1. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Network Softwarization"
– From Research to Application

12.-13.10.2017 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

Program

Thursday, 12^th October

13.30-15.00: Industrial Networks & Use Cases (Chair: Prof. M. Menth, Uni Tübingen)

• Retrofitting SDN to Classical In-Vehicle Networks: SDN4CAN (Slides) 
  Michael Doering and Marco Wagner (Robert Bosch GmbH - Corporate Research, Communication and Network Technologies, Renningen,Germany)
• Time-Sensitive Software-Sefined Network (TSSDN) for Real-time Applications (Slides) 
  Naresh Ganesh Nayak, Frank Dürr, and Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS)),
  in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RNTS), October 2016, Brest, France.
• SDN-Assisted Network-Based Mitigation of Slow HTTP Attacks (Slides)
  Thomas Lukaseder, Lisa Maile, Frank Kargl (Ulm University, Institute of Distributed Systems)
• A Software-Defined Firewall Bypass for Congestion Offloading (Slides)
  Florian Heimgaertner, Mark Schmidt, and Michael Menth (Chair of Communication Networks, University of Tuebingen),
  accepted for 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management, Nov. 2017, Tokyo, Japan

15.00-15:20: Coffee Break

15.20-16.30: Architecture of SDN (Chair: Dr. M. Wagner, Robert Bosch GmbH)

• ZeroSDN: A Highly Flexible and Modular Architecture for Full-range Network Control Distribution (Slides)
  Thomas Kohler, Frank Dürr, and Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS)),
  in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), May 2017, Beijing, China.
• Challenges and Solutions for a Flexible High-Performant SDN Hypervisor (Slides)
  Nemanja Deric, Andreas Blenk, Arsany Basta, and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Chair of Communication Networks, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
• Towards a Resilient In-Band SDN Control Channel (Slides)
  Polina Goltsman and Martina Zitterbart (Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Arthur Hecker (Huawei European Research Center), and Roland Bless (Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

16.30-16.50: Coffee Break

16.50-17.35: Teaching Network Softwarization (Chair: Prof. T. Bauschert, TU Chemnitz)

• Theory that Matters! Problem-based learning towards 5G Communication System and Standards (Slides)
  Giang T. Nguyen, Juan A. Cabrera, Robert-Steve Schmoll, Sreekrishna Pandi, Rico Radeke, and Frank H.P. Fitzek (TU Dresden, Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks)
• A Master Course on Network Softwarization: Lectures and Practical Assignments (Slides)
  Frederik Hauser, Mark Schmidt, and Michael Menth (Chair of Communication Networks, University of Tuebingen)

19.00: Social Event @ Bootshaus

 

Friday, 13^th October

8.30-9.40: Security of SDN (Chair: Dr. J. Kögel, IsarNet AG)

• Data Plane (In)Security in Software Defined Networks
  Kashyap Thimmaraju (TU Berlin), Liron Schiff (GuardiCore Labs), and Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University/TU Berlin)
  • Outsmarting Network Security with SDN Teleportation,
    in Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), April 2017, Paris, France
  • Software-Defined Adversarial Trajectory Sampling, Arxiv Technical Report
• Security in Softwarized Networks: Prospects and Challenges (Slides)
  Nicholas Gray, Thomas Zinner, and Phuoc Tran-Gia (Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationsnetze (Informatik III)),
  • SDN/NFV-enabled Security Architecture for Fine-grained Policy Enforcement and Threat Mitigation for Enterprise Networks,
    demo at ACM SIGCOMM, August 2017, Los Angeles, USA
  • FlowFuzz - A Framework for Fuzzing OpenFlow-enabled Software and Hardware Switches,
    talk at 20th Black Hat, July 2017, Las Vegas, NV
• Transparency for Control Plane Software (Slides)
  Benjamin Hof and Georg Carle (Technische Universität München)

09:40-10: Coffee Break

10.00-10.45: SDN for Service Provider Networks (Chair: Dr. F. Dürr, Uni Stuttgart)

• Creating Automated Wide-Area Virtual Networks with GTS – Overview and Future Developments 
  Susanne Naegele-Jackson (Regional Computing Center of Erlangen, Germany), Jerry Sobieski (NORDUnet Kastrup, Denmark), Jakub Gutkowski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Poznan, Poland), and Michal Hazlinsky (CESNET, Prague, Czech Republic),
  in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), December 2016, Luxembourg.
• Resilient Integration of Distributed High-Performance Zones into the BelWue Network Using OpenFlow (Slides)
  Michael Menth, Mark Schmidt, Daniel Reutter (Chair of Communication Networks, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany), Robert Finze (Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany), Sebastian Neuner, and Tim Kleefass (BelWue Koordination, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany),
  in IEEE Communications Magazine, Vo. 55, Issue 4, pp. 94-99, Apr. 2017

10:45-11.05: Coffee Break

11.05-12.15: Evaluation and Monitoring (Chair: Prof. M. Zitterbart, KIT)

• Towards a Shared Evaluation Environment for Software Defined Networking (Slides)
  Addis Dittebrandt, Michael König, Felix Neumeister (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Telematics)
  in Proceedings of the Tagung Informatik, Digitale Kulturen, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), September 2017, Chemnitz, Germany
• NEAT: Network Experiment Automation Tool (Slides)
  Andreas Schmidt and Thorsten Herfet (Saarland Informatics Campus)
• Closed-Loop Control in Network Monitoring (Slides)
  Jochen Kögel (IsarNet Software Solutions GmbH, Munich, Germany)

12.15-12.30: Concluding Discussion

12.30: Sandwiches & Farewell