IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service
4-6 June 2018 – Banff, Alberta, Canada

Technical Program

The full technical program for the 2.5-day symposium is provided here. All events take place in Kinnear Centre (KC) 303 at The Banff Centre, unless noted otherwise.

The conference registration check-in desk will be open on Sunday June 3 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm in KC 303, as well as each morning of the conference starting at 7:30am. A light continental breakfast will be provided in KC 303 from 7:30am to 8:30am on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. All conference lunches are in Vistas Dining Room. Accommodation check-in for the Banff Centre can be done either at Lloyd Hall (LH) or at the Professional Development Centre (PDC).

Note for presenters:
Full paper talks should be 18 minutes long plus 2 minutes for questions (total of 20 minutes). Short paper talks should be 9 minutes long plus 2 minutes for questions (total of 11 minutes). Poster paper presenters should be at their posters Tuesday 9:30am to 10:30am, with setup at 8:00am on Tuesday and removal by 5:00pm on Tuesday.

Monday, June 4, 2018

Welcome from General Chair and TPC Co-Chairs (8:45am-9:00am) KC 303

Welcome from General Chair

Prof. Carey Williamson  (University of Calgary)

Welcome from Program Chair

Prof. Chuan Wu (University of Hongkong) and Prof. Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary)

Keynote Talk 1 (9:00am-10:00am)

Measurement and Experimentation in a Complex World

Prof. Sonia Fahmy  (Purdue University)

Coffee Break (10:00am-10:30am)

 

Full papers session 1: SDN/NFV (10:30am-12:10pm)

Session Chair: Ruiting Zhou (Wuhan University / University of Calgary)

  • “Software-Defined Label Switching: Scalable Per-flow Control in SDN”
    Nanyang Huang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Qing Li (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Dong Lin (Huawei Technologies Ltd Co., Hong Kong); Xiaowen Li and Gengbiao Shen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yong Jiang (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “How would you like your packets delivered? An SDN-enabled open platform for QoS routing”
    Chenfei Gao (AT&T Labs – Research, USA); Weiyi Zhang (AT&T Research, USA); Vahid Rajabian-Schwart and Jian Tang (Syracuse University, USA); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)
  • “SDNKeeper: Lightweight Resource Protection and Management System for SDN-based Cloud”
    Xue Leng (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Kaiyu Hou (Northwestern University, USA); Yan Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China & Northwestern University, USA); Kai Bu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Libin Song (Northwestern University, USA)
  • “NetCP: Consistent, Non-interruptive and Efficient Checkpointing and Rollback of SDN”
    Ye Yu (University of Kentucky, USA); Ying Zhang (Facebook, USA); Wenfei Wu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chen Qian (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
  • “OFM: Optimized Flow Migration for NFV Elasticity Control”
    Chen Sun, Jun Bi, Zili Meng and Xiao Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Hongxin Hu (Clemson University, USA)

Lunch (12:10pm-1:30pm) Vistas Dining Room

 

Full papers session 2: Application QoS (1:30pm-3:10pm)

Session Chair: Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary)

  • “Reducing Web Latency through Dynamically Setting TCP Initial Window with Reinforcement Learning”
    Xiaohui Nie and Youjian Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Guo Chen (Hunan University, P.R. China); Dan Pei and Kaixin Sui (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jiyang Zhang (Baidu, P.R. China)
  • “Slow but Steady: Cap-based Client-Network Interaction for Improved Streaming Experience”
    Vengatanathan Krishnamoorthi and Niklas Carlsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Emir Halepovic (AT&T Labs – Research, USA)
  • “On Maximizing QoE in AVC-Based HTTP Adaptive Streaming: An SDN Approach”
    Alireza Erfanian (Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Iran); Farzad Tashtarian (Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, Iran); Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee Moghamddam (Ferdowsi University of Mashad, Iran)
  • “Follow Me at the Edge: Mobility-Aware Dynamic Service Placement for Mobile Edge Computing”
    Tao Ouyang, Zhi Zhou and Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China)
  • “Throughput, Coverage and Scalability of LoRa LPWAN for Internet of Things”
    Edward Rochester, Asif Muhammad Yousuf, Majid Ghaderi and Behnam Ousat (University of Calgary, Canada)

Coffee Break (3:10pm-3:30pm)

 

Short papers session 1 (3:30pm-5:00pm)

