IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service
14-16 June 2017 – Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain

Symposium

 Wednesday, June 14 

Wednesday | 9:00-9:20

Opening

Room: Auditori

Wednesday | 9:20-10:05
Keynote I

Internet of Things: Wireless Networking, Sensor-less Sensing, and Battery-less Networking

Prof. Xiang-Yang Li (School of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China)

Room: Auditori

Wednesday | 10:20-11:20

Full Paper Session I: Security and Privacy

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Jian-Ping Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

A Secure Cloud Storage System Based on Discrete Logarithm Problem

Jian Zhang and Yang Yang (Computer School of Wuhan University, P.R. China); Yanjiao Chen (State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, P.R. China); Fei Chen (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)

Efficient and Generalized Geometric Range Search on Encrypted Spatial Data in the Cloud

Yuchuan Luo and Shaojing Fu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Dongsheng Wang (National University of Defence Techonology, P.R. China); Ming Xu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Preserving the Relationship Privacy of the Published Social-network Data based on Compressive Sensing

Lin Yao and Dong Liu (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Xin Wang (Stony Brook University, USA); Wu Guowei (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)

Wednesday | 11:30-13:10

Full Paper Session II: Mobile networks and IoT

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Xiangyang Li (University of Science and Technology of China)

A Measurement Study on Skype Voice and Video Calls in LTE Networks on High Speed Rails

Li Li and Ke Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Chunyi Peng (The Ohio State University, USA); Kai Zheng (2012 Labs, Huawei Technologies, P.R. China); Haiyang Wang (University of Minnesota at Duluth, USA); Rashid Mijumbi (Nokia, Ireland); Xiangxiang Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Adaptive Radio and Transmission Power Selection for Internet of Things

Di Mu, Yunpeng Ge and Mo Sha (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA); Steve Paul, Niranjan Ravichandra and Souma Chowdhury (University at Buffalo, USA)

Enabling Accurate and Efficient Modeling-based CPU Power Estimation for Smartphones

Yifan Zhang (SUNY Binghamton, USA); Yunxin Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China); Xuanzhe Liu (Peking University, P.R. China); Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA)

Latency-Based WiFi Congestion Control in the Air for Dense WiFi Networks

Changhua Pei and Youjian Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yunxin Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China); Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia, P.R. China); Jiansong Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China); Yuan Meng and Dan Pei (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

SCoP: Smartphone Energy Saving by Merging Push Services in Fog Computing

Shang Gao, Zhe Peng and Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Qingjun Xiao (SouthEast University of China, P.R. China); Yubo Song (Southeast University, P.R. China)

Wednesday | 14:20-16:00

Full Paper Session III: Network Performance

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Congestion Control in Converged Ethernet with Heterogeneous and Time-Varying Delays

Wenxue Cheng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Wanchun Jiang (Central South University, P.R. China); Fengyuan Ren, Tong Zhang, Bo Wang and Kun Qian (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Copula-based Parameter Estimation for Markov-modulated Poisson Process

Fang Dong, Kui Wu and Venkatesh Srinivasan (University of Victoria, Canada)

NOVA: Towards On-Demand Equivalent Network View Abstraction for Network Optimization

Kai Gao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Qiao Xiang (Yale University, USA); Xin Wang (Tongji University, P.R. China); Y. Richard Yang (Yale University, USA); Jun Bi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Per-Flow Counting for Big Network Data Stream over Sliding Windows

You Zhou (University of Florida, USA); Yian Zhou (Google Inc., USA); Shigang Chen and Youlin Zhang (University of Florida, USA)

Skipping Congestion-links for Coflow Scheduling

Shuo Wang and Jiao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Huang Tao (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, P.R. China); Tian Pan, Jiang Liu and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jin Li and Feng Li (Network Technology Lab, Huawei, P.R. China)

Wednesday | 16:15-17:15

Panel

Security vs Quality in Critical Infrastructures Management: Searching for a Trade-off

Jian-Ping Wang (City University of Hong Kong), Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Braunschweig), Javier Larrañeta (PESI, Tecnalia), Jorge Cuéllar (Siemens Germany), Rodrigo Díaz (ATOS) and Xavi Masip (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Room: Auditori

Wednesday | 17:25-18:55

Parallel Session. Short Paper I: Datacenter and Cloud Computing

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Mo Sha (State University of New York at Binghamton)

