View source for Sdn course papers 2017

* Presentations will be from XX on April XX, yy. 
* Each presenter gets 8-10 minutes of presentation time and 2-3 minutes for Q&A. 

== Papers for Final Presentations ==


* SDN Infrastructures: 
** Achieving High Utilization with Software-Driven WAN, Chi-Yao Hong, Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan, Ming Zhang, Vijay Gill, Mohan Nanduri, Roger Wattenhofer, Sigcomm 2013 (Ratib)
** B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN, Sushant Jain et al., Sigcomm 2013 (Sudhir) 
** SDX: A Software Defined Internet Exchange, Arpit Gupta et al., Sigcomm 2014 (Alireza)
* OpenFlow:
** A NICE Way to Test OpenFlow Applications, Marco Canini, Daniele Venzano, Peter Perešini, Dejan Kostić, Jennifer Rexford, NSDI 2012 (Nidhi)
** A SOFT Way for OpenFlow Interoperability Testing, Maciej Kuźniar, Peter Perešíni, Marco Canini, Daniele Venzano, Dejan Kostić, CoNEXT 2012 (Dhaval)
* SDN-based Measurement
** FlowSense: Monitoring Network Utilization with Zero Measurement Cost, Curtis Yu, Cristian Lumezanu, Vishal Singh, Yueping Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Harsha V. Madhyastha, PAM 2013 (Monisha)
** Software-defined Latency Monitoring in Data Center Networks, Curtis Yu, Cristian Lumezanu, Abhishek Sharma, Qiang Xu, Guofei Jiang, Harsha V. Madhyastha, PAM 2015 (Aynur)
* OpenFlow Efficiency: 
** DevoFlow: Scaling Flow Management for High-performance Networks, Andrew R. Curtis, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Jean Tourrilhes, Praveen Yalagandula, Puneet Sharma, Sujata Banerjee, Sigcomm 2011 
** Scalable Flow-based Networking with DIFANE, Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Michael J. Freedman, Jia Wang, Sigcomm 2010 
* Distributed or Centralized Control? 
** Central Control Over Distributed Routing, Stefano Vissicchio (UCLouvain), Olivier Tilmans (UCLouvain), Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), SIGCOMM 2015 (Abdul)
** The (Surprising) Computational Power of the SDN Data Plane, C. Newport et al, INFOCOM 2015 (Khalur)

* Middlebox Optimization/Load balancers - I 
** [https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi16/nsdi16-paper-heorhiadi.pdf Simplifying SDN optimization using SOL]
** [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1652374/SDN_course_WS2015-2016/GD/Full_papers/CoMB-nsdi12.pdf CoMB: Design and Implementation of consolidated Middlebox architecture] (Ander)

* Middlebox Optimization/Load balancers - II 
** [https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi16/nsdi16-paper-khalid.pdf Paving the way for NFV: Simplifying middlebox modifications Using StateAlyzr]
** [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2396566 XoMB: Extensible Open Middleboxes with comodity servers]

* SDN and Fault Tolerance
** [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2016/papers/sosr_paper57.pdf LegoSDN: Isolating and tolerating SDN application failures with LegoSDN] (Nrithya)
** [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2016/papers/sosr_paper67.pdf Hula: scalable load balancing using programmable data planes. (NSDI 2016)] (ChenCheng)

* Switch Optimization 
** [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1652374/SDN_course_WS2015-2016/presentation/papers/nsdi15-Open-vSwitch.pdf The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch] 
** [https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi14/nsdi14-paper-martins.pdf ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization] (Saidul)

* Resiliency - I
** [http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps296.4/fall14/Papers/split-merge.pdf Split/Merge: System Support for Elastic Execution in Virtual Middleboxes] (Fabio)
** [https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~vsekar/Teaching/Fall14/18859K/papers/picoreplication.pdf Pico Replication: A High Availability Framework for Middleboxes] (Nrithya)

* Resiliency - II
** [https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01497 StreamNF: Performance and Correctness for Stateful Chained NFs]
** [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p227.pdf Rollback-Recovery for Middleboxes (FTMB)] (Nidhi)

* Miscellaneous Papers - I 
** [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2016/papers/sosr_paper69.pdf CacheFlow] (Ankita)
** [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2016/papers/sosr_paper62.pdf Safe and Flexible Controller upgrades in SDN] (Musharaf)
** [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2016/papers/sosr_paper42.pdf Improving SDN with InSPired Swithes] (Ishwarya)
** Panopticon: Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise Networks, Dan Levin, Marco Canini, Stefan Schmid, Fabian Schaffert, Anja Feldmann, USENIX ATC 2014
** [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p199.pdf McTLS]