Main Conference Program

Session 1A (Video and XR Applications, Mobile & Wireless Computing)

Day 1, July 11 10:45am-12:25pm

Persival: Simulating Complex 3D Meshes on Resource-Constrained Mobile AR Devices Using Interpolation

Johannes Kässinger (University of Stuttgart), David Rosin (University of Stuttgart), Frank Dürr (University of Stuttgart), Niklas Hornischer (University of Stuttgart), Oliver Röhrle  (University of Stuttgart) and Kurt Rothermel, (University of Stuttgart)

Enhancing Quality of Experience for Collaborative Virtual Reality with Commodity Mobile Devices

Jiangong Chen (The Pennsylvania State University), Feng Qian (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) and Bin Li (The Pennsylvania State University)

Energy-Efficient and QoE-Aware 360-Degree Video Streaming on Mobile Devices

Xianda Chen (The Pennsylvania State University) and Guohong Cao (The Pennsylvania State University)

Exploiting Frame Similarity for Efficient Inference on Edge Devices

Ziyu Ying (The Pennsylvania State University), Shulin Zhao (The Pennsylvania State University), Haibo Zhang (The Pennsylvania State University), Cyan Subhra Mishra (The Pennsylvania State University), Sandeepa Bhuyan (The Pennsylvania State University), Mahmut Taylan Kandemir (The Pennsylvania State University), Anand Sivasubramaniam (The Pennsylvania State University) and Chita Das (The Pennsylvania State University)

Session 1B (Resource and Data Management, Edge Computing)

Day 1, July 11 10:45am-12:25pm

Query Recombination: To Process a Large Number of Concurrent Top-k Queries towards IoT Data on an Edge Server

Tuo Shi (Tianjin University), Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University) and Yingshu Li (Georgia State University)

A Game Theoretical Balancing Approach for Offloaded Tasks in Edge Datacenters

Hongli Lu (Tianjin University of Technology), Guangping Xu (Tianjin University of Technology), Chi Wan Sung (City University of Hong Kong), Salwa Mostafa (City University of Hong Kong) and Yulei Wu (University of Exeter)

Distributed and Decentralized Edge Caching in 5G Networks Using Non-Volatile Memory Systems

Yiming Zeng (Stony Brook University), Yaodong Huang (Shenzhen University), Zhenhua Liu (Stony Brook University), and Ji Liu (Stony Brook University)

Towards Elasticity in Heterogeneous Edge-dense Environments

Lei Huang (University of Minnesota), Zhiying Liang (University of Minnesota), Nikhil Sreekumar (University of Minnesota), Sumanth Kaushik (University of Minnesota), Abhishek Chandra (University of Minnesota), and Jon Weissman (University of Minnesota)

Session 1C (Scalability & Efficiency in Blockchains,Blockchain)

Day 1, July 11 10:45am-12:25pm

Themis: An Equal, Unpredictable, and Scalable Consensus for Consortium Blockchain

Linpeng Jia (UCAS), Keyuan Wang (UCAS), Xin Wang (UCAS), Lei Yu (UCAS), Zhongcheng Li (UCAS), Yi Sun (UCAS)

Nezha: Exploiting Concurrency for Transaction Processing in DAG-based Blockchains

Jiang Xiao (HUST), Shijie Zhang (HUST), Zhiwei Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology), Bo Li (HKUST), Xiaohai Dai (HUST), Hai Jin (HUST)

Efficient Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement without Private Setup

Yingzhi Gao (Institute of Software, CAS), Yuan Lu (Institute of Software, CAS), Zhenliang Lu (The University of Sydney), Qiang Tang (The University of Sydney), Jing Xu (Institute of Software, CAS), Zhenfeng Zhang (Institute of Software, CAS)

Blockchain Machine: A Network-Attached Hardware Accelerator for Hyperledger Fabric

Haris Javaid (Xilinx), Ji Yang (Xilinx), Nathania Santoso (Xilinx), Mohit Upadhyay (Xilinx), Sundararajarao Mohan (Xilinx), Chengchen Hu (Xilinx), Gordon Brebner (Xilinx)

Session 1D (Mobile Networks and Applications, Mobile & Wireless Computing)

Day 1, July 11 10:45am-12:25pm

A Novel Distributed Task Scheduling Framework for Supporting Vehicular Edge Intelligence

Kun Yang (Fudan Univesity), Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China), Jieyu Lin (University of Toronto), Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa)  and Liang Song (Fudan University)

