Doctoral Symposium

(8:50 – 15:30 EST) (14:50 – 21:30 CET)

Tutorial 1

( 09:00 – 11:30 EST ) ( 15:00 – 17:30 CET )

Middleware and toolkit for next generation AI hardware acceleration
Kaoutar El Maghraoui (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Fabio Carta (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

8th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT)

(9:00 – 12:00 EST) (15:00 – 18:00 CET)

Fifth Workshop on Distributed Infrastructures for Deep Learning (DIDL)

(11:00 – 13:30 EST) (17:00 – 19:30 CET)

The Seventh International Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds (WoC)

(11:00 – 16:00 EST) (17:00 – 22:00 CET)

Tutorial 2

( 09:00 – 11:30 EST ) ( 15:00 – 17:30 CET )

Connext DDS for Middleware Researchers: a Gentle Introduction to the Leading Distributed Connectivity Framework for Autonomous Systems
Kyle E Benson (RTI. University of California, Irvine)

2nd International Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for the Common Good (DICG)

(11:00 – 14:45 EST) (17:00 – 20:45 CET)

Seventh International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC7)

(11:00 – 16:00 EST) (17:00 – 22:00 CET)

Opening speech and announcement for Middleware 2022

( 08:45 – 9:00 EST ) ( 14:45 – 15:00 CET )

Kaiwen Zhang (ÉTS Montréal), Abdelouahed Gherbi (ÉTS Montréal), Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine), Luís Veiga (Instituto Superior Técnico, U.Lisboa & INESC-ID).

Keynote #1

( 09:00 – 10:00 EST ) ( 15:00 – 16:00 CET )

Chair: Ali Kanso (Microsoft)

Is Cloud Good or Bad for the Environment?
Tamar Eilam (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Towards Transparent and Trustworthy Cloud Carbon Accounting

Discussion Break

( 10:00 – 10:15 EST ) ( 16:00 – 16:15 CET )

Please use our Slack and Zoom to discuss

Research Session 1. Serverless Computing

(10:15 – 11:00 EST) (16:15 – 17:00 CET)

Chair: Vinod Muthusamy (IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre)

SeBS: A Serverless Benchmark Suite for Function-as-a-Service Computing
Marcin Copik, Grzegorz Kwasniewski, Maciej Besta (ETH Zurich); Michal Podstawski (Future Processing SA); Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich)

Sizeless: Predicting the Optimal Size of Serverless Functions
Simon Eismann, Long Bui, Johannes Grohmann (University of Würzburg); Cristina Abad (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral); Nikolas Herbst (University of Würzburg, Germany); Samuel Kounev (University of Wuerzburg)

Experience Paper: Towards Enhancing Cost Efficiency in Serverless Machine Learning Training
Marc Sánchez- Artigas, Pablo Gimeno Sarroca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Discussion Break

( 11:00 – 11:15 EST ) ( 17:00 – 17:15 CET )

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Research Session 2. Security and Privacy

(11:15 – 12:00 EST) (17:15 – 18:00 CET)

Chair: Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California, Davis)

PProx: Efficient Privacy for Recommendation-as-a-Service
Guillaume Rosinosky (ICTEAM, UCLouvain); Simon Da Silva (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, LaBRI, UMR ); Sonia Ben Mokhtar (INSA Lyon, LIRIS, CNRS); Daniel Négru, Laurent Réveillère (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, LaBRI, UMR ); Etienne Rivière (ICTEAM, UCLouvain)

Privacy Preserving Event based Transaction System in a Decentralized Environment
Rabimba Karanjai (University Of Houston); Lei Xu (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley); Zhimin Gao (Auburn University at Montgomery); Lin Chen (Texas Tech University); Kaleem Mudabbir (University Of Houston); Weidong Shi (University of Houston)

Experience Paper: sgx-dl: Dynamic Loading and Hot-Patching for Secure Applications
Nico Weichbrodt, Joshua Heinemann, Lennart Almstedt (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Pierre-Louis Aublin (IIJ Innovation Insitute, Japan); Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig, Germany)

Lunch Break

( 12:00 – 13:00 EST ) ( 18:00 – 19:00 CET )

Research Session 3. Fault tolerance and Trusted Computing

(13:00 – 14:00 EST) (19:00 – 20:00 CET)

Chair: Étienne Rivière (UCLouvain)

RamCast: RDMA-based Atomic Multicast
Long Le Hoang and Mojtaba Eslahi Kelorazi (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland); Paulo Coelho (Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil); Fernando Pedone (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland)

Precursor: A Fast, Client-Centric and Trusted Key-Value Store using RDMA and Intel SGX
Ines Messadi, Shivananda Neumann, Nico Weichbrodt, Lennart Almstedt, Mohammad Mahhouk, Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig)

Prosecutor: An Efficient BFT Consensus Algorithm with Behavior-aware Penalization against Byzantine Attacks
Gengrui Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)

Gossip Consensus
Daniel Cason and Nenad Milosevic (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland); Zarko Milosevic (Informal Systems, Toronto, Canada); Fernando Pedone (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland)

Discussion Break

( 14:00 – 14:15 EST ) ( 20:00 – 20:15 CET )

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Demos and Posters

(14:15 – 15:15 EST) (20:15 – 21:15 CET)

This session will be held on the ohyay platform.

