Dissemination

Dissemination Results

SUPERFLUIDITY  is targeting top tier Research Conferences and Journals.

imagesThese leading venues shape future research in this area and as such provide maximum visibility for the project results. Several partners have an established presence and a strong track record in such venues. For additional information the deliverable D8.6 “Final Report on Communication and Dissemination Actions” is available here.

Talks

  1. Andy Reid, BT: “Practicalities of NFV orchestration”, SDN World Congress, Duesseldorf, Germany, October 13, 2015.
  2. Vodafone Chair Prof. Gerhard Fettweis, TUD: “A Superfluid, Cloud-native, Converged Edge System”, IEEE 5G Silicon Valley Summit, Santa Clara, CA, November 16, 2015.
  3. Simon Kuenzer, NEC Europe: “Building the Superfluid Cloud with Unikernels“, 2016 Unikernels and More: Cloud Innovators Forum, Pasadena, CA, January 22, 2016.
  4. Livnat Peer, REDHAT: “Networking QoS,Liberty, Mitaka and Newton”, Technion Computer Engineering Center – The 2nd Academia and Industry Research Event:
    Challenges in Network Functions Virtualization, Raanana, Israel, April 03, 2016.
  5. Diego Lopez, TID: “Open Source Mano”, NFVRG-IETF 95, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 3-8, 2016.
  6. Felipe Huici, Filipe Manco, Jose Mendes, Simon Kuenzer, NEC: “VMs, Unikernels and Containers: Experiences on the Performance of Virtualizaton Technologies”, NFVRG-IETF 95, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 3-8, 2016.
  7. Lorenzo Bracciale, CNIT: “OpenGeoBase: spatial database applications supported by innovative communications networks“, Workshop: 5G pushing the limits of innovation in Automotive – ITS European Congress, Glasgow, UK, June 7, 2016
  8. Livnat Peer, REDHAT: “Networking QoS, Liberty, Mitaka and Newton”, OpenStack Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2, 2016.
  9. Prof. Giuseppe Bianchi, CNIT: Keynote speech “Data Plane Programmability the next step in SDN”,  ICUMT 2016 – The 8th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, October 18-20, 2016.
  10. Simon Westbroek, USTR: “Server Side Playlists: The alternative for manifest manipulation”, International Broadcasting Convention,  Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19, 2016
  11. Stefano Salsano CNIT, Felipe Huici NEC: Invited talk “Superfluid NFV: VMs and Virtual Infrastructure Managers speed-up for instantaneous service instantiation”, Invited talk, EWSDN 2016, co-located with the SDN World Congress 2016, The Hague, Netherlands, October 10-11, 2016
  12. Giuseppe Bianchi, CNIT: “Revisiting control/data plane separation in Software Defi¬ned  Networking”, SUPERFLUIDITY’s  Taiwan Tour: October 31: Distinguished Lecture speech at Institute of Information Science – Academia Sinica; November 1: Talk at National Chiao Tung University; November 2: talk at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 31 October – 2 November 2016.
  13. Louise Krug, BT: “Containers for NFV”, Technology Forum SDN World Congress 2016, EWSDN 2016, co-located with the SDN World Congress 2016, The Hague, Netherlands, October 10-11, 2016.
  14. George Tsolis, CITRIX: “Superfluidity: Architecture concepts, Putting them in practice, Challenges”, 5G Cross-Project workshop,   Athens, Greece, February 6-7, 2017.
  15. Matei Popovici, UPB: “Symnet: scalable symbolic execution for modern networks“, 5G Cross-Project workshop, Athens, Greece, February 6-7, 2017.
  16. Laurent Mathy, ULG: Keynote speech “High-performance software data-plane for NFV”, 2017 Global Future Network Development Summit, Nanjing, China, April 17, 2017.
  17. Rufael Mekuria, USTR: “Extended Origin Functionalities”, EBU Broadthinking, Gevenva, Switzerland, May 3-4, 2017.
  18. Stefano Salsano, CNIT: “Deployment and orchestration of Unikernels in the NFV Infrastructure”, EuCNC 2017, Oulu, Finland, June 12-15, 2017.
  19. Florian Schmidt, NEC: “uniprof: Transparent Unikernel Performance Profiling and Debugging”, Xen Project Developer and Design Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 11-14, 2017.
  20. Felipe Manco, NEC: “NoXS: Death to the XenStore”, Xen Project Developer and Design Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 11-14, 2017.
  21. Julian Chesterfield, Anastassios Nanos, ONAPP: “Xen-lite for ARM – adapting Xen for a Samsung Exynos MicroServer with hybrid FPGA IO acceleration”, Xen Project Developer and Design Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 11-14, 2017.
  22. Prof. Giuseppe Bianchi, CNIT: Keynote speech “Data Plane Programmability the next step in SDN”, IEEE NetSoft 2017, Bologna, Italy, July 3-7, 2017.
  23. Costin Raiciu, UPB: Keynote speech “Using Multipath TCP to enable smooth connectivity in 5G networks”, European Wireless 2017, Dresden, Germany, May 17 – 19, 2017.
  24. Stefano Salsano, CNIT: Invited talk “Superfluid networking for 5G: vision and state of the art”, SmartCom 2017 -The 4th International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications, Rome, Italy, October 23-24, 2017.
  25. Giuseppe Bianchi, CNIT: Keynote speech “Data Plane Programmability: the Next Step in Software Defined”, ITC 29 conference – Ubiquitous, software-based, and sustainable networks and services, Genoa, Italy. September 4-8, 2017.
  26. Daniel Mellado, Luis Tomas Bolivar, RED HAT: Invited talk “Superfluidity: One network to rule them all!”, Openstack Summit, Vancouver, BC. May 21-24, 2018.
  27. Rufael Mekuria, USTR: Tutorial “Point cloud coding: techniques, applications and standardization”, IEEE VCIP 2017 – Visual Communication and Image Processing,  St. Petersburg, FL. December 10, 2017
  28. Felipe Huici, NECLE: Talk “Unikraft – Unleashing the Power of Unikernels”, QCon London, London, Uk. March 5-6, 2018.
  29. Felipe Huici, NECLE: Talk “My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container”, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK. March 8, 2018
  30. Paolo Lungaroni, Claudio Pisa, Stefano Salsano (Giuseppe Siracusano, Francesco Lombardo): “Extending OpenVIM R3 to support Unikernels (and Xen)”, ETSI – Open Source Mano Conference. Rome, Italy. February 06 –  09, 2018.