Session Chair: Majid Ghaderi  (University of Calgary)

  • “Subscriber-Driven Cloud Interference Mitigation for Network Services”
    Joydeep Mukherjee and Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary, Canada)
  • “Deep and Broad Learning based Detection of Android Malware via Network Traffic”
    Shanshan Wang and Zhenxiang Chen (University of Jinan, P.R. China); Qiben Yan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Ke Ji, Lin Wang and Bo Yang (University of Jinan, P.R. China); Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy)
  • “Device-Agnostic Log Anomaly Classification with Partial Labels”
    Weibin Meng and Ying Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Shenglin Zhang (Nankai University, P.R. China); Dan Pei (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Hui Dong (Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Lei Song (Baidu, Inc, P.R. China); Xulong Luo (Baidu, P.R. China)
  • “Fault injection framework for assessing fault containment of TTEthernet against babbling idiot failure”
    Daniel Onwuchekwa and Roman Obermaisser (University of Siegen, Germany)
  • “Authentication of Multi-dimensional Top-K Query on Untrusted Server”
    Xiaoyu Zhu (Central South University, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA); Wei Chang (Saint Joseph’s University, USA); Guojun Wang (Guangzhou University, P.R. China); Qin Liu (Hunan University & Temple University, P.R. China)
  • “Toward Accurate Inference of Web Activities from Passive DNS Data”
    Jingxiu Su (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Computing Technology, P.R. China); Zhenyu Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Stephane Grumbach (INRIA, P.R. China); Kavé Salamatian (LISTIC PolyTech, Université de Savoie Chambery Annecy, France); Chunjing Han (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Gaogang Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
  • “Scalable Ground-Truth Annotation for Video QoE Modeling in Enterprise WiFi”
    Mallesham Dasari (Stony Brook University, USA); Shruti Sanadhya (Facebook, USA); Christina Vlachou (Hewlett Packard Labs, USA); Samir R. Das (Stony Brook University, USA); Kyu-Han Kim (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA)
  • “An Online Approximate Stream Processing Framework with Customized Error Control”
    Yuan Liu, Xiaohui Wei, Xingwang Wang and Shang Gao (Jilin University, P.R. China)

Reception (7:00pm-9:00pm) KC 301

 

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Keynote Talk 2 (8:30am-9:30am)

Attributing Pictures to Smartphones via Camera Fingerprinting

Prof. Kui Ren (University at Buffalo, State University of New York & Zhejiang University)

Posters (9:30am-10:00am)

  • “Highlight-aware Content Placement in Crowdsourced Livecast Services”
    Cong Zhang and Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Haitian Pang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Fangxin Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • “Data Quality Aware Task Allocation Under A Feasible Budget in Mobile Crowdsensing”
    Xiaohui Wei, Yongfang Wang, Shang Gao and Tao Yang (Jilin University, P.R. China)
  • “Sensing Power Spectrum Density of True Ultrasounds on Mobile Devices”
    Yuchi Chen (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jiangchuan Liu and Fangxin Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Haitian Pang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “Practical Key Tag Monitoring in RFID Systems”
    Jihong Yu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Lin Chen (The University of Paris-Sud, France); Fangxin Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Haitian Pang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “Improving TRILL Mesh Network’s Throughput Using Smart NICs”
    Danilo Cerovic (Université Pierre et Marie Curie & Gandi SAS, France); Valentin Del Piccolo, Ahmed Amamou and Kamel Haddadou (GANDI SAS, France)
  • “Edge Computing Empowered Generative Adversarial Networks for Realtime Road Sensing”
    Yiting He (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Xiaoyi Fan (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Feng Wang (The University of Mississippi, USA); Fangxin Wang and Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • “Improved Adam Optimizer for Deep Neural Networks”
    Zijun Zhang (University of Calgary, Canada)
  • “An Online Placement Scheme for VNF Chains in Geo-Distributed Clouds”
    Ruiting Zhou (Wuhan University & University of Calgary, Canada)
  • “Improving Performance of Multi-source content delivery”
    Xi Chen and Zhenhua Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhenyu Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Tianyin Xu (UC San Diego, USA); Ennan Zhai (Yale University, USA); Yao Liu (SUNY Binghamton, USA); Minghao Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
  • “Optimal Embedding of Hybrid Service Function Chain with DAG Abstraction”
    Xu Lin (Xidian University, P.R. China); Deke Guo (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Yulong Shen (Xidian University, P.R. China); Guoming Tang (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Bangbang Ren (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China)
  • “Energy-Aware Allocation of Approximate Query Processing over Data Streams with Error Guarantee”
    Yuan Liu, Xiaohui Wei, Xingwang Wang and Shang Gao (Jilin University, P.R. China)
  • “Demand-Aware Distributed Adaptive In-situ Resource Provisioning for Regional IoT Services”
    Yugo Nakamura, Teruhiro Mizumoto and Hirohiko Suwa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yutaka Arakawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology & NAIST, Japan); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan); Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • “SWAM: SDN-based Wi-Fi Small Cells with Joint Access-Backhaul and Multi-Tenant Capabilities”
    Matteo Grandi (i2CAT Foundation, Spain); Daniel Camps (i2CAT, Spain); August Betzler, Joan Josep Aleixendri and Miguel Catalan-Cid (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
  • “Predicting Outages in Radio Networks with Alarm Data”
    Dan Kushnir (Nokia Bell labs, USA); Zulfiquar Sayeed (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Huseyin Uzunalioglu (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Gautam Gohil (Nokia, India)