BlinkRadar: Non-Intrusive Driver Eye-Blink Detection

Jingyang Hu (Hunan University), Daibo Liu (Hunan University), Hongbo Jiang (Hunan University), Zhu Xiao (Hunan University), Schahram Dustdar (Technische Universität Wien), Jiangchuan Liu (Vienna University of Technology)  and Geyong Min (UESTC)

Joint Beamforming and Trajectory Optimizations for Statistical Delay and Error-Rate Bounded QoS Provisioning Over MIMO-UAV/IRS-Based 6G Mobile

Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University), Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University) and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University)

Edge Computing Networks Using FBC

Lailla M. S.  Bine (Unievsrty of Ottawa), Azzedine Boukerche (Unievsrty of Ottawa), Linnyer B. Ruiz (Universidade Estadual de Maringá) and Antonio Loureiro (UFMG)

Session 2A (Network and Data, Distributed Algorithms and Theory)

Day 1, July 11 2:00pm-3:15pm

Distributed Runtime Verification of Metric Temporal Properties for Cross-Chain Protocols

Ritam Ganguly (Michigan State University), Yingjie Xue (Brown University), Aaron Jonckheere (Michigan State University), Parker Ljung (Brown University), Benjamin Schornstein (Brown University), Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Michigan State University), and Maurice Herlihy (Brown University)

On the Optimality of the Greedy Garbage Collection Strategy for SSDs

Ernst Althaus (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Petra Berenbrink (University of Hamburg), Andre Brinkmann (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), and Rebecca Steiner (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Distributed Reconstruction of Noisy Pooled Data

Max Hahn-Klimroth (TU Dort­mund University), and Dominik Kaaser (Universität Hamburg)

Session 2B (IoT Applications and Security, IoT)

Day 1, July 11 2:00pm-3:15pm

E-TSN: Enabling Event-triggered Critical Traffic in Time-Sensitive Networking for Industrial Applications

Yi Zhao (Tsinghua University), Zheng Yang (Tsinghua University), Xiaowu He (Tsinghua University), Jiahang Wu (Tsinghua University), Hao Cao (Tsinghua University), Liang Dong (Tsinghua University), Fan Dang (Tsinghua University) and Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University)

Defending against Thru-barrier Stealthy Voice Attacks via Cross-Domain Sensing on Phoneme Sounds

Cong Shi (Rutgers University), Tianming Zhao (Temple University), Wenjin Zhang (Rutgers University), Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad (Texas A&M University), Zhengkun Ye (Temple University), Yan Wang (Temple University), Nitesh Saxena (Texas A&M University) and Yingying Chen (Rutgers University)

ActListener: Imperceptible Activity Surveillance by Pervasive Wireless Infrastructures

Li Lu (Zhejiang University), Zhongjie Ba (Zhejiang University), Feng Lin (Zhejiang University), Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University) and Kui Ren (Zhejiang University)

Session 2C (Datacenter Networking, Cloud Computing and Data Centers)

Day 1, July 11 2:00pm-3:15pm

ADA: Arithmetic Operations with Adaptive TCAM Population in Programmable Switches

Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki (University of Illinois at Chicago), Brent E. Stephens (University of Utah), and Balajee Vamanan (University of Illinois at Chicago)

ERA: Meeting the Fairness between Sender-driven and Receiver-driven Transmission Protocols in Data Center Networks

Sen Liu (Fudan University), Furong Liang (Fudan University), Wei Yan (Fudan University), Zehua Guo (Beijing Institute of Technology), Xiang Lin (Fudan University), and Yang Xu (Fudan University)

Toward Low-Overhead Inter-Switch Coordination in Network-Wide Data Plane Program Deployment

Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University), Hongyan Liu (Zhejiang University), Qingjiang Xiao (Fuzhou University), Kaiwei Guo (Fuzhou University),  Tingxin Sun (Fuzhou University), Xiang Ling (Institute of Software, CAS), Xuan Liu (Yangzhou University and Southeast University), Qun Huang (Peking University), Dong Zhang (Fuzhou University), Haifeng Zhou (Zhejiang University), Fan Zhang (Zhejiang University), and Chunming Wu (Zhejiang University)

Session 2D (Blockchain Applications, Blockchain)

Day 1, July 11 2:00pm-3:15pm

Funding Public Goods with Expert Advice in Blockchain System

Jichen Li (Peking University), Yukun Cheng (Suzhou University of Science and Technology), Wenhan Huang (SJTU), Mengqian Zhang (SJTU), Jiarui Fan (Tsinghua University), Deng Xiaotie (Peking University) and Jan Xie (Cryptape)

FileInsurer: A Scalable and Reliable Protocol for Decentralized File Storage in Blockchain

