IFIP Networking 2016 Conference Program

6B: The last paper presentation ends before (12:00) the session end time of 12:30.

Opening and Keynote 1

Peter Key (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK): Networks, Auctions and the Cloud

Network allocation problems typically seek to assign various resources in the best possible way, perhaps to maximise user welfare or fairness, and which can often be framed as stochastic optimisations. Similar resource allocation problems occur in economic settings, such as online ad-auctions where users bid for slots, and where auctions are often used to allocate the slots. We illustrate the connections between the two areas by considering large-scale Ad-auctions where adverts are assigned over a continuum of search types. For this pay-per-click market, we provide an efficient and highly decomposed mechanism that maximizes social welfare. In particular, we show that the social welfare optimization can be solved in separate optimizations conducted on the time-scales relevant to the advertisement platform and advertisers. This decomposition is implemented in an adversarial setting. Exploiting the information asymmetry between the platform and advertiser, we describe a simple mechanism which incentivizes truthful bidding and has a unique Nash equilibrium that is socially optimal, and thus implements our decomposition. Further, we consider models where advertisers adapt their bids smoothly over time, and prove convergence to the solution that maximizes aggregate utility. In a Cloud setting, the goods allocated may be multidimensional and have associated temporal constraints, adding further layers of complexity. Questions of fairness and allocation remain, and we outline some of this scheduling and pricing issues in this exciting new area.

One Minute Madness

Software-Defined Networking 1

Consistent Updates in Software Defined Networks: On Dependencies, Loop Freedom, and Blackholes
Klaus-Tycho Förster (ETH Zurich & Microsoft Research, Switzerland); Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research, USA); Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Arrange Your Network Updates as You Wish
Shouxi Luo, Hongfang Yu, Long Luo and Le Min Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Action Computation for Compositional Software-Defined Networking
Heng Pan and Gaogang Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Peng He (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zhenyu Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Laurent Mathy (University of Liège, Belgium)
Anomaly-Free Policy Composition in Software-Defined Networks
Mohsen Rezvani (UNSW Australia, Australia); Aleksandar Ignjatovic (University of New South Wales, Australia); Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Sanjay Jha (University of NSW, Australia)

Resilience and Routing

Resilience of Interdependent Communication and Power Distribution Networks Against Cascading Failures
Wei Koong Chai and Vaios Kyritsis (University College London, United Kingdom); Konstantinos V. Katsaros (Intracom Telecom S.A., Greece); George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom)
Connectivity-aware Virtual Network Embedding
Nashid Shahriar, Reaz Ahmed, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Md Mashrur Alam Khan and Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jeebak Mitra (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada); Feng Zeng (Huawei, P.R. China)
Time-Aware Congestion-Free Routing Reconfiguration
Shih-Hao Tseng, Chiun Lin Lim, Ning Wu and Kevin Tang (Cornell University, USA)
Scalable, Self-Healing, and Self-Optimizing Routing Overlays
Olivier Brun (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes & CNRS, France); Hassan Hassan (University of Toulouse, France); Josselin Vallet (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Software-Defined Networking 2

A Hierarchical Control Plane for Software-Defined Networks-based Industrial Control Systems
Bela Genge (Petru Maior University of Tirgu Mures, Romania); Piroska Haller (Petru Maior University of Tirgu Mures)
DistTM: Collaborative Traffic Matrix Estimation in Distributed SDN Control Planes
Rhaban Hark (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Dominik Stingl and Nils Richerzhagen (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois, USA); Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
STEAN: A Storage and Transformation Engine for Advanced Networking Context
Marc Werner and Johannes Schwandke (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, Germany); Oliver Hohlfeld, Torsten Zimmermann and Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Efficient Virtual Network Isolation in Multi-Tenant Data Centers on Commodity Ethernet Switches
Heitor Moraes (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Marcos A. M. Vieira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Italo Cunha and Dorgival Guedes (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Data Plane

FLOWer - Device Benchmarking Beyond 100 Gbit/s
Paul Emmerich (Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany); Sebastian Gallenmüller and Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
On Time-Stamp Accuracy of Passive Monitoring in a Container Execution Environment
Farnaz Moradi, Christofer Flinta, Andreas Johnsson and Catalin Meirosu (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
Congestion Aware Priority Flow Control in Data Center Networks
Serhat Nazim Avci, Zhenjiang Li and Fangping Liu (Futurewei Technologies, USA)
Overlaying Delay-Tolerant Service Using SDN
Patrick Maillé (Telecom Bretagne, France); Shyam Parekh (AT&T Labs, USA); Jean Walrand (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Wireless Networking 1

Demand-Aware Centralized Traffic Scheduling in Wireless LANs
Sangyup Han (KAIST, Korea); Myungjin Lee (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Myungchul Kim (KAIST, Korea)
A Stochastic Frame Based Approach to RFID Tag Searching
Ann L. Wang (Michigan State University, USA); Muhammad Shahzad (North Carolina State University, USA); Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA)
Centralized Multi-Cell Resource and Power Allocation for Multiuser OFDMA Networks
Mohamad Yassin (Orange Labs, France); Samer Lahoud (IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France); Marc Ibrahim (Saint Joseph University & Saint Joseph University - ESIB, Lebanon); Kinda Khawam (Université de Versailles, France); Dany Mezher (Saint Joseph University, Lebanon); Bernard Cousin (University of Rennes 1 & IRISA Research Laboratory, France)

