Sunday, May 26
Sunday, May 26 9:00 – 10:30
Tutorial 1: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Network Security Management
With the advancement in computing and communication technologies, the IT infrastructure of today enjoys exponential growth, with more users and devices becoming increasingly connected and supporting mobility. The market leaders estimate around 25 billion more devices will be added to the global network by 2020, which will add new services and traffic to the network. The complexity of network architecture and the growing threat environment makes it challenging for service providers and network administrators to efficiently manage the network resources, whilst maintaining its security. Recently, industry and academic researchers have shown keen interest in studying applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence being applied to network management. Network security management tools provide administrators the global view of numerous endpoints, firewalls and security controls. This helps administrators to analyze network security requirements, maintain, configure, automate and deploy security solutions across the network. The data produced at each node provides Intel to various network transactions. This provides an opportunity to translate this information into intelligence that can be used to mine the security related information. In addition, this information can be used to build an intelligent system with the ability to detect vulnerabilities, run security analysis, automate firewall configurations, learning new symptoms and develop predictive security controls. In this tutorial, we will highlight the potential applications of AI in network security management, discuss current trends and future research prospects along with demonstration of tools and techniques.
Sunday, May 26 11:00 – 12:30
Tutorial 2: 5G driven by AI
5G is deployed widely in the word. In this tutorial, 5G is introduced from the requirements, the architecture, the primary procedures and the trial progress. Based on the current status of 5G, AI-driven idea is introduced. The target of 5G is ‘Information a Finger Away, Everything in Touch ‘. 5G system should be a system with low cost, high spectrum efficiency, low power assumption. The architecture of RAN is composed of integrated and distributed architecture which is defined by 3GPP. The brief of 5G should be introduced in this tutorial. Based on the basic architecture of 5G, O-RAN, AI-driven RAN architecture facing the diverse traffic models and huge amount of UEs, is introduced with Open and Smart. O-RAN alliance is an international organization composing of EC, TSC and eight work groups. This tutorial will provide a clear picture of O-RAN from the view of the structure, the development history, and the technical groups. AS the evolution of RAN architecture, O-RAN gives a good way to take native AI in RAN.
Sunday, May 26 14:00 – 15:30
Tutorial 3: How to integrate all wireless technologies to stop SMART HOME going stupid
Nowadays, smart phone/watch/mobile devices have changed people’s life. More smart devices are coming into your home, living room, dining room, bed room and even bath room . However, do we feel our life getting “Smarter” ? Or we still suffer in complicated pairing, multi-steps connection and non-friendly settings…Smartphone is equipped with more and more wireless technologies, such as WiFi, BT, GPS, NFC; Cellular like LTE even 5GNR, mm Wave..?? More Antennas, more RF components are squeezed into a small form factor; These Wireless never talk, but interfere to each other (ex:Side lobe, Intermodulation, De-sense, …). From standard perspective, Cellular discussed in 3GPP, Bluetooth in SIG, NFC in NFC forum, WiFi in IEEE. These wireless technologies never communicate under the same language and never share information to each other. However, they are stay in one device, one body… Mobile game as an example, can we take advantage that Cellular and WiFi cooperate to achieve shorter latency performance ? Or by aggregate dual bandwidths to accomplish higher throughput supporting cloud game streaming ? Huawei is committed to re-define a high-quality, easy-to-use, secure and digital life for consumers, also name as “Full-Scene-Solution”. At present, Huawei actively invests and participates in innovation research of fusion wireless technology and its corresponding use cases, including mobile phones, wearable devices, audio accessories, smart home and other Home Electronic. We are devoted to work with all partners to ensure an future easy-smart home.
Sunday, May 26 16:00 – 17:30
Tutorial 4: AI/ML in Future Wireless Communications
The AI/ML is a rapidly growing phenomenon penetrating almost every industry area and people’s daily life. The result of the penetration shows profound changes in productivity gain. AI/ML has demonstrated a significant impact on the communication industry in recent years. Preliminary AI/ML research and implementation such as a cross-layer wireless network Root Cause Analysis (RCA) use case showing the extract/apply effective rules increasing up to 80%, time deploying new rules reduced up to 95%, and the number of alarms reduced up to 70%. However, the current AI/ML implementation for wireless networking is only the beginning. Many areas are still in its infancy stage. The AI/ML could benefit network slicing orchestration based on big data in 4/5G virtualization. Using the control plane data with deep leaning/training, the trained model can be used to inferring a new data model for smart SDN controller and smart network O&M which meet the dynamic network changing conditions. The introduction of AI/ML in wireless communication PHY and MAC layers with deep leaning and inferring method show many promises. Further studies including solid theoretical backing and practical implementation architecture will bring in the production level maturity.
