Folks,
The conference is about two weeks away.
If you have been procrastinating - now is the time
to register.
As you can see we have amazing talks, working sessions
and tutorials. We have a legend giving a keynote.
Thanks to the Program Committee. Check:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/schedule.html
We wish we didnt have the parallel tracks on day 1 because
if you are like me, I am sure you will want to attend all
the sessions. Perhaps we should not have reopened the CFS.
Alas. Lessons learnt.
The "Bits, Nibbles, Bytes and Words" event is expected
to be a great human-networking event amongst geeks:
whether you want to chit-chat with like minded people
in a social environment, see what our sponsors are up to
or just looking for job opportunities, come and mingle in
a comfortable environment.
Apart from the talks - Montreal is amazing. We are going
to continue updating you with what you could do in
Montreal but for starters do look at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/montreal.html
To the locals in Montreal:
If we are missing anything you think is exciting
to see - ping us at info(a)netdevconf.org
We are also in the process of setting up a wiki
where we will add a lot more info..
Before i forget, to register goto:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/registration.html
cheers,
jamal
Ok, sorry - that was a lame subject line but hopefully
caught your attention;->
We are looking for volunteers to help us capture
the sessions at the 0x12 conference. The end goal is
to make the larger community aware of these
discussions.
The reports will be sent to Linux Weekly News(lwn).
Pick one or two talks that you are interested
in; to ease thing for you we will ask the speakers to
be accessible to you and if it would help give you early
access to slides and papers.
For a sample space of what we did in 2.2 look at:
https://lwn.net/Articles/738759/
and:
https://lwn.net/Articles/738895/
cheers,
jamal
The schedule has been posted!
We have a new format:
Day 1 is a working day! Only workshops, tutorials and BoFs.
Day 2 and 3 are keynote and talks.
Unfortunately we were unable to keep day 1 to a single
track. We hope people would appreciate the effort put into
getting days 2 and 3 - which are talk days to a single track!
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/schedule.html
cheers,
jamal
The program committee has accepted a BoF session.
Cellular networks exhibit significant variations in
bottleneck link rates even over short time durations.
AQM techniques like fq-codel with ECN feedback are
insufficient.
It is challenging to properly evaluate congestion
control approaches over cellular network paths; it
gets difficult when it involves in-network mechanisms,
since it is not easy to deploy a test network running
new network-layer mechanisms in such setups.
Hari Balakrishnan et al will lead a BoF discussion
to help formalize the constraints of the problem and
formulate ways in which the community should evaluate
congestion control protocols for cellular networks.
This BOF will put forward an evaluation technique involving
collection of real-world cellular network traces and
then replaying them on Linux based infrastructure.
The Mahimahi toolset facilitates such a setup utilizing
Linux containers.
This approach allows for experimenting and validating
newly coded algorithms on Linux in an accurate environment.
To kick things off in this BoF and frame future discussions,
Hari et will illustrate how to use collected traces and
evaluate the Accel-Brake Control (ABC) approach using the
Mahimahi toolset.
More info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?congestion-control-for-cellula…
cheers,
jamal
This is an invitation to participate in the
"Bits, Nibbles, Bytes and Words" event at
Netdev 0x12 on the 12th of July, 2018[1].
If you are working on a project that is open source
or on protocols that are open and tied to Linux
Networking then you are eligible.
We will provide either a table or a spot on a table
for you at the event where you can demo or talk about
your project to attendees and their companions as well
as our sponsors. There will be electrical power and
wifi available at the tables.
This opportunity is offered free of charge to you but we
have limited spots since we need time to prepare.
Send your request to info(a)netdevconf.org
Deadline for submission is June 29th.
cheers,
jamal
[1]https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/news.html?bits-nibbles-bytes-and-words
The Bits, Nibbles, Bytes and Words event will be held
on day 2 of Netdev 0x12 conference at the outdoor
terrace of the Hyatt Regency on July 12th at 6 pm[1]
with a beautiful view of downtown Montreal.
We will be serving cocktails, bits and bites and an
opportunity to network between attendees, sponsors,
and open source linux networking projects. Food bits
will be nibbled on, bitten into, and words (only big
words, the best words!) will be exchanged!
This event is open to all attendees and anyone
accompanying them to the conference (family members,
etc - dont have to be registered). We just ask that
if you are bringing someone just let the registration
desk know when you pick your badge so we can plan
better for food and drinks.
We will have tables for sponsors for marketing and
recruiting. We will also provide a table for any
project that is open to make attendees aware of their
work (we will send out a separate note requesting open
source projects to request for space).
cheers,
jamal
[1]https://montreal.regency.hyatt.com/multimedia/fr/regency/mtlrm/gateway.im…
UDP segmentation was recently introduced to the Linux kernel.
In this talk, Boris Pismenny and Yossi Kupperman present their efforts
towards supporting UDP segmentation offload with existing net devices.
They will talk about limitations they encountered and how they
overcame them. Based on these experiences, Boris and Yossi
have some suggestion on how to improve the Linux networking stack
to generalize their work and make driver development easier.
More info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?udp-segmentation-offload
cheers,
jamal
Field applications and IoT require low latency (we are talking
Sub 10 msecs), high throughput and secure, and highly reliable
communications.
Think traffic intersection monitoring, remote surgery, industrial
robotics, etc.
How do we get there on Linux?
Tom Herbert will chair a session which goes into these requirements.
He will try to motivate the discussion with a live physical demo of
traffic intersection using a slot car track.
More info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?achieving-super-low-latency-fo…
cheers,
jamal