DIMACS Workshop on Systems and Networking Advances in Cloud Computing

December 8 - 9, 2011
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin-Madison, akella at cs.wisc.edu

Li Erran Li, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, erranlli at research.bell-labs.com

Ming Zhang, Microsoft Research, mzh at microsoft.com

Workshop Program:

Thursday, December 8, 2011

 8:00 -  8:45  Breakfast and Registration

 8:45 -  9:00  Opening remarks

 9:00 - 10:30  Support for Enterprise Applications

               Enabling Seamless Enterprise Cloud Computing and Storage
               K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research

               PACE: Policy-Aware Application Cloud Embedding
               Richard Yang, Yale University

               Networking Services for Enterprise Clouds
               Anees Shaikh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Novel Software Frameworks

               Service-Centric Networking with the Serval Network Stack
               Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University

               Orleans: Cloud Computing for Everyone
               Sergey Bykov, Microsoft Research

               Mesos: Multiprograming for Datacenters
               Ion Stoica, University of California at Berkeley

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  2:05  Welcome- Rebecca Wright, DIMACS Director

 2:05  - 3:35  Resource Management, and TCP

               The TCP Outcast Problem: Exposing Unfairness in Data Center Networks
               Ramana Kompella, Purdue University

               Transactional Resource Orchestration Platform In the Cloud
               Yun Mao, AT&T Labs Research

               Hybrid Networking and JIT Migration for Cloud Resource Management
               T. S. Eugene Ng, Rice University

 3:35 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  5:30  Data Center Networks, and Routing
 
               Geographically Distributed Datacenters with Load Reallocation
               Sem Borst, Bell Labs

               Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers Randomly
               P. Brighten Godfrey, UIUC

               Leveraging Heterogeneity to Reduce the Cost of Data Center Network Upgrades (short presentation)
               Andy Curtis, University of Waterloo

               LocalFlow: Simple, Local Multi-Commodity Flow Routing in Data Centers (short presentation)
               Siddhartha Sen, Princeton University

 5:30          Dinnner

Friday, December 9, 2011

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:30  Client Support

               CloneCloud: Elastic Execution between Mobile Device and Cloud
               Byung-Gon Chun, Yahoo Research

               A Virtual Smartphone Architecture
               Jason Nieh, Columbia University

               Thialfi: A Client Notification Service for Internet-Scale Applications
               Atul Adya, Google

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Novel Paradigms

               Building Next Generation Secure Systems and Networks with Logical Attestation
               Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell

               Frenetic: A Programming Language for Software Defined Networks
               Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University

               Managing networks as we do servers in Cloud datacenters
               Deepak Bansal, AZURE, Microsoft

12:30 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  3:00  Panel - Challenges in Cloud Computing: From Operational to Foundational

               Atul Adya, Google
               Deepak Bansal, AZURE, Microsoft
               David Lee, HP Labs
               Joe Houle, AT&T
               Annes Shaikh, IBM Research 

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:00  Security, Privacy and Trust
      
               Architectural Considerations for Secure Multi-tenancy
               John Linn, RSA Office of the CTO, EMC and John Field, EMC

               In Clouds We Trust Towards a Trustworthy Marketplace for Cloud Resources
               Azer Bestavros, Boston University

               Access Control in Untrusted Cloud Storage using Unidirectional Re-encryption (short presentation)
               Zachary A. Kissel, University of Massachusetts Lowell

               Privacy Enhanced Access Control for Outsourced Data Sharing (short presentation)
               Hang Zhao, Columbia University

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