Keynote #2

( 09:00 – 10:00 EST ) ( 15:00 – 16:00 CET )

Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine)

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles as A Grand Challenge for Middleware in Cyber-Physical Systems
Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University)

Discussion Break

( 10:00 – 10:15 EST ) ( 16:00 – 16:15 CET )

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Research Session 4. Consistency and Transactions

(10:15 – 11:00 EST) (16:15 – 17:00 CET)

Chair: Pascal Felber (University of Neuchâtel)

FaaSTCC: Efficient Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing
Taras Lykhenko, Rafael Soares, Luis Rodrigues (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)

Highly-Available and Consistent Group Collaboration at the Edge with Colony
Ilyas Toumlilt (Sorbonne Université, LIP6, Inria); Pierre Sutra (Télécom SudParis); Marc Shapiro (Sorbonne Université, LIP6, Inria)

FW-KV: Improving Read Guarantees in PSI
Masoomeh Javidi Kishi and Roberto Palmieri (Lehigh University)

Discussion Break

( 11:00 – 11:15 EST ) ( 17:00 – 17:15 CET )

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Research Session 5. Systems Support for Machine Learning

(11:15 – 12:00 EST) (17:15 – 18:00 CET)

Chair: Sonia Ben Mokhtar (CNRS, INSA Lyon)

Implicit Model Specialization through DAG-based Decentralized Federated Learning
Jossekin Beilharz (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin); Bjarne Pfitzner (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam); Robert Schmid (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin); Paul Geppert, Bernd Arnrich, Andreas Polze (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam)

SwitchFlow: Preemptive Multitasking for Deep Learning
Xiaofeng Wu, Jia Rao (The University of Texas at Arlington); Wei Chen (Nvidia Corporation); Hang Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology); Chris Ding (The University of Texas at Arlington); Heng Huang (University of Pittsburgh)

Towards Optimal Placement and Scheduling of DNN Operations with Pesto
Ubaid Ullah Hafeez, Xiao Sun, Anshul Gandhi, and Zhenhua Liu (Stony Brook University)

Lunch Break

( 12:00 – 13:00 EST ) ( 18:00 – 19:00 CET )

Industry Session

(13:00 – 14:00 EST) (19:00 – 20:00 CET)

Chair: Ali Kanso (Microsoft)

Authenticated Key-Value Stores with Hardware Enclaves
Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University); Qi Zhang (IBM TJ Watson); Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University); Jason Chen (Syracuse University)

The Serverless Shell
Aurèle Mahéo, Pierre Sutra (Télécom SudParis); Tristan Tarrant (RedHat)

Polygon: A QUIC-Based CDN Server Selection System Supporting Multiple Resource Demands
Mengying Zhou, Tiancheng Guo, Yang Chen (Fudan University); Junjie Wan (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.); Xin Wang (Fudan University)

Procedure-driven Deployment Support for the Microservice Era
Amit Sheoran, Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University); Puneet Sharma (Hewlett Packard Labs); Navin Modi (Purdue University)

Discussion Break

( 14:00 – 14:15 EST ) ( 20:00 – 20:15 CET )

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Research Session 6. Virtualization and Runtimes

(14:15 – 15:15 EST) (20:15 – 21:15 CET)

Chair: Fabio Kon (University of São Paulo)

A Fresh Look at the Architecture and Performance of Contemporary Isolation Platforms
Vincent van Rijn and Jan S. Rellermeyer (TU Delft)

Montsalvat: Intel SGX Shielding for GraalVM Native Images
Peterson Yuhala, Jämes Ménétrey, Pascal Felber, Valerio Schiavoni (Université de Neuchâtel); Alain Tchana (ENS Lyon/Inria); Gaël Thomas (Télécom SudParis/Institut Polytechnique de Paris); Hugo Guiroux, Jean-Pierre Lozi (Oracle Labs)

Xar-Trek: Run-time Execution Migration among FPGAs and Heterogeneous-ISA CPUs
Edson Horta, Ho-Ren Chuang, Naarayanan Rao VSathish (Virginia Tech); Cesar Philippidis (Rasec Tech); Antonio Barbalace (The University of Edinburgh); Pierre Olivier (The University of Manchester); Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech)

Experience Paper: Danaus - Isolation and Efficiency of Container I/O at the Client Side of Network Storage
Giorgos Kappes and Stergios V. Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina)

