ANCS 2007 Program

Technical Program Dec 3-4, 2007

Monday, Dec 3, 2007
Day 1

7:00-8:40 AM
Continental Breakfast & Registration

8:40 - 9 AM
Opening Remarks (Gen Chair slides, PC Chair slides)

9 - 10 AM
Keynote 1- Networking via content

Van Jacobson
Research Fellow, PARC

Abstract:
In the 60s and 70s networking was seen as a way to share scarce resources -- tape drives, printers, special purpose cpus, unique programs, etc. The host and port abstractions embodied in TCP/IP (and other protocols developed during that time) were just what was needed to expand the notion of an I/O channel from machine room to planetary scale. Today the overwhelming use of networking is to move content around (email, web pages, files, ...) but even though the problem has changed the solution hasn't -- we still map content identifiers to hosts and ports to transport it. I'll try to convince you that named content is a more appropriate abstraction for the networking we do today and that a network architecture based solely on named content is simpler, more expressive, more efficient, more scalable and far more secure than anything we currently use.

10 - 10:30 AM
Break

10:30AM - 12PM
Session 1: Architecture


Session Chair: Ahmed Louri, University of Arizona
Ruler: easy packet matching and rewriting on network processors (paper, slides)
Kees Reeuwijk, Tomas Hruby, Herbert Bos

Optimization of Pattern Matching Algorithm for Memory Based Architecture (paper, slides)
Cheng-Hung Lin, Yu-Tang Tai, Shih-Chieh Chang
 
Towards High-performance Flow-level Packet Processing on Multi-core Network Processors (paper, slides)
Yaxuan Qi, Bo Xu, Fei He, Baohua Yang, Jianming Yu, Jun Li

Frame Shared Memory: Line-Rate Networking on Commodity Hardware (paper, slides)
John Giacomoni, John Bennett, Antonio Carzaniga, Douglas Sicker, Manish Vachharajani, Alexander L. Wolf 

12 - 1:30 PM
LUNCH

12 - 5:00 PM
Poster Session

Experimental Evaluation of a Coarse-Grained Switch Scheduler (paper)
Charles Wiseman, Jonathan Turner
 
Design of a Network Architecture with Inherent Data Path Security (paper)
Tilman Wolf
 
Experimenting with Buffer Sizes in Routers (paper)
Neda Beheshti, Jad Naous, Yashar Ganjali, Nick McKeown
 
To CMP or not to CMP: Analyzing Packet Classification on Modern and Traditional Parallel Architectures (paper)
Randy Smith, Dan Gibson, Shijin Kong

Flow-Slice: A Novel Load-Balancing Scheme for Multi-Path Switching Systems (paper)
Lei Shi, Bin Liu, Changhua Sun, Zhengyu Yin, Laxmi Bhuyan, H. Jonathan Chao

1:30 - 3:00 PM
Session 2: Hardware

Session Chair: Manish Vachharajani, University of Colorado

Design of Energy-Efficient Adaptive Channel Buffers for Network-on-Chips Architecture (paper, slides)
Avinash Kodi, Ahmed Louri, Ashwini Sarathy
 
Performance Scalability of a Multi-Core Web Server (paper, slides)
Bryan Veal, Annie Foong

Automated Task Distribution in Multicore Network Processors using Statistical Analysis (paperslides)
Arindam Mallik, Gokhan Memik

Optimal Packet Scheduling in Output-Buffered Optical Switches with Limited-Range Wavelength Conversion (paper, slides)
Lin Liu, Yuanyuan Yang


3:00 - 3:30 PM
Break

3:30 - 5:00 PM
Session 3: Switch Optimization

Session Chair: Peter Onufryk, IDT

Low-Latency Scheduling in Large Switches (paper, slides)
Wladek Olesinski, Hans Eberle, Nils Gura, Andres Mejia

On LID Assignment in InfiniBand Networks (paper, slides)
Wickus Nienaber, Xin Yuan, Zhenhai Duan

Frame-Aggregated Concurrent Matching Switch (paperslides)
Bill Lin, Isaac Keslassy

Congestion Management in 3-Stage Clos Networks (paper, slides)
Nikolaos Chrysos

6:30 - 9:00 PM 
Drinks & Dinner

Tuesday, Dec 4, 2007
Day Two

8 - 9AM
Continental Breakfast

9 - 10 AM
Keynote 2- Reducing energy consumption for networked applications

Jeff Mogul
HP Labs
Slides
Abstract:
Computers use too much electricity.  Plenty of researchers and product developers are working on improving energy efficiency. Most of these efforts focus on specific components.  In this talk, I will try to give an end-to-end perspective on the energy efficiency of networked applications, include research in progress and some ideas about where to look next.  I will look at issues such as developing the appropriate benchmarks, coordination across layers to improve efficiency, and a variety of interesting technologies.

10 - 10:30 AM
Break

10:30 - 12 PM
Session 4: Regular Expressions & Pattern Matching

Session Chair: Hari Cadambi, NEC-Labs

Compiling PCRE to FPGA for Accelerating SNORT IDS (paperslides)
Abhishek Mitra, Walid Najjar, Laxmi Bhuyan

High-Speed Packet Classification Using 2-dimensional Binary Search on Length (paper, slides)
Hyesook Lim, Ju Hyoung Mun
 

An Improved Algorithm to Accelerate Regular Expression Evaluation (paper, slides)
Michela Becchi, Patrick Crowley

Curing Regular Expressions Matching Algorithms from Insomnia, Amnesia, and Acalculia (paperslides)
Sailesh Kumar, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Jonathan Turner, George Varghese 

12 - 1:30 PM
LUNCH

1:30 - 3:00 PM
Panel Session

Open Router Platforms: Is it time to move to an open routing infrastructure?
Moderator: Patrick Crowley, Washington University in St. Louis (slides)
Panelists:
  • Derek McAuley, Netronome (slides)
  • Thomas Woo, Alcatel-Lucent (slides)
  • Jon Turner, Washington University in St. Louis (slides)
  • Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Labs Research (slides)

3:00 - 3:30 PM
Break

3:30 - 5 PM
Session 5: Detection and Inspection

Session Chair: Tilman Wolf, Univ. of Massachusetts

Enhancing interoperability and stateful analysis of cooperative network intrusion detection systems (paperslides)
Michele Colajanni, Daniele Gozzi, Mirco Marchetti
 
High-Speed Detection of Unsolicited Bulk Emails (paperslides)
Sheng-Ya Lin, Cheng-Chung Tan, Jyh-Charn Liu, Michael Oehler
 
A Programmable Message Classification Engine for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (paper, slides)
Arup Acharya, Xiping Wang, Charles Wright

DPICO: A High Speed Deep Packet Inspection Engine using Compact Finite Automata (paperslides)
Christopher Hayes, Yan Luo

5 PM
CLOSING REMARKS/ADJOURN