The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
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October 21-24, 2014          The Research Triangle, North Carolina

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Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014
7:30 am - 8:30 am : Breakfast Snacks
Location: Oak Forest A

9:00 am - 5:00 pm : CoolSDN —Workshop on COntrol, Operation, and appLication in SDN Protocols
Location: Oak Forest B

8:30 am - 4:10 pm : CRAB —Workshop on Cognitive Radio Architectures for Broadband
Location: Pen Oak

8:45 am - 5:15 pm : NPSec —Workshop on Secure Network Protocols
Location: Willow Oak

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm : Welcome Reception
Location: Oak Forest A




Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014
7:30 am - 8:30 am : Breakfast Snacks
Location: Oak Forest A
8:30 am - 9:00 am : Welcome Address
Location: Oak Forest B

9:00 am - 10:00 am : Keynote by Mike Reiter (UNC Chapel Hill, USA)
Location: Oak Forest B

"Side Channels in Multi-tenant Environments"

10:00 am - 10:30 am : Break
Location: Esplanade

10:30 am - 12:00 pm : Session 1: Cloud Computing & Data Center Networking
Session Chair: Xiaoming Fu
Location: Oak Forest B

On Exploiting Dynamic Execution Patterns for Workload Offloading in Mobile Cloud Applications
Wei Gao (University of Tennessee, USA); Yong Li (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA); Haoyang Lu (University of Tennessee, USA); Ting Wang (IBM Research, USA); Cong Liu (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Space Shuffle: A Scalable, Flexible, and High-Bandwidth Data Center Network
Ye Yu (University of Kentucky, USA); Chen Qian (University of Kentucky, USA)

Cross-VM Covert Channel Risk Assessment for Cloud Computing: An Automated Capacity Profiler
Rui Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Wen Qi (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

On Design and Performance of Cloud-Based Distributed Interactive Applications
Haiyang Wang (University of Minnesota at Duluth, USA); Ryan Shea (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Xiaoqiang Ma (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Feng Wang (The University of Mississippi, USA); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm : Lunch
Location: Oak Forest A

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm : Session 2: Cyber-Physical Systems
Session Chair: Hrishikesh B. Acharya
Location: Oak Forest B

CBID: A Customer Behavior Identification System Using Passive Tags
Jinsong Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Dan Ma (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Han Ding (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Chen Qian (University of Kentucky, USA); Wei Xi (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhi Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhiping Jiang (Xian Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Longfei Shangguan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Fast Counting the Key Tags in Anonymous RFID Systems
Xiulong Liu (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Keqiu Li (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Heng Qi (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Xin Xie (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)

Scalable Data Access Control in RFID-Enabled Supply Chain
Saiyu Qi (Hong Kong university of science and Technology, Hong Kong); Yuanqing Zheng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jinli Qiu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

Cost-minimizing Mobile Access Point Deployment in Workflow-based Mobile Sensor Networks
Haiming Jin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); He Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Lu Su (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm : Break
Location: Esplanade

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm : Session 3: Internet Measurements
Session Chair: Deep Medhi
Location: Oak Forest B

Every Packet Counts: Fine-Grained Delay and Loss Measurement with Reordering
Jiliang Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Shuo Lian (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Wei Dong (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Can Bandwidth Estimation Tackle Noise At Ultra-High Speeds?
Qianwen Yin (UNC Chapel Hill, USA); Jasleen Kaur (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); F. Donelson Smith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Network Path Capacity Comparison Without Accurate Packet Time Information
Ertong Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Lisong Xu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Estimating the Persistent Spreads in High-speed Networks
Qingjun Xiao (SouthEast University of China, USA); Yan Qiao (University of Florida, USA); Zhen Mo (University of Florida, USA); Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm : Posters Session
Location: Esplanade

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm : Conference Banquet
Location: Oak Forest A & B




Thursday, Oct 23, 2014
7:30 am - 8:30 am : Breakfast Snacks
Location: Oak Forest A

8:30 am - 9:30 am : Keynote by John C.S. Lui (CUHK, Hong Kong)
Location: Oak Forest B

"Sampling Large Networks: Algorithms and Applications"

9:30 am - 10:00 am : Break
Location: Esplanade

10:00 am - 11:30 am : Session 4: Routing
Session Chair: Wenye Wang
Location: Oak Forest B

