# Academic Salon on High-Performance and Low Latency Networks and Systems [toc] ## Aims * Core technologies on High Speed and Low-Latency Communication * Advanced Networking Concepts with Programmable Network Components and In-Networked Computation * Applications, in particular from the industrial domain, with requirements met by these core technologies, and that benefit from the capability of the advanced concepts * Network-related innovations, contributions on implementation, innovative technologies, methods and tools for performance assessment, and insights into applications with high demands on performance and resilience. ## Topical Scope * Network-related innovations, in particular architecture innovations such as acceleration techniques for packet processing in Network Interface Cards and Switches * Innovative processing and I/O technologies, such as P4-based protocol processing and remote DMA technologies * Design, specification, verification, implementation, measurement, testing, and analysis of advanced network components * Methods, tools and research infrastructure for performance assessment * Applications and use-cases, in particular of the industrial domain. ## Organisation by Technical University of Munich * Georg Carle (Chair) ## Dates and Location * Afternoon November 30th and Morning December 1st, 2023 * TUM-IAS Institute of Advance Studies * Lichtenbergstraße 2 a, 85748 Garching bei München * also online (Hybrid Event) ## Tools * There will be a Zoom session for each day of the Academic Salon. * Zoom Instructions: https://hedgedoc.net.in.tum.de/s/L2NouHhqs * Presenters can upload their slides here: https://oc.net.in.tum.de/s/MM6As7tX2DFXS8Q ### Zoom Details https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/s/64047174770 Webinar-ID (Meeting ID): 640 4717 4770 Passcode: 469 161 ## Program ## Thursday 30.11.2023 ### Get together - 12:45 - 14:00 Small lunch ### Session 1 - 14:00 - 15:30 #### Topic Area: Innovations for High-Performance Packet Processing Topics: * High-Speed Stateful Packet Processing * Tb/s Traffic Generation for Ethernet/IP Networks * Never Miss Twice -- Add-On-Miss State Insertions in P4 Speakers: * Tom Barbette, UCLouvain (Keynote) * Steffen Lindner, University of Tübingen - Group of Michael Menth * Manuel Simon, TUM #### Discussion * Panel Discussion: What is the future of pipelined processor approaches, such as RMT and PISA, see Pensando and Tofino, vs. eBPF and CPUs? ### Session 2 - 16:15 - 17:45 #### Topic Area: Tools and Research Infrastructures for Network Experiments Topics: * Methods, Tools and Research Infrastructures for Low-Latency Network Experiments * Data Management and Evaluation Speakers: * Damien Saucez, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis * Sebastian Gallenmüller, TUM #### Discussions * Panel Discussion: Which Research Infrastructure and Tools foster best scientific Collaborations? ### Dinner 19:00 Location: Garchinger Augustiner Freisinger Landstraße 4 85748 Garching bei München http://www.garchinger-augustiner.com/ ## Friday 1.12.2023 ### Session 3 - 9:00 - 10:50 #### Topic Area: Networking in industrial scenarios Topics: * QoS mechanisms for Industrial Applications * P4-based Implementation of Per-Stream Filtering and Policing * Time-Sensitive Networking with Central Network Controller * Containing Low Tail-Latencies in Packet Processing Speakers: * Lisa Maile, University Erlangen-Nürnberg * Steffen Lindner, University of Tübingen - Group of Michael Menth * Hamza Chahed, Karlstad University - Research group member of Andreas Kassler, Deggendorf Institute of Technology and Karlstad University * Max Helm, TUM #### Discussion * Panel Discussion: With our understanding of how we can ensure quality and latency guarantees, what are the limitations we would like to overcome? ### Session 4 - 11:20 - 13:15 #### Topic Area: Real-Time Networking approaches and tools Topics: * Performance Evaluation and Configuration in Decentralized TSN * Container-based Network Emulation * Hybrid Experimentation for TSN * Reproducible experiments of threshold cryptography functions and trusted execution environments Speakers: * David Raunecker, University of Würzburg - Group of Tobias Hoßfeld * Florian Wiedner, TUM * Marcin Bosk, TUM * Filip Rezabek, TUM #### Discussion * Panel Discussion: How well can we predict latency properties of systems in support of time-sensitive applications? How detailed do we want to monitor data plane properties? #### Wrapup of the Academic Salon ### Small Lunch ## Registration * If you want to dial-in or join the event in person, there is a link provided for registration. Please note that the number of spots for on-site participations are limited. The link for registration is: https://forms.gle/F3BcxUVqHH3FbH6bA ## Venue - Institute of Advanced Studies, Garching Campus of TUM Address: Lichtenbergstraße 2 a, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany * Faculty club, fourth floor   ## Transport * Subway U6 - Garching Forschungszentrum * Possible to arrive with a car - free parking on * https://goo.gl/maps/xYCkBZeuAETk3Xez6 * For other inqueries contact the Organizing committee chairs