Main Conference Program

Opening Ceremony

Day 1, July 19 08:30am – 09:00am

Keynote 1: Hsiang-Tsung Kung (Harvard University)

Day 1, July 19 09:00am – 10:15am

Session A-1 (AI 1)
Session Chair: Marco Canini

Day 1, July 19 10:45am – 12:15pm

Chang Chen, Min Li and Chao Yang, “bbTopk: Bandwidth-Aware Sparse Allreduce with Blocked Sparsification for Efficient Distributed Training”

Xinghan Wang, Xiaoxiong Zhong, Jiahong Ning, Tingting Yang, Yuanyuan Yang, Guoming Tang and Fangming Liu, “Two-Stage Coded Distributed Learning: A Dynamic Partial Gradient Coding Perspective”

Bing Luo, Yutong Feng, Shiqiang Wang, Jianwei Huang and Leandros Tassiulas, “Incentive Mechanism Design for Unbiased Federated Learning with Randomized Client Participation”

Shan Chang, Yuting Tao, Hongzi Zhu and Bo Li, “FriendSeeker: Inferring Hidden Friendship in Mobile Social Networks with Sparse Check-in Data”

Session B-1 (Blockchain 1)
Session Chair: Bin Xiao

Day 1, July 19 10:45am – 12:15pm

Xiaoli Zhang, Zhicheng Xu, Hongbing Cheng, Tong Che, Ke Xu, Weiqiang Wang, Wenbiao Zhao, Chunping Wang and Qi Li, “Secure Collaborative Learning in Mining Pool via Robust and Efficient Verification”

Aggelos Kiayias, Cristopher Moore, Saad Quader and Alexander Russell, “Adaptively Secure Random Beacons for Ungrindable Blockchains”

Prasanth Chakka, Saurabh Joshi, Aniket Kate, Joshua Tobkin and David Yang, “Oracle Agreement: From an Honest Super Majority to Simple Majority”

Zeta Avarikioti, Tomasz Lizurej, Tomasz Michalak and Michelle Yeo, “Lightning Creation Games”

Session C-1 (Cloud 1)
Session Chair: Qingyang Wang

Day 1, July 19 10:45am – 12:15pm

Danfeng Shan, Yuqi Liu, Tong Zhang, Yifan Liu, Yazhe Tang, Hao Li and Peng Zhang, “Less is More: Dynamic and Shared Headroom Allocation in PFC-enabled Datacenter Networks”

Zhang Liu, Dirk Grunwald, Joseph Izraelevitz, Gaukas Wang and Sangtae Ha, “MRTOM: Mostly Reliable Totally Ordered Multicast, a Network Primitive to Offload Distributed Systems”

Aakash Sharma, Vivek Bhasi, Sonali Singh, Rishabh Jain, Jashwant Raj, Subrata Mitra, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, George Kesidis and Chita Das, “STASH: A comprehensive stall-centric characterization of public cloud VMs for distributed deep learning”

Zhaorui Wu, Yuhui Deng, Yi Zhou, Jie Li and Shujie Pang, “FaaSBatch: Enhancing the Efficiency of Serverless Computing by Batching and Expanding the Functions”

Session A-2 (AI 2)
Session Chair: Stefano Ferretti

Day 1, July 19 14:00pm – 15:30pm

Xueyu Wu, Zhuoran Ji and Cho-Li Wang, “Embedding Communication for Federated Graph Neural Networks with Privacy Guarantees”

Lin Zhang, Longteng Zhang, Shaohuai Shi, Xiaowen Chu and Bo Li, “Evaluation and Optimization of Gradient Compression for Distributed Deep Learning”

Hong Huang, Lan Zhang, Chaoyue Sun, Ruogu Fang, Xiaoyong Yuan and Dapeng Wu, “Distributed Pruning Towards Tiny Neural Networks in Federated Learning”

Shijing Yuan, Hongtao Lv, Hongze Liu, Chentao Wu, Song Guo, Zhi Liu, Hongyang Chen and Jie Li, “TradeFL: A Trading Mechanism for Cross-Silo Federated Learning”