Multipath Routing From a Traffic Engineering Perspective: How Beneficial is It
Xuan Liu (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA); Sudhir Mohanraj (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA); Michal Pi¨®ro (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Deep Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

Routing to Multi-Instantiated Destinations: Principles and Applications
JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)

Preferential Link Tomography: Monitor Assignment for Inferring Interesting Link Metrics
Yi Gao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Wenbin Wu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Wei Dong (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Chun Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); Jiajun Bu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

Formal Modeling and Systematic Black-Box Testing of SDN Data Plane
Jiangyuan Yao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhiliang Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xia Yin (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xingang Shi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

10:00 am - 11:30 am : Session 5: Networking and Security Algorithms
Session Chair: Chen Qian
Location: Willow Oak

SensCrypt: A Secure Protocol for Managing Low Power Fitness Trackers
Mahmudur Rahman (Florida International University, USA); Bogdan Carbunar (Florida International University, USA); Umut Topkara (IBM Research, USA)

Polylogarithmic Competitive Algorithm for Energy Minimization in Optical WDM Networks
Yangguang Shi (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Fa Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zhiyong Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)

On Measuring One-Way Path Metrics From a Web Server
Xiapu Luo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Xue Lei (HK Polyu, Hong Kong); Cong Shi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Yuru Shao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Chenxiong Qian (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Edmond W. W. Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Semi-Synchronous Channel Access for Full-duplex Wireless Networks
Xiufeng Xie (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA); Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Secgras: Security Group Analysis as a Cloud Service
Cheng Jin (University of Minnesota, USA); Abhinav Srivastava (AT&T Labs--Research, USA); Yu Jin (AT&T Labs Research, USA); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA)
 
11:30 am - 1:00 pm : Lunch
Location: Oak Forest A

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm : Panel on "Key Challenges in Cloud Computing"
Location: Oak Forest B

Xiaoming Fu (Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany)
John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Deep Medhi (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA)
K K Ramakrishnan (University of California at Riverside, USA)

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm : Break
Location: Esplanade

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm : Session 6: Security and Pricing
Session Chair: Wei Gao
Location: Oak Forest B

You are How You Touch: User Verification on Smartphones Via Tapping Behaviors
Nan Zheng (College of William and Mary, USA); Kun Bai (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA); Hai Huang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA); Haining Wang (College of William and Mary, USA)

OrthCredential: A New Network Capability Design for High-Performance Access Control
Hao Cai (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Xinming Chen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Fair Pricing in the Sky: Truthful Frequency Allocation with Dynamic Spectrum Supply
Qihang Sun (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Qian Wang (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Kui Ren (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Pay-As-You-Go Pricing and Competition in Congested Network Service Markets
Richard T. B. Ma (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm : Session 7: Transport
Session Chair: Muhammad Shahzad
Location: Willow Oak

Deconstructing MPTCP Performance
Behnaz Arzani (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Alexander Gurney (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Sitian Cheng (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Roch Gu¨¦rin (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Multi-Path TCP: Boosting Fairness in Cellular Networks
Ioannis Broustis (AT&T Labs Research, USA); Bo Han (AT&T Labs Research, USA); Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs Research, USA); K. K. Ramakrishnan (Rutgers University, USA); Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan (AT&T Laboratories - Research, USA); Rakesh K Sinha (AT&T Labs - Research, USA); Ashwin Sridharan (AT&T, USA)

TCP Performance Over Mobile Networks in High-speed Mobility Scenarios
Qingyang Xiao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Ke Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Li Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yifeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Composing Heterogeneous SDN Controllers with FlowBricks
Advait A Dixit (Purdue University, USA); Kirill Kogan (Purdue University, USA); Patrick Eugster (Purdue University, USA)

Optimization Models for Congestion Mitigation in Virtual Networks
Jocelyne Elias (University of Paris Descartes, France); Fabio Martignon (Universit¨¦ Paris-Sud, France); Stefano Paris (Universit¨¦ Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cit¨¦, France); Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm : Break
Location: Esplanade

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm : Session 8: Network Algorithms
Session Chair: Jun Bi
Location: Oak Forest B

