Tuesday, 12 April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room: Bayview B
Flows in SDN
Chair: Ting He (IBM Research, USA)
 
Controlling Flow Reconfigurations in SDN
Stefano Paris (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. & Université Paris Descartes, France)
Apostolos Destounis , Lorenzo Maggi , Georgios S. Paschos , Jeremie Leguay (Huawei Technologies, France)
 
Measurement-based Flow Characterization in Centrally Controlled Networks
Zdravko Bozakov (EMC Research Europe, Ireland)
Amr Rizk, Divyashri Bhat, Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
 
On Consistent Migration of Flows in SDNs 
Sebastian Brandt (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Klaus-Tycho Förster (ETH Zurich & Microsoft Research, Switzerland)
Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
 
Is Every Flow on The Right Track?: Inspect SDN Forwarding with RuleScope
Kai Bu (Zhejiang University, China)
Xitao Wen (Northwestern University, USA)
Bo Yang (Zhejiang University, China)
Yan Chen (Northwestern University, USA)
Li Erran Li (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Xiaolin Chen (Northwestern University, Chuxiong Normal University, China)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room: Seacliff C+D
Energy Efficiency in Sensor Networks
Chair: Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn, Germany)
 
A PTAS to Minimize Mobile Sensor Movement for Target Coverage Problem
Zhiyin Chen, Xiaofeng Gao, Fan Wu and Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
 
DualSync: Taming Clock Skew Variation for Synchronization in Low-Power Wireless Networks
Meng Jin, Tianzhang Xing, Xiaojiang Chen, Xin Meng and Dingyi Fang (Northwest University, China)
Yuan He (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Talk More Listen Less: Energy-Efficient Neighbor Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks
Ying Qiu, Shi-Ning Li, Xiangsen Xu and Zhigang Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
 
A Hybrid Framework Combining Solar Energy Harvesting and Wireless Charging for Wireless Sensor Networks
Cong Wang, Ji Li, Yuanyuan Yang and Fan Ye (Stony Brook University, USA)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room: Bayview A
Cloud Computing I
Chair: Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)
 
GEM: An Analytic Geometrical Approach to Fast Event Matching for Multi-dimensional Content-based Publish/Subscribe Services
Wenhao Fan, Yuanan Liu and Bihua Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
 
Cheetah: An Efficient Flat Addressing Scheme for Fast Query Services in Cloud Computing
Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
 
A Hierarchical Edge Cloud Architecture for Mobile Computing
Liang Tong, Yong Li and Wei Gao (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
 
Providing Bandwidth Guarantees, Work Conservation and Low Latency Simultaneously in the Cloud
Shuihai Hu, Wei Bai and Kai Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Chen Tian (Nanjing University, China)
Ying Zhang (HP Labs, USA)
Haitao Wu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room: Seacliff A
Wireless Access
Chair: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)
 
Listen Channel Randomization for Faster Wi-Fi Direct Device Discovery
Weiping Sun and Changmok Yang (Seoul National University, Korea)
Sunggeun Jin (Daegu University, USA)
Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
 
Experimental Evaluation of Large Scale WiFi Multicast Rate Control
Varun Gupta and Craig Gutterman (Columbia University, USA)
Yigal Bejerano (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA)
 
MobTrack: Locating Indoor Interfering Radios With A Single Device
Changlai Du, Ruide Zhang, Wenjing Lou and Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech, USA)
 
The S-Aloha Capacity: Beyond the e^-1 Myth

Luca Barletta, Flaminio Borgonovo and Ilario Filippini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room: Seacliff B
Storage
Chair: Arun Somani (Iowa State University, USA)
 
Enabling Secure and Effective Near-duplicate Detection over Encrypted In-network Storage
Helei Cui, Xingliang Yuan, Yifeng Zheng and Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
T-Update: A Tree-structured Update Scheme with Top-Down Transmission in Erasure-coded Systems
Xiaoqiang Pei, Yijie Wang, Xingkong Ma and Fangliang Xu (National University of Defense Technology, China)
 
Blending On-Demand and Spot Instances to Lower Costs for In-Memory Storage
Zichen Xu, Christopher Stewart, Nan Deng and Xiaorui Wang (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
On the Synchronization Bottleneck of OpenStack Swift-like Cloud Storage Systems
Thierry Titcheu Chekam (University of Luxembourg & Tsinghua University, Luxemburg)
Ennan Zhai (Yale University, USA)
Zhenhua Li and Yong Cui (Tsinghua University, China)
Kui Ren (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room: Marina
Game Theory
Chair: Thang N. Dinh (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
 
A Multi-player Markov Stopping Game for Delay-tolerant and Opportunistic Resource Sharing Networks
Xiaofan He, Huaiyu Dai, Peng Ning and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)
 
To delay or not: temporal vaccination games on networks
Abhijin Adiga, Srinivasan Venkatramanan and Anil Kumar S Vullikanti (Virginia Tech, USA)
 
Nash Equilibrium and the Price of Anarchy in Priority Based Network Routing
Benjamin Grimmer and Sanjiv Kapoor (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Exit Equilibrium: Towards Understanding Voluntary Participation in Security Games
Parinaz Naghizadeh Ardabili and Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan, USA)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Datacenter Networks I
Chair: Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)
 
Synergistic Policy and Virtual Machine Consolidation in Cloud Data Centers
Lin Cui (Jinan University, China)
Richard Cziva (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Fung Po Tso (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)
Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
 
Dynamic Scaling of Virtual Clusters with Bandwidth Guarantee in Cloud Data Centers
Lei Yu and Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA)
 
Deadlock-Free Local Fast Failover for Arbitrary Data Center Networks
Brent Stephens (Rice University & University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Alan Cox (Rice University, USA)
 
Dynamic SDN Controller Assignment in Data Center Networks: Stable Matching with Transfers
Tao Wang, Fangming Liu and Jian Guo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Hong Xu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Grand Ballroom C
IoT
Chair: Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
 
PSync: Visible Light-Based Time Synchronization for Internet of Things (IoT)
Xiangfa Guo, Mobashir Mohammad, Sudipta Saha, Mun Choon Chan and Seth Gilbert (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Derek Leong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
 
Demultiplexing Activities of Daily Living in IoT enabled Smarthomes
Palanivel Andiappan Kodeswaran and Ravi Kokku (IBM Research, India)
Madhumita Mallick (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
Sayandeep Sen (IBM Research, India)
 
EMIT: An Efficient MAC Paradigm for the Internet of Things
Arjun Bakshi, Lu Chen, Kannan Srinivasan, Can Emre Koksal and Atilla Eryilmaz (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
RAM: Radar-based Activity Monitor
Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Ruthvik Kukkapalli, Piyush Waradpande, Sekar Kulandaivel, Nilanjan Banerjee, Nirmalya Roy and Ryan Robucci (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Bayview B
Modeling I
Chair: Przemyslaw Pawelczak (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 
Non-Asymptotic Delay Bounds for (k,l) Fork-Join Systems and Multi-Stage Fork-Join Networks
Markus H Fidler (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
Yuming Jiang (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway)
 
Information Source Detection in Networks: Possibility and Impossibility Results
Kai Zhu and Lei Ying (Arizona State University, USA)
 
Heavy Hitters in Streams and Sliding Windows
Ran Ben Basat (Technion, Israel)
Gil Einziger (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Roy Friedman and Yaron Kassner (Technion, Israel)
 
Variability-aware Request Replication for Latency Curtailment
Zhan Qiu, Juan Perez and Peter G Harrison (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seacliff C+D
Mobile Security
Chair: Liran Ma (Texas Christian University, USA)
 
Wanda: securely introducing mobile devices
Timothy Pierson (Dartmouth College, USA)
Xiaohui Liang (University of Massachusetts Boston & University of Massachusetts Boston, Canada)
Ronald Peterson and David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA)
 
EyeVeri: A Secure and Usable Approach for Smartphone User Authentication
Chen Song, Aosen Wang, Kui Ren and Wenyao Xu (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
 