Optimizing the Cost-Performance Tradeoff for Geo-distributed Data Analytics with Uncertain Demand

Wenxin Li (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Keqiu Li (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Heng Qi (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Xiaobo Zhou (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Renhai Xu (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)

 A Cost-efficient Scheme with Decoupling Host-side Flow Scheduling from Switches in DCNs

Weibin Xie (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Fang Wang (Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, P.R. China); Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Yuchong Hu and Chu Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Delay Updating in Software-Defined Datacenter Networks

Ting Qu and Deke Guo (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China); Jia Xu (Guangxi University, P.R. China); Zhong Liu (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China)

Fairness-aware Dynamic Rate Control and Flow Scheduling for Network Function Virtualization

Sheng Tao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Lin Gu (The University of Aizu, Japan); Deze Zeng (China University of Geosciences, P.R. China); Hai Jin and Kan Hu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Which DRM Grade Could BYOD Users Employ? A Differentiated DRM Service between the Cloud and Mobile Devices

Jin Zhang and Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Parallel Session. Short Paper II: Network Performance

Room: Polivalent
Chair: Dr. Kui Wu (University of Victoria)

Ultra-Fast Bloom Filters using SIMD Techniques

Jianyuan Lu, Ying Wan, Yang Li, Chuwen Zhang, Huichen Dai and Yi Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Gong Zhang (Huawei Research, P.R. China); Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Queueing in the Mist: Buffering and Scheduling with Limited Knowledge

Itamar Cohen and Gabriel Scalosub (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

QoS Evaluation of Prioritized Data Plane Service Employing Queueing Model

Yongjian Ren, Lei Liu, Lizhen Cui, Yuliang Shi and Dongyu Zheng (Shandong University, P.R. China)

Efficient modeling and performance analysis for IEEE 802.15.4 with coloured Petri nets

Xiang Hu and Li Jiao (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences & State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, P.R. China)

XpressEth: Concise and Efficient Converged Real-Time Ethernet

Kun Qian, Fengyuan Ren, Danfeng Shan, Wenxue Cheng and Bo Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Wednesday | 20:00
Welcome Reception

Chillout at Vilanova Beach

 Thursday, June 15 

Thursday | 9:30-10:15

Keynote II

Atos’ Vision for Computing at the Edge

Ms. Ana Juan Ferrer (AD Cloud Lab, Atos Research and Innovation)

Room: Auditori

Thursday | 10:30-12:30

Full Paper Session IV: Data Center Networks

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dra. Eva Marín (CRAAX / UPC)

Syslog Processing for Switch Failure Diagnosis and Prediction in Datacenter Networks

Shenglin Zhang, Weibin Meng and Jiahao Bu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Sen Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Ying Liu and Dan Pei (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jun Xu (Georgia Tech, USA); Yu Chen (Baidu, Inc, P.R. China); Hui Dong (Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Xianping Qu (Baidu of China, P.R. China); Lei Song (Baidu, Inc, P.R. China)

FFTree: A Flexible Architecture for Data Center Networks towards Configurability and Cost Efficiency

Jun Duan and Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)

Rethinking Transfer Optimization in a Datacenter: Integrating Load Balancing with Multipath Flow Control

Zhuzhong Qian, Kaiyuan Wen, Sheng Zhang, Xiaoliang Wang and Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, P.R. China)

Joint Deployment and Routing in Hybrid SDNs

Hongli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jingyuan Fan (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Jianhuai Wu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Chunming Qiao (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Liusheng Huang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

Multicast Scheduling Algorithm in Software Defined Fat-Tree Data Center Networks

Guozhi Li and Songtao Guo (Southwest University, P.R. China); Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)

OptiBook: Optimal Resource Booking for Energy-efficient Datacenters

Selome Kostentinos Tesfatsion (Umea University & Umea University, Sweden); Luis Tomás and Johan Tordsson (Umeå University, Sweden)

Thursday | 12:30-13:30

Parallel Session. Work-in-progress papers I: Cloud Computing and SDN

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Xiaoyan Yin (Northwest University)

SLA-aware broker for public Cloud – A conceptual architecture

Nicola Sfondrini (University of Pavia & Business Integration Partners, Italy); Gianmario Piero Antonio Motta (University of Pavia, Italy)

Topology Calibration in Data Centers

Lailong Luo (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Deke Guo (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China); Jia Xu (Guangxi University, P.R. China); Xueshan Luo (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

