Accepted Sessions

This is the list of confirmed sessions and workshops. Unlike other conferences, we announce them to the public as soon as the technical committee acknowledges them. Please consider this work-in-progress.

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• Workshops
• Talks
• Tutorials
• BoFs
• Keynotes

• • Workshop: "Linux TC" (Jamal Hadi Salim)
  • Linux Wireless Workshop confirmed
• • Talk: "Speeding up the Linux TCP/IP stack with a fast packet I/O framework" (Michio Honda)
  • Talk: "Virtual switch HW acceleration" (Rony Efraim)
  • Talk: "Challenges in Testing - How OpenSourceRouting tests Quagga" (Martin Winter)
  • Talk: "HW High-Availability and Link Aggregation for Ethernet switch and NIC RDMA using Linux bonding/team" (Or Gerlitz, Tzahi Oved)
  • Talk: "nftables switchdev support" (Pablo Neira Ayuso)
  • Talk: "On getting tc classifier fully programmable with cls_bpf" (Daniel Borkmann)
  • Talk: "Flow-based tunneling for SR-IOV using switchdev API" (Ilya Lesokhin, Haggai Eran, Or Gerlitz)
  • Talk: "Scaling the Number of Network Interfaces on Linux" (David Ahern, Nikolay Aleksandrov, Roopa Prabhu)
  • Talk: "Zebra 2.0 and Lagopus: newly-designed routing stack on high-performance packet forwarder" (Yoshihiro Nakajima, Kunihiro Ishiguro, Masaru Oki, Hirokazu Takahashi)
  • Talk: "Reducing Latency in Linux Wireless Network Drivers" (Tim Shepard)
  • Talk: "Deterministic network emulation using KauNetEm" (Per Hurtig & Johan Garcia)
  • Talk: "Suricata IDPS and its interaction with Linux kernel" (Eric Leblond & Giuseppe Longo)
  • Talk: "The CLASShoFIREs: who's got your back?" (Jamal Hadi Salim, Lucas Bates)
  • Talk: "MACsec: encryption for the wired LAN" (Sabrina Dubroca)
  • Talk: "Bridge filtering with nftables" (Florian Westphal)
  • Talk: "IPv6 route lookup performance and scaling" (Michal Kubeček)
  • Talk: "Measuring wifi performance across all Google Fiber customers" (Avery Pennarun)
  • Talk: "Load balancing with nftables" (Laura Garcia)
  • Talk: "Networking in your pocket: how the Linux networking stack is made to work on Android devices" (Lorenzo Colitti, Erik Kline)
  • Talk: "Kernel-level GTP (Generic Tunneling Protocol) implementation" (Harald Welte & Andreas Schultz)
  • Talk: "State and Future of generic 6LoWPAN branch" (Alexander Aring)
  • Talk: "An adventure of analysis and optimisation of the Linux networking stack" (Marco Varlese, Kim-marie Jones)
  • Talk: "Securing traffic tunnelled over L3" (Sowmini Varadhan)
• • Tutorial: "nftables from ingress" (Pablo Neira Ayuso)
  • Tutorial: "Deploying MPLS with Linux" (Roopa Prabhu)
  • Tutorial: "Namespaces and CGroups, the basis of Linux containers" (Rami Rosen)
  • Tutorial: "Running Cellular Network Infrastructure on Linux" (Harald Welte)
  • Tutorial: "Ipset - a tool for faster, more efficient firewalling with iptables" (Jozsef Kadlecsik)
  • Tutorial: "Using SR-IOV on OpenStack" (Alexander Duyck)
  • Tutorial: "LibOS as a regression test framework for Linux networking" (Hajime Tazaki)
  • Tutorial: "In-tree support for 100G switch, no more SDK" (Elad Raz, Jiri Pirko)
  • Tutorial confirmed: "Using the VRF Implementation in Linux" (David Ahern)
• • BoF: "Describing datapath processing from userspace policy" (Brenden Blanco, John Fastabend)
  • BoF: "Network Performance BoF" (Jesper Dangaard Brouer)
  • BoF: "switchdev" (Roopa Prabhu & Shrijeet Mukherjee)
  • BoF: "IPsec performance" (Steffen Klassert)
  • BoF: "Unlocking SR-IOV in Linux" (John Fastabend)
• • Keynote: "Linux Networking and Data Center Operations Challenges" (Damascene Joachimpillai)
  • Keynote: "Hardware Checksumming: Less is More" (David S. Miller)

Please, don't forget to submit your proposals before 20/12/2015. Final conference schedule will be announced on 03/02/2016.