Secure Fingertip Mouse for Mobile Devices
Zhen Ling, Luo Junzhou and Qi Chen (Southeast University, China)
Qinggang Yue (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
Ming Yang (Southeast University, China)
Wei Yu (Towson University, USA)
Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
 
Proactive Patrol Dispatch Surveillance System by Inferring Mobile Trajectories of Multiple Intruders Using Binary Proximity Sensors
Dahee Jeong (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Minkyoung Cho (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Omprakash Gnawali (University of Houston, USA)
HyungJune Lee (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Bayview A
Cellular Networks
Chair: Sangtae Ha (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
 
Localization of LTE Measurement Records with Missing Information
Avik Ray (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Supratim Deb (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
Pantelis Monogioudis (NOKIA, USA)
 
Coordinated Multi-Point Transmissions Based On Interference Alignment and Neutralization
Zhao Li, Sha Cui and Jun Gu (Xidian University, China)
Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA)
 
An SDR-based Experimental Study of Outband D2D Communications
Arash Asadi (IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
Rohit Gupta (National Instruments, Germany)
 
Resource pooling in CDMA cell-based systems through uplink power control
Antonis Dimakis and Spyros Papafragkos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seacliff A
Network Science I
Chair: Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
 
Robust Monitor Placement for Network Tomography in Dynamic Networks
Ting He and Liang Ma (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Athanasios Gkelias and Kin K. Leung (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA)
Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
 
Robust Network Tomography: k-identifiability and Monitor Assignment
Wei Ren and Wei Dong (Zhejiang University, China)
 
Distributed Spectral Decomposition in Networks by Complex Diffusion and Quantum Random Walk
Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)
Philippe Jacquet (Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France)
Jithin K. Sreedharan (INRIA, France)
 
Cost-aware Targeted Viral Marketing in Billion-scale Networks
Hung T Nguyen (Virginia Commonwealth University & School of Engineering, USA)
Thang N. Dinh (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seacliff B
Content Distribution Networks
Chair: Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 
Coordinated Caching in Planet-Scale CDNs: Analysis of Feasibility and Benefits
Kianoosh Mokhtarian and Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada)
 
Characterizing Caching Workload of a Large Commercial Content Delivery Network
M. Zubair Shafiq (University of Iowa, USA)
Amir R. Khakpour (Verizon Digital Media Services, USA)
Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA)
 
Placing Dynamic Content in Caches with Small Population
Mathieu Leconte, Georgios S. Paschos, Lazaros Gkatzikis, Moez Draief, Spyridon Vassilaras (France Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France)
Symeon Chouvardas (University of Athens, Greece)
 
Popularity-Driven Content Caching
Suoheng Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Jie Xu (University of Miami, USA)
Mihaela van der Schaar (UCLA, USA)
Weiping Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 14:00 - 15:30
Room: Marina
Optimization I
Chair: Sanjiv Kapoor (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
 
NetCodCCN: a Network Coding approach for Content-Centric Networks
Jonnahtan Saltarin and Eirina Bourtsoulatze (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Nikolaos Thomos (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)
 
Multicast Traffic Engineering for Software-Defined Networks
Liang-Hao Huang, Hsiang-Chun Hsu, Shan-Hsiang Shen,  De-Nian Yang and Wen-Tsuen Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
 
Dynamic Virtual Machine Management via Approximate Markov Decision Process
Zhenhua Han (The University of Hong Kong, China)
Haisheng Tan (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China)
Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Rui Wang and Yifan Chen (South University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Francis C.M. Lau (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
Radiation Constrained Wireless Charger Placement
Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, China)
Yunhuai Liu (Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security, China)
Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA)
Lingtao Kong (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, China)
Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Big Data
Chair: Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
 
Approximate Matching of Persistent LExicon using Search-Engines For Classifying Mobile App Traffic
Gyan Ranjan, Alok Tongaonkar, Ruben Torres (Symantec Corporation, USA)
 
Macro-scale Mobile App Market Analysis using Customized Hierarchical Categorization
Xi Liu and Pang-Ning Tan (Michigan State University, USA)
Han Hee Song (Cisco, USA)
Mario Baldi (Politecnico di Torino & Cisco Systems, Italy)
 
Streaming Big Data meets Backpressure in Distributed Network Computation
Apostolos Destounis and  Georgios S. Paschos (Huawei Technologies France Research Center, France)
Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business and CERTH & CERTH, Greece)
 
Practical and Secure Nearest Neighbor Search on Encrypted Large-Scale Data
Boyang Wang (University of Arizona, USA)
Yantian Hou (USU, USA)
Ming Li (University of Arizona, USA)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Localization
Chair: Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
FitLoc: Fine-grained and Low-cost Device-free Localization for Multiple Targets over Various Areas
Liqiong Chang and Xiaojiang Chen (Northwest University, China)
Yu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Dingyi Fang, Ju Wang, Tianzhang Xing and Zhanyong Tang (Northwest University, China)
 
Flash-Loc: Flashing Mobile Phones for Accurate Indoor Localization
Fan Yang, Qiang Zhai, Guoxing Chen and Adam C. Champion (The Ohio State University, USA)
Junda Zhu (University of Macau, China)
Dong Xuan (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
AMIL: Localizing Neighboring Mobile Devices Through a Simple Gesture
Hao Han (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA)
Shanhe Yi and Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA)
Shen Guobin and Yunxin Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Edmund Novak (William and Mary, USA)
 
UrbanEye: An Outdoor Localization System for Public Transport
Rohit Verma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
Aviral Shrivastava (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Bivas Mitra (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Sujoy Saha (National Institute of Technology, India)
Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Subrata Nandi (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India)
Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30   
Room: Bayview B
WLAN Optimization
Chair: Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
 
Accurate WiFi Packet Delivery Rate Estimation and Applications
Muhammad Owais Khan and Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 
Modeling, Performance Analysis, and Optimization of Single Hop IEEE 802.11 Networks with Large Propagation Delays: Challenges and Solutions
Abhijit Bhattacharya and Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, India)
 
WiFi Can Be the Weakest Link of Round Trip Network Latency In the Wild
Changhua Pei, Youjian Zhao, Guo Chen and Ruming Tang (Tsinghua University, China)
Yuan Meng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Minghua Ma (Tsinghua University, China)
Ken Ling (Carnegie Mellon University, China)
Dan Pei (Tsinghua University, China)
 
An Approximation Algorithm for AP Association under User Migration Cost Constraint
Wangkit Wong, Avishek Thakur and S.-H. Gary Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30
Room: Seacliff C+D
Mobile Apps
Chair: Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
 
VADS: Visual Attention Detection with a Smartphone
Zhiping Jiang and  Jinsong Han (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Chen Qian (University of Kentucky, USA)
Wei Xi, Kun Zhao and Han Ding (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Shaojie Tang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Jizhong Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Panlong Yang (Institute of Communication Engineering, PLAUST, China)
 
Smokey: Ubiquitous Smoking Detection with Commercial WiFi Infrastructures
Xiaolong Zheng and Jiliang Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Longfei Shangguan (Princeton University, USA)
Zimu Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
 
CamK: a Camera-based Keyboard for Small Mobile Devices
Yafeng Yin (Nanjing University, China)
Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA)
Lei Xie (Nanjing University, China)
Shanhe Yi (College of William and Mary, USA)
Edmund Novak (William and Mary, USA)
Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, China)
 
Zephyr: Ubiquitous Accurate multi-Sensor Fusion-based Respiratory Rate Estimation Using Smartphones
Heba Aly (University of Maryland, USA)
Moustafa Youssef (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (EJUST), Egypt)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30
Room: Bayview A
Wireless Technologies
Chair: Kate Ching-Ju Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
 
Continuous and Fine-grained Breathing Volume Monitoring from Afar Using Wireless Signals
Phuc Nguyen (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Ann Halbower (University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, USA)
Tam Vu (University of Colorado Denver & University of Colorado, Denver, USA)
 
Decoding Interfering Signals With Less Receiving Antennas
Zhao Li and XiaoQin Dai (Xidian University, China)
Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA)
 
Exploiting Channel Diversity for Rate Adaptation in Backscatter Communication Networks
Wei Gong (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Haoxiang Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Kebin Liu, Qiang Ma and Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
 
