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Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure improve the efficiency and capacity of cloud-scale optical networks

December 1, 2017 | Victor Bahl

Today, at HotNets 2017, the Sixteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, we shared with you some important research results from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure that show how we can increase the capacity of…

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Wi-Fly: Widespread Opportunistic Connectivity via Commercial Air Transport

Talal Ahmad, Ranveer Chandra, Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz, Michael Daum

HotNets-XVI: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (ACM HotNets) | December 2017

HotNets-XVI: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

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Rethinking Congestion Control for Cellular Networks

Prateesh Goyal, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan

ACM HotNets | December 2017

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Network Stack as a Service in the Cloud

Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Dongsu Han, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Guo Chen, Keith Winstein

HotNets-XVI | December 2017

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Inferring Formal Properties of Production Key-Value Stores

Edgar Pek, Pranav Garg, Muntasir Raihan Rahman, Karl Palmskog, Indranil Gupta, Madhusudan Parthasarathy

December 2017

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The Case for Moving Congestion Control Out of the Datapath

Akshay Narayan, Frank Cangialosi, Prateesh Goyal, Srinivas Narayana, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan

ACM HotNets | December 2017

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Run, Walk, Crawl: Towards Dynamic Link Capacities

Rachee Singh, Manya Ghobadi, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Mark Filer, Phillipa Gill

Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks | November 2017

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Enabling Reliable, Asynchronous, and Bidirectional Communication in Sensor Networks over White Spaces

Abusayeed Saifullah, Mahbubur Rehman, Dali Ismail, Chenyang Lu, Jie Liu, Ranveer Chandra

ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’17) | November 2017

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Harvesting Randomness to Optimize Distributed Systems

Mathias Lecuyer, Joshua Lockerman, Lamont Nelson, Siddhartha Sen, Amit Sharma, Aleksandrs Slivkins

16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) | November 2017

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Tagger: Practical PFC Deadlock Prevention in Data Center Networks

Shuihai Hu, Yibo Zhu, Peng Cheng, Chuanxiong Guo, Kun Tan, Jitu Padhye, Kai Chen

CoNEXT | November 2017

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