Session B-2 (Blockchain 2)
Session Chair: Peng Li

Day 1, July 19 14:00pm – 15:30pm

Xiaohai Dai, Yifan Zhou, Jiang Xiao, Feng Cheng, Xia Xie, Hai Jin and Bo Li, “GeckoDAG: Towards A Lightweight DAG-based Blockchain via Reducing Data Redundancy”

Shuyang Tang and Sherman S. M. Chow, “Decentralized Adaptive Control of Cryptocurrency Liquidity via Auction”

Xiaodong Qi, Jiao Jiao and Yi Li, “Smart Contract Parallel Execution with Fine-Grained State Accesses”

Qing Xia, Zhirong Huang, Wensheng Dou, Yafeng Zhang, Fengjun Zhang, Geng Liang and Chun Zuo, “Detecting Flash Loan Based Price Manipulation Attacks in Ethereum”

Session C-2 (Cloud 2)
Session Chair: Wei Wang

Day 1, July 19 14:00pm – 15:30pm

Zhijun Wang, Huiyang Li, Lin Sun, Rosenkrantz Stoddard, Hao Che and Hong Jiang, “TailGuard: Tail Latency SLO Guaranteed Task Scheduling for Data-Intensive User-Facing Applications”

Guorui Xie, Qing Li, Guanglin Duan, Yong Jiang, Zhuyun Qi, Shuo Liu and Qiaoling Wang, “Efficient Flow Recording with InheritSketch on Programmable Switches”

Yinbin Miao, Chao Xu, Yifeng Zheng, Ximeng Liu, Xiangdong Meng and Robert H. Deng, “Efficient and Secure Spatial Range Query over Large-scale Encrypted Data”

Jesse Donkervliet, Javier Ron, Junyan Li, Tiberiu Iancu, Cristina L. Abad and Alexandru Iosup, “OurSys: A Use-Case for Serverless Computing in Online Gaming”

Panel: “ChatGPT and its Impact on Distributed Computing,” chaired by Prof. Wei Zhao (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Day 1, July 19 16:00pm – 17:30pm

Reception

Day 1, July 19 18:00pm – 21:00pm

Keynote 2: Cecilia Mascolo (Cambridge University, UK)

Day 2, July 20 09:00am – 10:15am

Session A-3 (AI 3)
Session Chair: Kui Wu

Day 2, July 20 10:45am – 12:15pm

Lin Zhang, Shaohuai Shi, Xiaowen Chu, Wei Wang, Bo Li and Chengjian Liu, “Accelerating Distributed Deep Learning with Fine-Grained All-Reduce Pipelining”

Akash Dhasade, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pires, Rishi Sharma, Milos Vujasinovic and Jeffrey Wigger, “Get More for Less in Decentralized Learning Systems”

Xian Su, Brian Sukhnandan and Jun Li, “On Arbitrary Ignorance of Stragglers with Gradient Coding”

Jiancheng Ye, Dong Lin, Kechao Cai, Chao Zhou, Jianfei He and John C.S. Lui, “Data-Driven Rate Control for RDMA Networks: A Lightweight Online Learning Approach”

Session B-3 (Blockchain 3)
Session Chair: Daniel Petrus Reijsbergen

Day 2, July 20 10:45am – 12:15pm

Lingxiao Yang, Xuewen Dong, Sheng Gao, Qiang Qu, Xiaodong Zhang, Wensheng Tian and Yulong Shen, “Optimal Hub Placement and Deadlock-Free Routing for Payment Channel Network Scalability”

Zhenxing Hu, Shengjie Guan, Wenbo Xu, Zhen Xiao, Jie Shi, Pengze Li, Qiuyu Ding, Hui Ding and Chao Zeng, “A Data Flow Framework with High Throughput and Low Latency for Permissioned Blockchains”

Zhuo Xu, Xinyi Luo, Kaiping Xue, David Wei and Ruidong Li, “SeRedact: Secure and Efficient Redactable Blockchain with Verifiable Modification”