On Signaling Power: Communications over Wireless Energy
Raul G. Cid-Fuentes (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & Georgia Institute of Technology, Spain)
M. Yousof Naderi, Stefano Basagni and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)
Albert Cabellos-Aparicio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Eduard Alarcon (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30
Room: Seacliff A
Routing I
Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Rapid Convergence versus Policy Expressiveness in Interdomain Routing
Yang Li, Sanjeev Khanna and Alexander Gurney (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
 
Pop-Routing: Centrality-based Tuning of Control Messages for Faster Route Convergence
Leonardo Maccari and Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)
 
Network Utility Maximization with Path Cardinality Constraints
Yingjie Bi (Cornell University, USA)
Chee Wei Tan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Kevin Tang (Cornell University, USA)
 
iBGP2: a scalable iBGP redistribution mechanism leading to optimal routing
Marc-Olivier Buob (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Anthony Lambert (Orange Labs, France)
Steve Uhlig (UK & Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30
Room: Seacliff B
Network Management
Chair: Hong Xu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
SCMon: leveraging Segment Routing to improve network monitoring
François Aubry,  David Lebrun, Stefano Vissicchio and Minh Thanh Khong (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Yves Deville (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Olivier Bonaventure (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
 
Cloudlet Load Balancing in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
Mike Jia (Australian National University, Australia)
Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Meitian Huang (The Australian National University, Australia)
 
Reducing Dense Virtual Networks for Fast Embedding
Toru Mano, Takeru Inoue, Kimihiro Mizutani and Osamu Akashi (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan)
 
FOCUS: Shedding Light on the High Search Response Time in the Wild
Dapeng Liu, Youjian Zhao, Kaixin Sui, Lei Zou and Dan Pei (Tsinghua University, China)
Qingqian Tao, Xiyang Chen and Dai Tan (Baidu, China)
 
 
Tuesday, 12 April, 16:00 - 17:30
Room: Marina
Scheduling for Cloud Computing
Chair: Wei Gao (University of Tennessee, USA)
 
Scheduling for Cloud-Based Computing Systems to Support Soft Real-Time Applications
Yuhuan Du and Gustavo de Veciana (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 
Symbiosis: Network-Aware Task Scheduling in Data-Parallel Frameworks
Jingjie Jiang, Shiyao Ma and Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)
 
Scheduling with Multi-level Data Locality: Throughput and Heavy-traffic Optimality
Qiaomin Xie, Ali Yekkehkhany, Yi Lu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
 
Scheduling Jobs with Non-uniform Demands on Multiple Servers without Interruption
Sungjin Im and Mina Naghshnejad, Mukesh Singhal (University of California at Merced, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Software Defined Networks I
Chair: Ting He (IBM Research, USA)
 
Software Defined Networks: It's About Time
Tal Mizrahi and Yoram Moses (Technion, Israel)
 
FLIP the (Flow) Table: Fast LIghtweight Policy-preserving SDN Updates
Stefano Vissicchio (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Luca Cittadini (Roma Tre University, Italy)
 
Cupid: Congestion-free Consistent Data Plane Update In Software Defined Networks
Wen Wang and Wenbo He (McGill University, Canada)
Jinshu Su (National University of Defence Technology, China)
YiXin Chen (McGill University, Canada)
 
Compiling Packet Forwarding Rules for Switch Pipelined Architecture
Hamadi Salaheddine (UQAM, Canada)
Khalil Blaiech (Université du Quebec à Montreal, Canada)
Petko Valtchev (UQAM & University of Montreal, Canada)
Radu State (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg)
Cherkaoui Omar (University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Energy Awareness for Wireless Networks
Chair: Song Chong (KAIST, Korea)
 
BattTracker: Enabling Energy Awareness for Smartphone Using Li-ion Battery Characteristics
Jonghoe Koo and Kitaek Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Wonbo Lee (Samsung Electronics, Korea)
Yong Seok Park (Samsung electronics, Korea)
Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
 
DAFEE: A Decomposed Approach for Energy Efficient Networking in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Networks
Lu Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Xianghui Cao (Southeast University, China)
Wenlong Shen, Yu Cheng and Lin X. Cai (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
 
From Rateless to Sampleless: Wi-Fi Connectivity Made Energy Efficient
Wei Wang and Yingjie Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Lu Wang (Shenzhen University, China)
Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 
Fiber Optic vs. Wireless Sensors in Energy-Efficient Integrated FiWi Smart Grid Networks: An Energy-Delay and TCO Comparison
Dung Pham Van (Optical Networks Lab, KTH Royal University of Technology, Sweden)
Bhaskar Prasad Rimal and Martin Maier (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Bayview B
Multimedia Networking
Chair: Georgios S. Paschos (Huawei Technologies, France)
 
QoE Matters More Than QoS: Why People Stop Watching Cat Videos
Hyunwoo Nam, Kyung Hwa Kim and Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
 
Caching and Operator Cooperation Policies for Layered Video Content Delivery
Konstantinos Poularakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
George Iosifidis (Yale University, USA)
Antonios Argyriou (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business and CERTH & CERTH, Greece)
Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)
 
BOLA: Near-Optimal Bitrate Adaptation for Online Videos
Kevin Spiteri (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Rahul Urgaonkar (Amazon, USA)
Ramesh K Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Akamai Technologies, USA)
 
CompoundEyes: Near-duplicate Detection in Large Scale Online Video Systems in the Cloud
YiXin Chen and Wenbo He (McGill University, Canada)
Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Wen Wang (McGill University, Canada)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Resource Allocation I
Chair: Zhangyu Guan (Northeastern University, USA)
 
Online Multi-Resource Allocation for Deadline Sensitive Jobs with Partial Values in the Cloud
Zizhan Zheng (University of California, Davis, USA)
Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
Efficiency and Optimality of Largest Deficit First Prioritization: Resource Allocation for Real-Time Applications
Yuhuan Du and Gustavo de Veciana (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 
On the Modeling and Optimization of Short-Term Performance for Real-Time Wireless Networks
I-Hong Hou (Texas A&M University, USA)
 
Task Allocation for Distributed Stream Processing
Raphael Eidenbenz and Thomas Locher (ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Bayview A
Connected Cars
Chair: Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
 
How Cars Talk Louder, Clearer and Fairer: Optimizing the Communication Performance of Connected Vehicles via Online Synchronous Control
Xi Chen (McGill University, Canada)
Linghe Kong (McGill University & Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Canada)
Xue Liu (McGill Univerisity, Canada)
Lei Rao (Huawei Technologies, USA)
Fan Bai (General Motors, USA)
Qiao Xiang (McGill University, Canada)
 
Multi-source Variable-rate Sampled Signal Reconstructions in Vehicular CPS
Andrew Fox and B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Fan Bai (General Motors, USA)
 
L 3: Sensing Driving Conditions for Vehicle Lane-Level Localization on Highways
Zhichen Wu and Jianda Li, Jiadi Yu, Yanmin Zhu, Xue Guangtao and Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
 
Detecting Driver Phone Calls in a Moving Vehicle Based on Voice Features
Tianyi Song, Xiuzhen Cheng, Hongjuan Li (The George Washington University, USA)
Jiguo Yu (Qufu Normal University, China)
Shengling Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Rongfang Bie (Beijing Normal University, China)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Seacliff A
Network Economics
Chair: Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
An Efficient Auction Mechanism for Service Chains in The NFV Market
Sijia Gu and Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary, Canada)
Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Chuanhe Huang (Wuhan University, China)
 
When group-buying meets cloud computing
Juntao Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Xun Xiao (European Research Center & Huawei Technologies, Germany)
Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Kejie Lu (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico)
Xiaotie Deng (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Ashwin A Gumaste (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
 
An Online Mechanism for Dynamic Virtual Cluster Provisioning in Geo-Distributed Clouds
WeiJie Shi and Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary, Canada)
 
The Impact of Unlicensed Access on Small-Cell Resource Allocation
Cheng Chen, Randall A Berry and Michael Honig (Northwestern University, USA)
Vijay Subramanian (University of Michigan, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Seacliff B
Caching
Chair: Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 
Understanding Sharded Caching Systems
Lorenzo Saino, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom)
 
