Program

The First International Conference in Networking Science & Practice

Tue, 4 Sep 2018	Wed, 5 Sep 2018	Thu, 6 Sep 2018	Fri, 7 Sep 2018
Opening & Keynote by Debasis Mitra	Vision Session A	Technical Session 6	NetCal 2018 Workshop: Opening & Keynote by Jean-Yves Le Boudec
break	break / Poster & Demo Session	break	break
Technical Session 1	Young Researchers Session	Technical Session 7	Session I - Applications
lunch
Technical Session 2	Vision Session B	Technical Session 8	Session II - Service and Arrival Characterizations
break	Coffee break / Poster & Demo Session	break	break
Technical Session 3	ITC Award Session	Technical Session 9 & Farewell	Session III - Analysis Techniques & Closing

Reception and Gala Concert	Conference Dinner

We are happy to announce the keynote by Debasis Mitra on "An Engineer’s Perspective on Some Societal Problems".

Networking Science - Where Are We Heading To? As one of the highlights of ITC 30, the ITC 30 Networking Science Vision Day will be organized on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, presenting several top experts from the networking community who will present their views and visions on the future smart world and the role of networking research in it.

Program Booklet

Program as PDF Download available here

A list with all accepted papers for ITC30 can be found here.

[Tuesday] | [Wednesday] | [Thursday] | [Friday]

Tuesday, 4th September, 2018

09:00 - 10:30

Opening & Keynote by Debasis Mitra

10:30 - 11:00

break

11:00 - 12:30

Technical Session 1: Performance Evaluation

Evaluating Rare Events in Mission Critical Dispatching Systems by Esa Hyytiä; Rhonda Righter
Statistical Delay Bounds for Automatic Repeat Request Protocols with Pipelining by Mark Akselrod; Markus Fidler
Whittle index approach to energy-aware dispatching by Samuli Aalto; Pasi Lassila
On occupancy based randomized routing schemes in large systems of shared servers by Thirupathaiah Vasantam; Ravi R Mazumdar

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Technical Session 2: Mobile Edge Computing

Online algorithms for cost-effective cloud selection with multiple demands by Youngmi Jin; Michiaki Hayashi; Atsushi Tagami

Application-Agnostic Offloading of Datagram Processing by Oliver Hohlfeld; Jens Helge Reelfs; Jan Rüth; Florian Schmidt; Torsten Zimmermann; Jens Hiller; Klaus Wehrle

A popularity-based approach for effective Cloud offload in Fog clusters by Marcel Enguehard; Giovanna Carofiglio; Dario Rossi
Time Constrained Service-aware Migration of Virtualized Services for Mobile Edge Computing by Peiyue Zhao; György Dán

15:30 - 16:00

break

16:00 - 17:30

Technical Session 3: PhD Workshop & Madness Session

PhD paper Session
Optimal Fairness and Quality in Video Streaming With Multiple Users by Christian Moldovan; Tobias Hoßfeld; Poul E. Heegaard; Lea Skorin-Kapov

Performance Evaluation of Virtualization on Embedded Microprocessors by Vivian Noronha; Thomas Bauschert; Ekkehard Lang; Maximilian Riegel

Madness Session
WhatsAnalyzer: a Tool for Collecting and Analyzing WhatsApp Mobile Messaging Communication Data by Anika Schwind; Michael Seufert

Effects of Adaptive Streaming Optimizations on the Perception of 360° Virtual Reality Video by Joris Heyse; Maria Torres Vega; Tim Wauters; Femke De Backere; Filip De Turck

Exploring the Transmission Behaviour of Overwatch: The Source of Lag by Florian Metzger; Roman Heger

Deriving YouTube Playout Phases from Encrypted Packet Level Traffic by Stefan Geissler; Stanislav Lange; Florian Wamser; Tobias Hoßfeld

18:30 - 20:30

Reception and Gala Concert
"Belcanto - An Night at the Opera"

Palais Eschenbach
Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Vienna

[Tuesday] | [Wednesday] | [Thursday] | [Friday]