Session C-3 (Edge 1)
Session Chair: Liyao Xiang

Day 2, July 20 10:45am – 12:15pm

Jiajie Xie, Zhi Zhou, Tao Ouyang, Xiaoxi Zhang and Xu Chen, “Fair DNN Model Selection in Edge AI via A Cooperative Game Approach”

Ziwei Wang, Yunfeng Zhao, Chao Qiu, Qiang He, Xin Wang, Xiaofei Wang and Qinghua Hu, “SocialEdge: Socialized Learning-Based Request Scheduling for Edge-Cloud Systems”

Zheyuan Hu, Jianwei Niu and Tao Ren, “TransOff: Towards Fast Transferable Computation Offloading in MEC via Embedded Reinforcement Learning”

Mohsen Imani, Yeseong Kim, Behnam Khaleghi, Justin Morris, Haleh Alimohamadi, Farhad Imani and Hugo Latapie, “Hierarchical, Distributed and Brain-Inspired Learning for Internet of Things Systems” #### 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch #### 13:00 – 14:45

Session A-4 (Security 1)
Session Chair: Qingchuan Zhao

Day 2, July 20 13:30pm – 14:45pm

Rui Ning, Jiang Li, Chunsheng Xin, Chonggang Wang, Xu Li, Robert Gazda, Jin-Hee Cho and Hongyi Wu, “ScanFed: Scalable Behavior-based Backdoor Detection in Federated Learning”

Xinyan Li, Yuefeng Du and Cong Wang, “RangeQC: A Query Control Framework for Range Query Leakage Quantification and Mitigation”

Massimo La Morgia, Alessandro Mei, Alberto Maria Mongardini and Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, “A Game of NFTs: Characterizing NFT Wash Trading in the Ethereum Blockchain”

Session B-4 (IoT 1)
Session Chair: Yeseong Kim

Day 2, July 20 13:30pm – 14:45pm

Yiming Zeng, Jiarui Zhang, Ji Liu, Zhenhua Liu and Yuanyuan Yang, “Entanglement Routing over Quantum Networks Using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Measurements”

Haiming Jin, Yifei Wei, Zhaoxing Yang, Zirui Liu and Guiyun Fan, “Multi-Intersection Management for Connected Autonomous Vehicles by Reinforcement Learning”

Changlin Yang, Ying Liu, Kwan-Wu Chin, Jiguang Wang, Huawei Huang and Zibin Zheng, “A Novel Two-Layer DAG-based Reactive Protocol for IoT Data Reliability in Metaverse”

Session C-4 (Wireless 1)
Session Chair: Zhixuan Fang

Day 2, July 20 13:30pm – 14:45pm

Han Zheng, Mengjing Liu, Fan Ye and Yuanyuan Yang, “RoADTrain: Route-Assisted Decentralized Peer Model Training Among Connected Vehicles”

Shuyue Li, Chaocan Xiang, Wenzheng Xu, Jian Peng, Zichuan Xu, Jing Li, Weifa Liang and Xiaohua Jia, “Coverage Maximization of Heterogeneous UAV Networks”

Weipeng Zhuo, Ka Ho Chiu, Jierun Chen, Ziqi Zhao, S.-H. Gary Chan, Sangtae Ha and Chul-Ho Lee, “FIS-ONE: Floor Identification System with One Label for Crowdsourced RF Signals”

Session A-5 (Security 2)
Session Chair: Chenxiong Qian

Day 2, July 20 15:15pm – 16:30pm

Zhikang Liu, Hongyun Xu, Yong Kuang and Feng Li, “SVMDformer: A Semi-supervised Vehicular Misbehavior Detection Framework based on Transformer in IoV”

Xin Yao, Yu Zhan, Yimin Chen, Fengxiao Tang, Ming Zhao, Enlang Li and Yanchao Zhang, “DUO: Stealthy Adversarial Example Attack on Video Retrieval Systems via Frame-Pixel Search”

Wei Tong, Wenjie Chen, Tingxuan Han, Haoyu Chen and Sheng Zhong, “Differentially Private Two-Party Top-K Frequent Item Mining”