CounterMap: Towards Generic Traffic Statistics Collection and Query in Software Defined Network

Jiamin Liu, Peng Zhang, Huanzhao Wang and Chengchen Hu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China);

Mixing SDN And CCN For Content-centric Qos Aware Smart Grid Architecture

Nour El Houda Ben Youssef (LATIS/University of Sousse & WEVIOO, Tunisia); Yosra Barouni, Sofiane Khalfallah and Jaleleddine Ben Hadj Slama (LATIS/ENISO University of Sousse Tunisia); Khaled Ben Driss (WEVIOO)

Towards a Fog-to-Cloud Control Topology for Qos-Aware End-To-End Communication

Vitor B Souza (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Alejandro Gomez; Xavier Masip-Bruin; Eva Marín-Tordera; Jordi Garcia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX), Spain)

Application-aware Network Sharing for Enabling High Progress of Multi-tenants

Yan Li (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Deke Guo (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China); Honghui Chen and Junjie Xie (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

Parallel Session. Work-in-progress papers II: NFV

Room: Polivalent
Chair: Dr. Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University)

NFV-based QoS provision for Software Defined Optical Access and Residential Networks

Ricardo Flores (Technical University of Madrid, Spain); David Fernandez (Universdidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain); Luis Bellido (Telematic Systems Engineering Department, Technical University of Madrid (DIT-UPM), Spain); Noemí Merayo, Juan Carlos Aguado and Ignacio de Miguel (Universidad de Valladolid)

A Clustering-based Approach for Virtual Network Function Mapping and Assigning

Zenan Wang, Jiao Zhang, Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Towards A Fast Packet Inspection over Compressed HTTP Traffic

Xiuwen Sun, Kaiyu Hou, Hao Li and Chengchen Hu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

A Cooperative Mechanism for Efficient Inter-Domain In-Network Cache Sharing

Xun Shao and Hitoshi Asaeda (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Using Quality of Computation to Enhance Quality of Service in Mobile Computing Systems

Dominik Schäfer, Janick Edinger and Tobias Borlinghaus (University of Mannheim, Germany); Justin Mazzola Paluska (MIT, USA); Christian Becker (Universität Mannheim, Germany)

Enabling Automatic Composition and Verification of Service Function Chain

Yang Wang, Zhenyu Li and Gaogang Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Kavé Salamatian (LISTIC PolyTech, Université de Savoie Chambery Annecy, France)

Thursday | 14:30-16:10

Full Paper Session V: Cloud Computing

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Ignacio de Miguel (Universidad de Valladolid) 

Cost-Efficient Workload Scheduling in Cloud Assisted Mobile Edge Computing

Xiao Ma (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Shan Zhang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Wenzhuo Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Puheng Zhang (Tsinghua University & Logistical Scientific Research Institute, P.R. China); Chuang Lin (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

HARV: Harnessing Hybrid Virtualization to Improve Instance (Re)Usage in Public Cloud

Silvery Fu, Yifei Zhu and Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Generic and Agile Service Function Chain Verification on Cloud

XiaoLi Zhang, Qi Li, Jianping Wu and Jiahai Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

EncSIM: An Encrypted Similarity Search Service for Distributed High-dimensional Datasets

Xiaoning Liu, Xingliang Yuan and Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Carrier-grade Availability-aware Mapping of Service Function Chains with On-site Backups

Jingyuan Fan, Meiling Jiang and Chunming Qiao (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Thursday | 16:30-18:00

Parallel Session. Short Paper III: Security and Privacy

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Secure, Efficient and Practical Double Spectrum Auction

Zhili Chen and Xuemei Wei (Anhui University, P.R. China); Hong Zhong and Jie Cui (School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, P.R. China); Yan Xu and Shun Zhang (Anhui University, P.R. China)

You Can Hide, But Your Periodic Schedule Can’t

Minghua Ma, Kai Zhao and Kaixin Sui (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Lei Xu (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Yong Li and Dan Pei (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Root Cause Analysis of Anomalies of Multitier Services in Public Clouds

Jianping Weng, Hui Wang, Jiahai Yang and Yang Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Verifiable Ranked Search over Dynamic Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing

Qin Liu (Hunan University & Temple University, P.R. China); Xiaohong Nie and Xuhui Liu (Hunan University, P.R. China); Tao Peng (Central South University, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

