Monday, November 4
8:45 – 9:00 Conference Opening
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote 1
From Cloud to Fog: the Tao of IT Infrastructure Decentralization
Guillaume Pierre (Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France)
10:00 – 10:40 Poster Session 1 (Coffee Break)
Towards a Resilient Control Architecture for Combined Fog-to-Cloud Systems
Xavier Masip-Bruin, Sergio Sánchez-López and Alejandro Jurnet (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) & Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX), Spain); Eva Marín-Tordera (Technical University of Catalonia UPC, Spain); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany); Guang-Jie Ren (IBM, USA)
Scalability of Container Overlays for Policy Enforcement in Digital Marketplaces
Sara Shakeri, Niek van Noort and Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
A Consumer-centric Conceptual Framework for Trust Assessment in Cloud Computing
Amandio Ferreira Balcao, Filho and Ferrucio Rosa (Renato Archer Information Technology Center (CTI), Brazil); Mario Jino (University of Campinas, Brazil); Rodrigo Ruiz and Rodrigo Bonacin (Renato Archer Information Technology Center (CTI), Brazil)
Collaborative Traffic Measurement in Virtualized Data Center Networks
Houssam ElBouanani (Insitut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France); Chadi Barakat (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Guillaume Urvoy Keller (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) France, France); Dino Lopez Pacheco (University Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), France)
Preventive Start-time Optimization to Determine Link Weights against Multiple Link Failures
Yuki Hirano, Fujun He, Takehiro Sato and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
10:40 – 12:20 Technical Session 1 – Network Slicing
Session Chair: Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden
Multi-PoP Network Slice Deployment: A Feasibility Study
Polychronis Valsamas, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Ilias Sakellariou, Sophia Petridou and Lefteris Mamatas (University of Macedonia, Greece); Stuart Clayman (University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Francesco Tusa (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alex Galis (University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (Great Britain))
SliMANO: An Expandable Framework for the Management and Orchestration of End-to-end Network Slices
Flávio Meneses (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Manuel Fernandes (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Daniel Corujo (Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Joint User Association and VNF Placement for Latency sensitive Applications in 5G Networks
Rasoul Behravesh, Estefania Coronado, Davit Harutyunyan and Roberto Riggio (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
VNF placement algorithms to address the mono- and multi-tenant issues in edge and core networks
Cédric Morin (IMT Atlantique & TéléDiffusion de France, France); Geraldine Texier (IMT Atlantique/IRISA & BCOM, France); Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d’Azur & CNRS, Inria, I3S, France); Gilles Desmangles (TDF, France); Cao-Thanh Phan (BCOM, France)
Dynamic Modular vCPE Orchestration in Platform as a Service Architectures
Flávio Meneses (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Manuel Fernandes and Tiago Vieira (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Daniel Corujo (Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Augusto J. Venancio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal); Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:10 Technical Session 2 – Telemetry and Security
Session Chair: Daniel Corujo, Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Programmable Event Detection for In-Band Network Telemetry
Jonathan Vestin, Andreas J. Kassler, Deval Bhamare, Karl-Johan Grinnemo and Jan-Olof Andersson (Karlstad University, Sweden); Gergely Pongrácz (Ericsson Research, Hungary)
A Case for Data Centre Traffic Management on Software Programmable Ethernet Switches
Kamil Tokmakov (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany); Mitalee Sarker, Jörg Domaschka and Stefan Wesner (Ulm University, Germany)
Dynamic Sketch: Efficient and Adjustable Heavy Hitter Detection for Software Packet Processing
Yipeng Wang and Ren Wang (Intel Labs, USA); Tsung-Yuan (Charlie) Tai (Intel Corporation, USA)
A Privacy-Preserving Schema for the Detection and Collaborative Mitigation of DNS Water Torture Attacks in Cloud Infrastructures
Nikos Kostopoulos and Adam Pavlidis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Marinos Dimolianis (National Technical University of Athens & Nokia Bell Labs, Greece); Dimitris Kalogeras and Vasilis Maglaris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Flowdyn: Towards a Dynamic Flowlet Gap Detection using Programmable Data Planes
