented in the local Seminar rooms I to III

SE I & SE II & SE III

Live Demo Presentations (SE I & SE II & SE III, 14:15-15:15)
Demo: Integrating Distributed High-Performance Zones in the BelWue ISP Network and University Campuses Using OpenFlow by Mark Schmidt; Robert Finze; Daniel Reutter; Michael Menth
Demonstrating a Personalized Secure-By-Default Bring Your Own Deive Solution Based on Software Defined Networking by Steffen Gebert; Thomas Zinner; Nicholas Gray; Raphael Durner; Claas Lorenz; Stanislav Lange
Demonstrating Context-Aware Services in the MobilityFirst Future Internet Architecture by Francesco Bronzino; Dipankar Raychaudhuri; Ivan Seskar
jLISP: An Open, Modular and Extensible Java-Based LISP Implementation by Andreas Stockmayer; Mark Schmidt; Michael Menth
Network as a Service - A Demo on 5G Network Slicing by Rastin Pries; Hans-Jochen Morper; Nandor Galambosi; Michael Jarschel
Security of Distributed Container Based Service Clustering with Hypriot Cluster Lab by Marcel Großmann; Andreas Eiermann

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:05

Turing lecture hall

Session 6.A Softwarization (Session chair: Nguyen Huu Thanh)
Sector: TCAM Space Aware Routing on SDN by Sai Qian Zhang; Qi Zhang; Ali Tizghadam; Byungchul Park; Hadi Bannazadeh; Alberto Leon-Garcia; Raouf Boutaba
Port Based Capacity Extensions (PBCEs): Improving SDNs Flow Table Scalability by Robert Bauer; Martina Zitterbart
Performance Modeling of Softwarized Network Functions Using Discrete Time Analysis by Steffen Gebert; Thomas Zinner; Stanislav Lange; Christian Schwartz; Phuoc Tran-Gia

15:45 - 17:05

Zuse lecture hall

Session 6.B: Information and Social Networks (Session chair: Michael Menth)
Cache the Queues: Caching and Forwarding in ICN From a Congestion Control Perspective by Dinh Nguyen; Kohei Sugiyama; Atsushi Tagami
Optimizing Time to Exhaustion in Service Provicers Using Information-Centric Networking by Ali Shariat; Ali Tizghadam; Alberto Leon-Garcia
Binary Opinion Dynamics with Biased Agents and Agents with Different Degrees of Stubbornness by Arpan Mukhopadhyay; Ravi R. Mazumdar; Rahul Roy

18:15 - 19:00

Residence

Dr. Süß will give a small tour through the Residence with information regarding the history, the art and more (Presented in English)

19:00 - 23:00

Residence

Social Event

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Thursday 15th September, 2016

09:00 - 10:00

Turing lecture hall

Keynote by Eitan Altman (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) (Chair: Hisashi Kobayashi)
Dynamic Games for Analyzing Competition in the Internet

10:00 - 10:30

Turing lecture hall

Full Demo 3 (Chair: Michael Jarschel)
LiveTalk: A Framework for Collaborative Browser-Based Replicated-Computation Applications by Matthew Hemmings; Daniel Ingalls; Robert Krahn; Rick McGeer; Glenn Ricart; Marko Röder; Ulrike Stege

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:20

Turing lecture hall

Session 7.A: Measurements (Session chair: Marco Mellia)
IntegraTag: a Framework for High-Fidelity Web Client measurement by Charles Thomas; Jeff Kline; Paul Barford
CLUE: Clustering for Mining Web URLs by Andrea Morichetta; Enrico Bocchi; Hassan Metwalley; Marco Mellia
Testing for Traffic Differentiation with ChkDiff: The Downstream Case by Riccardo Ravaioli; Guillaume Urvoy-Keller; Chadi Barakat

Zuse lecture hall

Session 7.B: Caching (Session chair: Thomas Bauschert)
ModelGraft: Accurate, Scalable, and Flexible Performance Evaluation of General Cache Networks by Michele Tortelli; Dario Rossi; Emilio Leonardi

Distributed Algorithms for Content Caching in Mobile Backhaul Networks by Valentino Pacifici; Slađana Jošilo; György Dán

Performance Evaluation for New Web Caching Strategies Combining RU with Score Based Object Selection by Gerhard Hasslinger; Kostas Ntougias; Frank Hasslinger; Oliver Hohlfeld

12:20 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 15:00

Turing lecture hall

Session 8: Virtualization (Session chair: Thomas Zinner)
A Power Efficient and Robust Virtual Network Functions Placement Problem by Antonio Marotta; Andreas J. Kassler
Elastic Network Service Provisioning with VNF Auctioning by Mathis Obadia; Mathieu Bouet; Vania Conan; Luigi Iannone; Jean-Louis Rougier

15:00 - 15:45

Turing lecture hall

Closing Session

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Friday 16th September, 2016

All Day

Turing lecture hall
Zuse lecture hall

QCMan-Workshop and ACROSS Workshop
2016 International Workshop on Quality of Experience Centric Management (QCMan)
Workshop of COST Action ACROSS on "Quality Engineering for a Reliable Internet of Services"

Program

What's New?

Report available
October 27th, 2016
Arne Jensen Lifetime Award 2016
September 26th, 2016
Photos online!
September 21st, 2016

Important Dates

Paper registration: March 11, 2016 (extended)
Full paper due: March 18, 2016 (extended)
Acceptance notification: May 13, 2016
Camera-ready paper due: June 15, 2016
Note: All dates are hard deadlines.