Wednesday, 5th September 2018

09:00 - 10:30

Vision Day Session A

Network Science and Telecommunications by Piet Van Mieghem (TU Delft)
Networks and Market Mechanisms by Mikaël Touati (Orange Labs)

10:30 - 11:00

break / Poster & Demo Session

Poster

Exploring the Transmission Behaviour of Overwatch: The Source of Lag by Florian Metzger, Roman Heger

Deriving YouTube Playout Phases from Encrypted Packet Level Traffic by Stefan Geissler, Stanislav Lange, Florian Wamser, Tobias Hoßfeld

Demos

WhatsAnalyzer: a Tool for Collecting and Analyzing WhatsApp Mobile Messaging Communication Data by Anika Schwind, Michael Seufert

Effects of Adaptive Streaming Optimizations on the Perception of 360° Virtual Reality Video by Joris Heyse, Maria Torres Vega, Tim Wauters, Femke De Backere, Filip De Turck

11:00 - 12:30

Young Researchers Session

Online Resource Allocation in Dynamic Optical Networks by Ronald Romero Reyes; Thomas Bauschert

Optimization of Controller Placement and Information Flow in Softwarized Networks by Stanislav Lange

Synopsis of the PhD Thesis - Network Computations in Artificial Intelligence by Decebal Constantin Mocanu
Cognitive Real-time QoE Management of Video Streaming Services by Maria Torres Vega; Antonio Liotta

From self-sustainable Green Mobile Networks to enhanced interaction with the Smart Grid by Daniela Renga; Michela Meo

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Vision Day Session B

Wireless and the City by Philippe Jacquet (Nokia Bell Labs)
Data-driven Decisions in Communication Systems by Alexandre Proutiere (KTH Stockholm)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break / Poster & Demo Session

Poster

Exploring the Transmission Behaviour of Overwatch: The Source of Lag by Florian Metzger, Roman Heger

Deriving YouTube Playout Phases from Encrypted Packet Level Traffic by Stefan Geissler, Stanislav Lange, Florian Wamser, Tobias Hoßfeld

Demos

WhatsAnalyzer: a Tool for Collecting and Analyzing WhatsApp Mobile Messaging Communication Data by Anika Schwind, Michael Seufert

Effects of Adaptive Streaming Optimizations on the Perception of 360° Virtual Reality Video by Joris Heyse, Maria Torres Vega, Tim Wauters, Femke De Backere, Filip De Turck

16:30 - 17:30

ITC Award Session
ITC Rising Scholar Award 2018: Arpan Mukhopadhyay "Algorithms for Large Networks: An Asymptotic Approach"

Arne Jensen Lifetime Award: Luigi Fratta "All Around Internet: Past, Present and Future"

19:30

Conference Dinner

Stadtsenatssitzungssaal
Feststiege I, Vienna City Hall, Rathausplatz, 1010 Vienna

[Tuesday] | [Wednesday] | [Thursday] | [Friday]

Thursday, 6th September 2018

09:00 - 10:30

Technical Session 6: Wireless and Cellular Networks

Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Schemes for D2D Communications by Antonia Maria Masucci; Philippe Olivier; Alain Simonian
Can Decentralized Status Update Achieve Universally Near-Optimal Age-of-Information in Wireless Multiaccess Channels? by Zhiyuan Jiang; Bhaskar Krishnamachari; Sheng Zhou; Zhisheng Niu
Limited by Capacity or Blockage? A Millimeter Wave Blockage Analysis by Ish K Jain; Rajeev Kumar; Shivendra Panwar
Enabling a Win-Win Coexistence Mechanism for WiFi and LTE in Unlicensed Bands by Ilenia Tinnirello; Domenico Garlisi; Fabrizio Giuliano

10:30 - 11:00

break

11:00 - 12:30

Technical Session 7: Network Measurements

Can WebRTC QoS Work? A DSCP Measurement Study by Runa Barik; Michael Welzl; Ahmed Mustafa Elmokashfi; Thomas Dreibholz; Stein Gjessing
LENTA: Longitudinal Exploration for Network Traffic Analysis by Andrea Morichetta; Marco Mellia