Conferences

  1. Radu Stoenescu, Matei Popovici, Lorina Negreanu, and Costin Raiciu:  “SymNet – Scalable Symbolic Execution for Modern Networks“, proc. of Conference on ACM SIGCOMM’16, August 22-26, 2016, Florianópolis, Brazil. DOI: 10.1145/2934872.2934881.  Search on Google Scholar
  2. H. J. Asghar, L. Melis, C. Soldani, E. De Cristofaro, M. A. Kaafar, and L. Mathy: “SplitBox: Toward Efficient Private Network Function Virtualization” ACM SIGCOMM, proc. of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization (HotMiddlebox 2016), Co-located with ACM SIGCOMM’16, August 22-26, 2016, Florianópolis, Brazil. DOI: 10.1145/2940147.2940150. Search on Google Scholar
  3. Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Simon Kuenzer, Stefano Salsano, Nicola Blefari Melazzi, Felipe Huici: “On-the-Fly TCP Acceleration with Miniproxy“, ACM SIGCOMM, proc. of the  Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization (HotMiddlebox 2016), Co-located with ACM SIGCOMM’16, August 22-26, 2016, Florianópolis, Brazil. DOI: 10.1145/2940147.2940149.  Search on Google Scholar
  4. Radu Stoenescu, Dragos Dumitrescu, Costin Raiciu: “OpenStack networking for humans: symbolic execution to the rescue”  invited paper in IEEE LANMAN 2016, Rome, Italy, June 13 -15, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/LANMAN.2016.7548840. Search on Google Scholar
  5. Rufael Mekuria, Michael McGrath, Christos Tselios, Dirk Griffioen, George Tsolis, Shahar Beiser: “KPI Mapping for Virtual Infrastructure Scaling for a Realistic Video Streaming Service Deployment”, 8th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience, Lisbon, Portugal, June 6-8, 2016. Search on Google Scholar
  6. R.Mekuria, J. Fennema, R. Belleman, D. Griffioen: “Multi-Protocol Video Delivery with Late Trans-Muxing” accepted paper at ACM Multimedia, 15 – 19 October 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Search on Google Scholar
  7. Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, William Liu, Jairo A. Gutierrez, Jaap Van De Beek, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen, Filip Idzikowski, Daniel Kilper, Paolo Monti, Jinsong Wu: “5G in Rural and Low-Income Areas: Are We Ready?”, ITU Kaleidoscope Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2016. Search on Google Scholar
  8. Christos Tselios, George Tsolis: “On QoE-awareness through Virtualized Probes in 5G Networks”, paper accepted for publicatio at IEEE CAMAD 2016, 21st IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, 23-25 October 2016, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada. Search on Google Scholar
  9. Pier Luigi Ventre, Claudio Pisa, Stefano Salsano, Giuseppe Siracusano, Florian Schmidtz, Paolo Lungaroni, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi: “Performance Evaluation and Tuning of Virtual Infrastructure Managers for (Micro) Virtual Network Functions”, 2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 7-9 November 2016, Palo Alto, California, USA. Search on Google Scholar
  10. Joseph Kampeas, Asaf Cohen, Omer Gurewitz: “On Secrecy Rates and Outage in Multi-User Multi-Eavesdroppers MISO Systems”,  2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 10-15 July 2016, Barcelona, Spain. Search on Google Scholar
  11. Alejandro Cohen, Asaf Cohen, Omer Gurewitz: “Secure Group Testing”, 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 10-15 July 2016, Barcelona, Spain. Search on Google Scholar
  12. Emil Matus: “Flexible Signal and Data Processing Platforms for Wireless Communications”, IEEE 5G Dresden Summit, 29 September 2016, Dresden, Germany.
  13. Rufael Mekuria, Pablo Cesar: “MP3DG-PCC, Open Source Software Framework for Implementation and Evaluation of Point Cloud Compression”, ACM Multimedia Conference 2016, 15-19 October 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. DOI: 10.1145/2964284.2973806. Search on Google Scholar
