Microsoft sessions
*All times listed below in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Monday, April 12
10:15 AM–11:45 AM | Datacenter Networking and SDNs
Inter-Datacenter Bulk Transfers with CodedBulk
Shih-Hao Tseng, Saksham Agarwal, Rachit Agarwal, Hitesh Ballani, Ao Tang
01:45 PM–3:00 PM | Network Management
Contracting Wide-area Network Topologies to Solve Flow Problems Quickly
Firas Abuzaid, Srikanth Kandula, Behnaz Arzani, Ishai Menache, Matei Zaharia, Peter Bailis
Cost-effective Cloud Edge Traffic Engineering with Cascara
Rachee Singh, Sharad Agarwal, Matt Calder, Victor Bahl
3:15 PM–4:00 PM | Web and Video
SENSEI: Aligning Video Streaming Quality with Dynamic User Sensitivity
Xu Zhang, Yiyang Ou, Siddhartha Sen, Junchen Jiang
Tuesday, April 13
10:00 AM–11:30 AM | Databases and Analytics
TEGRA: Efficient Ad-Hoc Analytics on Evolving Graphs
Anand Iyer, Qifan Pu, Kishan Patel, Joseph Gonzalez, Ion Stoica
Move Fast and Meet Deadlines: Fine-grained Real-time Stream Processing with Cameo
Le Xu, Shivaram Venkataraman, Indranil Gupta, Luo Mai, Rahul Potharaju
Wednesday, April 14
10:00 AM–11:15 AM | Machine Learning in a Systems Context
Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan Ports, Peter Richtarik