Hongyin Chen (Peking University), Yuxuan Lu (Peking University) and Yukun Cheng (Suzhou University of Science and Technology)

Self-Sovereign Digital Agents for a Grassroots Digital Society

Ouri Poupko (Weizmann Institute of Science), Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science) and Nimrod Talmon (Ben-Gurion University)

Session 3A (Byzantine Problems, Distributed Algorithms and Theory)

Day 1, July 11 3:40pm-5:00pm

Byzantine-Resilient Counting in Networks

Soumyottam Chatterjee (Ashoka University), Gopal Pandurangan (University of Houston), and Peter Robinson (City University of Hong Kong)

Crime and Punishment in Distributed Byzantine Decision Tasks

Pierre Civit (Sorbonne University), Seth Gilbert (NUS Singapore), Vincent Gramoli (University of Sydney), Rachid Guerraoui (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Jovan Komatovic (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Zarko Milosevic (Informal Systems), and Adi Serendinschi (Informal Systems)

Session 3B (Internet of Things Software and Data Collection, IoT)

Day 1, July 11 3:40pm-5:00pm

Pinpoint Achilles’ Heel in RFID Localization: Phase Calibration of RFID Antenna based on Linear Localization Model

Yanling Bu (Nanjing University), Lei Xie (Nanjing University), Jia Liu (Nanjing University), Chuyu Wang (Nanjing University), Ge Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Zenglong Wang (Nanjing University) and Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University)

CODE: Compact IoT Data Collection with Precise Matrix Sampling and Efficient Inference

Huali Lu (Central South University), Feng Lyu (Central South University), Ju Ren (Tsinghua University), Jiadi Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Fan Wu (Tsinghua University), Yaoxue Zhang (Tsinghua University) and Xuemin Shen (University of Waterloo)

A Digital-Twin Based Architecture for Software Longevity in Smart Homes

Peter Zdankin (University of Duisburg-Essen), Marco Picone (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Marco Mamei (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) and Torben Weis (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Session 3C (Blockchain Application Security, Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems)

Day 1, July 11 3:40pm-5:00pm

ScalaCert: Scalability-Oriented PKI with Redactable Consortium Blockchain Enabled “On-Cert” Certificate Revocation

Xinyi Luo (University of Science and Technology of China), Zhuo Xu (University of Science and Technology of China), Kaiping Xue (University of Science and Technology of China), Qiantong Jiang (University of Science and Technology of China), Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University), David Wei (Fordham University)

Enhancing Cryptocurrency Blocklisting: A Secure, Trustless, and Effective Realization

Yuefeng Du (City University of Hong Kong), Anxin Zhou (City University of Hong Kong), Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

NWADE: A Neighborhood Watch Mechanism for Attack Detection and Evacuation in Autonomous Intersection Management

Jian Kang (University of Missouri), Alian Yu (University of Missouri), Wei Jiang (University of Missouri), Dan Lin (University of Missouri)

Session 3D (Cloud Resources and Data Management, Cloud Computing and Data Centers)

Day 1, July 11 3:40pm-5:00pm

Escra: Event-driven, Sub-second Container Resource Allocation

Greg Cusack (University of Colorado Boulder), Maziyar Nazari (University of Colorado Boulder), Sepideh Goodarzy (University of Colorado Boulder), Erika Hunhoff (University of Colorado Boulder), Prerit Oberai (University of Colorado Boulder), Eric Keller (University of Colorado Boulder), Eric Rozner (University of Colorado Boulder) and Richard Han (University of Colorado Boulder)

Stabilizer: Geo-Replication with User-defined Consistency

Pengze Li (Peking University), Lichen Pan (Peking University), Xinzhe Yang (Pure Storage), Weijia Song (Cornell University), Zhen Xiao (Peking University),  and Ken Birman (Cornell University)

Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Spatial Keyword Query over Encrypted Cloud Data

Yutao Yang (Xidian University), Yinbin Miao (Xidian University), Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Robert H. Deng (Singapore Management University)

Session 4A (System and AI Security, Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems)

Day 2, July 12 10:45am-12:25pm

Byzantine-robust Federated Learning through Collaborative Malicious Gradient Filtering

Jian Xu (Tsinghua University), Shao-Lun Huang (Tsinghua University), Linqi Song (City University of Hong Kong), Tian Lan (George Washington University)

Implication of Animation on Android Security

Shan Wang (Southeast University), Zhen Ling (Southeast University), Yue Zhang (Jinan University), Ruizhao Liu (Southeast University), Joshua Kraunelis (The MITRE Corporation), Kang Jia (Southeast University), Bryan Pearson (University of Central Florida), Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

