Technical Sessions
Wednesday - 18 NOVEMBER 2015
Thursday - 19 NOVEMBER 2015
Friday - 20 NOVEMBER 2015
P1 - Deployment, Scaling and Monitoring
Session Chair: Puneet Sharma (Hewlett Packard Labs)
Wed, Nov 18, 2015 10:30 AM - Wed, Nov 18, 2015 12:00 PM
Cloud API Support for Self-service Virtual Network Function (VNF) Deployment
Stephan Baucke, Racha Ben Ali, James Kempf, Srini Seetharaman and Anirudh Ramachandran
Experimental Results on the use of Genetic Algorithms for Scaling Virtualized Network Functions
Windhya Rankothge, Alessandra Russo, Franck Le and Jorge Lobo
A Monitoring Framework at Layer4-7 Granularity Using Network Service Headers
Meral Shirazipour, Heikki Mahkonen, Ming Xia, Ravi Manghirmalani, Veronica Sanchez Vega andAttila Takacs
P2 - Hardware
Session Chair: Kurt Tutschku (BTH)
Wed, Nov 18, 2015 1:30 PM - Wed, Nov 18, 2015 3:00 PM
Virtual TCAM for Data Center Switches
Qasim Maqbool, Junaid Zulfiqar, Sohaib Ayub and Aamir Shafi
Towards High Performance Packet Processing for 5G
Balázs Pinczel, Dániel Géhberger, Zoltán Richárd Turányi and Bence Formanek
Enhancing VNF Performance by Exploiting SR-IOV and DPDK Packet Processing Acceleration
Michail Alexandros Kourtis, George K Xilouris, Vincenzo Riccobene, Michael J McGrath, Giuseppe Petralia, Harilaos Koumaras, Georgios Gardikis and Fidel Liberal
P3 - Performance
Session Chair: Cedric Westphal (Huawei & UCSC)
Thu, Nov 19, 2015 10:30 AM - Thu, Nov 19, 2015 12:00 PM
On the Performance of SDN Controllers: A Reality Check
Yimeng Zhao, Luigi Iannone and Michel Riguidel
SnabbSwitch userspace virtual switch benchmark and performance optimization for NFV
Michele Paolino, Nikolay Nikolaev, Jérémy Fanguède and Daniel Raho
NFV-VITAL: A Framework for Characterizing the Performance of Virtual Network Functions
Lianjie Cao, Puneet Sharma, Sonia Fahmy and Vinay Saxena
P4 - Access Control and Firewall
Session Chair: Steven Wright (ATT)
Thu, Nov 19, 2015 1:30 PM - Thu, Nov 19, 2015 3:00 PM
NFShunt: a Linux firewall with OpenFlow-enabled hardware bypass
Simeon Miteff and Scott HazelHurst
VNGuard: An NFV/SDN Combination Framework for Provisioning and Managing Virtual Firewalls
Juan Deng, Hongxin Hu, Hongda Li, Zhizhong Pan, Kuang-Ching Wang, Gail-Joon Ahn, Jun Bi and Younghee Park
FlowIdentity: Software-Defined Network Access Control
Sadiq Yakasai and Chris G Guy
P5 - Orchestration and Management
Session Chair: Ramki Krishnan (Dell)
Thu, Nov 19, 2015 3:30 PM - Thu, Nov 19, 2015 5:00 PM
CPMan: Adaptive Control Plane Management for Software-Defined Networks
Jian Li, Jae-Hyoung Yoo and James W. Hong
Policy-based NFV Management and Orchestration
Christian Makaya, Douglas Freimuth, David A. Wood and Seraphin B Calo
nf.io: A File System Abstraction for NFV Orchestration
Md. Faizul Bari, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed and Raouf Boutaba
P6 - Containers
Session Chair: James Kempf (Ericsson)
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 10:30 AM - Fri, Nov 20, 2015 12:00 PM
GNFC: Towards Network Function Cloudification
Richard Cziva, Simon Jouet and Dimitrios P Pezaros
SPN OS: Managing Network Services with Virtual Network Objects
Xi Wang, Cong Chen, Paparao Palacharla, Motoyoshi Sekiya, Steffen Smolka and Nate Foster
Dynamic Virtual Network Configuration between Containers using Physical Switch Functions for NFV Infrastructure
Yukihiro Nakagawa, Chunghan Lee, Kazuki Hyoudou, Shinji Kobayashi, Osamu Shiraki, Tanaka Jun and Tomohiro Ishihara
P7 - Control and Consistent Updates
Session Chair: Dilip Krishnaswamy (IBM)
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 1:30 PM - Fri, Nov 20, 2015 3:00 PM
Protocols to Support Autonomy and Control for NFV in Software Defined Networks
Ali Mohammadkhan, Guyue Liu, Wei Zhang, K. K. Ramakrishnan and Timothy Wood
vDNS Closed-Loop Control: A Framework for an Elastic Control Plane Service
Anestis Karasaridis, Kenichi Futamura, Eric Noel, Paul Reeser, Ashwin Sridharan, Carolyn Johnson and Pat Velardo
Update Consistency in Software-defined Networking based Multicast Networks
Thomas Kohler, Frank Dürr and Kurt Rothermel
Enhanced Algorithms for Consistent Network Updates
Radhika Sukapuram and Gautam Barua
P8 - Placement
Session Chair: Don Clarke (CableLabs)
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 3:30 PM - Fri, Nov 20, 2015 5:00 PM
Impact of Processing Costs on Service Chain Placement in Network Functions Virtualization
Marco Savi, Massimo Tornatore and Giacomo Verticale
Pairing SDN with Network Virtualization: The Network Hypervisor Placement Problem
Andreas Blenk, Arsany Basta, Johannes Zerwas and Wolfgang Kellerer
Latency and Policy Aware Hierarchical Partitioning for NFV Systems
Dilip Krishnaswamy, Ravi Kothari and Vijay Gabale
