Internet Systems Group Seminar
Summer 2007

This Term

This term will break from the traditional format of the seminar. Instead, we will be running a reading group. We meet each week after reading the paper assigned. One student is in charge with presenting a short summary of the paper. Discussion ensues afterwards. This seminar is organized this summer by Andrew Miklas, Kiran Gollu, and Stefan Saroiu.

List of Papers

• May 10th
  Web Search Clickstreams. Nils Kammenhuber, Julia Luxenburger, Anja Feldmann, and Gerhard Weikum. IMC 2006.
  Discussion leader: Andrew.

• May 17th
  Cobra: Content-based Filtering and Aggregation of Blogs and RSS Feeds. Ian Rose, Rohan Murty, Peter Pietzuch, Jonathan Ledlie, Mema Roussopoulos, and Matt Welsh. NSDI 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Kiran.

• May 24th
  Capturing Complexity in Networked Systems Design: The Case for Improved Metrics. Sylvia Ratnasamy. Hotnets 2006.
  Discussion Leader: Robert.

• May 31st
  Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of RD Interference on 802.11 Networks. Ramakrishna Gummadi (USC), David Wetherall (UW/Intel Research), Ben Greenstein (Intel Research), Srinivasan Seshan (CMU). Sigcomm 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Yashar.

• June 7th
  A Data-Oriented (and Beyond), Network Architecture. Teemu Koponen (ICSI/HIIT), Mohit Chawla, Byung-Gon Chun, Andrey Ermolinskiy, Kye Hyun Kim (UCB), Scott Shenker (ICSI/UCB), Ion Stoica (UCB). Sigcomm 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Tim.

• June 14th
  TightLip: Keeping Applications from Spilling the Beans. Ayad Yumerefendi, Benjamin Mickle, Landon Cox. NSDI 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Ivan.

• June 21st
  Cancelled.

• June 28th
  From Uncertainty to Belief: Inferring the Specification Within. Ted Kremenek, Paul Twohey, Godmar Back, Andrew Ng, Dawson Engler. OSDI 2006.
  Discussion Leader: Andrew.

• July 5th
  Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices. Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Sean Rhea, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris. OSDI 2006.
  Discussion Leader: Kiran.

• July 12th
  EnsemBlue: Integrating Distributed Storage and Consumer Electronics. Daniel Peek and Jason Flinn. OSDI 2006.
  Discussion Leader: Majid.

• July 19th
  Cancelled.

• July 26th
  Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness: Bugs in Systems Code. Charles Killian, James W. Anderson, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego. NSDI 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Robert.

• August 2nd
  Spamscatter: Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure.. David S. Anderson, Chris Fleizach, Stefan Savage and Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego, Usenix Security
  Discussion Leader: Ivan.

• August 9th
  Lottery Trees: Motivational Deployment of Networked Systems. John R. Douceur, Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research). Sigcomm 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Kiran.

• August 16th
  Can Internet Video-on-Demand Be Profitable?Cheng Huang, Jin Li (Microsoft Research), Keith W. Ross (Polytechnic University). Sigcomm 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Andrew.

• August 23rd
  Trading Structure for Randomness in Wireless Opportunistic Routing. Szymon Chachulski, Michael Jennings, Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi (MIT). Sigcomm 2007.
  Discussion Leader: Majid.