08:30 – 09:00: Reception

09:00 – 09:15: Opening remarks

09:15 – 10:45: Session 1 – Intelligent and Software Defined Networking (Session Chair: Tal Mizrahi)

09:15 – 09:30 “High Performance Multipath Congestion Control”, Tomer Gilad, Neta Rozen-Schiff, Costin Raiciu, Brighten Godfrey, and Michael Schapira (Presenter: Tomer Gilad, Hebrew University).

09:30 – 09:45 “Using Mellanox’s in-network computing SHARP (scalable hierarchical aggregation protocol) to enable large scale deep learning training”, Lion Levi, Jose Yallouz, Benny Koren, Gilad Shiner, Gil Bloch, Richard Graham (Presenter: Lion Levi, Mellanox).

09:45 – 10:00 “Machine learning methods for SIR prediction in cellular networks”, Orit Rozenblit, Yoram Haddad, Yisroel Mirsky, Rina Azoulay (Presenter: Yoram Haddad, Jerusalem College of Technology).

10:00 – 10:15 “Internet Congestion Control via Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Nathan Jay, Noga H. Rotman, P. Brighten Godfrey, Michael Schapira, Aviv Tamar (Presenter: Noga H. Rotman, Hebrew University).

10:15 – 10:30 “Estimating Customer QoE from Measured Network Metrics”, Kenneth Nagin, Andre Kasiss, Dean Lorenz, Kathy Barabash, Eran Raichstein (Presenter: Dean H Lorenz, IBM).

10:30 – 10:45 “Toward Demand-Aware Networks: Vision and Algorithms”, Chen Avin, Stefan Schmid (Presenter: Chen Avin, Ben-Gurion University).

10:45 – 11:15: Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15: Session 2 – Switch and Router Architecture (Session Chair: Gil Einziger)

11:15 – 11:30 “Optimal Representations of a Traffic Distribution in Switch Memories”, Yaniv Sadeh, Ori Rottenstreich, Arye Barkan, Yossi Kanizo, Haim Kaplan (Presenter: Yaniv Sadeh, Tel Aviv University).

11:30 – 11:45 “LUMOS: A Fast and Efficient Optical Circuit Switch Scheduling Technique”, Ariel Livshits, Shay Vargaftik (Presenter: Ariel Livshits, Technion).

11:45 – 12:00 “The Descent of Cuckoos, and Selection in Relation to Nests”, Michael A. Bender, Ioana O. Bercea, Alexander Conway, Guy Even, Tomer Even, Martin Farach-Colton and Rob Johnson (Presenter: Ioana O. Bercea, Tel Aviv University).

12:00 – 12:15 “Adaptive Software Cache Management”, Gil Einziger, Ohad Eytan, Roy Friedman, Benjamin Manes (Presenter: Ohad Eytan, Technion).

12:15 – 13:15: Lunch

13:15 – 15:00: Session 3 – Security and Cryptography (Session Chair: Jose Yallouz)

13:15 – 13:30 “Network bottlenecks in OLSR based ad-hoc networks”, Nadav Schweitzer, Ariel Stulman, Tirza Hirst, Roy David Margalit, Asaf Shabtai (Presenter: Ariel Stulman, Jerusalem College of Technology).

13:30 – 13:45 “One-Round Secure Multiparty Computation of Arithmetic Streams and Functions”, Daniel Berend, Dor Bitan, Shlomi Dolev (Presenter: Dor Bitan, Ben-Gurion University).

13:45 – 14:00 “The Gap Game”, Itay Tsabary, Ittay Eyal (Presenter: Itay Tsabary, Technion).

14:00 – 14:15 “Statistically Secure Evaluation of Quadratic Functions and 2-CNF Circuits Over a Dynamic Set of Secret Shares”, Daniel Berend, Dor Bitan, Shlomi Dolev (Presenter: Dor Bitan, Ben-Gurion University).

14:15 – 14:30 “From IP ID to Device ID and KASLR Bypass”, Amit Klein, Benny Pinkas (Presenter: Amit Klein, Bar-Ilan University).

14:30 – 14:45 “Behind the NAT attacks and their protection”, Yehuda Afek, Anat Bremler Barr, Alon Neuhaus (Presenter: Alon Neuhaus, Tel Aviv University).

14:45 – 15:00 “Packet Classification using GPU and one-level Entropy-based Hashing”, Shlomo Greenberg, Yehuda Ben-Shimol, Tomer Seps, David Leon (Presenter: Yehuda Ben-Shimol, Ben-Gurion University).

15:00 – 15:15: Coffee break

15:15 – 17:00: Session 4 – Protocols and Algorithms for Networked Systems (Session Chair: Gidi Navon)

15:15 – 15:30 “A Novel Adaptive Bitrate Algorithm for Video Streaming”, Ohad Shacham, Boris Kapchits (Presenter: Boris Kapchits, Yahoo).

15:30 – 15:45 “Outperforming AWS via Cost Optimal MDP Solution”, Mark Shifrin, Roy Mitrany, Omer Gurewitz and Erez Biton (Presenter: Mark Shifrin, Ben-Gurion University).

15:45 – 16:00 “Deployment Planning in Vehicular Supported Cellular Networks”, Nadav Lavi, Eliran Sherzer, Hanoch Levy (Presenter: Hanoch Levy, Tel Aviv University).

16:00 – 16:15 “Treeplication: An erasure code for distributed computing that is almost as painless as replication”, Michael Gandelman, Yuval Cassuto (Presenter: Michael Gandelman, Technion).

16:15 – 16:30 “Access Strategies for Network Caching”, Itamar Cohen, Gil Einziger, Roy Friedman, Gabriel Scalosub (Presenter: Itamar Cohen, Ben-Gurion University).

16:30 – 16:45 “Application-Layer Approach for Efficient Smart Meter Reading in Low-Voltage PLC Networks”, Yehuda Ben-Shimol, Shlomo Greenberg, Kiril Danilchenko (Presenter: Yehuda Ben-Shimol, Ben-Gurion University).

16:45 – 17:00 “Maximizing Communication Throughput in Tree Networks”, Mordechai Shalom, Yuval Emek, Fanica Gavril, Shay Kutten, Shmuel Zaks (Presenter: Mordechai Shalom, Tel-Hai Academic College).