NPI Newsletter - July 2020

Welcome to the NPI Newsletter!

This newsletter describes recent and upcoming innovations, results, and events by NPI faculty, students, and industry sponsors.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM OUR DIRECTORS

This year has been quite a bit different from what we had imagined. Because of Covid-19, NPI faculty and students have had to shift to remote work, but we are continuing to conduct research and organize virtual events, such as our monthly seminar series. We look forward to gathering with all of our members when it is safe to do so.

We also wanted to state that we stand united with our Black colleagues. As a first step, we have created additional remote internships for Black students this summer. We have also committed time and resources to the SoNIC workshop, led by Professor Hakim Weatherspoon at Cornell, which seeks to grow the pipeline of Black PhD students in networking. We will continue to proactively work to fight racism in our respective institutions and would welcome input from NPI members on effective ways to do this. We look forward to hearing from you, and working together in the months and years ahead, to make the networking community stronger and more inclusive.

NPI NEWS

PRINCETON POSTDOC NAMED ONE OF N2WOMEN RISING STARS OF 2020

On June 23rd, International Women in Engineering Day, N2Women announced their annual list of Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications.

Congratulations to Shir Landau Feibish on being named one of the N2Women Rising Stars of 2020!

Shir is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science department at Princeton University under NPI Co-Director, Jennifer Rexford.

More information on each of the 10 selected Rising Stars of 2020 will soon be available on the N2Women website: http://n2women.comsoc.org/.

NPI AT UPCOMING CONFERENCES

SIGCOMM ‘20 August 10-14, 2020 - Virtual Conference

These papers will be featured during the NPI July webinar SIGCOMM preview

• “A Public Option for the Core.” Yotam Harchol, Dirk Bergemann, Nick Feamster, Eric Friedman, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Aurojit Panda, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael Schapira, Scott Shenker. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “BeauCoup: Answering Many Network Traffic Queries, One Memory Update at a Time.” Xiaoqi Chen, Shir Landau-Feibish, Mark Braverman, Jennifer Rexford. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “Composing Dataplane Programs with μP4.” Hardik Soni, Myriana Rifai, Praveen Kumar, Ryan Doenges, Nate Foster,. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “Lyra: A Cross-Platform Language and Compiler for Data Plane Programming on Heterogeneous ASICs.” Jiaqi Gao, Ennan Zhai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Rui Miao, Yu Zhou, Bingchuan Tian, Chen Sun, Dennis Cai, Ming Zhang, Minlan Yu. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “Mantis: Reactive Programmable Switches.” Liangcheng Yu, John Sonchack, Vincent Liu. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “Microscope: Queue-based Performance Diagnosis for Network Functions.” Junzhi Gong, Yuliang Li, Bilal Anwer, Aman Shaikh, Minlan Yu. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “NetLock: Fast, Centralized Lock Management Using Programmable Switches.” Zhuolong Yu, Yiwen Zhang, Vladimir Braverman, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Xin Jin. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “PINT: Probabilistic In-band Network Telemetry.” Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Satyamangalam Ramanathan, Yuliang Li, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu, Michael Mitzenmacher. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “Switch Code Generation using Program Synthesis.” Xiangyu Gao, Taegyun Kim, Michael Dean Wong, Divya Raghunathan, Aatish Kishan Varma, Pravein Govindan Kannan, Anirudh Sivaraman, Srinivas Narayana. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
• “[operational] Scouts: Improving the Diagnosis Process Through Domain-customized Incident Routing.” Jiaqi Gao, Nofel Yaseen, Robert MacDavid, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Vincent Liu, Ricardo Bianchini, Ramaswamy Aditya, Xiahoang Wang, Henry Lee, David Maltz, Minlan Yu, Behnaz Arzani. August 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.

UPCOMING EVENTS

The upcoming NPI July webinar will be an opportunity to provide our community with a preview of some of the NPI papers you will see at SIGCOMM ’20.

We will be holding two sessions to highlight some of these papers on Thursday, July 23rd and Thursday, July 30th.

Thursday, July 23rd 2:30pm-4:00pm ET

• 2:30pm – 3:00pm ET “Lyra: A Cross-Platform Language and Compiler for Data Plane Programming on Heterogeneous ASICs”
• 3:00pm-3:30pm ET “PINT: Probabilistic In-band Network Telemetry”
• 3:30pm-4:00pm ET “Composing Dataplane Programs with μP4”

Thursday, July 30th 2:30pm-4:00pm ET

• 2:30pm – 3:00pm ET “Switch Code Generation using Program Synthesis”
• 3:00pm-3:30pm ET “BeauCoup: Answering Many Network Traffic Queries, One Memory Update at a Time”
• 3:30pm-4:00pm ET “NetLock: Fast, Centralized Lock Management Using Programmable Switches”

Join Zoom Meeting: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/93253769216?pwd=VkFrT0hXb3Y0MzJTUkV4dnA0OWQydz09

• Meeting ID: 932 5376 9216
• Password: 842345

Click here to add this event to your calendar today!

PAST EVENTS

NPI Monthly Webinars

• May 2020 Webinar: “Princeton P4 Campus: Building and Running Novel Campus Network Applications”, Hyojoon Kim (Princeton University)
• June 2020 Webinar: “Cheetah: Accelerating Database Queries with Switch Pruning”, Syed Muhammad Ahmad Tirmazi (Harvard University)

Please visit our website for recordings of all past webinars!

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