Paper Digest: SIGCOMM 2024 Papers & Highlights
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TABLE 1: Paper Digest: SIGCOMM 2024 Papers & Highlights
| Paper | Author(s) | |
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| 1 | Crux: GPU-Efficient Communication Scheduling for Deep Learning Training Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we present Crux, a communication scheduler that aims to maximize GPU computation utilization by mitigating the communication contention among DLT jobs. |
Jiamin Cao; Yu Guan; Kun Qian; Jiaqi Gao; Wencong Xiao; Jianbo Dong; Binzhang Fu; Dennis Cai; Ennan Zhai; |
| 2 | Rethinking Machine Learning Collective Communication As A Multi-Commodity Flow Problem Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Our solution, TE-CCL, adopts a traffic-engineering-based approach to collective communication. |
Xuting Liu; Behnaz Arzani; Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla; Liangyu Zhao; Vincent Liu; Miguel Castro; Srikanth Kandula; Luke Marshall; |
| 3 | CacheGen: KV Cache Compression and Streaming for Fast Large Language Model Serving Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts Related Code View Highlight: CacheGen is a fast context-loading module for LLM systems. First, CacheGen uses a custom tensor encoder, leveraging KV cache’s distributional properties to encode a KV cache into more compact bitstream representations with negligible decoding overhead, to save bandwidth usage. Second, CacheGen adapts the compression level of different parts of a KV cache to cope with changes in available bandwidth, in order to maintain low context-loading delay and high generation quality. |
Yuhan Liu; Hanchen Li; Yihua Cheng; Siddhant Ray; Yuyang Huang; Qizheng Zhang; Kuntai Du; Jiayi Yao; Shan Lu; Ganesh Ananthanarayanan; Michael Maire; Henry Hoffmann; Ari Holtzman; Junchen Jiang; |
| 4 | RDMA Over Ethernet for Distributed Training at Meta Scale Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: The rapid growth in both computational density and scale in AI models in recent years motivates the construction of an efficient and reliable dedicated network infrastructure. This paper presents the design, implementation, and operation of Meta’s Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) networks for distributed AI training.Our design principles involve a deep understanding of the workloads, and we translated these insights into the design of various network components: Network Topology – To support the rapid evolution of generations of AI hardware platforms, we separated GPU-based training into its own backend network. |
Adithya Gangidi; Rui Miao; Shengbao Zheng; Sai Jayesh Bondu; Guilherme Goes; Hany Morsy; Rohit Puri; Mohammad Riftadi; Ashmitha Jeevaraj Shetty; Jingyi Yang; Shuqiang Zhang; Mikel Jimenez Fernandez; Shashidhar Gandham; Hongyi Zeng; |
| 5 | RedTE: Mitigating Subsecond Traffic Bursts with Real-time and Distributed Traffic Engineering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: TE-based methods can leverage network-wide tunnel-level information to make globally informed decisions (e.g., balancing traffic bursts among multiple paths). Our insight in reducing control loop latency is to let each router make local TE decisions, but this introduces the key challenge of minimizing performance loss compared to centralized TE systems.In this paper, we present RedTE, a novel distributed TE system with a control loop latency of < 100ms, while achieving performance comparable to centralized TE systems. |
Fei Gui; Songtao Wang; Dan Li; Li Chen; Kaihui Gao; Congcong Min; Yi Wang; |
| 6 | Transferable Neural WAN TE for Changing Topologies Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we present HARP, a neural model for TE explicitly capable of handling variations in topology including those not observed in training. |
Abd AlRhman AlQiam; Yuanjun Yao; Zhaodong Wang; Satyajeet Singh Ahuja; Ying Zhang; Sanjay G. Rao; Bruno Ribeiro; Mohit Tawarmalani; |
| 7 | MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we advocate for a radical new approach to extend TE systems to involve millions of virtual instance endpoints. |
Congcong Miao; Zhizhen Zhong; Yunming Xiao; Feng Yang; Senkuo Zhang; Yinan Jiang; Zizhuo Bai; Chaodong Lu; Jingyi Geng; Zekun He; Yachen Wang; Xianneng Zou; Chuanchuan Yang; |