WaTZ: A Trusted WebAssembly Runtime Environment with Remote Attestation for TrustZone

Jämes Ménétrey (University of Neuchâtel), Marcelo Pasin (University of Neuchâtel), Pascal Felber (University of Neuchâtel), Valerio Schiavoni (University of Neuchâtel)

Secure Distributed Outsourcing of Large-scale Linear Systems

Da Feng (Northeastern University), Fucai Zhou (Northeastern University), Debiao He (Wuhan University), Mengna Guo (China Mobile Group Liaoning Co., Ltd), Qiyu Wu (Northeastern University)

Session 4B (Edge-Assisted Services, Edge Computing)

Day 2, July 12 10:45am-12:25pm

AdaDrone: Quality of Navigation Based Neural Adaptive Scheduling for Edge-Assisted Drones

Haowei Chen (Sun Yat-sen University), Liekang Zeng (Sun Yat-sen University), Xiaoxi Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University), and Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University)

Edge Assisted Real-time Instance Segmentation on Mobile Devices

Jialin Zhang (Tsinghua University), Xiang Huang (Tsinghua University), Jingao Xu (Tsinghua University), Yue Wu (Tsinghua University), Qiang Ma (Tsinghua University), Xin Miao (Tsinghua University), Li Zhang (Hefei University of Technology), Pengpeng Chen (China University of Mining and Technology), and Zheng Yang (Tsinghua University)

Multi-View Scheduling of Onboard Live Video Analytics to Minimize Frame Processing Latency

Shengzhong Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tianshi Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Hongpeng Guo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Xinzhe Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Philip David (Army Research Lab), Maggie Wigness (Army Research Lab), Archan Misra (Singapore Management University), and Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

To Turn or Not To Turn, SafeCross is the Answer

Baofu Wu (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Yuankai He (Wayne State University), Zheng Dong (Wayne State University), Jian Wan (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Jilin Zhang (Hangzhou Dianzi University), and Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)

Session 4C (Federated Learning I, Machine Learning)

Day 2, July 12 10:45am-12:25pm

Lagrange Coded Federated Learning (L-CoFL) Model for Internet of Vehicles

Weiquan Ni (Southern University of Science and Technology), Shaoliang Zhu (Southern University of Science and Technology), Md Monjurul Karim (Southern University of Science and Technology), Asheralieva Alia (Southern University of Science and Technology), Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology), Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design) and Carsten Maple (The University of Warwick)

Energy Minimization for Federated Asynchronous Learning on Consumer Edge Devices via Application Co-running

Cong Wang (George Mason University), Bin Hu and Hongyi Wu.

KAFL: Achieving High Training Efficiency for Fast-K Asynchronous Federated Learning

Xueyu Wu (HKU) and Cho-Li Wang (HKU)

Aligning before Aggregating: Enabling Cross-domain Federated Learning via Consistent Feature Extraction

Guogang Zhu (Beihang University), Xuefeng Liu (Beihang University), Shaojie Tang (University of Texas at Dallas) and Jianwei Niu (Beihang University)

Session 4D (Learning & Decision-making, Mobile & Wireless Computing)

Day 2, July 12 10:45am-12:25pm

GRAFICS: Graph Embedding-based Floor Identification Using Crowdsourced RF Signals

Weipeng Zhuo (HKUST), Ziqi Zhao (HKUST), Ka Ho Chiu (HKUST), Shiju Li (Florida Institute of Technology), Sangtae Ha (University of Colorado Boulder), Chul-Ho Lee (Texas State University) and S.-H. Gary Chan (HKUST)

DeepCSI: Rethinking Wi-Fi Radio Fingerprinting Through MU-MIMO CSI Feedback Deep Learning

Francesca Meneghello ((University of Padova), Michele Rossi (University of Padova) and Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University)

Joint Optimization of Energy Consumption and Completion Time in Federated Learning

Xinyu Zhou (Nanyang Technological University), Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University), Huimei Han (Zhejiang University of Technology) and Claude Guet (Nanyang Technological University)

HARP: Hierarchical Resource Partitioning in Dynamic Industrial Wireless Networks

Jiachen Wang (University of Connecticut), Tianyu Zhang (University of Connecticut), Dawei Shen (Northeastern University), Xiaobo Sharon Hu (University of Notre Dame) and Song Han (University of Connecticut)

Session 5A (Data Security, Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems)

Day 2, July 12 2:00pm-3:15pm

Distributed Data-Sharing Consensus in Cooperative Perception of Autonomous Vehicles

