Technical Program
Wednesday, Sept 1
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Wednesday, Sept. 1 - 13:00 - 13:30 CET
Opening
Wednesday, Sept. 1 - 13:30 - 15:00 CET
Session I: Wireless Networks I Chair: Anastasios Giovanidis (Sorbonne Université & CNRS-LIP6, France)
13:30 - 14:00: Near-optimal uplink scheduling for age-energy tradeoff in wireless systems, Pasi Lassila and Samuli Aalto (Aalto University, Finland)
14:00 - 14:30: A Math-Heuristic for Network Slice Design, Wesley da Silva Coelho, Amal Benhamiche and Nancy Perrot (Orange Labs, France); Stefano Secci (Cnam, France)
14:30 - 15:00: Robust Wireless Scheduling under Arbitrary Channel Dynamics and Feedback Delay (invited), Jiatai Huang and Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University, China)
Break: 15:00 - 15:30
Wednesday, Sept. 1 - 15:30 - 16:30 CET
Keynote
Speaker: Prof. R. Srikant The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Lyapunov Drift Method: From Data Centers to Deep Reinforcement Learning, (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US). (chair: Prosper Chemouil)
Wednesday, Sept. 1 - 16:30 - 18:00 CET
Session II: Network Economics (chair: Iordanis Koutsopoulos)
16:30 - 17:00: Optimizing shared data plans for mobile data access, Georgios Cheirmpos, Merkourios Karaliopoulos and Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
17:00 - 17:30: Proportional Pricing for Efficient Traffic Equilibrium at Internet Exchange Points, Md Ibrahim Ibne Alam (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Elliot Anshelevich (RPI,USA); Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Murat Yuksel(University of Central Florida, USA)
17:30 - 18:00: Strategic Resource Management in 5G Network Slicing (invited), Mandar K Datar (INRIA & LIA University of Avignon and the Pays de Vaucluse, France); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France)
Thursday, Sept 2
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Thursday, Sept 2 - 13:00 - 14:30 CET
13:00 - 13:30: Application of Network Calculus Models on Programmable Device Behavior, Max Helm, Henning Stubbe, Dominik Scholz, Benedikt Jaeger, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Nemanja Deric and Endri Goshi (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Hasanin Harkous (Nokia & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Zikai Zhou, Wolfgang Kellerer and Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
13:30 - 14:00: AÇAI: Ascent Similarity Caching with Approximate Indexes, Tareq Si Salem (Université Côte d’Azur & Inria, France); Giovanni Neglia (Inria, France); Damiano Carra (University of Verona, Italy)
14:00 - 14:30: Minimizing network bandwidth under latency constraints: The single node case, Jiayi Song and Roch Guérin (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Hanrijanto Sariowan (Google LLC, USA)
Thursday, Sept 2 - 14:30 - 15:30 CET
Keynote
Speaker: Prof. A. Feldman (Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics, Germany) Internet Traffic Analysis at Scale. chair: Stefano Secci (Cnam, France)
Break: 15:30 - 16:00
Thursday, Sept 2 - 16:00 - 18:00 CET
Session II: Network Function Virtualisation (chair: Francesco Bronzino)
16:00 -16:30: Inference of virtual network functions’ state via analysis of the CPU behavior, Charles Shelbourne (BP R&D, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Leonardo Linguaglossa (Telecom Paris, France); Tianzhu Zhang (Nokia Bell Labs & Laboratory of Information, Networking and Communication Sciences, France); Aldo Lipani (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
16:30 - 17:00: Efficient Switch Migration for Controller Load Balancing in Software Defined Networking (invited), Rajorshi Biswas and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
17:00 - 17:30: What You Need to Know About Optical Circuit Reconfigurations in Datacenter Networks, Johannes Zerwas, Wolfgang Kellerer and Andreas Blenk (Technische Universität München, Germany)
17:30 - 18:00: Application-Aware End-to-End Virtualization Using a Named-Object Based Network Architecture (invited), Francesco Bronzino (Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France); Sumit Maheshwari (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Ivan Seskar (Rutgers University, USA); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA)
Friday, Sept 3
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Friday, Sept 3 - 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Keynote
Speaker: Prof. R. Buyya Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Edge Computing (University of Melbourne, Au) Chair: Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Friday, Sept 3 - 14:00 - 15:00 CET
Session I: Wireless Networks II (chair: Kohei Shiomoto)
14:00 - 14:30: To Buffer or Not To Buffer: IEEE 802.11p/bd Performance Under Different Buffering Strategies, Andrea Baiocchi (University of Roma Sapienza, Italy); Ion Turcanu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Alexey Vinel (Halmstad University, Sweden)
14:30 - 15:00: Performance Evaluation of Full Duplex Communications in 5G Networks: The Impact of Interference and Traffic Asymmetry, Yiğit Özcan and Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Break: 15:00 - 15:30
Friday, Sept 3 - 15:30 - 18:00 CET
Session II: AI Methods for Networking (chair: F. De Pellegrini)
15:30 - 16:00: Federated Machine Learning over the Internet, Giovanni Neglia (INRIA, France)
16:00 - 16:30: Disconnected cooperation in resilient networks and the algorithmic challenges of local fast re-routing, Stefan Schmid (University of Vienna, Austria)
16:30 - 17:00: Bayesian optimization for Radio Resource Management: Dos and Don’ts, Lorenzo Maggi, Nokia Bell Labs (France)
17:00 - 17:30: Resource Management Challenges and Algorithms for Edge Analytic Services, Georgios Iosifidis (TU Delft,The Netherlands)
17:30 - 18:00: Constrained reinforcement learning & its application in network slicing, Xin Liu (UC Davis, US)
Friday, Sept 3 18:00 - 18:30 CET
Award and closing
