DIMACS Working Group on Abstractions for Network Services, Architecture, and Implementation

May 21 - 23, 2012
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, jrex at CS.Princeton.edu

Pamela Zave, AT&T Research, pamela at research.att.com

Workshop Program:

Tentative Schedule

Assigned speakers will survey the needs, issues, and prior work relevant to specific areas of discussion.

Monday, May 21, 2012

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch and Registration

 1:00 -  1:05  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Rebecca Wright, DIMACS Director

 1:05 -  3:00  Session on Applications (David Clark, David Rosenblum, discussion)

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:30  Session on Data-Plane Abstractions (Pamela Zave)

 4:30 -  5:30  Why abstractions? (discussion)

 6:00          Dinner at DIMACS

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

 8:15 -  9:00  Breakfast

 9:00 - 11:00  Session on Software-Defined Networks (Scott Shenker, Nate Foster, discussion)

11:00 - 11:30  Break

11:30 - 12:30  Talks on Transport, Consistency (Bryan Ford, S. Keshav)

12:30 -  1:30  Lunch
 
 1:30 -  2:30  Talks on Middleboxes, Failure Detection (Sekar, Walfish)
 
 2:30 -  3:00  Break
 
 3:00 -  5:30  What abstractions are needed? (discussion)

 6:30          Dinner at local restaurant

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

 8:15 -  9:00  Breakfast

 9:00 - 11:00  Session on Routing (Tim Griffin, Brighten Godfrey, discussion)

11:00 - 11:30  Break

11:30 -  1:00  How can research be encouraged? (discussion and lunch)

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