Programme for 28th Multi-Service Networks workshop MSN 2016

Thursday, 7th July 2016

10:00 Registration and coffee

10:30 Welcome (Iain Phillips, Hamed Haddadi)

10:35 Session 1 (Chair: Iain Philips)

• Richard Clegg (I): Faces in the Clouds: Long-Duration, Multi-User, Cloud-Assisted Video Conferencing
• Maciek Konstantynowicz(Ci): The Fast Data Project (FD.io)
• Diana Andreea Popescu* (C): Network Measurements for Data Centres
• Jong Hun Han (C): Blueswitch: Enabling Provably Consistent Configuration of Network Switches
• Eder Leāo Fernandes* (Q): Horse: towards an SDN traffic dynamics simulator for large scale networks
• Nikola Gvozdiev* (U): Redirecting traffic spikes

12:15 Photos & Lunch at Cosener’s House

13:30 Session 2 (Chair: Andrew Moore)

• Neelakandan Manihatty Bojan* (C): Schedulers for Hybrid Data Center Network
• Morteza Kheirkhah (E): Low Latency MultiPath TCP
• Ioannis Psaras (U): KEBAPP: Keyword-Based Mobile Application Sharing
• Yousef Amar* (Q): Privacy-Aware Infrastructure for Managing Personal Data
• Lynne Salameh* (U): Frost: A webpage completion time analysis tool
• Marwan Fayed (St): Client-Driven Network-level QoE fairness for Encrypted `DASH-S’

15:15 Coffee

15:45 Session 3 (Chair: Ian Wakeman)

• Noa Zilberman (C): Where Has My Time Gone?
• Nicholas Hart* (L): sBGP: A hybrid SDN approach to interdomain routing
• Hakim Weatherspoon (Co): Chupja–PHY Covert Channels: Can you see the Idles?
• Luigi Rizzo (P): A Fast and Practical Software Packet Scheduling Architecture
• Jon Crowcroft (C): The Alan Turing Inst. for Data Science – Systems!

17:00 Free time!

19:00 Pimms and Beer and 19:30 Dinner at Cosener’s House

Friday 8th July 2016

9:00 Session 4 (Chair: Peter Pietzuch)

• Thomas Dreibholz (S): NorNet — The Internet Testbed for Multi-Homed Systems
• Lyndon John Fawcett* (L): Fogify: Network Functions Virtualisation for the Fog
• Richard Cziva (G): Roaming vNFs at the Network Edge using Glasgow Network Functions
• Jie Deng* (Q): Profiling the Network Behaviour of Hadoop
• Stephen McQuistin (G): TCP Goes to Hollywood
• Aydin Rajaei* (Su): GSAF: Efficient and Flexible Geocasting for Opportunistic Networks
• Truong Khoa Phan (U): Optimising Performance of Xcast using SDN and NFV

11:00 Coffee

11:15 Session 5 (Chair: Steve Uhlig)

• Timm Boettger* (Q): A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the large video streaming platform
• Vishal Shrivastav* (Co): Globally Synchronized time via datacenter network
• Shan Huang* (Q): Detecting Middlebox Interference on Applications
• Jamie Bird* (L): Providing Resilience within NFV Infrastructures
• Steven Simpson (L): DDoS remediation with eBPF
• James Sterbenz (K): The Internet of Mobile Devices Sucks; The Internet of Things will be much Worse

13:00 Lunch & Brendan Murphy prize

Affiliation codes:  C(ambridge), Ci(sco), Co (Cornell), E(dinburgh), G(lasgow), I(mperial), K (Kansas), L(ancaster), P (Pisa), Q(MUL), Si (Simula Research Laboratory), So(uthampton), St(irling), Su(ssex), U(CL)

*: PhD student talk.