Keynote #3

( 09:00 – 10:00 EST ) ( 15:00 – 16:00 CET )

Chair: Abdelouahed Gherbi (École de technologie supérieure)

The Cloud to Things Continuum – Infrastructure and Management
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)

Discussion Break

( 10:00 – 10:15 EST ) ( 16:00 – 16:15 CET )

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Research Session 7. Distributed Caching and Monitoring

(10:15 – 11:00 EST) (16:15 – 17:00 CET)

Chair: K.R. Jayaram (IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre)

SHARC: Improving Adaptive Replacement Cache with Shadow Recency Cache Management
Xiaoming Du and Cong Li (Intel Corporation)

CaT: Content-aware Tracing and Analysis for Distributed Systems
Tânia Esteves, Francisco Neves, Rui Oliveira, João Paulo (INESC TEC & University of Minho)

Lognroll: Discovering Accurate Log Templates by Iterative Filtering
Byungchul Tak (Kyungpook National University); Wook-Shin Han (Pohang University of Science and Technology)

Discussion Break

( 11:00 – 11:15 EST ) ( 17:00 – 17:15 CET )

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Research Session 8. Real-time and Latency-sensitive Services

(11:15 – 12:00 EST) (17:15 – 18:00 CET)

Chair: Roman Vitenberg (University of Oslo)

YASMIN: a Real-time Middleware for COTS Heterogeneous Platforms
Benjamin Rouxel (University of Amsterdam); Sebastian Altmeyer (University of Augsburg); Clemens Grelck (University of Amsterdam)

Memory at Your Service: Fast Memory Allocation for Latency-critical Services
Aidi Pi, Junxian Zhao, Shaoqi Wang, Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado Colorado Springs)

Magic-Pipe: Self-optimizing video analytics pipelines
Giuseppe Coviello, Yi Yang, Kunal Rao, Srimat Chakradhar (NEC Laboratories America Inc.)

Lunch Break

( 12:00 – 13:00 EST ) ( 18:00 – 19:00 CET )

Test-of-Time Award

Chair: Gordon Blair (Lancaster University)

(13:00 – 13:15 EST) (19:00 – 19:15 CET)

GreenWare: Greening Cloud-Scale Data Centers to Maximize the Use of Renewable Energy
Yanwei Zhang, Yefu Wang (University of Tennessee, Knoxville); Xiaorui Wang (University of Tennessee, Knoxville & The Ohio State University, Columbus)

Research Session 9. Storage and Scheduling

(13:15 – 14:00 EST) (19:15 – 20:00 CET)

Chair: Dilma Da Silva (Texas A&M University)

Snarl: Entangled Merkle Trees for Improved File Availability and Storage Utilization
Racin Nygaard (University of Stavanger); Vero Estrada-Galiñanes (EPFL); Hein Meling (University of Stavanger)

Lachesis: A Middleware for Customizing OS Scheduling of Stream Processing Queries
Dimitris Palyvos-Giannas (Chalmers University of Technology); Gabriele Mencagli (University of Pisa); Marina Papatriantafilou, Vincenzo Gulisano (Chalmers University of Technology)

Let’s Wait Awhile: How Temporal Workload Shifting Can Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Cloud
Philipp Wiesner, Ilja Behnke, Dominik Scheinert (Technische Universität Berlin); Kordian Gontarska (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam); Lauritz Thamsen (Technische Universität Berlin)

Discussion Break

( 14:00 – 14:15 EST ) ( 20:00 – 20:15 CET )

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Best Paper Awards

(14:15 – 14:20 EST) (20:15 – 20:20 CET)

Chair: Luís Veiga (Instituto Superior Técnico, U.Lisboa & INESC-ID), Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine)

Announcement of the Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards for Middleware'21.

SwitchFlow: Preemptive Multitasking for Deep Learning (Best Paper)
Xiaofeng Wu, Jia Rao, Wei Chen, Hang Huang, Chris Ding, and Heng Huang

Sizeless: Predicting the Optimal Size of Serverless Functions (Best Student Paper)
Simon Eismann, Long Bui, Johannes Grohmann, Cristina Abad, Nikolas Herbst, and Samuel Kounev

RamCast: RDMA-based Atomic Multicast (Best Student Paper Finalist)
Long Le Hoang, Mojtaba Eslahi Kelorazi, Paulo Coelho, and Fernando Pedone

Precursor: A Fast, Client-Centric and Trusted Key-Value Store using RDMA and Intel SGX (Best Student Paper Finalist)
Ines Messadi, Shivananda Neumann, Nico Weichbrodt, Lennart Almstedt, Mohammad Mahhouk, and Rüdiger Kapitza

Business Meeting and Concluding Remarks

(14:20 – 15:20 EST) (20:20 – 21:20 CET)

Chair: Hans-Arno Jacobsen (MSRG)

In this public meeting, we will discuss the future of the conference and gather feedback from the audience.