Cache increases the capacity of wireless networks
Li Qiu and Guohong Cao (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
 
An $\mathcal{O}(1)$-Competitive Online Caching Algorithm for Content Centric Networking
Ammar Gharaibeh and Abdallah A Khreishah (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Issa M Khalil (Qatar Computing Research Institute & Qatar Foundation, Qatar)
 
A Utility Optimization Approach to Network Cache Design
Mostafa Dehghan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Laurent Massoulié (Microsoft Research - INRIA Joint Center, Sweden)
Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Daniel Menasché (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Y. C. Tay (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Marina
Jamming
Chair: Qian Wang (Wuhan University, China)
 
Friendly Channel-Oblivious Jamming with Error Amplification for Wireless Networks
Zhenghao Zhang and Avishek Mukherjee (Florida State University, USA)
 
Price-based Friendly Jamming in a MISO Interference Wiretap Channel
Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz and Diep N. Nguyen (University of Arizona, USA)
 
Divide-and-Conquer Based Cooperative Jamming: Addressing Multiple Eavesdroppers in Close Proximity
Zhihong Liu and Jiajia Liu (Xidian University, China)
Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
Jian-feng Ma and Qiping Huang (Xidian University, China)
 
Jamming Attack on In-band Full-duplex Communications: Detection and Countermeasures
Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (Boston University, USA)
Diep N. Nguyen and Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Wi-Fi
Chair: Daniel Menasché (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
 
Augmenting Wide-band 802.11 Transmissions via Unequal Packet Bit Protection
Yaxiong Xie (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Zhenjiang Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University & University College London, USA)
 
Just-in-time WLANs: On-demand Interference-managed WLAN Infrastructures
Kimin Lee, Yeonkeun Kim, Seokhyun Kim, Jinwoo Shin, Seungwon Shin and Song Chong (KAIST, Korea)
 
Tuning by Turning: Enabling Phased Array Signal Processing for WiFi with Inertial Sensors
Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu and Zheng Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
Zimu Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Xu Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
 
A Walk on the Client Side: Monitoring Enterprise Wifi Networks Using Smartphone Channel Scans
Jinghao Shi (University at Buffalo, USA)
Lei Meng (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas and Chunming Qiao (University at Buffalo, USA)
Aaron D Striegel (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Geoffrey Challen (University at Buffalo, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Bayview B
Theory for Sensor Networks
Chair: Lidong Wu (UT Tyler, USA)
 
Multi-View Coding and Routing of Local Features in Visual Sensor Networks
Alessandro E. C. Redondi, Luca Baroffio, Matteo Cesana and Marco Tagliasacchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
 
Performance-Guaranteed Strongly Connected Dominating Sets in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
ChunYan Liu, Hejiao Huang and Hongwei Du (Harbin Institute of Technology ShenZhen Graduate School, China)
Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
Performance-Guaranteed Approximation Algorithm for Fault-Tolerant Connected Dominating Set in Wireless Networks
Zhao Zhang (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Jiao Zhou (Xinjiang University, China)
Yuchang Mo (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Ding-Zhu Du (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
 
Pulses in the Sand: Impulse Response Analysis of Wireless Underground Channel
Abdul Salam, Mehmet Can Vuran and Suat Irmak (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Privacy
Chair: Ming Li (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
 
RescueDP: Real-time Spatio-temporal Crowd-sourced Data Publishing with Differential Privacy
Qian Wang, Yan Zhang, Xiao Lu and Zhibo Wang (Wuhan University, China)
Zhan Qin, Kui Ren (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
 
Mind Your Probes: De-Anonymization of Large Crowds Through Smartphone WiFi Probe Requests
Adriano Di Luzio, Alessandro Mei and Julinda Stefa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
 
Catch Me in the Dark: Effective Privacy-preserving Outsourcing of Feature Extractions over Image Data
Qian Wang and Shengshan Hu (Wuhan University, China)
Kui Ren (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Jingjun Wang, Zhibo Wang and Minxin Du (Wuhan University, China)
 
PriStream: Privacy-Preserving Distributed Stream Monitoring of Thresholded Percentile Statistics
Jingchao Sun (Arizona State University, USA)
Rui Zhang (University of Hawaii, USA)
Jinxue Zhang and Yanchao Zhang (Arizona State University, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Bayview A
Network Measurements
Chair: Przemyslaw Pawelczak (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 
Rot at the Roots? Examining Public Timing Infrastructure
Kanthaiah Sivapragasam Vijayalayan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
 Darryl Veitch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
 
Accurate Recovery of Internet Traffic Data: A Tensor Completion Approach
Kun Xie and Lele Wang (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Xin Wang (Stony Brook University, USA)
Gaogang Xie, Jigang Wen, Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
 
Apps on the Move: A Fine-Grained Analysis of Usage Behavior of Mobile Apps
Lin Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Mingxuan Yuan (Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong)
Wei Wang and Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Jia Zeng (Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei & Soochow University, Hong Kong)
 
Characterizing IPv6 control and data plane stability
Ioana Livadariu and Ahmed Mustafa Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Amogh Dhamdhere (CAIDA, University of California, San Diego, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Datacenter Networks II
Chair: Haiying Shen (Clemson University, USA)
 
Online and Elastic Resource Reservations for Multi-tenant Datacenters
Carlo Fuerst (TU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Lalith Suresh (TU Berlin, Germany)
Paolo Costa (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom)
 
Sneak-Peek: High Speed Covert Channels in Data Center Networks
Rashid Tahir (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Mohammad Taha Khan (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
Xun Gong (Google, USA)
Adnan Ahmed (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
AmirEmad Ghassami (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Hasanat Kazmi (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
Matthew Caesar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Fareed Zaffar (LUMS, Pakistan)
Negar Kiyavash (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
 
A Simple Congestion-Aware Algorithm for Load Balancing in Datacenter Networks
Mehrnoosh Shafiee and Javad Ghaderi (Columbia University, USA)
 
Flutter: Scheduling Tasks Closer to Data Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters
Zhiming Hu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Online Social Networks I
Chair: Zongqing Lu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
 
Profit Maximization for Multiple Products in Online Social Networks
Huiyuan Zhang, Huiling Zhang, Alan Kuhnle and My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA)
 
Using Crowdsourced Data in Location-based Social Networks to Explore Influence Maximization
Ji Li and Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA)
Mingyuan Yan (University of North Georgia, USA)
Yingshu Li (Georgia State University, USA)
 
Minimum Cost Seed Set for Competitive Social Influence
Yuqing Zhu (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
Deying Li (Renmin University of China, China)
Zhao Zhang (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
 
Terminal-Set-Enhanced Community Detection in Social Networks
Guangmo Tong, Lei Cui, Weili Wu, Cong Liu and Ding-Zhu Du (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Bayview B
Wireless Network Optimization
Chair: Zhangyu Guan (Northeastern University, USA)
 
Heavy-Ball: A New Approach to Tame Delay and Convergence in Wireless Network Optimization
Jia Liu, Atilla Eryilmaz and Ness B. Shroff (Ohio State University, USA)
Elizabeth Bentley (AFRL, USA)
 
Distributed Optimization in Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks with Dynamic In-network Data Processing
Shusen Yang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Yad Tahir and Po-Yu Chen (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Alan Marshall (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Julie McCann (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
 
Capacitated Kinetic Clustering in Mobile Networks by Optimal Transportation Theory
Chien-Chun Ni, Zhengyu Su, Jie Gao and David Gu (Stony Brook University, USA)
 
Optimal Local Data Exchange in Fiber-Wireless Access Network: A Joint Network Coding and Device Association Design
Jin Wang (Soochow University & City University of Hong Kong, China)
Kejie Lu (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico)
Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Chunming Qiao (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Mobile Sensing
Chair: Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
 
Mosaic: A Low-Cost Mobile Sensing System for Urban Air Quality Monitoring
Yi Gao, Wei Dong and Kai Guo (Zhejiang University, China)
Xue Liu (McGill Univerisity, Canada)
Yuan Chen, Xiaojin Liu, Jiajun Bu and Chun Chen (Zhejiang University, China)
 
