Seventh Annual Microsoft Research Networking Summit

8:00am – 8:30am

Breakfast

8:30am – 8:45am

Welcome & Round Table Introductions

8:45am – 10:05am

Exploiting Context (Chair: Ming Zhang, MSR Redmond)

1. A framework for context-aware applications, Ashok Agarwala, University of Maryland. (slides 1) (slides 2)
2. Context-awareness, cloudlets and the case for AP-embedded, anonymous computing, Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research Seattle. (slides)
3. Towards context-aware computing via the mobile social cloud, Rick Han, University of Colorado. (slides)
4. Intentional Networking, Brian Noble, University of Michigan. (slides)

10:05am – 10:15am

Break

10:15am – 11:35am

Partitioning & Offloading (Chair: Jitu Padhye, Microsoft Research)

1. Leveraging fast VM fork for next generation mobile perception, Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto. (slides)
2. The role of cloudlets in mobile computing, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University. (slides)
3. Programming smartphones as distributed systems with extreme heterogeneity, Lin Zhong, Rice University. (slides)
4. Resource-intensive mobile computing (Project MAUI), Alec Wolman, MSR Redmond. (slides)

11:35am – 11:45am

Break

11:45am – 12:30pm

Round Table Discussion: My favorite mobile computing research paper from last three years (not my own)

12:30pm – 1:20pm

Mingling & Lunch

1:20pm – 3:00pm

Novel Scenarios (Chair: Ratul Mahajan, MSR Redmond)

1. Remembering what matters, Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University (slides (opens in new tab))
2. Cloudlets on phones, Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington (slides)
3. Experiences with a vehicular cloud computing platform, Jason Flinn, University of Michigan (slides)
4. Cloudy with a chance of mobile social computing, Maria Ebling, IBM Research (slides)Understanding the behavior of a large-scale, multi-player, mobile game in the wild, Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin (slides)

3:00pm – 3:10pm

Bio Break

3:10pm – 3:50pm

Security & Privacy (Chair: Srikanth Kandula, Microsoft Research)

1. Vanish: self-destructing digital data, Yoshi Kohno, University of Washington
2. Improving the Security of Commodity Hypervisors for Cloud Computing, Stefan Saroiu, MSR Redmond (slides)

3:50pm – 5:10pm

Social Event

Fun times at Lucky Strike Lane & Lounge (opens in new tab)

Group photos & mingling

5:10pm – 6:30pm

Cloud Infrastructure (Chair: Sharad Agarwal, MSR Redmond)

1. Centralize what you can, distribute what you must: a telco’s view to the cloud, Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Research. (slides)
2. Networking as a service: cloud centric networking in a federated network environment, Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis. (slides)
3. Educational support infrastructure for mobile + cloud computing (Project HAWAII), Jitendra Padhye, MSR Redmond. (slides)
4. Future challenges from FAWN, Dave Andersen, CMU. (slides)

7:00pm

Cocktails & Dinner Banquet at Purple Cafe (opens in new tab)

Host: Rico Malvar, Distinguished Engineer and Managing Director, MSR Redmond

8:30am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 9:50am

Round Table Discussion: My five year research agenda in mobile computing

9:50am – 10:00am

Break

10:00am – 11:20pm

Research Showcase (Demos & Posters)

• A Mobile Search and Advertisement Cache Architecture (Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, MSR)
• Diversity in Smartphone Usage (Hossein Falaki, Ratul Mahajan, Deborah Estrin, UCLA & MSR)
• Trends in Mobile and Cloud Computing (Joongheon Kim, Bin Liu, Nilesh Mishra, Luis Pedrosa, University of Southern California)
• Continuous Sensing on Mobile Phones (Bodhi Priyantha, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, MSR Redmond)
• A Platform for Mobile-Cloud Computing in Streams (Fan Yang, MSR Asia)
• Anatomizing Application Performance Differences on Smartphones (Junxian Huang, Qiang Xu, Birjodh Tiwana, Z. Morley Mao, Ming Zhang, Victor Bahl, Michigan & MSR)
• Network solutions for challenged environments (Azarias Reda, Univeristy of Michigan)
• Intentional Networking (Brett Higgins, Brian Noble, University of Michigan)
• Augmenting Mobile 3G using Wi-Fi (Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, UMASS & MSR)
• The Anatomy of a Large Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Game (Ashish Patro, Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin)
• Anonymous APIs = Anonymous Cloud Services (Aaron Beach, Colorado)
• Using Multiple Wearable Sensors Dynamically to Facilitate Activity Recognition (Cem Onyuksel, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Trusted Sensors (Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, MSR Redmond)
• Virtual Compass: relative positioning to enable mobile social interactions (Sharad Agarwal, Victor Bahl, Nilanjan Banerjee, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, Mark Corner, UMASS & MSR)
• Sierra: practical power-proportionality for data center storage (Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly, Dushyanth Narayanan, MSR Cambridge)
• FoneAstra: Making Mobile Phones Smarter (Rohit Chaudhri, Kentaro Toyama, Bill Thies, University of Washington & MSR India)
• Energy Efficient Mobile Computing Through Cloud Offloading (Yunxin Liu, Yongqiang Xiong, Microsoft Research Asia)

11:20am – 12:30pm

Panel: “Smartphone: is this it?”

Moderator: Victor Bahl, MSR Redmond

Panelists:

• Susie Wee (opens in new tab), CTO, Client Cloud Services, Hewett Packard
• Subrahmanyam Goparaju (opens in new tab), Vice President and Head, SETLabs, Infosys
• Keith Rowe, Director of Hardware, KIN, Microsoft Corporation
• Dan P. Siewiorek (opens in new tab), Director of HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

12:30pm – 12:40pm

Set up Working Groups

12:40pm – 1:30pm

Mingling & Lunch

1:30pm – 3:30pm

Brainstorming

WG1: Cloud services for mobile

• Discussion lead: Alex C. Snoeren (opens in new tab), UCSD

WG2: Smartphone 2020 & disruptive hardware capabilities

• Discussion lead: Doug Burger, eXtreme Computing Group, MSR

WG3: Sleep well – designing for security & privacy

• Discussion lead: Brad Karp (opens in new tab), University College London.

WG4: Game changing platform & applications

• Discussion lead: Romit Roy Choudhury (opens in new tab), Duke University.

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Working Group Presentations

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Round Table Impressions & Wrap-up

6:00pm

Plated Dinner at Westin Hotel in the GrandBall Room-C (opens in new tab)