Internet Systems Group Seminar
Summer 2006

This term's focus

Over the summer, the focus of this seminar will be on current networking research with a systems approach. We will present and discuss papers from recent NSDI, Sigcomm, and Infocom conferences. The seminar is organized this summer by Jorg Liebeherr and Stefan Saroiu.

List of Papers

• June 8th
  To Infinity and Beyond: Time-Warped Network Emulation. Diwaker Gupta, Kenneth Yocum, Marvin McNett, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego. NSDI 2006
  Presenter: Troy Ronda.

• June 15th
  An Architecture for Internet Data Transfer. Niraj Tolia, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Research Pittsburgh; David G. Andersen and Swapnil Patil, Carnegie Mellon University. NSDI 2006
  Presenter: Andres Lagar.

• June 22nd
  Datagram Congestion Control Protocol.E. Kohler, M. Handley, and S. Floyd. Internet Engineering Task Force RFC 4340, March 2006. Proposed Standard. IETF link: RFC 4340.
  Presenter: Tao Xu.

• June 29th
  PCP: Efficient Endpoint Congestion Control. Thomas Anderson, Andrew Collins, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and John Zahorjan. University of Washington. NSDI 2006.
  Presenter: Florin Ciucu.

• July 6th
  DDoS Defense by Offense. Michael Walfish, Mythili Vutukuru, Hari Balakrishnan, David Karger, and Scott Shenker, MIT and ICSI. Sigcomm 2006.
  Presenter: Andrew Miklas.

• July 13th
  Revisiting IP Multicast. Sylvia Ratnasamy, Andrey Ermolinskiy, and Scott Shenker. UC Berkeley. Sigcomm 2006.
  Presenter: Wittawat Tantisiriroj.

• July 20th
  Minimizing Churn in Distributed Systems. P. Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica. UC Berkeley. Sigcomm 2006.
  Presenter: Kelvin Chan.

• July 27th
  Drafting Behind Akamai (Travelocity-Based Detouring). A-J. Su, David Choffnes, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Fabian Bustamante. Northwestern. Sigcomm 2006.
  Presenter: Madalin Mihailescu.

• August 3rd
  XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding. Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Medard, and Jon Crowcroft. MIT and U. of Cambridge. Sigcomm 2006.
  Presenter: Zhi An.

• August 10th
  In VINI Veritas: Realistic and Controlled Network Experimentation. Andy Bavier, Nick Feamster, Mark Huang, Larry Peterson, and Jennifer Rexford, Princeton and Georgia Tech. Sigcomm 2006.
  Presenter: Shaoyi Chen

• August 17th
  Break. No seminar.

• August 24th
  Analysis of Human Encounters in a Mobile Setting. Andrew Miklas, Kelvin Chan, and Stefan Saroiu. Work in progress.
  Presenter: Andrew Miklas

• August 31st
  A Network Service Curve Approach for the Stochastic Analysis of Networks. F. Ciucu, A. Burchard, and J. Liebeherr. Sigmetrics 2005.
  Presenter: Jorg Liebeherr