Cristian Hernandez Benet and Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)
15:10 – 15:50 Poster Session 2 (Coffee Break)
Polynomial-time Algorithm for Distributed Server Allocation Problem
Takaaki Sawa and Fujun He (Kyoto University, Japan); Akio Kawabata (NTT, Japan); Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
On Enabling Elasticity Control Functions to Cloud-Network Slice-Defined Domains
Alisson Medeiros (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil); Augusto J. Venancio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal); Silvio Sampaio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil); Rafael Pasquini (Federal University of Uberlândia – UFU, Brazil); Javier Baliosian (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
Blockchain provisioning over private cloud computing environments: Availability modeling and cost requirements
Carlos Melo (UFPE, Brazil); Jamilson Dantas (University Federal of Pernambuci & UFPE, Brazil); Ronierison Maciel (University Federal of Pernambuco, Brazil); Paulo Pereira (Federal University of Pernambuc, Brazil); Eder Quesado and Paulo Maciel (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Secure File Storage for Android Devices on Public Clouds
Paulo Ribeiro (Universidade do Porto & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Rui Prior (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade do Porto & Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Sérgio Crisóstomo (Universidade do Porto & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
15:50 – 17:30 Technical Session 3 – Edge Computing
Session Chair: Geraldine Texier, IMT Atlantique/IRISA & BCOM, France
Building Dynamic Mapping with CUPS for Next Generation Automotive Edge Computing
Zhaoxia Sun, Ping Du and Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Lei Zhong and Ryokichi Onishi (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan)
Intelligent Resource Allocation in Dynamic Fog Computing Environments
Amina Mseddi (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Wael Jaafar (Carleton University, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Towards making big data applications network-aware in edge-cloud systems
David Haja, Balázs Vass and Laszlo Toka (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Resource provisioning for highly reliable and ultra-responsive edge applications
Laszlo Toka, David Haja, Attila Kőrösi and Balázs Sonkoly (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
APRON: an Architecture for Adaptive Task Planning of Internet of Things in Challenged Edge Networks
Agnese Vincenza Ventrella and Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Alessio Sacco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy & Saint Louis University, USA); Matteo Flocco (Saint Louis University, USA); Guido Marchetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Srikanth Gururajan (Saint Louis University, USA)
18:00 – 20:00 Welcome Reception
Tuesday, November 5
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote 2
Back to the Future: Hardware-specialized Cloud Networking
Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
10:00 – 10:40 Poster Session 3 (Coffee Break)
Continuous and Adaptive Learning over Big Streaming Data for Network Security
Pavol Mulinka (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Pedro Casas (Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria); Juan Vanerio (Universidad de la República & ANTEL, Uruguay)
Exploring Computation Offloading in Vehicular Clouds
Alisson Souza, Paulo A. L. Rego and José Neuman de Souza (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
Tuning optimal traffic measurement parameters in virtual networks with machine learning
Karyna Gogunska (INRIA, France); Chadi Barakat (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Survivable Virtual Network Embedding Model with Shared Protection over Elastic Optical Network
Fujun He, Takehiro Sato and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Generalized Deduplication: Lossless Compression by Clustering Similar Data
Prasad Talasila and Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Selectivity and Autoscaling as Complementary Defenses for DDoS Protection to Cloud Services
João Henrique Corrêa (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil); Epaminondas Aguiar Sousa, Junior (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil); Iguatemi E. Fonseca (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil); Vivek Nigam (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil); Moises R. N. Ribeiro (Federal Universty of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Rodolfo S Villaca (Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil)
10:40 – 12:20 Technical Session 4 – Cloud Fault-tolerance and Reliability
Session Chair: Daniel E. Lucani, Aarhus University, Denmark
Bandwidth-optimal Failure Recovery Scheme for Robust Programmable Networks