Chenxi Qiu (University of North Texas), Sourabh Yadav (University of North Texas), Anna Squicciarini (The Pennsylvania State University), Qing Yang (University of North Texas), Song Fu (University of North Texas), Juanjuan Zhao (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology), Chengzhong Xu (University of Macau)

K-Indistinguishable Data Access for Encrypted Key-Value Stores

Chen Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), Qingyuan Xie (City University of Hong Kong), Yinbin Miao (Xidian University), Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong)

Slicer: Verifiable, Secure and Fair Search over Encrypted Numerical Data Using Blockchain

Haotian Wu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Rui Song (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Kai Lei (Peking University), Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Session 5B (Wireless Charging, IoT)

Day 2, July 12 2:00pm-3:15pm

Precise Wireless Charging in Complicated Environments

Wei Yang (Dalian University of Technology), Chi Lin (Dalian University of Technology), Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University),  Jiankang Ren (Dalian University of Technology), Pengfei Wang (Dalian University of Technology), Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology), Guowei Wu (Dalian University of Technology) and Qiang Zhang (Dalian University of Technology)

Are You Really Charging Me?

Chi Lin (Dalian University of Technology), Ziwei Yang (Dalian University of Technology), Jiankang Ren (Dalian University of Technology), Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology), Wei Zhong (Dalian University of Technology), Guowei Wu (Dalian University of Technology) and Qiang Zhang (Dalian University of Technology)

AoI Minimization Charging at Wireless-Powered Network Edge

Quan Chen (Guangdong University of Technology), Song Guo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Wenchao Xu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University), Lianglun Cheng (Guangdong University of Technology) and Hong Gao (Zhejiang Normal University)

Session 5C (Insights from Industrial Experience)

Day 2, July 12 2:00pm-3:15pm

Dissecting the Workload of Cloud Storage System

Yaodanjun Ren (SJTU), Xiaoyi Sun (SJTU), Kaishi Li (SJTU), Jiale Lin  (SJTU), Shuzhi Feng (Alibaba Group), Zhenyu Ren (Alibaba Group), Jian Yin (Alibaba Group) and Zhengwei Qi (SJTU)

Monitoring Data Requests in Decentralized Data Storage Systems: A Case Study of IPFS

Leonhard Balduf (Technical University of Darmstadt), Sebastian Henningsen (Weizenbaum Institute/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Martin Florian (Weizenbaum Institute/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Sebastian Rust (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Björn Scheuermann (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Optimizing Near-Data Processing for Spark

Sri Pramodh Rachuri (Stony Brook University), Arun Gantasala (Stony Brook University), Prajeeth Emanuel (Stony Brook University), Anshul Gandhi (Stony Brook University), Robert Foley (FutureWei), Peter Puhov (FutureWei), Theodoros Gkountouvas (OpenInfra Labs) and Hui Lei (OpenInfra Labs)

Session 5D (Blockchain Systems & Protocols, Blockchain)

Day 2, July 12 2:00pm-3:15pm

ITF: A Blockchain System with Incentivized Transaction Forwarding

Jiarui Zhang (Stony Brook University) and Yaodong Huang (Shenzhen University)

Jenga: Orchestrating Smart Contracts in Sharding-Based Blockchain for Efficient Processing

Mingzhe Li (HKUST & SUSTech), You Lin (SUSTech), Jin Zhang (SUSTech) and Wei Wang (HKUST)

Leopard: Towards High Throughput-Preserving BFT for Large-scale Systems

Kexin Hu (CAS), Kaiwen Guo (UCAS), Qiang Tang (The University of Sydney), Zhenfeng Zhang (CAS), Hao Cheng (UCAS) and Zhiyang Zhao (UCAS)

Session 6A (Network and Edge Security, Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems)

Day 2, July 12 3:40pm-5:00pm

DELA: A Deep Ensemble Learning Approach for Cross-layer VSI-DDoS Detection on the Edge

Javad Forough (Umeå University), Monowar Bhuyan (Umeå University), Erik Elmroth (Umeå University)

Consent Routing: Towards Bilaterally Trusted Communication Paths

Mathias Blarer (ETH Zürich), Jonghoon Kwon (ETH Zürich), Vincent Graf Narbel (ICRC), Adrian Perrig (ETH Zürich)

Are you moving as you claim: GPS Trajectory Forgery and Detection in Location-Based Services

Huaming Yang (Nanjing University), Zhongzhou Xia (Nanjing University), Jersy Shin (Nanjing University), Jingyu Hua (Nanjing University), Yunlong Mao (Nanjing University), Sheng Zhong (Nanjing University)