| 8 | FIGRET: Fine-Grained Robustness-Enhanced Traffic Engineering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts Related Code View Highlight: Existing TE schemes either do not handle traffic bursts or uniformly guard against traffic bursts, thereby facing difficulties in achieving a balance between normal-case performance and burst-case performance. To address this issue, we introduce FIGRET, a Fine-Grained Robustness-Enhanced TE scheme. |
Ximeng Liu; Shizhen Zhao; Yong Cui; Xinbing Wang; |
| 9 | Keeping An Eye on Congestion Control in The Wild with Nebby Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Unfortunately, existing CCA identification tools are not future-proof and do not work well with modern CCAs and encrypted protocols like QUIC. In this paper, we articulate the challenges in designing a future-proof CCA identification tool and propose a measurement methodology that directly addresses these challenges. |
Ayush Mishra; Lakshay Rastogi; Raj Joshi; Ben Leong; |
| 10 | SUSS: Improving TCP Performance By Speeding Up Slow-Start Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Existing solutions either only work in specific situations, or require network assistance, making them challenging (if even possible) to deploy. This paper presents SUSS (Speeding Up Slow Start): a lightweight, sender-side add-on to the traditional slow-start mechanism, that aims to safely expedite the growth of the congestion window when a flow is significantly below its optimal fair share of the available bandwidth. |
Mahdi Arghavani; Haibo Zhang; David Eyers; Abbas Arghavani; |
| 11 | Principles for Internet Congestion Management Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We propose a new framework, Recursive Congestion Shares (RCS), that provides bandwidth allocations independent of which congestion control algorithms flows use but consistent with the Internet’s economics. |
Lloyd Brown; Albert Gran Alcoz; Frank Cangialosi; Akshay Narayan; Mohammad Alizadeh; Hari Balakrishnan; Eric Friedman; Ethan Katz-Bassett; Arvind Krishnamurthy; Michael Schapira; Scott Shenker; |
| 12 | CCAnalyzer: An Efficient and Nearly-Passive Congestion Control Classifier Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present CCAnalyzer, a novel classifier for deployed Internet congestion control algorithms (CCAs) which is more accurate, more generalizable, and more human-interpretable than prior classifiers. |
Ranysha Ware; Adithya Abraham Philip; Nicholas Hungria; Yash Kothari; Justine Sherry; Srinivasan Seshan; |
| 13 | Expresso: Comprehensively Reasoning About External Routes Using Symbolic Simulation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: This paper introduces a new network verifier, Expresso, which uses symbolic simulation to explore the equivalences in the space of external routes. |
Dan Wang; Peng Zhang; Aaron Gember-Jacobson; |
| 14 | Relational Network Verification Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We demonstrate the value of relational reasoning by developing Rela, a high-level relational specification language and verification tool for network changes. |
Xieyang Xu; Yifei Yuan; Zachary Kincaid; Arvind Krishnamurthy; Ratul Mahajan; David Walker; Ennan Zhai; |
| 15 | A General and Efficient Approach to Verifying Traffic Load Properties Under Arbitrary K Failures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: For the generality challenge, we propose an approach inspired by symbolic execution, called symbolic traffic execution, to model the forwarding behavior of a range of practically deployed protocols (e.g., eBGP, iBGP, iGP, and SR) under failure scenarios. |
Ruihan Li; Yifei Yuan; Fangdan Ye; Mengqi Liu; Ruizhen Yang; Yang Yu; Tianchen Guo; Qing Ma; Xianlong Zeng; Chenren Xu; Dennis Cai; Ennan Zhai; |
| 16 | Algorithms for In-Place, Consistent Network Update Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present a simple distributed algorithm for network update that operates on the fly and in place, and guarantees strong route-consistency. |
Kedar S. Namjoshi; Sougol Gheissi; Krishan Sabnani; |
| 17 | RD-Probe: Scalable Monitoring With Sufficient Coverage In Complex Datacenter Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: However, given the ever-evolving complexity of industrial environments, even measuring coverage metrics becomes challenging, let alone attaining sufficient coverage. In fact, insufficient coverage widely existed in our production datacenters and caused many missed failures.To address this, we design RD-Probe, an industrial monitoring system with coverage and scalability guarantees. |
