Workshops
Workshop on Optical Networks (2018)
Saturday, March 17, 2018, 9:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.
Venue: 1131, Kemper Hall (Map)
Chair
- Biswanath Mukherjee, mukherje AT cs DOT ucdavis DOT edu
Co-chair
- Massimo Tornatore,
tornator AT elet DOT polimi DOT it
Participants
- Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, USA
- Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Zuqing Zhu, School of Information Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, P. R. China
- Researchers from UC Davis
People who are interested in participating/speaking at the workshop, please contact Massimo Tornatore, tornator AT elet DOT polimi DOT it
Agenda
| Timeslot | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 09:35 am - 10:05 am | Massimo Tornatore | Machine Learning for BER Estimation and Soft-Failure Mode Identification in Optical Transport Networks |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Abhishek Gupta | A Scalable Approach for Service Chain (SC) Mapping with Multiple SC Instances in a Wide Area Network (WAN) |
| 10:25 am - 10:45 am | Rafael Lourenco | Robust Control Plane for Transport Software Defined Networks |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Zuqing Zhu | AI-Assisted Multi-Layer Restoration in a Software-Defined IP-over-EON |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 am | Wei Lu | Knowledge-Defined Network Orchestration in a Hybrid Optical/Electrical Data Center Network |
| 12:00 am - 12:20 pm | Wei Wang | Coordinating Multi-access Edge Computing with Mobile Fronthaul for Optimizing 5G End-to-End Latency |
| 12:20 pm - 12:50 pm | Youngseok Lee | Measurement of mobile app performance |
| 12:50 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 01:30 pm - 01:50 pm | Tanjila Ahmed | Dynamic Path Computing Engine for a Elastic Optical Network |
| 01:50 pm - 02:10 pm | Sabidur Rehman | Understanding application usage and user behavior patterns for MEC Resource Management |
| 02:10 pm - 02:30 pm | Yu Wu | Content Fragmentation: A New Inter-Data Center Content Redundancy Scheme to Save Energy in Optical Cloud Networks |
| 02:30 pm - 02:50 pm | Lin Wang | Priority-aware Coflow Placement and scheduling in Datacenters |
| 02:50 pm - 03:10 pm | Tao Gao | A shared segment protection approach for distributed sub-tree multicasting scheme in elastic optical datacenter networks |
| 03:10 pm - 03:30 pm | Zhizhen Zhong | Optical Time Slice Switching (OTSS): A transparent fine-grained optical network architecture (for Data Centers) |
Presentations are 25 minutes each, followed by 5 minutes for questions.
Housing
- A list of hotels can be found at Daviswiki. Special rates are provided.
- The nearest hotels to campus are Aggie Inn ($144), Best Western University Lodge ($125) and Econo Lodge ($72). (Rates are per room per day, and can slighly vary)
Sightseeing
Davis is very strategically located and has easy access to some of the best travel destinations in the United States.
Networks Lab organized trip to California's wine country
- Wine Tasting: As two of the world's most famous wine country destinations, Napa Valley and Sonoma County provide an opportunity to visit premier wineries, stately redwoods, magnificent coastlines, and plenty of shopping. If there is enough interest, a winery tour including wine tasting will be organized by the workshop organizers. Please contact Massimo Tornatore, tornator AT elet DOT polimi DOT it, if you are interested.
Other nearby attractions
- Sacramento - California's capital has a host of cultural attractions, exquisite cuisines, rich heritage (Sacramento Old Town), seats of the California Government, and other popular destinations.
- Lake Tahoe, Reno and High Sierra - Some of the most popular travel destinations in North America with breathtaking landscapes, snow-capped peaks, crystal clear blue lakes, and high desert valleys. The region provides ample opportunities for activities such as skiing, snowboarding, hiking, etc. in some of the best ski resorts in the country, as well some of the best casinos.
Photos from Previous Years
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