| Wednesday 2008-11-05 | |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Reception |
| Thursday 2008-11-06 | |
| 07:00 - 08:10 | Breakfast |
| 08:10 - 08:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Keynote 1 |
| What Does Architecture Have to Do with It? | |
| David Clark (MIT) | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Morning Break |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Routing (Chair: Bill Lin) |
| Implementing and Deploying a NetFPGA OpenFlow Switch | |
| Jad Naous (Stanford University, USA); David Erickson (Stanford University, USA); Adam Covington (Stanford University, USA); Nick McKeown (Stanford University, USA) | |
| Design of a Portable Router Framework | |
| Benjamin Wun (Washington University, USA); Patrick Crowley (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Arun Raghunath (Intel Corporation, USA) | |
| A Remotely Accessible Network Processor-Based Router for Network Experimentation | |
| Charlie Wiseman (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Jonathan Turner (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Michela Becchi (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Patrick Crowley (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); John DeHart (Washington University at St. Louis, USA); Mart Haitjema (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Shakir James (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Fred Kuhns (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Jing Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Jyoti Parwatikar (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Ritun Patney (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Michael Wilson (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Kenneth Wong (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Dave Zar (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Packet Classification (Chair: John Lockwood) |
| Compact Architecture for High-Throughput Regular Expression Matching on FPGA | |
| Yi-Hua Yang (University of Southern California, USA); Weirong Jiang (University of Southern California, USA); Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA) | |
| Acceleration of Decision Tree Searching for IP Traffic Classification | |
| Yan Luo (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA); Ke Xiang (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA); Sanping Li (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) | |
| Efficient Regular Expression Evaluation: Theory to Practice | |
| Michela Becchi (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Patrick Crowley (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Afternoon Break |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Multicore (Chair: Yan Luo) |
| A Scalable Multithreaded L7-filter Design for Multi-Core Servers | |
| Danhua Guo (University of California, Riverside, USA); Guangdeng Liao (University of California, Riverside, USA); Laxmi Bhuyan (University of California, USA); Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jason Ding (Cisco Systems, USA) | |
| On Runtime Management in Multi-Core Packet Processing Systems | |
| Qiang Wu (University of Massachusetts, USA); Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, USA) | |
| MultiLayer Processing - An execution model for parallel stateful packet processing | |
| Javier Verdu (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Mario Nemirovsky (Consentry Networks, USA); Mateo Valero (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Afternoon Break |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Panel: The Future of Packet Processing Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (Moderator: Peter Onufryk) |
| Panelists | |
| Patrick Bisson (EZchip Technologies); William Eatherton (Cisco Systems, Inc.); Rao Gattupalli (Tilera Corporation); Marco Heddes (TranSwitch Corporation); Derek McAuley (Netronome Systems, Inc.); Pranav Mehta (Intel Corporation) | |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner |
| Friday 2008-11-07 | |
| 07:00 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Keynote 2 |
| Exploiting Heterogeneous Cores for Network Flow Processing | |
| Derek McAuley (Netronome Systems) | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Morning Break |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Measurements and Switching (Chair: Hans Eberle) |
| BRICK: A Novel Exact Active Statistics Counter Architecture | |
| Nan Hua (Georgia Tech, USA); Bill Lin (University of California, San Diego, USA); Jun Xu (Georgia Tech, USA); Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao (Georgia Tech, USA) | |
| Packet Prediction for Speculative Cut-Through Switching | |
| Paul Congdon (University of California, Davis, USA), Matthew Farrens (University of California, Davis, USA) | |
| Programmable and Real-time Network Traffic Measurements | |
| Faisal Khan (University of California, Davis, USA); Lihua Yuan (University of California, Davis, USA); Chen-Nee Chuah (University of California, Davis, USA); Soheil Ghiasi (University of California, Davis, USA) | |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| Adaptive scheduling to maximize NIC throughput in a COTS router | |
| Mike MacGregor (University of Alberta, Canada); Qinghua Ye (University of Alberta, Canada) | |
| Input-Queued Switches with Logarithmic Delay: Necessary Conditions and a Reconfigurable Scheduling Algorithm | |
| Krishnendu Roy (Louisiana State University, USA); Ramachandran Vaidyanathan (Louisiana State University, USA); Jerry Trahan (Louisiana State University, USA) | |
| SimNP: A Flexible Platform for the Simulation of Network Processing System | |
| David Bermingham (Dublin City University, Ireland); Zhen Liu (Dublin City University, Ireland); Xiaojun Wang (School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City Univ., Ireland) | |
| Towards Effective Network Algorithms on Multi-core Network Processors | |
| Yaxuan Qi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zongwei Zhou (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Baohua Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Fei He (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yibo Xue (Tsinghua university, P.R. China); Jun Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) | |
| Performing Time-Sensitive Network Experiments | |
| Neda Beheshti (Stanford University, USA); Yashar Ganjali (University of Toronto, Canada); Monia Ghobadi (University of Toronto, Canada); Nick McKeown (Stanford University, USA); Jad Naous (Stanford University, USA); Geoffrey Salmon (University of Toronto, Canada) | |
| Data Path Credentials for High-Performance Capabilities-Based Networks | |
| Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, USA) | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Hardware Implementations (Chair: D. K. Panda) |
| Low Power Architecture for High Speed Packet Classification | |
| Alan Kennedy (Dublin City University, Ireland); Xiaojun Wang (School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City Univ., Ireland); Zhen Liu (Dublin City University, Ireland); Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) | |
| Stateful Hardware Decompression in Networking Environment | |
| Hao Yu (IBM research, USA); Hubertus Franke (IBM, USA); Giora Biran (IBM, Israel); Amit Golander (IBM, Israel); Terry Nelms (IBM, USA); Brian Bass (IBM, USA) | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | I/O and Custom Networks (Chair: Dimitri Stiliadis) |
| On Design of Bandwidth Scheduling Algorithms for Multiple Data Transfers in Dedicated Networks | |
| Yunyue Lin (University of Memphis, USA); Qishi Wu (University of Memphis, USA) | |
| Software Techniques to Improve Virtualized I/O Performance on Multi-Core Systems | |
| Guangdeng Liao (University of California, Riverside, USA); Danhua Guo (University of California, Riverside, USA); Laxmi Bhuyan (University of California, USA); Steven King (Intel Corporation, USA) | |
| Design optimization of a highly parallel InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter | |
| Florian Auernhammer (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Patricia Sagmeister (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland) | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Closing Comments |