Internet Systems Group Seminar
Summer 2008

This Term

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 Sigcomm and NSDI conferences. The seminar is organized this summer by Yashar Ganjali, Jorg Liebeherr and Stefan Saroiu.

List of Papers

• June 6th
  FatVAP: Aggregating AP Backhaul Capacity to Maximize Throughput. Srikanth Kandula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kate Ching-Ju Lin, National Taiwan University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tural Badirkhanli and Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. NSDI 2008
  Discussion leader: Tim.

• June 13th
  DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model. Diwaker Gupta, Kashi V. Vishwanath, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego. NSDI 2008
  Discussion leader: Monia.

• June 20th
  Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks. Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, and Dennis Fetterly. Eurosys 2007.
  Discussion leader: Igor.

• June 27th
  Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda Networks. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Einar Vollset, Cornell University. NSDI 2008
  Discussion leader: Geoff.

• July 4th
  Ethane: taking control of the enterprise. Martin Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, and Scott Shenker. Sigcomm 2007
  Discussion leader: Amin.

• July 11th
  Cancelled.

• July 18th
  RD Network Services: Differentiation through Performance Incentives. M. Podlesny and S. Gorinsky. Sigcomm 2008.
  Discussion leader: Yashar.

• July 25th
  Accountable Internet Protocol (AIP). David G. Andersen (CMU); Hari Balakrishnan (MIT); Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech); Teemu Koponen (ICSI / HIIT); Daekyeong Moon (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley). Sigcomm 2008.
  Discussion leader: Majid.

• August 1st
  A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture. Mohammad Al-Fares, Alexander Loukissas, Amin Vahdat. UCSD. Sigcomm 2008.
  Discussion leader: Tony

• August 8th. Room Change: BA5256
  Rationality and Traffic Attraction: Incentives for Honest Path Announcements in BGP. S. Goldberg, S. Halevi, A. Jaggard, V. Ramachandran, R. Wright. Sigcomm 2008.
  Discussion leader: Sharon Goldberg.

• August 15th
  OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks. Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Guru Parulkar, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, and Jonathan Turn. Whitepaper published in ACM SIGCOMM CCR. April 2008.
  Discussion leader: John.