TimeWeaver: Opportunistic One Way Delay Measurement via NTP by Ramakrishnan Durairajan; Sathiya Kumaran Mani; Paul Barford; Robert Nowak; Joel Sommers

A Heuristic Approach to Assess the Traffic Matrix of an ISP exploiting Segment Routing by Antonio Cianfrani; Marco Polverini; Trupti Nalawade

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Technical Session 8: Network Architectures and Paradigms

A Semi-Virtualized Testbed Cluster with a Centralized Server for Networking Education by Mark Schmidt; Andreas Stockmayer; Florian Heimgaertner; Michael Menth
Performance Implications of Packet Filtering with Linux eBPF by Dominik Scholz; Daniel Raumer; Paul Emmerich; Alexander Kurtz; Krzysztof Lesiak; Georg Carle
Impact of TCP BBR on CUBIC Traffic: A Mixed Workload Evaluation by Habtegebreil Haile; Anna Brunstrom; Karl-Johan Grinnemo; Per Hurtig; Eneko Atxutegi; Fidel Liberal; Åke Arvidsson

Performance Evaluation of Service Functions Chain Placement Algorithms in Edge Cloud by Lam Dinh-Xuan; Michael Seufert; Florian Wamser; Constantinos Vassilakis; Anastasios Zafeiropoulos; Phuoc Tran-Gia

15:30 - 16:00

break

16:00 - 17:30

Technical Session 9: Application Scenarios & Farewell

Improving Mobile Video Quality Through Predictive Channel Quality Based Buffering by Jan Willem Kleinrouweler; Britta Meixner; Joost W Bosman; Hans van den Berg; Rob van der Mei; Pablo Cesar

Network-level Cooperation in Random Access IoT Networks with Aggregators by Nikolaos Pappas; Ioannis Dimitriou; Zheng Chen

[Tuesday] | [Wednesday] | [Thursday] | [Friday]

Friday, 7th September 2018

NetCal 2018

2018 International Workshop on Network Calculus and Applications

09:00 - 09:15

09:15 - 10:15

Opening

Keynote by Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland

Network Calculus, from Integrated Services to Deterministic Networking

10:15 - 10:30

break

10:30 - 12:30

Session I - Applications

Latency and Backlog Bounds in Time-Sensitive Networking with Credit Based Shapers and Asynchronous Traffic Shaping by Ehsan Mohammadpour; Eleni G Stai; Maaz Mohiuddin; Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Multi-interface Communication: Interface Selection under Statistical Performance Constraints by Sounak Kar; Amr Rizk; Markus Fidler

Energy Management in Wireless Communications with Energy Storage Imperfections by Sami Akin

Stochastic Guarantees for Rate-Adaptive Streaming by Mark Akselrod; Markus Fidler; Ralf Lübben

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Session II - Service and Arrival Characterizations

A Fluid-Flow Interpretation of SCED Scheduling by Jorg Liebeherr

A General Per-Flow Service Curve for GPS by Almut Burchard; Jorg Liebeherr

Integrating Fractional Brownian Motion Arrivals into the Statistical Network Calculus by Paul Nikolaus; Sebastian Henningsen; Michael A. Beck; Jens Schmitt

15:00 - 15:15

break

15:15 - 16:45

Session III - Analysis Techniques

The Case for a Network Calculus Heuristic: Using Insights from Data for Tighter Bounds by Fabien Geyer; Georg Carle

On Kernels and Queues: When Network Calculus Meets Analytic Combinatorics by Anne Bouillard; Céline Comte; Élie de Panafieu; Fabien Mathieu

Network Calculus for Mean Delay Analysis through a Network by Fabrice M. Guillemin; Orange Labs; Ravi R Mazumdar; Catherine Rosenberg; Yu Ying

16:45 - 17:00

Closing

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