Rui Ding; Xunpeng Liu; Shibo Yang; Qun Huang; Baoshu Xie; Ronghua Sun; Zhi Zhang; Bolong Cui; |
| 18 | ΜMon: Empowering Microsecond-level Network Monitoring with Wavelets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We propose μMon, a novel microsecond-level network monitoring system for data centers. |
Hao Zheng; Chengyuan Huang; Xiangyu Han; Jiaqi Zheng; Xiaoliang Wang; Chen Tian; Wanchun Dou; Guihai Chen; |
| 19 | Eagle: Toward Scalable and Near-Optimal Network-Wide Sketch Deployment in Network Measurement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We propose Eagle, a framework that achieves scalable and near-optimal network-wide sketch deployment. |
Xiang Chen; Qingjiang Xiao; Hongyan Liu; Qun Huang; Dong Zhang; Xuan Liu; Longbing Hu; Haifeng Zhou; Chunming Wu; Kui Ren; |
| 20 | Bad Packets Come Back, Worse Ones Don’t Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We show how to deal with conflicting goals: minimizing performance degradation for legitimate flows, dealing with external conditions such as path changes and remote packet loss, and ensuring robustness against spoofers trying to evade our test. |
Petros Gigis; Mark James Handley; Stefano Vissicchio; |
| 21 | Integrated Two-way Radar Backscatter Communication and Sensing with Low-power IoT Tags Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: This paper introduces BiScatter, an integrated radar backscatter communication and sensing system that enables simultaneous uplink and downlink backscatter communication, radar sensing, and backscatter localization. |
Ryu Okubo; Luke Jacobs; Jinhua Wang; Steven Bowers; Elahe Soltanaghai; |
| 22 | Dissecting Carrier Aggregation in 5G Networks: Measurement, QoE Implications and Prediction Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we carry out a timely comprehensive measurement study of CA deployment in commercial 5G networks (as well as 4G networks). |
Wei Ye; Xinyue Hu; Steven Sleder; Anlan Zhang; Udhaya Kumar Dayalan; Ahmad Hassan; Rostand A. K. Fezeu; Akshay Jajoo; Myungjin Lee; Eman Ramadan; Feng Qian; Zhi-Li Zhang; |
| 23 | Unveiling The 5G Mid-Band Landscape: From Network Deployment to Performance and Application QoE Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present – to the best of our knowledge – the first comprehensive and comparative cross-country measurement study of commercial mid-band 5G deployments in Europe and the U.S., filling a gap in the existing 5G measurement studies. |
Rostand A. K. Fezeu; Claudio Fiandrino; Eman Ramadan; Jason Carpenter; Lilian Coelho de Freitas; Faaiq Bilal; Wei Ye; Joerg Widmer; Feng Qian; Zhi-Li Zhang; |
| 24 | DAuth: A Resilient Authentication Architecture for Federated Private Cellular Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present dAuth, an approach to device authentication in private cellular networks which refactors the responsibilities of authentication to enable multiple small private cellular networks to federate together to provide a more reliable and resilient service than could be achieved on their own. |
Matthew Johnson; Sudheesh Singanamalla; Nick Durand; Esther Han Boel Jang; Spencer Sevilla; Kurtis Heimerl; |
| 25 | Realizing RotorNet: Toward Practical Microsecond Scale Optical Networking Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We describe our experience building and deploying a demand-oblivious optically-switched network based on the RotorNet and Opera architectures. |
William M. Mellette; Alex Forencich; Rukshani Athapathu; Alex C. Snoeren; George Papen; George Porter; |
| 26 | NegotiaToR: Towards A Simple Yet Effective On-demand Reconfigurable Datacenter Network Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present NegotiaToR, a simple network architecture for optical reconfigurable DCNs that utilizes on-demand scheduling to handle dynamic traffic. |
Cong Liang; Xiangli Song; Jing Cheng; Mowei Wang; Yashe Liu; Zhenhua Liu; Shizhen Zhao; Yong Cui; |
| 27 | Uniform-Cost Multi-Path Routing for Reconfigurable Data Center Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we redefine the cost metric for RDCN routing with uniform cost to unify the effects of topology disruption and hop count on latency and bandwidth efficiency. |
