Internet Systems Group Seminar
Winter 2006

List of Papers

• January 12th
  Organizational Meeting

• January 19th
  An Overlay MAC Layer for 802.11 Networks. Ananth Rao and Ion Stoica. Mobisys 2005.
  Presenter: Trevor.

• January 26th
  Trickles: A Stateless Network Stack for Improved Scalability, Resilience and Flexibility. Alan Shieh, Andrew Myers, Emin Gun Sirer. NSDI 2005
  Presenter: Troy.

• February 2nd
  Vivaldi: A Decentralized Network Coordinate System. Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris. Sigcomm 2004.
  Presenter: Iqbal.

• February 9th
  Meridian: A Lightweight Network Location Service without Virtual Coordinates. Bernard Wong, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Emin Gun Sirer. Sigcomm 2005.
  Presenter: Nilton.

• February 16th
  PRACTI Replication, M. Dahlin, L. Gao, A. Nayate, A. Venkataramani, P. Yalagandula, J. Zheng.
  Presenter: Gokul.

• Februrary 23rd
  Reading Week. No classes.

• March 2nd
  Improving Availability and Performance with Application-Specific Data Replication, L. Gao, M. Dahlin, A. Nayate, J. Zheng, A. Iyengar, IEEE Transactions on Knowlege and Data Engineering.
  Presenter: Jin.

• March 9th
  Dual-Quorum Replication for Edge Services, L. Gao, M. Dahlin, J. Zheng, L. Alvisi, A. Iyengar, Middleware 2005
  Presenter: Madalin.

• March 16th
  Seminar canceled.

• March 23rd
  Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds. Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi, Matthias Jacob, and Arthur Berger. NSDI 2005
  Presenter: Ian.

• March 30th
  Using Emulation to Understand and Improve Wireless Networks and Applications. Glenn Judd and Peter Steenkiste. NSDI 2005
  Presenter: Jing.

• April 6th
  Database Replication Policies for Dynamic Content Applications. Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, Ashvin Goel. Eurosys 2006.
  Presenter: Gokul.