Session B-5 (IoT 2)
Session Chair: Yash Madhwal

Day 2, July 20 15:15pm – 16:30pm

Yang Chi, Chi Lin, Yu Tian and Lei Wang, “Flexible Topological Control for Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks”

Yu Tian, Lei Wang, Chi Lin, Haipeng Dai, Yu Su, Bingxian Lu, Zhenquan Qin and Peizheng Guo, “Reliable Data Delivery in Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks”

Yuchen Su, Guoqing Jiang, Yicong Du, Yuefeng Chen, Huan Dai, Hongbo Liu, Yan Wang, Yanzhi Ren, Shuai Li and Yingying Chen, “$P^2Auth$: Two-factor Authentication Leveraging PIN and Keystroke-induced PPG measurements”

Session C-5 (Wireless 2)
Session Chair: Bing Luo

Day 2, July 20 15:15pm – 16:30pm

Yanzhi Ren, Zhiliang Xia, Siyi Li, Hongbo Liu, Yingying Chen, Shuai Li and Hongwei Li, “EchoImage: User Authentication on Smart Speakers Using Acoustic Signals”

Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Cong Shi, Zhengkun Ye, Tianming Zhao, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen and Nitesh Saxena, “EmoLeak: Smartphone Motions Reveal Emotions”

Zhengjie Yang, Sen Fu, Wei Bao, Dong Yuan and Bing Zhou, “Hierarchical Federated Learning with Adaptive Momentum in Multi-Tier Networks”

Banquet

Day 2, July 20 18:00pm – 20:00pm

Keynote 3: Moti Yung (Google, USA)

Day 3, July 21 09:00am – 10:15pm

Session A-6 (Security 3)
Session Chair: Rafael Pires

Day 3, July 21 10:45am – 12:00pm

Man-Ki Yoon, “Accountable Data Propagation Using Verifiable Peer Shuffling”

Shariful Alam, Le Guan, Zeyu Chen, Haining Wang and Jidong Xiao, “CAUSEC: Cache-based Secure Key Computation with (Mostly) Deprivileged Execution”

Simon Queyrut, Pascal Felber and Valerio Schiavoni, “Mitigating Adversarial Attacks in Federated Learning with Trusted Execution Environments”

Session B-6 (IoT 3)
Session Chair: Jiang Xiao

Day 3, July 21 10:45am – 12:00pm

Jingyang Hu, Hongbo Jiang, Daibo Liu, Zhu Xiao, Hangcheng Cao, Yue Qi, Jiangchuan Liu and Schahram Dustdar, “An Acoustic Signal-based Middle-Ear Effusion Detection using Earphones”

Omid Tavallaie, Seid Miad Zandavi, Hamed Haddadi and Albert Zomaya, “GT-TSCH: Game-Theoretic Distributed TSCH Scheduler for Low-Power IoT Networks”

Feng Lyu, Cheng Tang, Yongheng Deng, Liu Tong, Yongmin Zhang and Yaoxue Zhang, “A Prototype-Based Knowledge Distillation Framework for Heterogeneous Federated Learning”

Session C-6 (Wireless 3)
Session Chair: Shan Chang

Day 3, July 21 10:45am – 12:00pm

Niloofar Bahadori, Yoshitomo Matsubara, Marco Levorato and Francesco Restuccia, “SplitBeam: Effective and Efficient Beamforming in Wi-Fi Networks Through Split Computing”

Jialiang Ma, Li Li, Zejiang Wang, Jun Wang and Chengzhong Xu, “HCPerf: Driving Performance-Directed Hierarchical Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles”

Li Jiang, Yihang Zhang, Jinyu Yin, Bin Liu and Xinggong Zhang, “LEOTP: An Information-centric Transport Layer Protocol for LEO Satellite Networks”

Session A-7 (Algorithm 1)
Session Chair: Zhigang Wang

Day 3, July 21 13:30pm – 15:00pm

Robin Vassantlal, Hasan Heydari and Alysson Bessani, “On the Minimal Knowledge Required for Solving Stellar Consensus”

