The 5th IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds 2018
(IEEE CNERT 2018) – An INFOCOM 2018 Workshop
Monday, 16 April 2018 ● 08:45 – 18:30 ● Room: Tapa 1
Experimentation has played a very important role in advancing computer and networking research. Although analysis and simulation are important tools in studying the behavior of data traffic and analyzing new protocols and algorithms, it is essential that new research ideas be validated on real systems. To facilitate researchers, a variety of testbeds have been built in academia, national laboratories and industry. Example testbeds include GENI, PlanetLab, Emulab, ORBIT, BGP-Mux, Amazon, FIRE testbeds, etc. This workshop will bring together researchers and technical experts to share experiences and advance the state of the art in experimental research in areas such as networking, distributed systems and cloud computing.
The workshop will have a strong experimental component. Authors will be strongly encouraged to include live demonstrations with their presentations. In addition to a best paper award, we will grant an award to the best demo that exemplifies the principles of experiment repeatability and reproducibility on real systems with running code.
Steering Commitee
- Piet Demeester, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium
- Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA
- Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA (Chair)
- Kaiqi Xiong, University of South Florida, USAMin Song, Michigan Tech, USA
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Eric Keller, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
- Ilenia Tinnirello, Univesity of Palermo, Italy
Best Paper Award
MONROE-Nettest: A Configurable Tool for Dissecting Speed Measurements in Mobile Broadband
Cise Midoglu (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Leonhard Wimmer (TU Wien, Austria); Andra Lutu, Ozgu Alay and Carsten Griwodz (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Best Demo Award
The CityLab Testbed - Large-scale Multi-technology Wireless Experimentation in a City Environment: Neural Network-based Interference Prediction in a Smart City
Jakob Struye, Bart Braem and Steven Latré (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen - imec & IDLab Research Group - imec, Belgium)
08:45–9:00
Opening Session
Chair: Eric Keller
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote: The Art and Science of Testbed Experimentation
Jelena Mirkovic (University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Abstract: Testbed experimentation today is a very slow, long and manual process-more art than science. In this talk we will discuss elements of the experimentation process that today fall squarely on users: experiment design, running, monitoring, cataloguing, archiving and sharing. Human limited cognition is not a good match for these tasks, and they would benefit from automated support. Current lack of such support results in poor sharing and reuse, and low reproducibility of experiments. Overall, this limits our ability to do scientific experimentation and limits vertical growth.
In the second part of this talk we will survey some possible solutions to these problems and map out a path forward towards more scientific, more rigorous and easier experimentation of the future.
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:00
Software tools and stack architectures for network experiments
Room: Tapa 1
Chair: Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, USA)
Rumba: a Python Framework for Automating Large-Scale Recursive Internet Experiments on GENI and FIRE+
Sander Vrijders (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Dimitri Staessens (Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium); Marco Capitani (Nextworks, Italy); Vincenzo Maffione (University of Pisa, Italy)
Measurement Based Mobility Emulation Platform for Next Generation Wireless Networks
Parishad Karimi, Shreyasee Mukherjee, Jakub Kolodziejski and Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA)
EnosStack: A LAMP-like stack for the experimenter
Ronan-Alexandre Cherrueau, Matthieu Simonin and Alexandre van Kempen (INRIA, France)
MONROE-Nettest: A Configurable Tool for Dissecting Speed Measurements in Mobile Broadband
Cise Midoglu (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Leonhard Wimmer (TU Wien, Austria); Andra Lutu, Ozgu Alay and Carsten Griwodz (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:00
Wireless Testbeds and Experiments
Room: Tapa 1
Chair:
NeutMon: Studying Neutrality in European Mobile Networks