Session 6B (Deep Learning on or for Distributed Systems, Machine Learning)

Day 2, July 12 3:40pm-5:00pm

Sectum: Accurate Latency Prediction for TEE-hosted Deep Learning Inference

Yan Li (Peking University), Junming Ma (Peking University), Hong Mei (Peking University) and Donggang Cao (Peking University)

AIACC-Training: Optimizing Distributed Deep Learning Training through Multi-streamed and Concurrent Gradient Communications

Lixiang Lin (Alibaba Group), Shenghao Qiu (University of Leeds), Ziqi Yu (Alibaba Group), Liang You (Alibaba Group), Long Xin (Alibaba Group), Xiaoyang Sun (University of Leeds), Jie Xu (University of Leeds) and Zheng Wang (University of Leeds),

BikeCAP: a Deep Spatial-temporal Capsule Network for Multi-step Bike Demand Prediction

Shuxin Zhong (Rutgers University), Wenjun Lyu (Rutgers University), Desheng Zhang (Lehigh University) and Yu Yang (Rutgers University)

Session 6C (Federated Learning II, Machine Learning)

Day 2, July 12 3:40pm-5:00pm

Sustainable Federated Learning with Long-term Online VCG Auction Mechanism

Leijie Wu (HK-PolyU), Song Guo (HK-PolyU), Yi Liu (HK-PolyU), Zicong Hong (HK-PolyU), Yufeng Zhan (Beijing Institute of Technology) and Wenchao Xu (HK-PolyU)

FedZKT: Zero-Shot Knowledge Transfer towards Resource-Constrained Federated Learning with Heterogeneous On-Device Models

Lan Zhang (Michigan Technological University), Dapeng Wu (University of Florida) and Xiaoyong Yuan (Michigan Technological University)

Distributionally Robust Federated Learning for Differentially Private Data

Siping Shi (HK-PolyU), Chuang Hu (HK-PolyU), Dan Wang (HK-PolyU), Yifei Zhu (SJTU) and Zhu Han (University of Houston)

Session 6D (Reinforcement Learning and Neural Networks, Machine Learning)

Day 2, July 12 3:40pm-5:00pm

Neurotrie: Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Fast Software IPv6 Lookup

Hao Chen (Tsinghua University), Yuan Yang (Tsinghua University), Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University), Yuxuan Zhang (Baidu) and Chenyi Liu (Tsinghua University)

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Opponent Modeling for Distributed Multi-agent Cooperation

Jiannong Cao (HK-PolyU), Zhixuan Liang (HK-PolyU), Shan Jiang (HK-PolyU), Huafeng Xu (HK-PolyU) and Divya Saxena (HK-PolyU)

Toward Cleansing Backdoored Neural Networks in Federated Learning

Chen Wu (Pennsylvania State University), Xian Yang (NCSU), Sencun Zhu  (Pennsylvania State University), and Prasenjit Mitra  (Pennsylvania State University)

Session 7A (SDN, NFV and Security, Edge Computing)

Day 3, July 13 10:45am-12:25pm

Curb: Trusted and Scalable Software-Defined Network Control Plane for Edge Computing

Minghui Xu (Shandong University), Chenxu Wang (Shandong University), Yifei Zou (Shandong University), Dongxiao Yu (Shandong University), Xiuzhen Cheng (Shandong University), and Weifeng Lv (Beihang University)

Mobility-aware Seamless Virtual Function Migration in Deviceless Edge Computing Environments

Yaodong Huang (Shenzhen University), Zelin Lin (Shenzhen University), Tingting Yao (Shenzhen University), Xiaojun Shang (Stony Brook University), Laizhong Cui (Shenzhen University), and Zhexue Huang (Shenzhen University)

D3: Lightweight Secure Fault Localization in Edge Cloud

Songtao Fu (Tsinghua University), Qi Li (Tsinghua University), Xiaoliang Wang (Capital Normal University), Su Yao (Tsinghua University), Xuewei Feng (Tsinghua University), Ziqiang Wang (Southeast University), Xinle Du (Tsinghua University), Kao Wan (Peng Cheng Laboratory), and Ke Xu (Tsinghua University)

Thwarting Longitudinal Location Exposure Attacks in Advertising Ecosystem via Edge Computing

Le Yu (SJTU), Shufan Zhang (Universitiy of Waterloo), Yan Meng (SJTU), Lu Zhou (SJTU), Haojin Zhu (SJTU), and Suguo Du (SJTU)

Session 7B (Machine Learning on or for Edge Computing, Edge Computing)