Rethinking Packet Classification for Global Network View of Software-Defined Networking
Takeru Inoue (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan); Toru Mano (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan); Kimihiro Mizutani (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan); Shin-ichi Minato (Hokkaido University, Japan); Osamu Akashi (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan)

Meta-algorithms for Software-based Packet Classification
Peng He (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Gaogang Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Kav¨¦ Salamatian (LISTIC PolyTech, Universit¨¦ de Savoie Chambery Annecy, France); Laurent Mathy (University of Li¨¨ge, Belgium)

Collaborative Verification of Forward and Reverse Reachability in the Internet Data Plane
Hongkun Yang (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Simon S Lam (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Compressing IP Forwarding Tables: Realizing Information-theoretical Space Bounds and Fast Lookups Simultaneously
Attila Korosi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); J¨¢nos Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Bence Mih¨¢lka (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); G¨¢bor R¨¦tv¨¢ri (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); G¨¢bor M¨¦sz¨¢ros (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm : Session 9: Routing
Session Chair: Tian He
Location: Willow Oak

Stochastic Planning for Content Delivery: Unveiling the Benefits of Network Functions Virtualization
Michele Mangili (Universit¨¦ Paris-Sud, France); Fabio Martignon (Universit¨¦ Paris-Sud, France); Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

LAAR: Long-range Radio Assisted Ad-Hoc Routing in MANETs
Ying Mao (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA); Jiayin Wang (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA); Bo Sheng (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA); Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University, USA)

In-Band Update for Network Routing Policy Migration
Shuyuan Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Laurent Vanbever (Princeton University, USA); Sharad Malik (Princeton University, USA)

Freeway: Adaptively Isolating the Elephant and Mice Flows on Different Transmission Paths
Wei Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, P.R. China); Yi Sun (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Kai Zheng (IBM China Research Lab, P.R. China); Mohamed-Ali Kaafar (INRIA France, France); Dan Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhongcheng Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)

Analysis of Topology Algorithms for Commercial Airborne Networks
Ben Newton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); Jay Aikat (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); Kevin Jeffay (University of North Carolina, USA)




Friday, Oct 24, 2014
7:30 am - 8:30 am : Breakfast Snacks
Location: Oak Forest A

8:50 am - 4:40 pm : CNERT —Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds
Location: Pen Oak

8:30 am - 2:30 pm : PhD Forum
Location: Willow Oak

8:30 am - 10:00 am : Session 10: Forwarding Plane
Session Chair: Ken Calvert
Location: Oak Forest B

Regulating Monopolistic ISPs Without Neutrality
Jing Tang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Richard T. B. Ma (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Best Paper Award !


PAC: Taming TCP Incast Congestion Using Proactive ACK Control
Wei Bai (Hong Kong University of Science of Technology, Hong Kong); Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Haitao Wu (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China); Wuwei Lan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China); Yangming Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

Constrained Maximum Flow in Stochastic Networks
Fernando A. Kuipers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Song Yang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Stojan Trajanovski (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Ariel Orda (Technion, Israel)

Wireless Rate Adaptation Via Smart Pilot
Lu Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Xiaoke Qi (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Jiang Xiao (HKUST, Hong Kong); Kaishun Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong); Mounir Hamdi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

10:00 am - 10:30 am : Break
Location: Esplanade

10:30 am - 12:00 pm : Session 11: Wireless Networks
Session Chair: Kui Ren
Location: Oak Forest B

Circular Pipelining: Minimizing Round-Trip Delay in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Networks
Jia Li (University of Minnesota, USA); Song Min Kim (University of Minnesota, USA); Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA)

Correlated Coding: Efficient Network Coding Under Correlated Unreliable Wireless Links
Shuai Wang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA); Song Min Kim (University of Minnesota, USA); Zhimeng Yin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA)

Exploiting Sender-based Link Correlation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Junghyun Jun (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India); Long Cheng (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Liang He (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Yu Gu (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Ting Zhu (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)

On the MAC for Power-Line Communications: Modeling Assumptions and Performance Tradeoffs
Christina Vlachou (¨¦cole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Julien Herzen (EPFL, Switzerland); Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Switzerland)
Best Paper Runner-up Award !


12:00 pm - 1:30 pm : Lunch
Location: Oak Forest A