Jialong Li; Haotian Gong; Federico De Marchi; Aoyu Gong; Yiming Lei; Wei Bai; Yiting Xia; |
| 28 | Shale: A Practical, Scalable Oblivious Reconfigurable Network Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: To achieve the theoretical low latencies in practice, we design a new congestion control mechanism which is best suited to the characteristics of Shale. |
Daniel Amir; Nitika Saran; Tegan Wilson; Robert Kleinberg; Vishal Shrivastav; Hakim Weatherspoon; |
| 29 | ConfMask: Enabling Privacy-Preserving Configuration Sharing Via Anonymization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Existing methods are deficient in concealing the implicit information that can be inferred from configurations, such as topology and routing paths. To address this, we present ConfMask, a novel framework designed to systematically anonymize network topology and routing paths in configurations. |
Yuejie Wang; Qiutong Men; Yao Xiao; Yongting Chen; Guyue Liu; |
| 30 | The Efficacy of The Connect America Fund in Addressing US Internet Access Inequities Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We use the broadband-plan querying tool (BQT) to create a novel dataset that complements ISP-reported information with ISP-advertised broadband plan details from publicly accessible websites for 537k residential addresses across 15 states. |
Haarika Manda; Varshika Srinivasavaradhan; Laasya Koduru; Kevin Zhang; Xuanhe Zhou; Udit Paul; Elizabeth Belding; Arpit Gupta; Tejas N. Narechania; |
| 31 | Prudentia: Findings of An Internet Fairness Watchdog Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we provide the first study of fairness between live, end-to-end services with distinct workloads. |
Adithya Abraham Philip; Rukshani Athapathu; Ranysha Ware; Fabian Francis Mkocheko; Alexis Schlomer; Mengrou Shou; Zili Meng; Srinivasan Seshan; Justine Sherry; |
| 32 | Ten Years of The Venezuelan Crisis – An Internet Perspective Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: While studies have extensively covered the crisis’s effects on public health, energy, and water management, this paper delves into a previously unexplored area – the impact on Venezuela’s Internet infrastructure. Amidst Venezuela’s multifaceted challenges, understanding the repercussions of this critical aspect of modern society becomes imperative for the country’s recovery.Leveraging measurements from various sources, we present a comprehensive view of the changes undergone by the Venezuelan network in the past decade. |
Esteban Carisimo; Rashna Kumar; Caleb J. Wang; Santiago Klein; Fabi\'{a}n E. Bustamante; |
| 33 | Turbo: Efficient Communication Framework for Large-scale Data Processing Cluster Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Turbo, an efficient communication framework for the large-scale data processing cluster to achieve high performance and scalability. |
Xuya Jia; Zhiyi Yao; Chao Peng; Zihao Zhao; Bin Lei; Edison Liu; Xiang Li; Zekun He; Yachen Wang; Xianneng Zou; Chongqing Zhao; Jinhui Chu; Jilong Wang; Congcong Miao; |
| 34 | R-Pingmesh: A Service-Aware RoCE Network Monitoring and Diagnostic System Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we propose R-Pingmesh, the first service-aware RoCE network monitoring and diagnostic system based on end-to-end probing. |
Kefei Liu; Zhuo Jiang; Jiao Zhang; Shixian Guo; Xuan Zhang; Yangyang Bai; Yongbin Dong; Feng Luo; Zhang Zhang; Lei Wang; Xiang Shi; Haohan Xu; Yang Bai; Dongyang Song; Haoran Wei; Bo Li; Yongchen Pan; Tian Pan; Tao Huang; |
| 35 | Fast, Scalable, and Accurate Rate Limiter for RDMA NICs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present Tassel, a hierarchical rate limiter for RDMA NICs that can deliver high packet rates by enabling multiple-packet-per-sorting transmission, while preserving accuracy and scalability. |
Zilong Wang; Xinchen Wan; Luyang Li; Yijun Sun; Peng Xie; Xin Wei; Qingsong Ning; Junxue Zhang; Kai Chen; |
| 36 | Understanding The Host Network Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Several recent studies from production datacenters show that contention within the host network can have significant impact on end-to-end application performance. The goal of this paper is to build an in-depth understanding of such contention within the host network.We present domain-by-domain credit-based flow control, a conceptual abstraction to study the host network. |