Day 3, July 13 10:45am-12:25pm

ContextFL: Context-aware Federated Learning by Estimating the Training and Reporting Phases of Mobile Clients

Huawei Huang (Sun Yat-sen University), Ruixin Li (Sun Yat-sen University), Jialiang Liu (Sun Yat-sen University), Sicong Zhou (Sun Yat-sen University), Kangying Lin (Sun Yat-sen University), and Zibin Zheng (Sun Yat-sen University)

LoADPart: Load-Aware Dynamic Partition of Deep Neural Networks for Edge Offloading

Hongzhou Liu (SJTU), Wenli Zheng (SJTU), Li Li (University of Macau), and Minyi Guo (SJTU)

ENIGMA: Low-Latency and Privacy-Preserving Edge Inference on Heterogeneous Neural Network Accelerators

Qiushi Li (Tsinghua University), Ju Ren (Tsinghua University), Xinglin Pan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Yuezhi Zhou (Tsinghua University), and Yaoxue Zhang (Tsinghua University)

Multi-granularity Weighted Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Computing Systems

Shangxuan Cai (Tianjin University), Yunfeng Zhao (Tianjin University), Zhicheng Liu (Tianjin University), Chao Qiu (Tianjin University), Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University), and Qinghua Hu (Tianjin University)

Session 7C (Blockchain Security & Privacy, Blockchain )

Day 3, July 13 10:45am-12:25pm

MoNet: A Fast Payment Channel Network for Scriptless Cryptocurrency Monero

Zhimei Sui (Monash University), Joseph Liu (Monash University), Jiangshan Yu (Monash University), Xianrui Qin (HKU)

Amanuensis: provenance, privacy, and permission in TEE-enabled blockchain data systems

Taylor Hardin (Dartmouth College) and David Kotz (Dartmouth College)

zkDET: A Traceable and Privacy-Preserving Data Exchange Scheme based on Non-Fungible Token and Zero-Knowledge

Rui Song (HK-PolyU), Shang Gao (HK-PolyU), Yubo Song (Southeast University) and Bin Xiao (HK-PolyU)

The Security Investigation of Ban Score and Misbehavior Tracking in Bitcoin Network

Wenjun Fan (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Simeon Wuthier (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Hsiang-Jen Hong (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Yan Bai (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) and Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

Session 7D (Network Topology and Protocols, Distributed Algorithms and Theory)

Day 3, July 13 10:45am-12:25pm

Supporting Real-time Networkwide T-Queries in High-speed Networks

Yuanda Wang (University of Florida), Haibo Wang (University of Florida), Chaoyi Ma (University of Florida) and Shigang Chen (University of Florida)

Joint Caching and Routing in Cache Networks with Arbitrary Topology

Tian Xie (Pennsylvania State University), Sanchal Thakkar (Pennsylvania State University), Ting He (Pennsylvania State University), Patrick Drew Mcdaniel (Pennsylvania State University), and Quinn Burke (Pennsylvania State University)

Deterministic Self-Adjusting Tree Networks Using Rotor Walks

Chen Avin (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Marcin Bienkowski (University of Wroclaw), Iosif Salem (University of Vienna), Robert Sama (University of Vienna), Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin & University of Vienna) and Paweł Schmidt (University of Wrocław)

Segmented Entanglement Establishment for Throughput Maximization in Quantum Networks

Gongming Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China), Jingzhou Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), Yangming Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China), Hongli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China), and Chunming Qiao (University at Buffalo)

Session 8A (Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware, OS)

Day 3, July 13 2:00pm-2:50pm

Spindle: Techniques for Optimizing Atomic Multicast on RDMA

Sagar Jha (Cornell University), Lorenzo Rosa (University of Bologna), Ken Birman (Cornell University)

QWin: Core Allocation for Enforcing Differentiated Tail Latency SLOs at Shared Storage Backend

Liuying Ma (CAS), Zhenqing Liu (CAS), Jin Xiong (CAS), and Dejun Jiang (CAS)

Session 8B (Datacenter Networking, Cloud Computing and Data Centers)

Day 3, July 13 2:00pm-2:50pm

FlowValve: Packet Scheduling Offloaded on NP-based SmartNICs

Shaoke Xi (Northeasten University & Zhejiang University), Fuliang Li (Northeasten University) and Xingwei Wang (Northeastern University)

PRISM: Streamlined Packet Processing for Containers with Flow Prioritization

Manish Munikar (University of Texas at Arlington), Jiaxin Lei (Binghamton University), Hui Lu (Binghamton University), and Jia Rao (University of Texas at Arlington)

Session 8C (Cross-Technology, IoT)