BlueAer: A fine-grained urban PM2.5 3D monitoring system using mobile sensing
Yidan Hu, Guojun Dai, Jin Fan, Yifan Wu and Hua Zhang (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
 
Flowing with the Water: On Optimal Monitoring of Water Distribution Networks by Mobile Sensors
Rong Du, Carlo Fischione and Ming Xiao (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
 
Toward Real-time and Cooperative Mobile Visual Sensing and Sharing
Huihui Chen (Northwestern Polytechnical University & Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, China)
Guo Bin and Zhiwen Yu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Bayview A
MIMO Networks
Chair: Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, USA)
 
Client as a First-Class Citizen: Practical User-Centric Network MIMO Clustering
Wei-Liang Shen and Kate Ching-Ju Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia, China)
 
Random Access Signaling for Network MIMO Uplink
Teng Wei and Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
 
Dynamic Power Allocation in MIMO Fading Systems Without Channel Distribution Information
Hao Yu and Michael J. Neely (University of Southern California, USA)
 
BOOST: Base Station ON-OFF Switching Strategy for Energy Efficient Massive MIMO HetNets
Mingjie Feng and Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
Tao Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Seacliff A
Cellular Networks Management
Chair: Chunyi Peng (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
Libra: Impact Assessment of Cellular Load Balancing
Kanthi Nagaraj (Stanford University, USA)
Ajay A Mahimkar, Zihui Ge, Aman Shaikh and Jia Wang (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
Kevin Mohr (AT&T Mobility Services, USA)
Mark Stockert (AT&T Labs, USA)
 
Power Adjustment and Scheduling in OFDMA Femtocell Networks
Michael Lin (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Novella Bartolini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Tom La Porta (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
 
Achieving Delay Rate-function Optimality in OFDM Downlink with Time-correlated Channels
Zhenzhi Qian (The Ohio State University, USA)
Bo Ji (Temple University, USA)
Kannan Srinivasan and Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
Detecting and Localizing End-to-End Performance Degradation for Cellular Data Services
Faraz Ahmed (Michigan State University, USA)
Jeffrey J Erman and Zihui Ge (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA)
Jia Wang and He Yan (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Seacliff B
Modeling II
Chair: Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Survivability in Time-varying Networks
Qingkai Liang and Eytan Modiano (MIT, USA)
 
Cluster-Aided Mobility Predictions
Jaeseong Jeong (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Mathieu Leconte (Huawei, France)
Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom)
 
Temporal Correlation of the RSS Improves Accuracy of Fingerprinting Localization
Mei Wang and Zhehui Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Xiaohua Tian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
 
Computing Network Coded Data Coverage in an Opportunistic Data Dissemination Network
Brenton Walker (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Marina
Data Offloading
Chair: Rong Zheng (McMaster University, Canada)
 
Cooperative Data Offloading in Opportunistic Mobile Networks
Zongqing Lu, Xiao Sun and Tom La Porta (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
 
Opportunistic WiFi Offloading in a Vehicular Environment: Waiting or Downloading Now?
Ning Wang and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
 
Competitive Auctions for Cost-aware Cellular Traffic Offloading with Optimized Capacity Gain
Yuan Zhang and Siyuan Tang (Nanjing University, China)
Tingting Chen (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
Sheng Zhong (Nanjing University, China)
 
Energy-Efficient Dynamic Offloading and Resource Scheduling in Mobile Cloud Computing
Songtao Guo (Southwest University, China)
Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)
Yang Yang (Southwest University, China)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Grand Ballroom B
SDN for Security & Management
Chair: Jinyuan (Stella) Sun (University of Tennessee, USA)
 
Contextual, Flow-Based Access Control with Scalable Host-based SDN Techniques
Curtis Taylor, Douglas MacFarland, Doran Smestad and Craig A. Shue (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
 
FOUM: A Flow-Ordered Consistent Update Mechanism for Software-Defined Networking in Adversarial Settings
Jingyu Hua, Xin Ge and Sheng Zhong (Nanjing University, China)
 
DDoS Attack Detection under SDN Context
Yang Xu and Yong Liu (New York University, USA)
 
Efficient Round-Trip Time Monitoring in OpenFlow Networks
Alon Atary and Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Renewable Energy
Chair: Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, USA)
 
Hybrid Renewable Energy Routing for ISP Networks
Julien Mineraud (University of Helsinki, Finland)  
Liang Wang (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)  
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)  
Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 
Wind Blows, Traffic Flows: Green Internet Routing under Renewable Energy
Yuan Yang (Tsinghua University, China)  
Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)  
Pan Dawei (Harbin Engineering University, China)  
Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Adaptive Connected Dominating Set Discovering Algorithm in Energy-Harvest Sensor Networks
Tuo Shi and Siyao Cheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)  
Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA)  
Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
 
Panda: Neighbor Discovery on a Power Harvesting Budget
Robert Margolies (AT&T Research, USA)  
Guy Grebla (Google, USA)  
Tingjun Chen, Dan Rubenstein and Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Bayview B
Network Security I
Chair: Shucheng Yu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
 
On Applying Fault Detectors against False Data Injection Attacks in Cyber-Physical Control Systems
Quyen Vu (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)  
Rui Tan (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore)  
David Yau (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
 
A Novel Framework for Modeling and Mitigating Distributed Link Flooding Attacks
Christos Liaskos (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece)  
Vasileios Kotronis (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)  
Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
 
Understanding Security Group Usage in a Public IaaS Cloud
Cheng Jin (University of Minnesota, USA)  
Abhinav Srivastava (AT&T Labs--Research, USA)  
Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA)
 
Secure Outsourced Skyline Query Processing via Untrusted Cloud Service Providers
Wenxin Chen (University of Hawaii, USA)  
Mengjun Liu (Wuhan University, China)  
Rui Zhang (University of Hawaii, USA)  
Yanchao Zhang (Arizona State University, USA)  
Shubo Liu (Wuhan University, China)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Visible Light Communications
Chair: Tam Vu (University of Colorado Denver & University of Colorado, Denver, USA)
 
SoftLight: Adaptive Visible Light Communication over Screen-Camera Links
Wan Du, Jansen Christian Liando and Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
 
CeilingCast: Energy Efficient and Location-Bound Broadcast Through LED-Camera Communication
Jie Hao, Yanbing Yang and Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
 
High-Rate Flicker-Free Screen-Camera Communication with Spatially Adaptive Embedding
Viet Nguyen and Yaqin Tang (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)  
Ashwin Ashok (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)  
Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA)  
Kristin Dana (Rutgers University, USA)  
Wenjun Hu (Yale University, USA)  
Eric Wengrowski (Rutgers University, USA)  
Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)
 
Uber-in-Light: Unobtrusive Visible Light Communication Leveraging Complementary Color Channel
Mostafa M. Izz Mohamed (IUPUI, USA)  
Zhongyuan Li (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)  
Hongbo Liu (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)  
Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)  
Feng Li (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Bayview A
Multi-hop Wireless
Chair: Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
 
Nullification in the Air: Interference Neutralization in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Huacheng Zeng, Xu Yuan, Xiaoqi Qin, Yi Shi, Thomas Hou and Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA)  
 
Queue-Affectance-based Scheduling in Multi-hop Wireless Networks under SINR Interference Constraints
Changhee Joo and Myeongseon Shin (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
 
Interference-Aware Time-Based Fairness for Multihop Wireless Networks
Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)  
Giovanni Resta (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy)  
Paolo Santi (IIT-CNR, Italy)
 
A Decomposition Principle for Link and Relay Selection in Dual-hop 60 GHz Networks
Zhifeng He and Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Seacliff A
Scheduling
Chair: Qiang Ye (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
 
MaxWeight Scheduling: "Smoothness" of the Service Process
Rahul Singh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)  
Alexander Stolyar (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
 
Timely Wireless Flows with Arbitrary Traffic Patterns: Capacity Region and Scheduling Algorithms
Lei Deng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)  
Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA)  
Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)  
Shizhen Zhao (Purdue University, USA)
 
