Workshop Program Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking

2nd INFOCOM Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking
 
Monday, 1 May 2017 ● 08:30 – 17:00 ● Room: Georgia 6
 
The Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN) workshop aims at bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss the latest advances on architectures, algorithms, abstractions, and technologies for fluidity, flexibility, and agility in software-based networks. SWFAN solicits submissions on: (i) the rapid and elastic provisioning of computing, storage, and network resources for NF deployment and scaling in virtualized infrastructures, (ii) the development of new models, protocols, algorithms, and abstractions for more flexible and agile network control, (iii) the specification and development of elementary and reusable primitives for flexible network processing, and (iv) new technologies for high-performance processing.
 
Chair:
Stefano Salsano (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
 
 
08:25 – 08:30
Welcome
Chair: Stefano Salsano
 
08:30 – 9:20
Keynote Session I
Torsten Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Mobile Follow-Me Cloud
 
9:20 – 10:10
Session I: Software-Defined Networking Applications
 
StorageFlow: SDN-Enabled Efficient Data Regeneration for Distributed Storage Systems
Sujoy Saha (Texas A&M University, USA), Corey Morrison (Texas A&M University and HPE, USA), Alex Sprintson (Texas A&M University, USA)
 
Hey Network, Can You Understand Me?
Azzam Alsudais (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Eric Keller (University of Colorado, USA)
 
10:10 - 10:30
Coffee Break
 
10:30 – 12:10
Session II: Middleboxes and Traffic Steering
 
Composing middlebox and traffic engineering policies in SDNs
Yiyang Chang (Purdue University, USA), Gustavo Petri (Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France), Sanjay Rao and Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, USA)
 
MBBrick: Unified Middlebox Design and Deployment in Software Defined Network
Xin He and Qing Li (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Yong Jiang and Lei Wang (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
 
One Pass Packet Steering (OPPS) for Stateless Policy Chains in Multi-subscriber SDN
Julian Chukwu (University of Ottawa, Canada), Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University, Canada), Dimitrios Makrakis (University of Ottawa, Canada)
 
Scalable Path Provision in Software Defined Networks
Long Luo and Hongfang Yu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China), Shouxi Luo (Huawei, P.R. China)
 
12:10 - 13:30
Lunch Break
 
13:30 – 14:20
Keynote Session II
Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Algorithmic challenges in SDNs
 
14:20 – 15:10
Session III: Software-Defined Networking Control Plane Placement and Flexibility
 
How Flexible is Dynamic SDN Control Plane?
Mu He, Arsany Basta, Andreas Blenk and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
 
Virtualized Control Plane Placement Problem: Provisioning the Control Paths and Architectures
Ishan Vaishnavi (Huawei Technologies Dusseldorf GmBH & European Research Centre, Germany), Wint Yi Poe (Huawei Technologies - European Research Center, Germany)
 
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee Break
 
15:40 – 16:20
Session IV: Network Function Virtualization Approaches
 
Model-based Analytics for Profiling Workloads in Virtual Network Functions
Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy), Franco R. Davoli (University of Genoa & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy), Paolo Lago (CNIT, Italy), Jane Frances Pajo (University of Genoa, Italy)
 
Modular Network Function Virtualization
Dennis M Volpano (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
 
16:20 - 16:30
Concluding Remarks