Midhul Vuppalapati; Saksham Agarwal; Henry Schuh; Baris Kasikci; Arvind Krishnamurthy; Rachit Agarwal; |
| 37 | Practical Rateless Set Reconciliation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present Rateless Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (Rateless IBLTs), the first set reconciliation protocol, to the best of our knowledge, that achieves low computation cost and near-optimal communication cost across a wide range of scenarios: set differences of one to millions, bit strings of a few bytes to megabytes, and workloads injected by potential adversaries. |
Lei Yang; Yossi Gilad; Mohammad Alizadeh; |
| 38 | SODA: An Adaptive Bitrate Controller for Consistent High-Quality Video Streaming Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: However, users often find frequent bitrate switching frustrating due to the resulting inconsistency in visual quality over time, especially during live streaming when buffer lengths are short. In this paper, we propose a practical smoothness optimized dynamic adaptive (SODA) controller that specifically addresses this problem while remaining deployable. |
Tianyu Chen; Yiheng Lin; Nicolas Christianson; Zahaib Akhtar; Sharath Dharmaji; Mohammad Hajiesmaili; Adam Wierman; Ramesh K. Sitaraman; |
| 39 | An Architecture For Edge Networking Services Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: These additional in-network functions, which are typically implemented at the network edge, are consistent with the layering of the Internet architecture but deviate from two of the core tenets of the Internet: interconnection and end-to-end simplicity. In this paper, we propose an architecture for these edge networking services called the InterEdge that applies these two Internet tenets in a manner appropriate to edge services while not requiring changes to the underlying Internet architecture or infrastructure. |
Lloyd Brown; Emily Marx; Dev Bali; Emmanuel Amaro; Debnil Sur; Ezra Kissel; Inder Monga; Ethan Katz-Bassett; Arvind Krishnamurthy; James McCauley; Tejas Narechania; Aurojit Panda; Scott Shenker; |
| 40 | NetLLM: Adapting Large Language Models for Networking Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: With the powerful pre-trained knowledge, the LLM is promising to serve as the foundation model to achieve one model for all tasks with even better performance and stronger generalization. In pursuit of this vision, we present NetLLM, the first framework that provides a coherent design to harness the powerful capabilities of LLMs with low efforts to solve networking problems. |
Duo Wu; Xianda Wang; Yaqi Qiao; Zhi Wang; Junchen Jiang; Shuguang Cui; Fangxin Wang; |
| 41 | MCCS: A Service-based Approach to Collective Communication for Multi-Tenant Cloud Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we explore a new approach for collective communication that more tightly integrates the implementation with the cloud network instead of the applications. |
Yongji Wu; Yechen Xu; Jingrong Chen; Zhaodong Wang; Ying Zhang; Matthew Lentz; Danyang Zhuo; |
| 42 | Alibaba HPN: A Data Center Network for Large Language Model Training Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: This paper presents HPN, Alibaba Cloud’s data center network for large language model (LLM) training. |
Kun Qian; Yongqing Xi; Jiamin Cao; Jiaqi Gao; Yichi Xu; Yu Guan; Binzhang Fu; Xuemei Shi; Fangbo Zhu; Rui Miao; Chao Wang; Peng Wang; Pengcheng Zhang; Xianlong Zeng; Eddie Ruan; Zhiping Yao; Ennan Zhai; Dennis Cai; |
| 43 | Accelerating Model Training in Multi-cluster Environments with Consumer-grade GPUs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we identify unique opportunities to accelerate training and propose StellaTrain, a holistic framework that achieves near-optimal training speeds in multi-cloud environments. |
Hwijoon Lim; Juncheol Ye; Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi; Dongsu Han; |
| 44 | NetEdit: An Orchestration Platform for EBPF Network Functions at Scale Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Our design offers a unified abstraction for various kernel hookpoints, decouples policies from programs using a rich configuration language, supports explicit object management for reliable deployment and provides extensive testing methods. |