  14. Khartik Ainala, Rufael N. Mekuria, Birendra Khathariya, Zhu Li, Ye-Kui Wang, Rajan Joshi: “An improved enhancement layer for octree based point cloud compression with plane projection approximation”, SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIX, DOI:10.1117/12.2237753. Search on Google Scholar
  15. G. Aravinthan, H. Dalia, C.S. Chen, L. Roullet: “Virtualization of Radio Access Network by Virtual Machine and Docker: Practice and Performance Analysis”, IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM 2017),  May, 8-12, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal. Search on Google Scholar
  16. Arjen Wagenaar, Dirk Griffioen, Rufael Mekuria: “Unified Remix: a Server Side Solution for Adaptive Bit-Rate Streaming with Inserted and Edited Media Content”, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, June 20-24, 2017. Search on Google Scholar
  17. Paul Veitch, Edel Curley and Tomasz Kantecki: “Performance Evaluation of Cache Allocation Technology for NFV Noisy Neighbour Mitigation”, IEEE NetSoft 2017, Bologna, Italy, 3-7 July 2017. Search on Google Scholar
  18. Luca Chiaraviglio, Lavinia Amorosi, Stefania Cartolano, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Paolo Dell’Olmo, Mohammad Shojafar, Stefano Salsano: “Optimal Superfluid Management of 5G Networks”, IEEE NetSoft 2017, Bologna, Italy, 3-7 July 2017. Search on Google Scholar
  19. Salvatore Pontarelli, Marco Bonola, Giuseppe Bianchi: “Smashing SDN “built-in” actions: programmable data plane packet manipulation in hardware”, IEEE NetSoft 2017, Bologna, Italy,  July 3-7, 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  20. Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Bogdan Iatco, Francesco Malandrino, Stefano Salsano: “An Economic Analysis of 5G Superfluid Networks”, 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (IEEE HPSR), Campinas, Brazil, June 18-21, 2017. Search on Google Scholar
  21. Laura Vasilescu, Vladimir Olteanu, Costin Raiciu: “Sharing CPUs via endpoint congestion control“, IEEE SIGCOMM KBNets 2017, Los Angeles, US-CA, August 21-25, 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  22. Marco Bonola, Roberto Bifulco, Luca Petrucci, Salvatore Pontarelli, Angelo Tulumello, Giuseppe Bianchi: “Implementing advanced network functions for datacenters with stateful programmable data planes”, IEEE LANMAN 2017  – The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Osaka, Japan, June 12-14, 2017. Search on Google Scholar
  23. Marco Bonola, Roberto Bifulco, Luca Petrucci, Salvatore Pontarelli, Angelo Tulumello, Giuseppe Bianchi: “Demo: implementing advanced network functions with stateful programmable data planes”, IEEE LANMAN 2017  – The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Osaka, Japan, June 12-14, 2017.
  24. Ioannis Prevezanos, Andreas Angelou, Christos Tselios, Alexandros Stergiakis, Vassilis Tsogkas and George Tsolis: “Hammer: A Real-world, end-to-end Network Traffic Simulator”, IEEE CAMAD 2017, 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, Lund, Sweden, 19-21 June 2017.
  25. Mohammad Shojafar, Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Stefano Salsano: “P5G: A Bio-inspired Algorithm for the Superfluid Management of 5G Networks”, Accepted for IEEE GLOBECOM 2017, Singapore, December 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  26. I. Prevezanos, C. Tselios, A. Angelou, M. McGrath, R. Mekuria, V. Tsogkas and G. Tsolis: “Evaluating Hammer Network Traffic Simulator: System Benchmarking and Testbed Integration”, Accepted for IEEE GLOBECOM 2017, Singapore, December 2017.
  27. Flavio Esposito, Andrej Cvetkovski, Tooska Dargahi, and Jianli Pan: “Complete Edge Function Onloading for Effective Backend-driven Cyber Foraging”, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications – WiMob 2017, Rome, Italy, October 9-11, 2017. Search on Google Scholar