Hasan Heydari, Guthemberg Silvestre and Alysson Bessani, “Asynchronous Weight Reassignment in Weighted Majority Quorums”

Zhiming Huang, Kaiyang Liu and Jianping Pan, “End-to-end Congestion Control as Learning for Unknown Games with Bandit Feedback”

Session B-7 (Streaming and Mobile Edge Computing)
Session Chair: Qin Liu

Day 3, July 21 13:30pm – 15:00pm

Mohammad Monzurul Amin Ifath, Miguel Cardoso Neves and Israat Haque, “Fast Prototyping of Distributed Stream Processing Applications with stream2gym”

Yuanjian Liu, Sheng Di, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster and Franck Cappello, “Optimizing Scientific Data Transfer on Globus with Error-bounded Lossy Compression”

Yu Liu, Yingling Mao, Xiaojun Shang, Zhenhua Liu and Yuanyuan Yang, “Energy-Aware Online Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Computing”

Session C-7 (Edge 2)
Session Chair: Wanyu Lin

Day 3, July 21 13:30pm – 15:00pm

Jiaming Huang, Yi Gao and Wei Dong, “Elastic DNN Inference with Unpredictable Exit in Edge Computing”

Xudong Qin, Qiaomin Xie and Bin Li, “Distributed Threshold-based Offloading for Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Computing”

Jiangran Wang and Indranil Gupta, “Churn-tolerant Leader Election Protocols”

Shuomiao Su, Zhi Zhou, Tao Ouyang, Ruiting Zhou and Xu Chen, “Learning to Be Green: Carbon-Aware Online Control for Edge Intelligence with Colocated Learning and Inference”

Session A-8 (Algorithm 2)
Session Chair: Elisa Bertino

Day 3, July 21 15:30pm – 17:00pm

Max Hahn-Klimroth and Dominik Kaaser, “On the Impossibility of Reconstructing the Patient Zero from Sensor Measurements”

Jingrong Wang and Ben Liang, “Distributed Online Min-Max Load Balancing with Risk-Averse Assistance”

Zhigang Wang, Zichao Yang, Ning Wang, Yujie Du, Jie Nie, Zhiqiang Wei, Yu Gu and Ge Yu, “Lightweight Streaming Graph Partitioning by Fully Utilizing Knowledge from Local View”

Session B-8 (Systems, Dependability, and Industry Experience)
Session Chair: Bu Zhong

Day 3, July 21 15:30pm – 17:00pm

Ziwei Xiong, Dejun Jiang and Jin Xiong, “FastStore: A High-Performance RDMA-enabled Distributed Key-Value Store with Persistent Memory”

Alexandros Antonov and Spyros Voulgaris, “SecureCyclon: Dependable Peer Sampling, “Dependability”

Yi Liu, Jiangping Han, Kaiping Xue, Ruidong Li and Jian Li, “L2BM: Switch Buffer Management for Hybrid Traffic in Data Center Networks, “Dependability”

Jinyu Zhao, Haifeng Sun, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Zirui Zhuang, Shimin Tao and Jianxin Liao, “CONFPILOT: A Pilot for Faster Configuration by Learning from Device Manuals, “Insights from Industrial Experience”

Session C-8 (Edge 3)
Session Chair: Shaohuai Shi

Day 3, July 21 15:30pm – 17:00pm

Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, David Breitgand and Dean H. Lorenz, “PASE: Pro-active Service Embedding in The Mobile Edge”

Tianyu Qi, Yufeng Zhan, Peng Li, Jingcai Guo and Yuanqing Xia, “Hwamei: A Learning-based Aggregation Framework for Hierarchical Federated Learning System”

Ziyi Wang, Songyu Zhang, Jing Cheng, Zhixiong Wu, Zhen Cao and Yong Cui, “Edge-assisted Adaptive Configuration for Serverless-based Video Analytics”

Zhiqiang Cao, Zhijun Li, Yongrui Chen, Heng Pan, Youbing Hu and Jie Liu, “Edge-Cloud Collaborated Object Detection via Difficult-Case Discriminator”