Information-Centric Networking 1

Content-Centric Networking Using Anonymous Datagrams
JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz & Palo Alto Research Center, USA); Maziar Mirzazad Barijough (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
BEAD: Best Effort Autonomous Deletion in Content-Centric Networking
Cesar Ghali (University of California, Irvine, USA); Gene Tsudik (University of CA, Irvine, USA); Christopher Wood (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Improving the Freshness of NDN Forwarding States
Jianxun Cao, Dan Pei, Zhelun Wu and Xiaoping Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona, USA); Lan Wang (University of Memphis, USA); Youjian Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Wireless Networking 2

Performance Evaluation of JT CoMP Approach: Tractable Model Using Spatial Fluid Modeling
Lynda Zitoune (ESIEE-Paris, France); Stefan Cerovic and Danilo Cerovic (Supelec, Université Paris-Sud, France); Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, France); Jean-Marc Kelif (Orange Labs, France)
AMONET: A Method for Detecting and Mitigating the Data Rate Degradation Due to Interference Over Wireless Networks
Guohao Lan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Sangyup Han, Il-Gu Lee and Myungchul Kim (KAIST, Korea)
On the Delay Performance of Interference Channels
Sebastian Schiessl and Farshad Naghibi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Hussein Al-Zubaidy (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Markus Fidler (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Measurement Studies

Investigating Packet Loss in Mobile Broadband Networks Under Mobility
Džiugas Baltrūnas and Ahmed Mustafa Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Amund Kvalbein (Nexia, Norway); Ozgu Alay (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
"Infect-me-not": A User-centric and Site-centric Study of Web-Based Malware
Huy Hang (University of California, Riverside, USA); Adnan Bashir (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA); Michalis Faloutsos (University of California, Riverside, USA); Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Tudor Dumitras (University of Maryland & College Park, USA)

Network Security 1

Securing the Private Realm Gateway
Hammad Kabir (Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Jesus Llorente Santos and Raimo Kantola (Aalto University, Finland)
Verified iptables Firewall Analysis
Cornelius Diekmann, Julius Michaelis, Maximilian Haslbeck and Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Does Scale, Size, and Locality Matter? Evaluation of Collaborative BGP Security Mechanisms
Rahul Hiran, Niklas Carlsson and Nahid Shahmehri (Linköping University, Sweden)

Green Networking

Measurement-Based Coalescing Control for 802.3az
Angelos Chatzipapas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
Consolidating Flows with Implicit Deadlines for Energy-Proportional Data Center Networks
Xiaoda Zhang, Zhuzhong Qian and Sheng Zhang (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada); Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Blending Photons with Electrons to Reduce the Energy Footprint of IPTV Networks
Fernando M. V. Ramos (University of Lisboa, Portugal); Jon Crowcroft and Ian White (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Network Security 2

Pin It! Improving Android Network Security At Runtime
Damjan Buhov (SBA Research gGmbH, Austria); Markus Huber (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria); Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl (SBA Research gGmbH, Austria)
End-to-end Transparent Transport-Layer Security for Internet-integrated Mobile Sensing Devices
Jorge Granjal (University of Coimbra, Polo 2 & Dep. Informatics Engineering, Portugal); Edmundo Monteiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
User Location Tracking Attacks for LTE Networks Using the Interworking Functionality
Silke Holtmanns (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Siddharth Prakash Rao (Aalto University, Finland); Ian Oliver (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

Caching

Representation Selection Problem: Optimizing Video Delivery Through Caching
Andrea Araldo (Université Paris Sud & Telecom Paris Tech, France); Fabio Martignon (Université Paris-Sud, France); Dario Rossi (Telecom ParisTech, France)
MC3: A Cloud Caching Strategy for Next Generation Virtual Content Distribution Networks
Pietro Marchetta (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Jaime Llorca (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Antonia Tulino (Bell Labs & Università Federico II, Napoli, USA); Antonio Pescapé (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Enhanced Caching Strategies At the Edge of LTE Mobile Networks
Andre S. Gomes and Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland); Edmundo Monteiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Mobile Cooperation

Optimized Cooperative Streaming in Wireless Mesh Networks
Luca Baldesi, Leonardo Maccari and Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)
Tube Streaming: Modelling Collaborative Media Streaming in Urban Railway Networks
Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras, Vasilis Sourlas and George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom)
Energy-Aware Cooperative Computation in Mobile Devices
Ajita Singh, Yuxuan Xing and Hulya Seferoglu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Device-to-Device Mobile Data Offloading for Music Streaming
Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva and Gunnar Karlsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