Monday, May 27
Monday, May 27 9:25 – 9:40
Opening session: Welcome from the Chairs
Monday, May 27 9:40 – 10:25
Keynote 1: Optical Technologies for Hyper-Scale Cloud Datacenters
Hyper-scale cloud datacenters, where most of the Internet services such as e-commerce, video streaming and social networking are running, have become the fundamental infrastructure for cloud computing and big data services. The fast-growing demand for computing and storage power, which is provided by massive numbers of powerful servers connected together in data centers, requires scalable and efficient datacenter networks. Most of the interconnects in today’s hyper-scale datacenter networks, including both short-reach and long-reach interconnects, use optical technologies. The demand for large volume, fast traffic growth and short technology life cycle optical interconnect technologies present a big challenge for optical communication industry. In this talk, we will present requirements and challenges of optical technologies for hyper-scale datacenters, including both short-reach optical interconnects and long-reach optical transport technologies. Potential solutions to solve these challenges are discussed.
Monday, May 27 10:45 – 12:15
Session 1: Routing for Intra- and inter-datacenter and mobile edge computing
- 10:45 A Preliminary Model for Optimal Load Distribution in Heterogeneous Smart Environments
- 11:03 Design of an SnF Scheduling Method for Bulk Data Transfers over Inter-Datacenter WANs
- 11:21 Joint Energy and Spectrum Efficient Virtual Optical Network Embedding in EONs
- 11:39 A Power-Aware Routing Algorithm in Fat-tree Date Center Networks
- 11:57 Machine Intelligence in Supervising Bandwidth Allocation for Low-latency Communications
Monday, May 27 13:30 – 15:00
Session 2: Virtual network function management and placement
- 13:30 Optimization of Backup Resource Assignment for Middleboxes
- 13:48 Service Function Chaining and Embedding with Spanning Closed Walk
- 14:06 Optimization of Network Service Scheduling with Resource Sharing and Preemption
- 14:24 Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing Model for Multicast Service Chaining Based on Merging Multiple Service Paths
- 14:42 Dynamic Network Slicing Based on Tidal Traffic Patterns in Metro-Core Optical Networks
Monday, May 27 15:20 – 16:50
Workshop 1: Fog computing and caching for the Future networks
- 15:20 Fast QR Code Detection Based on BING and AdaBoost-SVM
- 15:38 Path Loss Measurement and Modeling for Industrial Environment
- 15:56 Cross-Polarized Radio Propagation Measurement and Modelling in Temporal Domain for Factory Workshop Scenario
- 16:14 Study on Improved Singular Value Decomposition De-noising Method Applied to UAV Flight Parameter Data
- 16:32 Design and Validation of a Meter Band Rate in OpenFlow and OpenDaylight for Optimising QoS
Tuesday, May 28
Tuesday, May 28 8:40 – 9:25
Keynote 2: Future switching requirements for long haul and metro networks
Optical networks serve as the cornerstone of our connected society, enabling the information superhighway that delivers the Internet all across the globe. As the number of users and data services increase, the network technology and architecture must adapt for it to continue to efficiently and economically support the larger traffic loads. Optical communication systems, have demonstrated equivalent per fiber capacity scaling over the last decades to match traffic load and today’s commercial long-haul systems can carry 50Tb/s on a single fiber. However, we have now reached the limit of the capacity on a single fiber and it is anticipated that to continue to achieve the anticipated 40% pa growth rate in capacity it will require the use of many more parallel fibers. Driven by this change in fiber infrastructure and the larger transported capacity, the network switching elements and their functionality must also evolve.
