Program

Technion Computer Engineering Conference 2012

 

 Networking, Cloud and Beyond

Organizers & Chairpersons: Ariel Orda, Danny Raz, Technion

Wednesday, June 6

13:00-13:30 Gathering & Registration
13:30-14:00
Opening Session
Peretz Lavie (Technion President) – Greetings
Assaf Schuster (TCE, Head) – TCE Perspective
Ariel Orda (EE, Technion) – Overview
14:00-14:40
Software-Driven Data Centers
Raghu Raghuram (EVP Cloud platform, VMWare)
14:40-15:20
The Interconnect is the Cloud
Eyal Waldman (CEO & President, Mellanox Technologies)
15:20-16:00
A Gentle Introduction to Software-Defined Networking
Scott Shenker (University of California at Berkeley, Nicira co-founder)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:10
Leveraging Mobile and Cloud Technologies for Scalable Personalized Health
Deborah Estrin (UCLA)
17:10-18:30
Panel – The Cloud Era: Revolution or Evolution?
Moderator: Danny Raz (CS, Technion)
Participants: Avi Mendelson (Microsoft), Scott Shenker (Berkeley), Radu Sion (Stony Brook), Dor Skuler (Alcatel Lucent), Eyal Waldman (Mellanox)
18:30 Cocktail
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, June 7

08:15-08:50 Coffee & Registration
08:50-09:00
Opening Remarks
Gadi Singer (VP, GM Israel Development Centers, Intel)
09:00-09:40
The Coming Decade of System Networking Discontinuities
Renato Recio (IBM Fellow & System Networking CTO)
09:40-10:10
Network Science for Communication Networks
Yuval Shavitt (EE, Tel-Aviv University)
10:10-10:50
Opportunity is the Mother of Invention – How Delay Tolerant Networking by way of Social Networking Necessitated Data Centric Networking
Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University, UK)
10:50-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-11:55
How Not to Leave Any Money on the Table
David Tse (University of California at Berkeley)
11:55-12:25
OFDMA Scheduling Algorithms for the 4G Wireless Networks and Beyond
Reuven Cohen (CS, Technion)
12:25-13:05
 Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
Izhak Rubin (UCLA)
13:05-14:15
Poster Session Organizer: Isaac Keslassy (EE Technion)
14:15-14:25
Opening Remarks
Avi Mendelson (Microsoft R&D, Israel)
14:25-15:05
Innovating in a Networked World
Roch Guerin (University of Pennsylvania)
15:05-15:35
Surprises in Routers
Isaac Keslassy (EE, Technion)
15:35-16:15
From VPNs to Cloud Services, an Integrated Approach
Daniel Kofman (CTO Rad Data Communications, Telecom ParisTech)
16:15-16:40
Coffee Break
16:40-17:20
Frenetic: A Programming Language for Software Defined Networks
Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)
17:20-17:50
Multicore Packet Scattering to Disentangle Performance Bottlenecks
Yehuda Afek (CS, Tel-Aviv University)
17:50-18:30
Network Multilayer SDN
Stefano Previdi (Cisco Systems)
18:30-18:40
Concluding Remarks
Program Chairs
18:40 Cocktail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Mon – Wed, June 4-6

The SYSTOR 12 Conference at IBM Research Lab in Haifa