Theophilus A. Benson; Prashanth Kannan; Prankur Gupta; Balasubramanian Madhavan; Kumar Saurabh Arora; Jie Meng; Martin Lau; Abhishek Dhamija; Rajiv Krishnamurthy; Srikanth Sundaresan; Neil Spring; Ying Zhang; |
| 45 | In-Network Address Caching for Virtual Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Abstract: Packet routing in virtual networks requires virtual-to-physical address translation. The address mappings are updated by a single party, i.e., the network administrator, but they … |
Lior Zeno; Ang Chen; Mark Silberstein; |
| 46 | Triton: A Flexible Hardware Offloading Architecture for Accelerating Apsara VSwitch in Alibaba Cloud Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: This paper introduces Triton, a flexible hardware offloading architecture for accelerating AVS. |
Xing Li; Xiaochong Jiang; Ye Yang; Lilong Chen; Yi Wang; Chao Wang; Chao Xu; Yilong Lv; Bowen Yang; Taotao Wu; Haifeng Gao; Zikang Chen; Yisong Qiao; Hongwei Ding; Yijian Dong; Hang Yang; Jianming Song; Jianyuan Lu; Pengyu Zhang; Chengkun Wei; Zihui Zhang; Wenzhi Chen; Qinming He; Shunmin Zhu; |
| 47 | Zoom2Net: Constrained Network Telemetry Imputation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this work, we explore the feasibility of leveraging the correlations among coarse-grained time series to impute their fine-grained counterparts in software. |
Fengchen Gong; Divya Raghunathan; Aarti Gupta; Maria Apostolaki; |
| 48 | IPD: Detecting Traffic Ingress Points at ISPs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Detecting where traffic enters a network enhances network operation, but poses a complex measurement problem that requires analyzing a continuous traffic stream from all border routers—a challenging task for ISPs in the absence of a scalable approach.To enable ISPs to perform Ingress Point Detection (IPD), we propose an efficient approach that accurately identifies traffic ingress points at ISPs of any size using flow-level traffic traces. |
Stefan Mehner; Helge Reelfs; Ingmar Poese; Oliver Hohlfeld; |
| 49 | The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Our contributions include: a survey, measurements, and simulations to demonstrate the limitations of current systems; a general framework and algorithms to assess and remove redundancy in BGP observations; and quantitative analysis of the benefit of our approach in terms of accuracy and coverage for several canonical BGP routing analyses such as hijack detection and topology mapping. |
Thomas Alfroy; Thomas Holterbach; Thomas Krenc; K. C. Claffy; Cristel Pelsser; |
| 50 | M3: Accurate Flow-Level Performance Estimation Using Machine Learning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We use a simple and fast flow-level fluid simulation in a novel way to capture and summarize essential elements of the path workload, including the effect of cross-traffic on flows on that path. |
Chenning Li; Arash Nasr-Esfahany; Kevin Zhao; Kimia Noorbakhsh; Prateesh Goyal; Mohammad Alizadeh; Thomas E. Anderson; |
| 51 | TraceWeaver: Distributed Request Tracing for Microservices Without Application Modification Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: This paper explores whether we can trace requests without any application instrumentation, which we refer to as request trace reconstruction. |
Sachin Ashok; Vipul Harsh; Brighten Godfrey; Radhika Mittal; Srinivasan Parthasarathy; Larisa Shwartz; |
| 52 | YuanRong: A Production General-purpose Serverless System for Distributed Applications in The Cloud Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We design, implement, and evaluate YuanRong, the first production general-purpose serverless platform with a unified programming interface, multi-language runtime, and a distributed computing kernel for cloud-based applications. |
Qiong Chen; Jianmin Qian; Yulin Che; Ziqi Lin; Jianfeng Wang; Jie Zhou; Licheng Song; Yi Liang; Jie Wu; Wei Zheng; Wei Liu; Linfeng Li; Fangming Liu; Kun Tan; |
| 53 | Canal Mesh: A Cloud-Scale Sidecar-Free Multi-Tenant Service Mesh Architecture Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: A key component of these frameworks is a proxy in each K8s pod, named sidecar, which handles inter-pod traffic. Our empirical measurement reveals that such per-pod sidecars cause numerous problems, including intrusion into the user pod, excessive resource occupation, significant overhead in managing many sidecars, and performance degradation caused by passing traffic through the sidecar.In this paper, we introduce Canal Mesh, a cloud-scale sidecar-free multi-tenant service mesh architecture. |