Andrea Tomassilli (Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, I3S, France); Giuseppe Di Lena (Orange, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Université Côte d’Azur, France); Frederic Giroire (CNRS, France); Issam Tahiri (Self-employed, France); Damien Saucez (Inria, France); Stephane Perennes (INRIA, France); Thierry Turletti (INRIA & Université Côte d’Azur, France); Rusland Sadykov (INRIA, France); Francois Vanderbeck (University of Bordeaux 1, France); Chidung Lac (Orange, France)
No Interruption When Reconfiguring my SFCs
Adrien Gausseran (Université Cote d’Azur, Inria, I3S, France); Andrea Tomassilli (Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, I3S, France); Frederic Giroire (CNRS, France); Joanna Moulierac (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Virtual Network Function Allocation to Maximize Continuous Available Time of Service Function Chains
Rui Kang, Fujun He, Takehiro Sato and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
A Reliability-aware Computation Offloading Solution via UAV-mounted Cloudlets
Elie El Haber, Hyame Alameddine and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)
On the Cost-Optimality Trade-off for Service Function Chain Reconfiguration
Kyoomars Alizadeh Noghani, Andreas J. Kassler and Javid Taheri (Karlstad University, Sweden)
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:10 Invited Special Session 1 – Research on Cloud Networking in Brazil and Europe: the NECOS and Atmosphere projects
Networking the cloud, cloudifying the network
Luis M. Contreras, Telefónica, Spain
Software Defined Networking in the Atmosphere project
Giacomo Verticale, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
15:10 – 15:50 Poster Session 4 (Coffee Break)
Cloud Workload Characterization and Profiling for Resource Allocation
Naghmeh Dezhabad, Sudhakar Ganti and Gholamali C Shoja (University of Victoria, Canada)
Emulation and Performance Evaluation of a Transparent Reordering Robust TCP Proxy
Tacettin Ayar (Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Turgay D Altilar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Lukasz Budzisz (HPE Aruba, Germany); Berthold Rathke (TUBerlin, Germany)
Hybrid IP/SDN Routing for Inter-Data Center Communications
Vítor Pereira, Miguel Rocha and Pedro Sousa (University of Minho, Portugal)
RSU-driven Cloud Construction and Management Mechanism in VANETs
Yoonhyeong Lee, Hyunseok Choi, Youngju Nam, Sungjin Park and Euisin Lee (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
Mininet on steroids: exploiting the cloud for Mininet performance
Giuseppe Di Lena (Orange, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Université Côte d’Azur, France); Andrea Tomassilli (Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, I3S, France); Damien Saucez (Inria, France); Frederic Giroire (CNRS, France); Thierry Turletti (INRIA & Université Côte d’Azur, France); Chidung Lac (Orange, France)
15:50 – 17:30 Technical Session 5 – Cloud Performance
Session Chair: Mohamed Faten Zhani, ÉTS Montreal, Canada
Minimizing state access delay for cloud-native network functions
Márk Szalay (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & BME TMIT, Hungary); Peter Mátray (Eotvos University, Hungary); Laszlo Toka (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Cloud-Powered Digital Twins: Is It Reality?
Balázs Sonkoly, Bálint György Nagy, János Dóka and Istvan Pelle (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Géza Szabó and Sandor Rácz (Ericsson Research, Hungary); János Czentye and Laszlo Toka (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
A stable matching method for cloud scheduling
Laszlo Toka, Barnabas Gema and Balázs Sonkoly (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Optimizing 5G Networks Processes With Software Defined Networks
Geymerson Ramos, Rian Pinheiro and Andre Aquino (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil)
User Profile-Based Caching in 5G Telco-CDNs
Arian Soltani, Behzad Akbari and Nader Mokari (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
20:00 Banquet – Restaurant “O Trovador”
Wednesday, November 6
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote 3
Cloud Research Infrastructure for Computing Research
Deep Medhi (Program Director, NSF & Curators’ Distinguished Prof., CSEE Dept., Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
10:00 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 12:20 Invited Special Session 2 – Future Networks
Network 2030: How to turn IP into a zombie
Cedric Westphal, Futurewei Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Network Technologies for 2030 Networks
Toerless Eckert, Futurewei, USA
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Distinguished Expert Panel
Has the time for real-time center arrived?
Panel Chair: Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Panel Members:
Cedric Westphal, Futurewei
Eiji Oki, Kyoto University
Mohamed Faten Zhani, ETS Montreal
Ren Wang, Intel
15:30 Closing Ceremony