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)