  28. Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Stefano Salsano: “TCP Proxy Bypass: All the Gain with No Pain!“, ACM SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, USA, August 20-25, 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  29. Florian Schmid: “uniprof: A Unikernel Stack Profiler“, ACM SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, USA, August 20-25, 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  30. Roberto Gonzalez, Alberto Garcia-Duran, Filipe Manco, Mathias Niepert: “Network Data Monetization Using Net2Vec“, ACM SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, USA, August 20-25, 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  31. Roberto Gonzalez, Filipe Manco, Alberto Garcia-Duran, Jose Mendes: “Net2Vec: Deep Learning for the Network”, ACM Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks, Big-DAMA 2017 (workshop at SIGCOMM), Los Angeles, USA, August 20-25, 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  32. S. Salsano, L. Chiaraviglio, N. Blefari-Melazzi, C. Parada, F. Fontes, R. Mekuria, D. Griffioen: “Toward Superfluid Deployment of Virtual Functions: Exploiting Mobile Edge Computing for Video Streaming”, Soft5 Workshop, 1st International Workshop on Softwarized Infrastructures for 5G and Fog Computing, in conjunction with 29th ITC conference, Genoa, Italy, September 8, 2017. Presentation. Search on Google Scholar.
  33. Luca Chiaraviglio, Fabio D’Andreagiovanni, Giulio Sidoretti, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Stefano Salsano: “Optimal Design of 5G Superfluid Networks: Problem Formulation and Solutions”,  ICIN 2018 – 21st International Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks, Paris, France, February 2018. Search on Google Scholar.
  34. Mohammad Mahdi Tajiki, Stefano Salsano, Mohammad Shojafar, Luca Chiaraviglio, Behzad Akbari: “Energy-efficient Path Allocation Heuristic for Service Function Chaining”, ICIN 2018 – 21st International Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks, Paris, France, February 2018. Search on Google Scholar.
  35. Mohammad Shojafar, Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Stefano Salsano: “P5G: A Bio-inspired Algorithm for the Superfluid Management of 5G Networks”, IEEE GlobeComm 2017 – Global Hub: Connecting East and West, Singapore, 4-8 December 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  36. I. Prevezanos, C. Tselios, A. Angelou, M. McGrath, R. Mekuria, V. Tsogkas and G. Tsolis: “Evaluating Hammer Network Traffic Simulator: System Benchmarking and Testbed Integration”, IEEE GlobeComm 2017 – Global Hub: Connecting East and West, Singapore, 4-8 December 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  37. F. Manco, C. Lupu, F. Schmidt, J. Mendes, Simon Kuenzer, S. Sati, K. Yasukata, C. Raiciu, F. Huici: “My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container”, ACM SOSP 17 – 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Shangai, China, 28-31 October 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  38. K. Yasukata, F. Huici, V. Maffione, G. Lettieri, M. Honda: “HyperNF: Building a High Performance, High Utilization and Fair NFV Platform”, SoCC ’17 – ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2017, Santa Clara, CA, 25-27 September 2017. Search on Google Scholar.
  39. R. Mekuria, M. J. McGrath,V. Bayon-Molino, V. Riccobene, C. Tselios, A. Dobrodub, J. Thomson: accepted paper “Automated Profiling of Virtualized Media Processing Functions using Telemetry and Machine Learning”, ACM MMSys 2018 – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. June 12 – 15, 2018.
  40. R. Mekuria, S. Laserre and C. Tulvan: “Performance assessment of point cloud compression”,  IEEE VCIP 2017 – Visual Communication and Image Processing,  St. Petersburg, FL. December 10 – 13 , 2017.
  41. Marco Spaziani Brunella, Salvatore Pontarelli, Marco Bonola, Giuseppe Bianchi: “V-PMP: a VLIW Packet Manipulator Processor”,  EuCNC2018 – NET. Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 18-21, 2018
  42. Fettweis, E. Matus: “Scalable 5G MPSoC Architecture”, in Proceedings of the 51st Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR’17), Pacific Grove, California, October 2017.