On the RSU-based Secure Distinguishability Among Vehicular Flows

Wei Chang (Saint Joseph’s University, USA); Huanyang Zheng and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

Parallel Session. Short Paper IV: Resource Management

Room: Polivalent
Chair: Dr. Hongli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Reliable Multicast Routing with Uncertain Sources

Junjie Xie (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Deke Guo and Zhiyao Hu (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA); Tao Chen and Honghui Chen (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

Real-Time Middleware for Cyber-Physical Event Processing

Chao Wang, Chris Gill and Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Cost-Efficient Negotiation over Multiple Resources with Reinforcement Learning

Yu Xu and Jianguo Yao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada); Haibing Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Resource Management of Differentiated Services in Geo-distributed Data Centers

Xiaojie Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Kun Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Weijia Jia (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Radio Resource Scheduling for Low-Latency Communications in LTE and beyond

Evgeny Khorov, Artem Krasilov and Aleksei Malyshev (IITP RAS, Russia)

Thursday | 20:00

Social Event

Human Tower (Castellers) performance

 Friday, June 16 

Friday | 9:30-10:15

Keynote III

Coding for Delay

Prof. Muriel Médard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT)

Room: Auditori

Friday | 10:30-12:10

Full Paper Session VI: Network Management

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Ravi Prakash (University of Texas at Dallas)

Failure Inference for Shortening Traffic Detours

Anmin Xu, Jun Bi, Baobao Zhang, Shuhe Wang and Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

A Two-Way Link Loss Measurement Approach for Software-Defined Networks

Xinchang Zhang (Shandong Computer Science Center(National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), P.R. China); Yinglong Wang (Shandong Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Jianwei Zhang, Lu Wang and Yanling Zhao (Shandong Computer Science Center(National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), P.R. China)

Task Assignment with Guaranteed Quality for Crowdsourcing Platforms

Xiaoyan Yin (Northwest University & University of Toronto, P.R. China); Yanjiao Chen (State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, P.R. China); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)

Towards Load-Balanced VNF Assignment in Geo-distributed NFV Infrastructure

Xincai Fei (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R. China); Fangming Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Hong Xu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

When Privacy meets Economics: Enabling Differentially-Private Battery-Supported Meter Reporting in Smart Grid

Zijian Zhang and Wenqiang Cao (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Zhan Qin (SUNY at Buffalo, USA); Liehuang Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Zhengtao Yu (Kunming University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Kui Ren (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Friday | 12:20-13:20

Parallel Session. Short Paper V: Mobile and Crowdsensing

Room: Auditori
Chair: Dr. Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Braunschweig)

Jump-Start Crowdsensing: A Three-Layer Incentive Framework for Mobile Crowdsensing

Yatong Chen (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Huangxun Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Shuo Yang, Xiaofeng Gao and Fan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Autonomous Compensation Game to Facilitate Peer Data Exchange in Crowdsensing

Xiang Yan (SJTU, P.R. China); Fan Ye and Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA); Xiaotie Deng (SJTU, P.R. China)

Link-Coupled TCP for 5G Networks

Joseph D. Beshay, Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi and Ravi Prakash (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Andrea Francini (Nokia Bell Laboratories, USA)

Handling Scheduling Uncertainties through Traffic Shaping in Time-Triggered Train Networks

Qinghan Yu, Xibin Zhao, Hai Wan and Yue Gao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Ming Gu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Parallel Session. Short Paper VI: Data Processing and Analytics

Room: Polivalent
Chair: Dr. Jordi Garcia (CRAAX / UPC)

Performance Analysis of Randomized Data Fetching in Cluster Computing

Tong Zhang and Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Peng Cheng (Microsoft Research, P.R. China); Wenxue Cheng and Bo Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

MUSA: Wi-Fi AP-Assisted Video Prefetching via Tensor Learning

Wen Hu, Jiahui Huang, Zhi Wang, Peng Wang and Kun Yi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yonggang Wen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Sun Lifeng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

PSOM: Periodic Self-Organizing Maps for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Periodic Time Series

Shupeng Zhang (Beihang University, P.R. China); Carol J Fung (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Shaohan Huang, Zhongzhi Luan and Depei Qian (Beihang University, P.R. China)

An Efficient Kurtosis-based Causal Discovery Method for Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Data

Ruichu Cai, Feng Xie and Wei Chen (Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China); ZhiFeng Hao (Foshan University, P.R. China)

Friday | 13:20-13:30

Closing Session

Room: Auditori