{"id":355739,"date":"2017-02-07T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=355739"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:58:06","slug":"nsdi-17","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/nsdi-17\/","title":{"rendered":"NSDI &#8217;17 and Microsoft Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/nsdi17#venue\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Marriott Long Wharf<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Event site:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/nsdi17\" target=\"_blank\">NSDI &#8217;17<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSDI &#8217;17 focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community to foster a broad approach to addressing overlapping research challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2017-03-27","msr_enddate":"2017-03-29","msr_location":"Boston, MA, USA","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/195843\/registration\/form","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13547],"msr-region":[197900],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-355739","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-systems-and-networking","msr-region-north-america","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<!-- wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"NSDI '17 and Microsoft Research\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\"} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tabs --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Overview\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/nsdi17#venue\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Marriott Long Wharf<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Event site:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/nsdi17\" target=\"_blank\">NSDI &#8217;17<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tabs -->","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"","content":"We are excited to be\u00a0part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/nsdi17\" target=\"_blank\">14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation<\/a> (NSDI '17) at the Boston Marriot Wharf in Boston, MA, March 27-29, 2017. NSDI focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft is a Silver sponsor and proud to have 9 papers been accepted, all of which our researchers in computer systems and networking were involved with. Learn more about our research being presented at NSDI '17 from the list of Accepted papers below.\r\n<h2>Program Committee chairs<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sagarwal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharad\u00a0Agarwal<\/a>, Senior Researcher\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anbadam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anirudh\u00a0Badam<\/a>, Researcher\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ranveer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ranveer\u00a0Chandra<\/a>, Principal Researcher\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/srikanth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Srikanth\u00a0Kandula<\/a>, Senior Researcher\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dmaltz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave\u00a0Maltz<\/a>, Partner Group Software Engineering Manager\r\n<h2>Poster session co-chair<\/h2>\r\nAnirudh\u00a0Badam, Researcher\r\n<h2>Accepted papers<\/h2>\r\n<strong>Evaluating the Power of Flexible Packet Processing for Network Resource Allocation<\/strong>\r\nNaveen Kr. Sharma, Antoine Kaufmann, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Changhoon Kim, Barefoot Networks; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Jacob Nelson, Microsoft Research; Simon Peter, The University of Texas at Austin\r\n\r\n<strong>Skip-Correlation for Multi-Power Wireless Carrier Sensing<\/strong>\r\nRomil Bhardwaj, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/krchinta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Krishna Chintalapudi<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ramjee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ramachandran Ramjee<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\n<strong>Live Video Analytics at Scale with Approximate and Delay-Tolerant Processing<\/strong>\r\nHaoyu Zhang, Microsoft and Princeton University; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ga\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ganesh Ananthanarayanan<\/a>, Peter Bodik, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/matthaip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthai Philipose<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bahl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Bahl<\/a>, Microsoft; Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University\r\n\r\n<strong>CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud Configurations<\/strong>\r\nOmid Alipourfard, Yale University; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jianshuc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jianshu Chen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harliu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hongqiang Liu<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Shivaram Venkataraman, University of California, Berkeley; Minlan Yu, Yale University; Ming Zhang, Alibaba\r\n\r\n<strong>AgriBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture<\/strong>\r\nDeepak Vasisht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zerina Kapetanovic, University of Washington; Jongho Won, Purdue University; Xinxin Jin, University of California, San Diego; Ranveer Chandra, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudipsin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sudipta Sinha<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akapoor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashish Kapoor<\/a>, and Madhusudhan Gumbalapura Sudarshan, Microsoft; Sean Stratman, Dancing Crow Farm\r\n\r\n<strong>RAIL: A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Links in Data Center Networks<\/strong>\r\nDanyang Zhuo, University of Washington; Monia Ghobadi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ratul\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ratul Mahajan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amar Phanishayee<\/a>, and Xuan Kelvin Zou, Microsoft; Hang Guan, Columbia University; Arvind Krishnamurthy and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington\r\n\r\n<strong>TuX2: Distributed Graph Computation for Machine Learning<\/strong>\r\nWencong Xiao, Beihang University; Jilong Xue, Youshan Miao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cncng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheng Chen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/miw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ming Wu<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Wei Li, Beihang University; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidongz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lidong Zhou<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\n<strong>Correct by Construction Networks Using Stepwise Refinement<\/strong>\r\nLeonid Ryzhyk, Samsung Research America; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nbjorner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolaj Bj\u00f8rner<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Marco Canini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Cole Schlesinger, and Douglas B. 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