Conference Program - Program

Ubiquitous, software-based, and sustainable networks and services

Tuesday 5th September, 2017

09:00 - 09:30

Opening by Franco Davoli and Nikhil Jain

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote by John Daigle (University of Mississippi, USA)
A Performance Perspective on Function Virtualization for Small Cells in 5G cellular Networks

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40

Session 1: Resource Allocation
Session Chair: Zhi-Li Zhang, Univesity of Minnesota, USA

Distributed and Adaptive Routing Based on Game Theory by Baptiste Jonglez
(Université Grenoble Alpes & LIG, France) and Bruno Gaujal (INRIA &
LIG, France)
Scheduling Jobs with Estimation Errors for Multi-Server Systems by Rachel
Mailach and Douglas Down (McMaster University, Canada)
Real-Time Fair Resource Allocation in Distributed Software Defined Networks
by Zaid Allybokus (Inria Sophia Antipolis & Mathematical and Algorithmic
Sciences Lab, France Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, France),
Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France), Jeremie Leguay
and Lorenzo Maggi (Huawei Technologies, France Research Center, France)
A Green Video Control Plane with Fixed-Mobile Convergence and Cloud-RAN
by Ramon Aparicio-Pardo (Université Côte d'Azur & CNRS, I3S, France)
and Lucile Sassatelli (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:15

Session 2: Wireless
Session Chair: Andrea Baiocchi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy

Load-Driven Cell Assignment Algorithms for Dense Pico-Cell Networks by
Bart Post and Sem Borst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands)
Data-Driven Evaluation of Anticipatory Networking in LTE Networks by
Nicola Bui and Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
Experimental Comparison of Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensors
Networks: Routing Overhead and Asymmetric Links by Henry-Joseph
Audéoud (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France) and Martin Heusse
(Grenoble Informatics Laboratory & Grenoble INP, France)

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:00

Session 3: Big Data Analytics
Session Chair: Glenn Ricart, US Ignite, USA

Skampling for the Flow Duration Distribution by Nelson Antunes (University
of Algarve, Portugal), Vladas Pipiras (University of North Carolina, USA),
and Darryl Veitch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Multi-Low-Rank Approximation for Traffic Matrices by Saurabh Verma,
Arvind Narayanan, and Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA)
Anonymity Services Tor, I2P, JonDonym: Classifying in the Dark by
Antonio Montieri (University of Napoli Federico II & NM2 srl, Italy),
Giuseppe Aceto, Domenico Ciuonzo, and Antonio Pescapé (University of
Napoli Federico II, Italy)

18:00 - 20:00

Welcome reception

Wednesday 6th September, 2017

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote by Melissa Frank (Google, USA)
Journey into an Emerging Product Space: Building Android Wear

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:10

Session 4: Performance Modelling
Session Chair: Ravi Mazumdar, University of Waterloo, Canada

State Modulated Traffic Models for Machine Type Communication by Olav
Norvald Østerbø (Telenor Corporate Development, Norway), Daniel Zucchetto
(University of Padova, Italy), Kashif Mahmood (Telenor, Norway), Andrea
Zanella (University of Padova, Italy), and Ole Grøndalen (Telenor, Norway)
Performance Modeling of Vehicular Floating Content by Gaetano Manzo
(University of Bern and HES SO Valais), Marco G Ajmone Marsan
(Politecnico di Torino, Italy & IMDEA Networks, Spain), and Gianluca A. Rizzo
(HES SO Valais, Switzerland)
A Model for the Optimization of Beacon Message Age-of-Information in a
VANET by Andrea Baiocchi and Ion Turcanu (University of Rome La Sapienza,
Italy)
Incentive-Rewarding Mechanisms to Stimulate Participation in Heterogeneous
DTNs by Rachid El-Azouzi (University of Avignon, France), Ahmed El
Ouadrhiri (LIMS, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco),
Balakrishna Prabhu (LAAS-CNRS, France), Daniel Menasché (Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Olivier Brun (Laboratoire
d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes & CNRS, France)

12:10 - 12:25

Madness session

12:25 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 15:15

Session 5: Demos and Tools
Session Chair: Thomas Zinner, University of Würzburg, Germany

SoC-based Implementation of a Lightweight Label Switching Router by
Timothy VanEtten, Amy Williams, Jiahuan Deng and Feng Wang (Liberty
University, USA), and Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
USA)
Monitoring Container Services at the Network Edge by Marcel Groÿmann
and Clemens Klug (University of Bamberg, Germany)
fling: A Flexible Ping for Middlebox Measurements by Runa Barik and
Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, Norway), Ahmed Mustafa Elmokashfi
(Simula Research Laboratory, Norway), Stein Gjessing (University of Oslo &
Simula Research Lab., Norway), and Safiqul Islam (University of Oslo,
Norway)