Journals / Magazines

  1. “Hybrid IP/SDN networking: open implementation and experiment management tools” S. Salsano, P. L. Ventre, F. Lombardo, G. Siracusano, M. Gerola, E. Salvadori, M. Santuari, M.  Campanella, L. Prete. IEEE. Trans. on Network and Service Management 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2015.2507622.  Search on Google Scholar
  2. “Superfluidity: A Flexible Functional Architecture for 5G Networks” G. Bianchi, E. Biton, N. Blefari-Melazzi, I. Borges, L. Chiaraviglio, P. de la Cruz Ramos, P. Eardley, F. Fontes, M. J. McGrath, L. Natarianni, D. Niculescu, C. Parada, M. Popovici, V. Riccobene, S. Salsano, B. Sayadi, J. Thomson, C. Tselios, G. Tsolis. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Wiley 2016. DOI: 10.1002/ett.3082. Search on Google Scholar
  3. “Bringing 5G in Rural and Low-Income Areas: Is it Feasible?” Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, William Liu, Jairo A. Gutierrez, Jaap van de Beek, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen, Filip Idzikowski, Daniel Kilper, Paolo Monti, Antoine Bagula, Jinsong Wu, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 2017. Search on Google Scholar
  4. “A Survey on the Security of Stateful SDN Data Planes” Tooska Dargahi, Alberto Caponi, Moreno Ambrosin, Giuseppe Bianchi, Mauro Conti, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 30 March 2017, DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2689819. Search on Google Scholar
  5. “Are We Ready to Drive Software-Defined Networks? A Comprehensive Survey on Management Tools and Techniques”, Elisa Rojas, Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Sergio Tamurejo, Andres Beato, Arne Schwabe, Kevin Phemius, Carmen Guerrero, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), March 2018, DOI: 10.1145/3165290. Search on Google Scholar.
  6. “Traffic Classification Based on Zero-Length Packets” J. Kampeas, A. Cohen, O. Gurewitz, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, April 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2018.2825881. Search on Google Scholar.
  7. “Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Distributed Scheduling In Multi-User Systems” O. Shmuel, A. Cohen, O. Gurewitz, IEEE Transactions on Communications (accepted for publication).
  8. “The Ergodic Capacity of the Multiple Access Channel Under Distributed Scheduling – Order Optimality of Linear Receivers” J. Kampeas, A. Cohen, O. Gurewitz, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (accepted for publication)