Enrico Gregori (CNR-IIT, Italy); Valerio Luconi (IIT-CNR, Italy); Alessio Vecchio (University of Pisa & Dip. Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Italy)
The CityLab Testbed - Large-scale Multi-technology Wireless Experimentation in a City Environment: Neural Network-based Interference Prediction in a Smart City
Jakob Struye, Bart Braem and Steven Latré (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen - imec & IDLab Research Group - imec, Belgium)
Analysis of Large-Scale Experimental Data from Wireless Networks
Stephen Seidel (Arizona State University, USA); Michael Mehari (Ghent University - imec, IDLab, Belgium); Charles Colbourn (ASU, USA); Eli De Poorter (Ghent University & Imec, Belgium); Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, USA)
Experimental Performance Evaluation of WebRTC Video Services over Mobile Networks
Mohamed Moulay (IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
15:00–15:30 Break
15:30–17:00
SDN/NFV
Room: Tapa 1
Chair:
Toward Live Inter-Domain Network Services on the ExoGENI Testbed
Paul Ruth (UNC-CH, USA); Mert Cevik and Cong Wang (RENCI - UNC Chapel Hill, USA); Yuanjun Yao, Qiang Cao, Rubens Farias, Jeff Chase and Victor Orlikowski (Duke University, USA); Nick Buraglio (ESNet, USA)
EL-SEC: ELastic Management of SECurity Applications on Virtualized Infrastructure
Nabeel Akhtar, Ibrahim Matta and Ali Raza (Boston University, USA); Yuefeng Wang (Akamai Technologies, Inc, USA)
GRASP: a GReen energy Aware SDN Platform
Garegin Grigoryan, Keivan Bahmani, Grayson Schermerhorn and Yaoqing Liu (Clarkson University, USA)
Predictive Analytics for Fog Computing using Machine Learning and GENI
Jon Patman, Meshal Alfarhood, Soliman Islam, Mauro Lemus and Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Kannappan Palaniappan (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
17:00–18:30
Demo Session
Room: Tapa 1
EL-SEC: ELastic Management of SECurity Applications on Virtualized Infrastructure
Nabeel Akhtar, Ibrahim Matta, and Ali Raza (Boston University, USA)
First Place, GENI Experimenter Contest
Analysis of In-order Packet Delivery Network Policy Enforcement Function
Stuart Baxley, Nick Bastin, and Deniz Gurkan (University of Houston, USA)
Second Place, GENI Experimenter Contest
Emergency Internet Bypass Lane Protocol – Evaluation over GENI Testbeds
Nirmala Shenoy, Jennifer L. Schneider, and Shashank Rudroju (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Third Place, GENI Experimenter Contest
Rumba: a Python Framework for Automating Large-Scale Recursive Internet Experiments on GENI and FIRE+
Sander Vrijders (Ghent University-imec, Belgium), Dimitri Staessens (Ghent University-iMinds, Belgium), Marco Capitani (Nextworks, Itay), Vincenzo Maffione (University of Pisa, Italy)
Toward Live Inter-Domain Network Services on the ExoGENI Testbed
Yuanjun Yao, Qiang Cao, Rubens Farias, Jeff Chase, and Victor Orlikowski (Duke University, USA), Paul Ruth, Mert Cevik, and Cong Wang (RENCI, USA), Nick Buraglio (ESnet)
Configurable Speed Measurements in Mobile Broadband with MONROE-Nettest
Cise Midoglu, Andra Lutu, Ozgu Alay, and Carsten Griwodz (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway), Leonhard Wimmer (TU Wein, Austria)
NeutMon: Studying Neutrality in European Mobile Networks
Enrico Gregori, Valerio Luconi, and Alessio Vecchio
An Intuitive Drag and Drop Framework for Wireless Network Experimentation
Stephen Seidel, Charles J. Colbourn, and Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University), Michael Mehari, Eli De Poorter, and Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University-imec)
Fog Computing Analytics with Machine Learning and GENI
Jon Patman, Meshal Alfarhood, Soliman Islam, Mauro Lemus and Prasad Calyam
Measurement Based Mobility Emulation Platform for Next Generation Wireless Networks
Parishad Karimi, Shreyasee Mukherjee, Jakub Kolodziejski and Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA), Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA)
A Virtual and Physical Demonstration of The CityLab Testbed: Smart Lighting and Interference Prediction in a City
Jakob Struye, Bart Braem, Steven Latre, and Johann Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerp-imec, Belgium)
EnosStack: A LAMP-like Stack for the Experimenter
Ronan-Alexandre Cherrueau, Matthieu Simonin, and Alexandre van Kempen (INRIA, France)
Stitching Chameleon to GENI Slices and Campus Infrastructure
Paul Ruth and Mert Cevik (Renaissance Computing Institute, USA), Pierre Riteau (University of Chicago, USA), Kate Keahey (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)