Application-Aware Traffic Scheduling for Workload Offloading in Mobile Clouds
Liang Tong (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)  
Wei Gao (University of Tennessee, USA)
 
Optimal Wireless Power Transfer Scheduling for Delay Minimization
Feng Shan, Luo Junzhou and Weiwei Wu (Southeast University, China)  
Xiaojun Shen (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Seacliff B
Optimization II
Chair: Xiaohua Xu (Michigan Technological University, USA)
 
Cyber Maintenance Policy Optimization via Adaptive Learning
Yue Tan and Cathy Xia (The Ohio State University, USA)  
 
Online Multi-stage Decisions for Robust Power-Grid Operations under High Renewable Uncertainty
Shizhen Zhao, Xiaojun Lin, Dionysios Aliprantis and Villegas Hugo (Purdue University, USA)  
Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
 
Update or Wait: How to Keep Your Data Fresh
Yin Sun (the Ohio State University, USA)  
Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu (METU & Currently on leave at The Ohio State University, Turkey)  
Roy Yates (Rutgers University, USA)  
Can Emre Koksal and Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
Optimizing Coflow Completion Times with Utility Max-Min Fairness
Li Chen, Wei Cui and Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)  
Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 
 
Wednesday, 13 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Marina
Traffic Analysis
Chair: Wei Gao (University of Tennessee, USA)
 
Privacy-preserving Deep Packet Inspection in Outsourced Middleboxes
Xingliang Yuan, Xinyu Wang, Jianxiong Lin and Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
Heavy-Traffic Analysis of QoE Optimality for On-Demand Video Streams Over Fading Channels
Ping-Chun Hsieh and I-Hong Hou (Texas A&M University, USA)
 
Demographics Inference Through Wi-Fi Network Traffic Analysis
Huaxin Li, Zheyu Xu and Haojin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)  
Di Ma (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)  
Shuai Li (University of Minnesota, USA)  
Kai Xing (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Traffic At-a-Glance: Time-Bounded Analytics on Large Visual Traffic Data
Xinfeng Li (The Ohio State University, USA)  
Gang Li, Fan Yang, Jin Teng and Dong Xuan (The Ohio State University, USA)  
Biao Chen (University of Macau, Macao)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Flow Control in Datacenter Networks
Chair: Georgios S. Paschos (Huawei Technologies, France)
 
MMPTCP: A Multipath Transport Protocol for Data Centers
Morteza Kheirkhah Sabetghadam, Ian Wakeman and George Parisis (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
 
Deadline-Aware Bandwidth Sharing by Allocating Switch Buffer in Data Center Networks
Jiao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
 
OPTAS: Decentralized Flow Monitoring and Scheduling for Tiny Tasks
Ziyang Li, Yiming Zhang and Dongsheng Li (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Yuxing Peng (National University of Defense Technology, China)
 
ARS: Cross-layer Adaptive Request Scheduling to Mitigate TCP Incast in Data Center Networks
Jiawei Huang (Central South University, China)
Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA)
Yi Huang and Jianxin Wang (Central South University, China)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Cloud Computing II
Chair: Haiying Shen (Clemson University, USA)
 
Frugal Topology Construction for Stream Aggregation in the Cloud
Rachid Guerraoui (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland)
Erwan Le Merrer (Technicolor, France)
Rhicheek Patra (EPFL, Switzerland)
Bao-Duy Tran (Google, Australia)
 
TailCutter: Wisely Cutting Tail Latency in Cloud CDN under Cost Constraints
Zeqi Lai and Yong Cui (Tsinghua University, China)
Minming Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zhenhua Li, Ningwei Dai and Yuchi Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Randomized Algorithms for Scheduling VMs in the Cloud
Javad Ghaderi (Columbia University, USA)
 
Successor: Proactive Cache Warm-up of Destination Hosts in Virtual Machine Migration Contexts
Tao Lu, Ping Huang, Morgan Stuart, Yuhua Guo and Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Ming Zhang (EMC Corporation, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Bayview B
Sensor Networks
Chair: Yuqing Zhu (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
 
Taming Collisions for Delay Reduction in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks
Long Cheng (BUAA & VT, USA)
Yu Gu (IBM Watson Health, USA)
Jianwei Niu (Beihang University, China)
Ting Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Cong Liu (The University of texas at Dallas, USA)
Qingquan Zhang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA)
 
Murphy loves CI: Unfolding and Improving Constructive Interference in WSNs
Vijay S Rao (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Madhusuhan Koppal (IISc, India)
R Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
T Venkata Prabhakar (IISc, India)
Chayan Sarkar and Ignas Niemegeers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 
No-Cost Distance Estimation Using Standard WSN Radios
Georg von Zengen, Yannic Schröder, Stephan Rottmann, Felix Büsching and Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
 
DiVA: Distributed Voronoi-based Acoustic Source Localization with Wireless Sensor Networks
Xueshu Zheng, Shuailing Yang, Naigao Jin and Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Mathew L. Wymore and Daji Qiao (Iowa State University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Wearables
Chair: Xiaohua Tian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
 
GlassGesture: Exploring Head Gesture Interface of Smart Glasses
Shanhe Yi, Zhengrui Qin and Edmund Novak (College of William and Mary, USA)  
Yafeng Yin (Nanjing University, China)  
Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA)
 
Battery-free Sensing Platform for Wearable Devices: The Synergy Between Two Feet
Qianyi Huang, Yan Mei, Wei Wang and Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 
Leveraging Wearables for Steering and Driver Tracking
Cagdas Karatas, Luyang Liu and Hongyu Li (Rutgers University, USA)  
Jian Liu (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)  
Yan Wang (Binghamton University, USA)  
Sheng Tan and Jie Yang (Florida State University, USA)
Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)  
Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA)  
Richard Martin (Rutgers University, USA)
 
Topology Optimization for Galvanic Coupled Wireless Intra-body Communication
Meenupriya Swaminathan, Ufuk Muncuk and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Bayview A
Crowdsourcing
Chair: Qinghua Li (University of Arkansas, USA)
 
Incentivizing Crowdsourcing Systems with Network Effects
Yanjiao Chen and Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)
Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 
Privacy-preserving Verifiable Data Aggregation and Analysis for Cloud-assisted Mobile Crowdsourcing
Gaoqiang Zhuo, Qi Jia and Linke Guo (Binghamton University, USA)  
Ming Li (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)  
Pan Li (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
 
Crowdlet: Optimal Worker Recruitment for Self-Organized Mobile Crowdsourcing
Lingjun Pu (Nankai University, China)  
Xu Chen (University of Goettingen, Germany)  
Jingdong Xu (Nankai University, China)  
Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany)
 
Incentive Mechanism for Proximity-based Mobile Crowd Service Systems
Honggang Zhang (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)  
Benyuan Liu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)  
Hengky Susanto (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)  
Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)  
Tong Sun (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Seacliff A
Routing II
Chair: Xiaohua Xu (Michigan Technological University, USA)
 
Path computation in multi-layer networks: Complexity and algorithms
Mohamed Lamine Lamali and Nasreddine Fergani (Nokia Bell Labs, France)  
Johanne Cohen (LRI-CNRS & PRiSM-CNRS, France)  
Hélia Pouyllau (Thales Research and Technology, France)
 
Optimizing Restoration with Segment Routing
Fang Hao, M. Kodialam and T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)  
 
The Quest for Resilient (Static) Forwarding Tables
Marco Chiesa (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)  
Ilya Nikolaevskiy (Aalto University, Finland, Finland)  
Slobodan Mitrović (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)  
Aurojit Panda (UC Berkeley, USA)  
Andrei Gurtov (Aalto University, Finland)  
Aleksander Madry (MIT, USA)  
Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)  
Scott Shenker (U. C. Berkeley and ICSI, USA)
 
Anonymous Addresses for Efficient and Resilient Routing in F2F Overlays
Stefanie Roos, Martin Beck and Thorsten Strufe (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)  
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Seacliff B
Cognitive Radio Networks
Chair: Rui Zhang (University of Hawaii, USA)
 
