31st Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN 2019) Thu-Fri 4-5 July 2019.

Thursday, 4th July 2019

10:00 Registration and coffee

10:30 Welcome (Iain Phillips, Hamed Haddadi)

10:35 Session1(Chair: Iain Phillips )

• Yiannis Psaras (U): Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks
• Naomi Arnold* (Q): Mixed and time-varying models for network formation
• Sebastiano Miano* (Tu): Dynamic Compilation and Optimization of Network Functions
• Will Fantom* (L): UNIMON (Unikernel Monitoring)
• Gareth Tyson (Q): It’s damn hard to decentralise the web
• Amin Tootoonchian: Tasvir: Rethinking Distributed State Management

12:15 Photos & Lunch at Cosener’s House

13:30 Session 2 (Chair: Ioannis Psaras)

• Ignacio Castro (Q): NLP-ing the IETF: Streamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards
• Colin Perkins (G): What is the IRTF and why should you care?
• Ryan Mills* (L): Instrumenting defense techniques via subversion of adversaries
• Aravindh Raman* (K): Stitching the edges: A case for optimal content delivery 
• Chaoyun Zhang* (E): ZipNet-GAN: Inferring Fine-grained Mobile Traffic Patterns via a Generative Adversarial Neural Network
• Hamed Haddadi (I): Privacy-preserving Analytics in Modern Browsers

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Session 3 (Chair: Colin Perkins)

• Ben Lewis* (L): Data-Plane Accelerated Intrusion Detection Using P4
• Anna Maria Mandalari (I): Databox as a platform for monitoring IoT devices at the edge
• Roman Kolcun (I): Detecting Anomalies in Smart IoT Environments
• Vadim Safronov (C): Crowdsourcery: Defence Against Dark Artefacts in Smart Homes
• Joel Obstfeld (Ci): Global engineering – Enabling a Connected Transport future

17:00 Free time!

19:00 James P.G. Sterbenz memorial session, followed by dinner at Cosener’s House

Friday, 5th July 2019

9:30 Session 4 (Chair: Eiko Yoneki)

• Ali Issa* (PL): Bounded Bitrate Guidance for SDN Enabled Adaptive Video Streaming
• Luca Giacomoni* (S): An Actor-Critic Approach to Congestion Control
• Mohammed Alasmar* (S): On the Distribution of Traffic Volumes in the Internet and its Implications
• Donald Robertson* (SA): Unfairness in Video Streaming Applications
• Alexander Jung* (L): Adaptive Traffic Flow Optimizations with Unikernel-based VNFs

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Session 5 (Chair: Hamed Haddadi)

• Poonam Yadav (C): Building resilient, robust and trustable IoT ecosystem
• Yuta Tokusashi (C): The Case for In-network Computing On demand
• Stephen McQuistin* (G): Parsing Protocol Standards
• Vasileios Klimis* (S): Partial order reductions for SDN
• Kyle Jamieson (P): Quantum Compute-Enabled Wireless Networks
• Mark Handley (U): Networking in Space

13:00 Lunch & Brendan Murphy prize

Affiliation codes:  C (Cambridge), Ci (Cisco), Ed (Edinburgh), G (Glasgow), I (Imperial College), K (King’s College), L (Lancaster), Lu (Loughborough), P (Princeton), PL(Plymouth), Q (QMUL), S (Sussex), SA (St Andrews), Tu (Polytechnic University of Turin), U (UCL)

*: PhD student talk.

We are pleased to have CISCO as a sponsor this year.

Bookings are now open

• Staff rate £140 + £100 for accommodation
• Student rate £100 (subsidised – no cost for accomodation)
• Day rate £60 + £40 for dinner
• Staying the Wednesday night £100.

Once you have done your booking, please register your interest for a talk on:

https://forms.gle/i1RMoFkssGKFLQPM9

If anyone has anything they can suggest to make the event even better, please email Hamed and Iain

NOTES on the booking system

1. The software reserves a place for you the moment you select which type of delegate you are.  If you don’t complete a purchase and don’t log out, then that space won’t be available for anyone else.  Please log out or cancel you transaction if you can’t pay at the time.
2. There should be 3 options, Staff, Student and day rate.  At the moment all are available and if the one you want is not listed, then the system could be lying.  Email I.W.Phillips@lboro.ac.uk if this happens and I’ll fix it.
3. You have to create an account, but don’t worry it will copy details from your account details to your booking at the click of the appropriate button.
4. The person creating the account (e.g. an administrator) can book on behalf of several people at once.
5. A credit card is needed, this makes things a whole lot simpler at our end.
6. Dietary and access requirements can be entered at the appropriate stage.  If you forget to, please email I.W.Phillips@lboro.ac.uk later.
7. Spaces are limited (we all know how big/small the venue is), so we’d like to avoid too many registrations from a single institution, but at this stage only asking people to be sensible.