15:15 - 16:15

Coffee break + Poster session

16:15 - 17:30

Session 6: Virtualization and Measurements
Session Chair: Raffaele Bolla, University of Genoa, Italy

A Multi-Objective Heuristic for the Optimization of Virtual Network Function
Chain Placement by Stanislav Lange, Alexej Grigorjew, Thomas Zinner,
Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Würzburg, Germany), and Michael Jarschel
(Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
Automated Decision Making based on Pareto Frontiers in the Context of
Service Placement in Networks by Michael Seufert, Stanislav Lange, and
Markus Meixner (University of Würzburg, Germany)
A First Look at the Prevalence and Persistence of Middleboxes in the Wild by
Korian Edeline and Benoit Donnet (University of Liège, Belgium)

19:00 - 22:00

Social event at Villa del Principe

Thursday 7th September, 2017

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote by Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Data Plane Programmability: the Next Step in Software Defined Networking

10:00 - 10:15

Coffee break

10:15 - 10:45

Lecture by Hans van den Berg (TNO / University of Twente / CWI)
2017 Arne Jensen Lifetime Awardee

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40

Session 7: Monitoring
Session Chair: Ignacio Castro, QMUL, UK

Speedtest-like Measurements in 3G/4G Networks: the MONROE Experience
by Ali Safari Khatouni and Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Marco
G Ajmone Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy & IMDEA Networks, Spain); Stefan
Alfredsson, Jonas Karlsson and Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University,
Sweden), Ozgu Alay, Andra Lutu and Cise Midoglu (Simula Research
Laboratory, Norway), and Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute,
Spain)
LISP-Views: Monitoring LISP at Large Scale by Yue Li, Akram Abouseif and
Luigi Iannone (Telecom ParisTech, France), and Damien Saucez (INRIA,
France)
Towards a NetFlow Implementation for OpenFlow Software-Defined Networks
by José Suárez-Varela (UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain) and Pere Barlet-Ros
(UPC BarcelonaTech / Talaia Networks, Spain)
One-to-One matching of RTT and Path Changes by Wenqin Shao (Telecom
ParisTech, France), Jean-Louis Rougier (TELECOM ParisTech / LTCI,
France), Antoine Paris (Telecom ParisTech, France), François Devienne and
Mateusz Viste (BORDER 6, France)

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:15

Session 8: Caching
Session Chair: Richard Gibbens, University of Cambridge, UK

Quality-Aware DASH Video Caching Schemes At Mobile Edge by Zakaria Ye
(University of Avignon, France), Francesco De Pellegrini (Fondazione Bruno
Kessler (FBK), Italy), Rachid El-Azouzi and Tania Jimenez (University of
Avignon, France), and Lorenzo Maggi (Huawei Technologies, France Research
Center, France)
Providing Information Resilience through Modularity-based Caching in
Perturbed Information-Centric Networks by Wei Koong Chai (Bournemouth
University, United Kingdom), Vasilis Sourlas and George Pavlou (University
College London, United Kingdom)
Offload Content at Self-organizing Mobile Fogs by Junaid A Khan (INRIA &
INSA Lyon, France), Cedric Westphal (Huawei Innovation Center, USA), and
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France)

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:00

Session 9: Queueing
Session Chair: Nelson Antunes, University of Algarve, Portugal

Value (Generating) Functions for the MX/G/1 Queue by Esa Hyytiä
(University of Iceland, Iceland & Aalto University, Finland), Rhonda Righter
(University of California Berkeley, USA), Jorma Virtamo and Lauri Viitasaari
(Aalto University, Finland)
Latency Reduction in Communication Networks using Redundant Messages
by Joseph Hollinghurst, Ayalvadi Ganesh (University of Bristol, United
Kingdom), and Timothy Baugé (Thales Group, United Kingdom)
Mean Field Analysis of Loss Models with Mixed-Erlang Distributions under
Power-of-d Routing by Thirupathaiah Vasantam (University of Waterloo,
Canada), Arpan Mukhopadhyay (EPFL, Switzerland), and Ravi R Mazumdar
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

17:00 - 17:15

Closing

		ICT Standards Workshop Workshop on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standards
		COST ACROSS Workshop COST ACROSS Workshop "Management & Control for Reliable Softwarized Networks"

		Soft 5G Workshop First International Workshop on Softwarized Infrastructures for 5G and Fog Computing
		PHD Workshop PhD Workshop “Modelling Communication Networks” at ITC 2017