Dynamic Control Channel MAC for Underwater Cognitive Acoustic Networks
Yu Luo and Lina Pu (University of Connecticut, USA)  
Zheng Peng (University of Connecticut & AquaSeNT LLC., USA)  
Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut & Jilin University, USA)
 
SpecWatch: Adversarial Spectrum Usage Monitoring in CRNs with Unknown Statistics
Ming Li, Dejun Yang and Jian Lin (Colorado School of Mines, USA)  
Ming Li (University of Arizona, USA)  
Jian Tang (Syracuse University, USA)
 
A Time-efficient Rendezvous Algorithm with a Full Rendezvous Degree for Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks
Bo Yang, Meng Zheng and Wei Liang (Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)  
 
Multi-user lax communications: a multi-armed bandit approach
Orly Avner and Shie Mannor (Technion, Israel)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 08:30 - 10:00
Room: Marina
Wireless Networks Economics
Chair: Przemyslaw Pawelczak (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 
Economics of Public Wi-Fi Monetization and Advertising
Haoran Yu, Man Hon Cheung, Lin Gao and Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
A Truthful Pricing Mechanism for Sponsored Content in Wireless Networks
Matthew Andrews (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)  
Yue Jin (Alcatel-Lucent, Ireland)  
Marty Reiman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)
 
TDS: Time-Dependent Sponsored Data Plan for Wireless Data Traffic Market
Liang Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)  
Weijie Wu (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Hong Kong)  
Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
 
Quality of Video Oriented Pricing Incentive for Mobile Video Offloading
Honghai Wu and Liang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)  
Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, ECE Department, USA)  
Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Software Defined Networks II
Chair: Weifa Liang (The Australian National University, Australia)
 
MED: The Monitor-Emulator-Debugger for Software-Defined Networks
Quanquan Zhi (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences Tsinghua University, China)
Wei Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Network Functions Virtualization with Soft Real-Time Guarantees
Yang Li, Linh Thi Xuan Phan and Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
 
Aggregation Points Planning for Software-Defined Network Based Smart Grid Communications
Shaowei Wang and Xinxin Huang (Nanjing University, China)
 
Deploying Chains of Virtual Network Functions: On the Relation Between Link and Server Usage
Tung-Wei Kuo (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Bang-Heng Liou (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Kate Ching-Ju Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Bayview B
Mobile Videos
Chair: Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 
A Unified Framework for Automatic Quality-of-Experience Optimization in Mobile Video Streaming
Yan Liu and Jack Y. B. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
VSync: Cloud Based Video Streaming Service for Mobile Devices
Eilwoo Baik, Amit Pande, Zizhan Zheng and Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
 
Spice: Socially-Driven Learning-Based Mobile Media Prefetching
Chao Wu (Tsinghua University, China)
Xu Chen (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Yuezhi Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
Ningyuan Li (Zhongyuan University of Technology, China)
Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Yaoxue Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
 
JurCast: Joint User and Rate Allocation for Video Multicast over Multiple APs
Hui Wang, Wei Tsang Ooi and Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Antennas
Chair: Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
 
Oblivious Neighbor Discovery for Wireless Devices with Directional Antennas
Lin Chen (The University of Paris-Sud, France)
Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Athanasios V. Vasilakos (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden)
 
Antenna Orientation and Range Assignment in WSNs with Directional Antennas
Tien Tran (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Min Kyung An (Sam Houston State University, USA)
Dung Huynh (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
 
Practical Antenna Selection for WLAN AP
Seungmin Yoo, Seongwon Kim and Youngwook Son (Seoul National University, Korea)
Jaehong Yi (Seoul National University & MWNL, Korea)
Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
 
Resilient Multi-User Beamforming WLANs: Mobility, Interference, and Imperfect CSI
Oscar Bejarano (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA)
Roger Pierre Fabris Hoefel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 10:30 - 12:00
Room: Bayview A
RFID
Chair: Jinsong Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
 
Wisent: Robust Downstream Communication and Storage for Computational RFIDs
Jethro Tan and Przemyslaw Pawelczak (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Aaron N Parks and Smith Joshua (University of Washington, USA)
 
Moving Tag Detection via Physical Layer Analysis for Large-Scale RFID Systems
Chuyu Wang, Lei Xie, Wei Wang, Tao Xue and Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, China)
 
TOP-k Queries for Multi-category RFID Systems
Xiulong Liu and Keqiu Li (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA)
Xin Xie (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Chunsheng Zhu (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Weilian Xue (Liaoning Normal University, China)
 
Ubiquitous Tagless Object Locating with Ambient Harmonic Tags
Yunfei Ma and Edwin Kan (Cornell University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Online Social Networks II
Chair: Yuqing Zhu (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
 
 
De-anonymizing Social Networks and Inferring Private Attributes Using Knowledge Graphs
Jianwei Qian and Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Chunhong Zhang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunication, China)
Linlin Chen (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Social Learning Networks: Efficiency Optimization for MOOC Forums
Christopher Brinton (Princeton University, USA)
Swapna Buccapatnam (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Felix Ming Fai Wong, Mung Chiang and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
 
High-Precision Shortest Distance Estimation for Large-Scale Social Networks
Jie Cheng (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Yangyang Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China)
Qiang Ye (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Hongwei Du (Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China)
 
Adwords Management for Third-parties in SEM: an Optimisation Model and the Potential of Twitter
Dong Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & INRIA France, China)
Zhenyu Li and Gaogang Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Mohamed Ali Kaafar (NICTA & NICTA Australia, Australia)
Kavé Salamatian (LISTIC PolyTech, Université de Savoie Chambery Annecy, France)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Network Security II
Chair: Lixin Wang (Paine College, USA)
 
 
Hunting for Invisibility: Characterizing and Detecting Malicious Web Infrastructures through Server Visibility Analysis
Jialong Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)
Xin Hu and Jiyong Jang (IBM Research, USA)
Ting Wang (Lehigh University, USA)
Guofei Gu (Texas A&M University, USA)
Marc Stoecklin (IBM Research, Switzerland)
 
A Study of Personal Information in Human-chosen Passwords and Its Security Implications
Yue Li (College of William & Mary, USA)
Haining Wang (University of Delaware, USA)
Kun Sun (College of William & Mary, USA)
 
Graph-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Publication
Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Chunhong Zhang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunication, China)
Taeho Jung, Jianwei Qian and Linlin Chen (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
 
On the Relative De-anonymizability of Graph Data: Quantification and Evaluation
Shouling Ji, Weiqing Li and Shukun Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Prateek Mittal (Princeton University, USA)
Raheem Beyah (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Bayview B
Spectrum Sharing
Chair: Michael Sirivianos (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
 
 
Incentivizing Spectrum Sensing in Database-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
Bo Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Sudeep Bhattarai, Jung-Min (Jerry) Park and Yaling Yang (Virginia Tech, USA)
Min Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng and Yanzhi Dou (Virginia Tech, USA)
 
Can the Privacy of Primary Networks in Shared Spectrum be Protected?
Matthew A Clark (University of Southern California & The Aerospace Corporation, USA)
Konstantinos Psounis (University of Southern California, USA)
 
Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourced Spectrum Sensing
Xiaocong Jin and Yanchao Zhang (Arizona State University, USA)
 
CU-LTE: Spectrally-Efficient and Fair Coexistence Between LTE and Wi-Fi in Unlicensed Bands
Zhangyu Guan and Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Cellular Networks Coverage
Chair: Zhu Wang (State University of New York at Oneonta, USA)
 
Understanding and Diagnosing Real-World Femtocell Performance Problems
Chunyi Peng (The Ohio State University, USA)
Yuanjie Li (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Zhuoran Li, Jie Zhao and Jiaqi Xu (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
HybridCell: Cellular connectivity on the fringes with demand-driven local cells
Paul Schmitt (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Daniel Iland (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Mariya Zheleva (UAlbany SUNY, USA)
Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
 
Stochastic Geometric Analysis of Handoffs in User-Centric Cooperative Wireless Networks
Wei Bao (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)
 