P2P and Content Distribution

Analysing and Leveraging Client Heterogeneity in Swarming-based Live Streaming
Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh, Julius Rückert and Julian Wulfheide (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); David Hausheer (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Heinz Koeppl (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Mistrustful P2P: Privacy-preserving File Sharing Over Untrustworthy Peer-to-Peer Networks
Pedro Moreira da Silva and Jaime Dias (INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Manuel Pereira Ricardo (Universidade do Porto & INESC Porto, Portugal)
Go-with-the-Winner: Performance Based Client-Side Server Selection
Chang Liu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Ramesh K Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Akamai Technologies, USA); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Utility-maximizing Server Selection
Truong Khoa Phan, David Griffin and Elisa Maini (University College London, United Kingdom); Miguel Rio (UCL, United Kingdom)

Keynote 2

Muriel Médard (MIT, Cambridge, MA): Network Coding - A Personal Account of Combining Theory and Practice

This talk seeks to illustrate the interplay between theoretical development and engineering implementation, with a personal slant. It centers on Network Coding (NC), a modern information theoretic development that leverages algebraic data manipulation during transport through a network to enhance resource usage. The addition of data manipulation to network modeling went beyond traditional graph theoretic considerations, allowing a significant relaxation of constraints that had original been treated as essential and, consequently, to the circumvention of impasses. The new model afforded opportunities for improved resource usage in existing networks through developments such as our Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC). While RLNC provided provably optimal throughput within standard theoretical frameworks, introducing it into the most common Internet transport protocol, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), required an inventive reinterpretation of TCP's control signals. Our recent theoretical results in Equivalence Theory show there is no benefit, in terms of throughput, in combining NC with the type of coding commonly used to palliate mistransmissions in error-prone media such as wireless links. These results confirm the sense behind current operational practice, but contradict long-standing folk-theorems regarding the benefit of joint coding. However, when other performance metrics such as energy consumption are taken into account, in practice we have shown that combining NC with coding for wireless links leads to marked, cumulative gains. We shall conclude the talk with open challenges and research directions driven by the coming convergence of data storage and networking. No background knowledge will be assumed.

Transport Layer

TCP Hollywood: An Unordered, Time-Lined, TCP for Networked Multimedia Applications
Stephen McQuistin and Colin Perkins (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom); Marwan Fayed (University of Stirling, United Kingdom)
BLEST: Blocking Estimation-based MPTCP Scheduler for Heterogeneous Networks
Simone Ferlin (University of Oslo & Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Ozgu Alay (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Olivier Mehani (NICTA, Australia); Roksana Boreli (Anonalytix & University of NSW, Australia)
Multi-Flow Congestion Control with Network Assistance
Yannis Thomas (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece); George Xylomenos, Christos Tsilopoulos and George C. Polyzos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Information-Centric Networking 2

Characterizing Interest Aggregation in Content-Centric Networks
Ali Dabirmoghaddam (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Mostafa Dehghan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz & Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Let's Collect Names: How PANINI Limits FIB Tables in Name Based Routing
Thomas C. Schmidt (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Sebastian Wölke and Nora Berg (HAW Hamburg, Germany); Matthias Wählisch (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Scalable URL Matching with Small Memory Footprint
Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel); David Hay (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); Daniel Krauthgamer (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel); Shimrit Tzur David (The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel)

Network Economics

Network Quality Differentiation: Regional Effects, Market Entrance, and Empirical Testability
Toni Mäki (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland); Patrick Zwickl (University of Vienna, Austria); Martín Varela (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Economics Models and Policies for Cloud Federations
George Darzanos, Iordanis Koutsopoulos and George Stamoulis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Video Streaming

Backward-Shifted Strategies Based on SVC for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
Zakaria YE, Rachid El-Azouzi and Tania Jimenez (University of Avignon, France); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France); Stefan Valentin (Huawei Technologies, France)
Sacrificing Efficiency for Quality of Experience: YouTube's Redundant Traffic Behavior
Christian Sieber (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Poul E. Heegaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology & NTNU, Norway); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Internet of People - Workshop

Clique-Aware Mobile Social Clouds
Christian Quadri, Matteo Zignani, Sabrina Gaito, and Gian Paolo Rossi (Computer Science Dept. , University of Milan, Italy)
On the Technical and Social Structure of Community Networks
Leonardo Maccari (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy)
A flexible workload model based on roles of interactive users in social networks
Pablo Nicolás Terevinto, Ana Pont, José A. Gil, and Josep Domenech (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
On Improving Tie Strength Estimates by Aggregating Multiple Communication Channels
Narges Yousefnezhad and Marcin Nagy (Aalto University, Finland); N. Asokan (Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Finland)
Group-based Communication in WhatsApp
Michael Seufert, Anika Schwind, Valentin Burger, and Phuoc Tran-Gia (Institute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg, Germany); Tobias Hoßfeld (Modeling of Adaptive Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Online Engagement and Well-being at Higher Education Institutes: A German Case Study
Margeret Hall (Karlsruhe Service Research Institute, KIT, Germany); Simon Caton (National College of Ireland, Ireland)
Performance of real-time collaborative editors at large scale: user perspective
Quang-Vinh Dang (Université de Lorraine, LORIA, France); Claudia-Lavinia Ignat (Inria, Université de Lorraine, LORIA, France)