Coffee Break (10:00am-10:30am)

 

Full papers session 3: Networking QoS (10:30am-12:10pm)

Session Chair: Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)

  • “VCN: Versatile Clos-type Networks for Traffic Locality in Data Centers”
    Jun Duan and Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)
  • “A Data Center Interconnects Calculus”
    Hao Wang (GWDG & University of Göttingen, Germany); Haoyun Shen (GWDG / University of Göttingen, Germany); Philipp Wieder (GWDG, Germany); Ramin Yahyapour (GWDG – University Göttingen, Germany)
  • “Flow-level Traffic Engineering in Conventional Networks with Hop-by-Hop Routing”
    Nan Geng, Yuan Yang and Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “A Hybrid Approach to Scalable Name Prefix Lookup”
    Kun Huang and Zhaohua Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
  • “Scheduling Coflows with Incomplete Information”
    Tong Zhang, Fengyuan Ren, Ran Shu and Bo Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Lunch (12:10pm-1:30pm) Vistas Dining Room

 

Full papers session 4: Traffic Analysis (1:30pm-3:10pm)

Session Chair: Vahid Rajabian-Schwart (Syracuse University)

  • “Robust and Rapid Clustering of KPIs for Large-Scale Anomaly Detection”
    Zhihan Li and Youjian Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Rong Liu (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Dan Pei (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “MaMPF: Encrypted Traffic Classification Based on Multi-Attribute Markov Probability Fingerprints”
    Chang Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zigang Cao (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Gang Xiong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Gaopeng Gou (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Siu Ming Yiu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Longtao He (CNCERT/CC, P.R. China)
  • “Byte Segment Neural Network for Network Traffic Classification”
    Rui Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xi Xiao (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Shiguang Ni, Haitao Zheng and Shutao Xia (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “Enabling Privacy-Preserving Header Matching for Outsourced Middleboxes”
    Yu Guo and Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xingliang Yuan (Monash University, Australia); Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  • “Enabling Efficient Source and Path Verification via Probabilistic Packet Marking”
    Bo Wu, Ke Xu and Qi Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhuotao Liu (Google Inc. & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Yih-Chun Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Martin J Reed (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Meng Shen (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Fan Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Coffee Break (3:10pm-3:30pm)

 

Short papers session 2 (3:30pm-5:00pm)

Session Chair: Chen Qian (UC Santa Cruz)