Enge Song; Yang Song; Chengyun Lu; Tian Pan; Shaokai Zhang; Jianyuan Lu; Jiangu Zhao; Xining Wang; Xiaomin Wu; Minglan Gao; Zongquan Li; Ziyang Fang; Biao Lyu; Pengyu Zhang; Rong Wen; Li Yi; Zhigang Zong; Shunmin Zhu; |
| 54 | TopFull: An Adaptive Top-Down Overload Control for SLO-Oriented Microservices Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: This paper presents TopFull, an adaptive overload control at entry for microservices that leverages global observations to maximize throughput that meets service level objectives (i.e., goodput). |
Jinwoo Park; Jaehyeong Park; Youngmok Jung; Hwijoon Lim; Hyunho Yeo; Dongsu Han; |
| 55 | Topaz: Declarative and Verifiable Authoritative DNS at CDN-Scale Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: Unfortunately, imperative assignments obfuscate nameserver behavior, especially when different objectives conflict.In this paper we present Topaz, a new authoritative nameserver architecture for anycast CDNs which encodes DNS objectives as declarative, modular programs called policies. |
James Larisch; Timothy Alberdingk Thijm; Suleman Ahmad; Peter Wu; Tom Arnfeld; Marwan Fayed; |
| 56 | OptimusPrime: Unleash Dataplane Programmability Through A Transformable Architecture Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we challenge the status quo by introducing a more fluid and organic programmable chip architecture, OptimusPrime, built from identical hardware blocks. |
Zhikang Chen; Yong Feng; Shuxin Liu; Haoyu Song; Hanyi Zhou; Tong Yun; Wenquan Xu; Tian Pan; Bin Liu; |
| 57 | P4runpro: Enabling Runtime Programmability for RMT Programmable Switches Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: In this paper, we present P4runpro, enabling runtime data plane updates with dynamic resource allocation. |
Yifan Yang; Lin He; Jiasheng Zhou; Xiaoyi Shi; Jiamin Cao; Ying Liu; |
| 58 | A Decentralized SDN Architecture for The WAN Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present dSDN as a simpler approach to realizing the benefits of SDN in the WAN. |
Alexander Krentsel; Nitika Saran; Bikash Koley; Subhasree Mandal; Ashok Narayanan; Sylvia Ratnasamy; Ali Al-Shabibi; Anees Shaikh; Rob Shakir; Ankit Singla; Hakim Weatherspoon; |
| 59 | PPT: A Pragmatic Transport for Datacenters Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: This paper introduces PPT, a pragmatic transport that achieves comparable performance to proactive transports while maintaining good deployability as reactive transports. |
Lide Suo; Yiren Pang; Wenxin Li; Renjie Pei; Keqiu Li; Xiulong Liu; Xin He; Yitao Hu; Guyue Liu; |
| 60 | An Exabyte A Day: Throughput-oriented, Large Scale, Managed Data Transfers with Effingo Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present Effingo, a throughput-oriented, massively-parallel data copy service we built at Google. |
Ladislav P\'{a}pay; Jan Pustelnik; Krzysztof Rzadca; Beata Strack; Pawe\l{} Stradomski; Bart\l{}omiej Wo\l{}owiec; Michal Zasadzinski; |
| 61 | VPIFO: Virtualized Packet Scheduler for Programmable Hierarchical Scheduling in High-Speed Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: However, hierarchical scheduling required in Multi-Tenant Data Centers (MTDCs) remains non-programmable. Dynamic and diverse hierarchical scheduling algorithms necessitate alterations in both the number of PIFO queues and their connection topology, posing a significant challenge to support them on fixed hardware.In this paper, we introduce the virtualized PIFO (vPIFO) system, a hardware virtualization solution for programmable hierarchical packet scheduling in MTDCs. |
Zhiyu Zhang; Shili Chen; Ruyi Yao; Ruoshi Sun; Hao Mei; Hao Wang; Zixuan Chen; Gaojian Fang; Yibo Fan; Wanxin Shi; Sen Liu; Yang Xu; |
| 62 | Efficient Policy-Rich Rate Enforcement with Phantom Queues Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Venues Related Experts View Highlight: We present our system BC-PQP, which augments a policer with (i) multiple phantom queues that simulate buffer occupancy using counters and enable rich policy enforcement, and (ii) a novel burst-control mechanism that enables auto-configuration of the queues for correct rate enforcement. |
Ammar Tahir; Prateesh Goyal; Ilias Marinos; Mike Evans; Radhika Mittal; |