Day 3, July 13 2:00pm-2:50pm

Defending against Cross-Technology Jamming in Heterogeneous IoT Systems

Sihan Yu (Clemson University), Chunchih Lin (Clemson University), Xiaonan Zhang (Florida State University) and Linke Guo (Clemson University)

SledZig: Boosting Cross-Technology Coexistence for Low-Power Wireless Devices

Junmei Yao (Shenzhen University), Haolang Huang (Shenzhen University), Ruitao Xie (Shenzhen University), Xiaolong Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) and Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University)

Session 8D (Internet of Vehicles, IoT)

Day 3, July 13 2:00pm-2:50pm

Vehicle-Key: A Secret Key Establishment Scheme for LoRa-enabled IoV Communications

Huanqi Yang (City University of Hong Kong), Hongbo Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Yuezhong Wu (University of New South Wales), Chengwen Luo (Shenzhen University), Wei Li (The University of Sydney), Albert Zomaya (The University of Sydney), Linqi Song (City University of Hong Kong) and Weitao Xu (City University of Hong Kong)

mmV2V: Combating One-hop Multicasting in Millimeter-wave Vehicular Networks

Jiangang Shen (SJTU), Hongzi Zhu (SJTU), Yunxiang Cai (SJTU), Bangzhao Zhai (SJTU), Xudong Wang (SJTU), Shan Chang (Donghua University), Haibin Cai (East China Normal University) and Minyi Guo (SJTU)

Session 9A (Machine Learning and Cloud, Cloud Computing and Data Centers)

Day 3, July 13 3:20pm-4:10pm

Performance Optimization of Machine Learning Inference under Latency and Server Power Constraints

Guoyu Chen (Ohio State University) and Xiaorui Wang (Ohio State University)

Supporting Massive DLRM Inference Through Software Defined Memory

Ehsan Ardestani (Meta), Changkyu Kim (Meta), Seung Jae Lee (Meta), Luoshang Pan (Meta), Valmiki Rampersad (Meta), Jens Axboe (Meta), Banit Agrawal (Meta), Fuxun Yu (GMU), Ansha Yu (Meta), Trung Le (UCI), Hector Yuen (Meta), Dheevatsa Mudigere (Meta), Shihsir Juluri (Meta), Akshat Nanda (Meta), Manoj Wadekar (Meta), Krishnakumar Nair (Meta), Maxim Naumov (Meta), Chris Petersen (Meta), Mikhail Smelianskiy (Meta) and Vijay Rao (Meta)

Session 9B (Peer-to-Peer Mechnisms; Fault Tolerance and Dependability)

Day 3, July 13 3:20pm-4:10pm

RAPTEE: Leveraging trusted execution environments for byzantine-tolerant peer sampling services

Matthieu Pigaglio (Université Catholique de Louvain), Joachim Bruneau-Queyreix (University of Bordeaux), David Bromberg (Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA), Davide Frey (Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA), Etienne Rivière (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Laurent Réveillère (University of Bordeaux)

BloomBox: Improving Availability and Efficiency in Geographic Hash Tables

Xinwen Wang (Cornell University), and Robbert Van Renesse (Cornell University)

Session 9C (Graph and Storage, Big Data Processing)

Day 3, July 13 3:20pm-4:35pm

EndGraph: An Efficient Distributed Graph Preprocessing System

Tianfeng Liu (Tsinghua University) and Dan Li (Tsinghua University)

Scube: Efficient Summarization for Skewed Graph Streams

Ming Chen (HUST), Renxiang Zhou (HUST), Hanhua Chen (HUST) and Hai Jin (HUST)

Cymo: A Storage Model with Query-Aware Indexing for Spatio-Temporal Big Data

Yang Guo (CUHK) and Zili Shao (CUHK)

Session 9D (Leader Election, Robust Learning, and Coding; Fault Tolerance and Dependability)

Day 3, July 13 3:20pm-4:35pm

Escape to Precaution against Leader Failures

Gengrui Zhang (University of Toronto) and Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)

Distributed Training for Deep Learning Models On An Edge Computing Network Using Shielded Reinforcement Learning

Tanmoy Sen (University of Virginia) and Haiying Shen (University of Virginia)

PivotRepair: Fast Pipelined Repair for Erasure-Coded Hot Storage

Qiaori Yao (HUST), Yuchong Hu (HUST), Xinyuan Tu (HUST), Patrick P. C. Lee (CUHK), Dan Feng (HUST), Xia Zhu (HUAWEI), Xiaoyang Zhang (HUAWEI), Zhen Yao (HUAWEI) and Wenjia Wei (HUAWEI)