  • “OBMA: Minimizing Bitmap Data Structure with Fast and Uninterrupted Update Processing”
    Chuwen Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yong Feng (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Haoyu Song (Huawei Technologies, USA); Ying Wan, Wenquan Xu, Yilun Wang, Huichen Dai, Yang Li and Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “Towards a Fast Regular Expression Matching Method over Compressed Traffic”
    Xiuwen Sun, Hao Li, Xingxing Lu, Dan Zhao, Zheng Peng and Chengchen Hu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
  • “Improving Quality of Experience of Service-Chain Deployment for Multiple Users”
    I-Chih Wang (National Chiao Tung University & National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Charles H.-P. Wen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); H. Jonathan Chao (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA)
  • “Shaping Deadline Coflows to Accelerate Non-Deadline Coflows”
    Renhai Xu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Wenxin Li (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Keqiu Li and Xiaobo Zhou (Tianjin University, P.R. China)
  • “Providing VNF Services with Pipe &Hose Model Based Nonblocking SDN Networks”
    Yangming Zhao and Jingyuan Fan (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Huan Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Chunming Qiao (University at Buffalo, USA)
  • “Time-efficient RFID-based Stocktaking with a Coarse-grained Inventory List”
    Weiping Zhu, Xing Meng and Xiaolei Peng (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong); Michel Raynal (University of Rennes 1, France)
  • “A WiFi-Direct Based Local Communication System”
    Zijian Wang, Fuliang Li, Xingwei Wang, Tengfei Li and Tao Hong (Northeastern University, P.R. China)
  • “ALB: Adaptive Load Balancing Based on Accurate Congestion Feedback for Asymmetric Topologies”
    Qingyu Shi (HuaZhong University of Science And Technology, P.R. China); Fang Wang (Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, P.R. China); Dan Feng and Weibin Xie (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Banquet (7:00pm-9:00pm) KC 303

 

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Full papers session 5 (8:30am-10:30am): Resource Scheduling

Session Chair: Shang Gao (Jilin University)

  • “Optimal Cloud Instance Acquisition via IaaS Cloud Brokerage with Volume Discount”
    Ning Wang and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
  • “Online Demand Response of GPU Cloud Computing with DVFS”
    Yu He (Wuhan University & University of Calgary, P.R. China); Lin Ma and Chuanhe Huang (Wuhan University, P.R. China)
  • “Ridesharing as a Service: Exploring Crowdsourced Connected Vehicle Information for Intelligent Package Delivery”
    Fangxin Wang and Yifei Zhu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Feng Wang (The University of Mississippi, USA); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • “An Efficient Online Market Mechanism for Resource Leasing in Cloud Radio Access Networks”
    Ruiting Zhou (Wuhan University & University of Calgary, Canada); Jianqun Cui (Huazhong Normal University, P.R. China)
  • “Collaborative Interactive Wireless Charging in a Cyclic Mobispace”
    Rui Zhang, Sheng Zhang and Zhuzhong Qian (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Mingjun Xiao (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA); Jidong Ge and Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
  • “Competitive Online Scheduling Algorithms with Applications in Deadline-Constrained EV Charging”
    Bahram Alinia (Institut Mines Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France); M. Sadegh Talebi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mohammad Hassan Hajiesmaili (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Ali Yekkehkhany (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)

Coffee Break (10:30am-11:00am)

 

Short papers session 3 (11:00am-12:40pm)

Session Chair: Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary)

  • “Completion Time Minimization in Multi-user Task Scheduling with Heterogeneous Processors and Budget Constraints”
    Sowndarya Sundar (University of Toronto, Canada); Jaya Prakash Varma Champati (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • “Improving Quality of Experience for Mobile Broadcasters in Personalized Live Video Streaming”
    Qingmei Ren, Yong Cui, Wenfei Wu and Changfeng Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yuchi Chen and Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Hongyi Huang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “Online Control of Cloud and Edge Resources Using Inaccurate Predictions”
    Lei Jiao (University of Oregon, USA); Antonia Tulino (Nokia Bell Labs, USA & University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Jaime Llorca (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Yue Jin (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Alessandra Sala (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Jun Li (University of Oregon, USA)
  • “ImgPricing: Everyone Can Earn Proper Rewards by Simply Taking Photos”
    Qinya Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Fan Wu and Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
  • “Toward Smart and Cooperative Edge Caching for 5G Networks: A Deep Learning Based Approach”
    Haitian Pang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Xiaoyi Fan (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Lifeng Sun (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
  • “Data Utility Maximization When Leveraging Crowdsensing in Machine Learning”
    Juan Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA); Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
  • “Anchor Selection for Localization in Large Indoor Venues”
    Omotayo Oshiga, Xiaowen Chu, Yiu-Wing Leung and Joseph Kee-Yin Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
  • “A Stackelberg Game Framework for Mobile Data Gathering in Leasing Residential Sensor Networks”
    Yiming Zeng (Stonybrook University, USA); Pengzhan Zhou, Ji Liu and Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)
  • “ProSC+: Profit-driven Online Participant Selection in Compressive Mobile Crowdsensing”
    Yueyue Chen, Deke Guo and Ming Xu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

Lunch (12:40pm-1:30pm) Vistas Dining Room