Tuesday, May 28 10:45 – 12:15
Session 3: Network security and blockchain technlogies
- 10:45 Simple and Efficient Identification of Heavy Hitters Based on Bitcount
- 11:03 Buffer-Aided Relaying for Two-Hop Secure Communication with Limited Packet Lifetime
- 11:21 Blockchain-based Secure Digital Asset Exchange Scheme with QoS-aware Incentive Mechanism
- 11:39 Providing a Sliced, Secure, and Isolated Software Infrastructure of Virtual Functions Through Blockchain Technology
- 11:57 Privacy-Preserving Caching in ISP Networks
Tuesday, May 28 13:30 – 15:00
Session 4: High-performance switching architectures
- 13:30 Parallel Scheduling and Routing Algorithms for Large-scale High-speed Switching Systems
- 13:48 Wide-Sense Nonblocking Converting-Space-Converting Switching Node Architecture Under XsVarSLOT Algorithm
- 14:06 Packet Processing Architecture with Off-Chip LLC Using Interleaved 3D-Stacked DRAM
- 14:24 SAIL Based FIB Lookup in a Programmable Pipeline Based Linux Router
- 14:42 Reducing Crossbar Costs in the Match-Action Pipeline
Tuesday, May 28 15:20 – 16:35
Workshop 2: Cooperative Techniques for Future Wireless Communications
- 15:20 Cognitive Wireless Network Resource Allocation Strategy Based on Effective Capacity
- 15:38 Energy-efficiency Random Network Coding Scheduling Based on Kalman Prediction Under Mobile Network
- 15:56 Deep Neural Network Based Channel Allocation for Interference-Limited Wirelss Networks
- 16:14 Sum-Rate Maximization for D2D and Cellular Hybrid Networks Enhanced by NOMA
Wednesday, May 29
Wednesday, May 29 8:40 – 9:25
Keynote 3: Network Hardware and Software Co-Design for Data Centers
Cloud computing, which is very successful both technically and commercially, has been evolving from enterprise data centers to warehouse-scale data centers. Distributed computing applications are the major driver of the cloud evolution. Distributed systems have existed in a loosely-coupled, CPU-centric style for several decades, but their performance improvements are now declining, due to the slowing of Moore’s law, explosive data growth, and unprecedented computational demands. Increasingly, near-storage compute and in-network compute are becoming the way forward, leveraging specialized network hardware and software to provide reliable, predictable, efficient and high-performance infrastructure. The talk will cover recent Xilinx research and development on data center hardware and software co-design from a networking perspective. And it will also discuss further directions that should be investigated next.
Wednesday, May 29 9:25 – 10:40
Session 5: Advanced software-defined networking
- 9:25 Exploiting Reconfigurable Computing in 5G: a Case Study of Latency Critical Function
- 9:43 Intelligence Enabled SDN Fault Localization via Programmable In-band Network Telemetry
- 10:01 Minimizing Network Resources Consumed for Link Latency Measurements in SDNs
- 10:19 Leveraging Domino to Implement RCP in a Stateful Programmable Pipeline
Wednesday, May 29 11:00 – 12:15
Session 6: Smart wireless networking
- 11:00 A Reputation Management Scheme for Identifying Malicious Nodes in VANET
- 11:18 Energy Efficient Resource Allocation of Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Hardware Impairments
- 11:36 Towards Low-Delay Body Area Networks:An Investigation on the Hybrid MAC of SmartBAN and IEEE 802.15.6 Wireless Body Area Network
- 11:54 Energy Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithm in Multi-Carrier NOMA Systems
Wednesday, May 29 13:30 – 14:45
Session 7: Flow routing and monitoring
- 13:30 Multicast-Aware Service Function Tree Embedding
- 13:48 Evaluating the Control and Management Traffic in OpenStack Cloud with SDN
- 14:06 Longest Prefix Matching with Pruning
- 14:24 CFlam: Cost-effective Flow Latency Monitoring
Wednesday, May 29 15:00 – 16:15
Workshop 3: Research Advancements in Localization for the Internet of Things
- 15:00 A Novel Single Anchor Localization Mechanism Employing Target Movement
- 15:18 Coverage Algorithm of K-nearest Neighbor Based on Communication Beacon in Wireless Mobile Sensor Network
- 15:36 Trajectory Tracking for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Based on Model-Free Predictive Control
- 15:54 Spatio-temporal Human Mobility Prediction Based on Trajectory Data Mining for Resource Management in Mobile Communication Networks
Wednesday, May 29 16:15 – 16:30
Closing session: Conference wrap up