Shadowing and Coverage in Poisson Buildings
Junse Lee (University of Texas Austin, USA)
Xinchen Zhang (University of Texas at Austin & Qualcomm Inc., USA)
Francois Baccelli (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Bayview A
Wireless Scheduling
Chair: Zhao Zhang (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
 
Mobility-Aware Real-Time Scheduling for Low-Power Wireless Networks
Behnam Dezfouli, Marjan Radi and Octav Chipara (University of Iowa, USA)
 
An Antithetic Coupling Approach to Multi-Chain based CSMA Scheduling Algorithms
Jaewook Kwak and Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA)
 
Efficient scheduling algorithms for on-demand wireless data broadcast
Zaixin Lu (Marywood University, USA)
Weili Wu (UT Dallas, USA)
Wei Li (Texas Southern University, USA)
Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)
 
Approximation Algorithms for Wireless Opportunistic Spectrum Scheduling in Cognitive Radio Networks
Xiaohua Xu and Min Song (Michigan Technological University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Seacliff A
TCP
Chair: Qiang Ye (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
 
 
Estimation Method for the Delay Performance of Closed-loop Flow Control with Application to TCP
Lübben Ralf and Markus H Fidler (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)
 
Revisiting Congestion Control for Multipath TCP with Shared Bottleneck Detection
Simone Ferlin (University of Oslo & Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Ozgu Alay (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
David Hayes (University of Oslo, Norway)
Thomas Dreibholz (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, Norway)
 
SAMPO: Online Subflow Association for Multipath TCP with Partial Flow Record
Yang Zhang, Hesham Mekky and Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA)
Fang Hao, Sarit Mukherjee and T.V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
 
TCP Ordo: The cost of ordered processing in TCP Servers
Mohan Kumar Kumar and Ada Gavrilovska (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Seacliff B
Network Science II
Chair: Alessandro Mei (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
 
 
DESIR: Decoy-Enhanced Seamless IP Randomization
Jianhua Sun and Kun Sun (College of William & Mary, USA)
 
To Live or To Die: Encountering Conflict Information Propagation over Simple Networks
Jie Wang (North Carolina State University, USA)
Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
 
CSMA Networks in a Many-Sources Regime: A Mean-Field Approach
Fabio Cecchi, Sem Borst and Johan van Leeuwaarden (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Philip Whiting (Macquarie University, Australia)
 
Inductive Coloring: Implementing Basic Communication Primitives with Rayleigh-Fading Interference
Yuexuan Wang (The University of Hong Kong & Zhejiang University, China)
Dongxiao Yu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Qipeng Liu (Princeton University, USA)
Francis C.M. Lau (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room: Marina
Modeling III
Chair: Jinyuan (Stella) Sun (University of Tennessee, USA)
 
Towards Efficient Content-aware Search over Encrypted Outsourced Data in Cloud
Zhangjie Fu (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology & State University of New York at Buffalo, China)
Xingming Sun and Sai Ji (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)
Guowu Xie (University of California, Riverside, USA)
 
BD-ZCS: Multi-cell Interference Coordination via Zadoff-Chu Sequence-based Block Diagonalization
Xueyuan Zhao and Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)
 
CASE: Cache-assisted Stretchable Estimator for High Speed Per-flow Measurement
Yang Li, Hao Wu, Tian Pan, Huichen Dai, Jianyuan Lu and Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Distributed Deterministic Broadcasting Algorithms under the SINR Model
Xiang Tian and Jiguo Yu (Qufu Normal University, China)
Liran Ma (Texas Christian University, USA)
Guangshun Li (Qufu Normal University, China)
Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington Univ, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Optimization III
Chair: Eylem Ekici (The Ohio State University, USA)
 
Online Job Allocation with Hard Allocation Ratio Requirement
Han Deng and I-Hong Hou (Texas A&M University, USA)
 
Probabilistic Demand Allocation for Cloud Service Brokerage
Chenxi Qiu, Haiying Shen and Liuhua Chen (Clemson University, USA)
 
Engineering Traffic Uncertainty in the OpenFlow Data Plane
Fei Chen and Chunming Wu (Zhejiang University, China)
Xiaoyan Hong (University of Alabama, USA)
Zhouhao Lu (Zhejiang University, China)
Zhouhao Wang (Zhejiang University & Tsukuba University, China)
Changting Lin (Zhejiang University, China)
 
Dynamic Routing for Network Throughput Maximization in Software-Defined Networks
Meitian Huang, Weifa Liang and Zichuan Xu (The Australian National University, Australia)
Wenzheng Xu (Sichuan University & Australian National University, China)
Song Guo (The University of Aizu, Japan)
Yinlong Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Resource Allocation II
Chair: Xiaohua Xu (Michigan Technological University, USA)
 
Distributed Load Shedding with Minimum Energy
Kostas Choumas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Georgios S. Paschos (Huawei Technologies, France)
Thanasis Korakis (New York University, USA)
Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)
 
Efficient and Flexible Crowdsourcing of Specialized Tasks with Precedence Constraints
Avhishek Chatterjee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Michael Borokhovich (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Lav R. Varshney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas Austin, USA)
 
On Demand Elastic Capacity Planning for Service Auto-scaling
Pavel S Chuprikov (Steklov Mathematical Institute at St. Petersburg & IMDEA Networks Institute, Russia)
Sergey Nikolenko (St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia)
Kirill Kogan (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
 
Node-based Service-Balanced Scheduling for Provably Guaranteed Throughput and Evacuation Time Performance
Bo Ji (Temple University, USA)
Gagan R Gupta (AT&T Labs, USA)
Yu Sang (Temple University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Bayview B
Streaming Video
Chair: Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech, USA)
 
F.Live: Towards Interactive Live Broadcast FTV Experience
Shannon Chen, Zhenhuan Gao and Klara Nahrstedt  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
 
Cache Content-Selection Policies for Streaming Video Services
Stefan Dernbach (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Azin Ashkan (Technicolor, USA)
Christophe Diot (Safran, France)
Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Nina Taft (Google, USA)
Udi Weinsberg (Facebook, Israel)
 
Tracker-assisted rate adaptation for MPEG DASH live streaming
Andrea Detti, Bruno Ricci and Nicola Blefari-Melazzi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
 
Side-Channel Information Leakage of Encrypted Video Stream in Video Surveillance Systems
Hong Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Yunhua He (The George Washington University, USA)
Limin Sun (Institute of Information Engineering, China Academy of Science, Beijing, China)
Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington Univ, USA)
Jiguo Yu (Qufu Normal University, China)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Seacliff C+D
Heterogeneous Networks
Chair: Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
 
A QoS-enabled Holistic Optimization Framework for LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Networks
Rajarajan Sivaraj (University of California, Davis, USA)
Ioannis Broustis and Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA)
Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
 
ENCORE: An Energy-Aware Multicell Cooperation in Heterogeneous Networks with Content Caching
Yi-Han Chiang and Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
 
Optimal Downlink and Uplink User Association in Backhaul-limited HetNets
Nikolaos Sapountzis, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos and Navid Nikaein (EURECOM, France)
Umer Salim (Intel Mobile Communications, France)
 
Joint Optimization for Cell Configuration and Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks
Chan-Ching Hsu, J. Morris Chang and Yu-Wen Chen (Iowa State University, USA)
 
 
Thursday, 14 April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room: Bayview A
Cloud Storage Systems
Chair: Qiang Ye (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
 
Mean-Field-Analysis of Coding versus Replication in Cloud Storage Systems
Bin Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Aditya Ramamoorthy (Iowa State University, USA)
R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
 
Sketch-based Data Placement among Geo-distributed Datacenters for Cloud Storages
Boyang Yu and Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, Canada)
 
Reducing Access Latency in Erasure Coded Cloud Storage with Local Block Migration
Yaochen Hu and Di Niu (University of Alberta, Canada)
 
An Economical and SLO-Guaranteed Cloud Storage Service across Multiple Cloud Service Providers
Guoxin Liu and Haiying Shen (Clemson University, USA)
 
 
 represents the recipient of Best-in-Session Presentation Award. This distinction is awarded based upon ratings by peer presenters in the same technical session, Session Chair, and an independent reviewer assigned by the TPC Chairs.