Schedule

Venue: 60 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011

Day 1 (Oct 25, 2016)

8:30-9:30 Breakfast (4th floor common area)

9:30 - 10:00 Introduction (Room 527)

10:00 - 11:00 Keynote talks (Ken Duell and Erica Lan) (Room 527)

11:00 - 12:00 Breakout Session #1: Applications and use cases (Rooms 527, 446, and 502)

• Measurement
• Control
• In-network computing
• Division of labor between end hosts and network

12:00 - 12:30 Readout from Breakout Session #1 (Room 527)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (4th floor common area)

1:30 - 3:00 Industry Panel: How will programmable networks change the networking industry? (Room 527)

• Mix of network operators and equipment vendors
• Goal: What should the research community focus on?

3:00 - 3:30 Break (4th floor common area)

3:30 - 4:30 Breakout Session #2: Algorithms and formal methods (Rooms 527, 446, and 502)

• Streaming algorithms, compact data structures
• Program analysis and verification, tracing, debugging
• Crypto algorithms, security, privacy

4:30 - 5:00 Readout from Breakout Session #2 (Room 527)

5:00 - 7:00 Reception (light dinner) and poster session (Room 446 and 4th floor common area)

Day 2 (Oct 26, 2018)

8:00-9:00 Breakfast (4th floor common area)

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote talks (Jennifer Rexford, Muthu Muthukrishnan) (Room 527)

10:00 - 11:00 Breakout Session #3: Language and hardware design (Rooms 527, 446, and 302)

• New hardware architectures for programmable network devices
• Languages to program individual devices
• Languages to program the network as a whole

11:00 - 11:30 Readout from Breakout Session #3 (Room 527)

11:30 - 12:15 Breakout Session #4: Testbeds and infrastructure (Rooms 527, 446, and 302)

• Can we create shared testbeds for evaluating ideas at scale within large networks?
• Equipping existing testbeds (e.g., CloudLab) with programmable switches
• Support for running multiple experiments on the same physical testbed
• Industry support for running experiments and sharing data

12:15 - 12:45 Readout from Breakout Session #4 (alongside lunch) (Room 446)

12:45 - 1:00 Wrap up (alongside lunch) (Room 446)