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ACM CoNEXT 2008 Technical Program

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Wednesday 2008-12-10
08:00 - 17:00 Registration (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Address (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  Ilma. Sra. Dª. Clara Eugenia Núñez, Director-General of Universities and Research in Madrid Regional Government; Carlos Balaguer, Vice-Rector of Research at University Carlos III of Madrid; Emilio Olías, Director of the Engineering School at University Carlos III of Madrid
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome and Introductory Remarks (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  Technical Program Chairs: Keith W. Ross (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA); Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Presentation by 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  802.11 Networks: From the Urban, to the Enterprise, to What?
  Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Pittsburgh, USA)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
10:50 - 12:30 Internet Measurement I (Session Chair: Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  Is There Life in Second Life?
  Matteo Varvello (Eurecom - Thomson, FR); Fabio Picconi (Thomson, FR); Christophe Diot (Thomson, FR); Ernst Biersack (Institut EURECOM, FR)
  Troubleshooting Chronic Conditions in Large IP Networks
  Ajay Mahimkar (University of Texas at Austin, US); Jennifer Yates (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Yin Zhang (University of Texas at Austin, US); Aman Shaikh (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Jia Wang (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Zihui Ge (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Cheng Ee (AT&T, US)
  Packet Doppler: Network Monitoring using Packet Shift Detection
  Tongqing Qiu (Georgia Tech, US); Jian Ni (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Hao Wang (Yale University, US); Nan Hua (Georgia Inst of Tech, US); Y. Richard Yang (Yale University, US); Jun Xu (Georgia Tech, US)
  Online Estimation of RF Interference
  Nabeel Ahmed (University of Waterloo, CA); Usman Ismail (University of Waterloo, CA); Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo, CA); Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research, US)
12:30 - 14:15 Lunch (Building Padre Soler: Cafeteria)
14:15 - 15:30 Overlays and Economics (Session Chair: Olivier Bonaventure, Université Catholique de Louvain) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  MOSAIC: Unified Declarative Platform for Dynamic Overlay Composition
  Yun Mao (University of Pennsylvania, US); Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, US); Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania, US); Jonathan Smith (University of Pennsylvania, US)
  EGOIST: Overlay Routing using Selfish Neighbor Selection
  Georgios Smaragdakis (Boston University, US); Vassilis Lekakis (FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, GR); Nikolaos Laoutaris (Telefonica Research, ES); Azer Bestavros (Boston University, US); John Byers (Boston University, US); Mema Roussopoulos (FORTH/University of Crete, GR)
  On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers
  Richard Ma (Columbia University, US); Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); John C. S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Vishal Misra (Columbia University, US); Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, US)
15:30- 15:50 Coffee Break (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
15:50 - 17:05 Routing: Instability, Scalability, and Resilience (Session Chair: Renata Teixeira, University Paul and Marie Curie) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  On the Scalability of BGP: the roles of topology growth and update rate-limiting
  Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory, NO); Amund Kvalbein (Simula Research Laboratory, NO); Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
  Instability Free Routing: Beyond One Protocol Instance
  Franck Le (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School, US); Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
  Balancing Performance, Robustness, and Flexibility in Routing Systems
  Kin-Wah Kwong (University of Pennsylvania, US); Roch Guerin (University of Pennsylvania, US); Shu Tao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US); Anees Shaikh (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, US)
20:00 - 23:00 Conference Banquet (Hotel Tryp Leganes)
Thursday 2008-12-11
08:00 - 12:00 Registration (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
08:00 - 08:55 Breakfast (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
08:55 - 09:00 Best Paper Award (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
09:00 - 10:15 Internet Measurement II (Session Chair: Max Ott, NICTA) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  Internet Traffic Classification Demystified: Myths, Caveats, and the Best Practices
  Hyun-chul Kim (Seoul National University, KR); Kimberly Claffy (CAIDA, US); Marina Fomenkov (University of California San Diego, US); Dhiman Barman (UC, Riverside, US); Michalis Faloutsos (University of California Riverside, US); KiYoung Lee (University of California San Diego, US)
  Observing Slow Crustal Movement in Residential User Traffic
  Kenjiro Cho (IIJ, JP); Kensuke Fukuda (National Institute of Informatics, JP); Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo, JP); Akira Kato (The University of Tokyo, JP);
  Capacity Estimation of ADSL links
  Daniele Croce (EURECOM, FR); Taoufik En-Najjary (Institut Eurecom, FR); Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (Institut Eurecom, FR); Ernst Biersack (Institut EURECOM, FR)
10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
10:35 - 11:50 New Architectures and Protocols (Session Chair: Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  A priority layered approach to transport for high bandwidth delay product networks
  Vidhyashankar Venkataraman (Cornell University, US); Paul Francis (Cornell University, US); M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, US); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)
  DaVinci: Dynamically Adaptive Virtual Networks for a Customized Internet
  Jiayue He (Princeton University, US); Rui Zhang-Shen (Princeton University, US); Ying Li (Princeton University, US); Cheng-yen Lee (Princeton University, US); Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University, US); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, US)
  Implementation of End-to-End Abstractions in a Network Service Architecture
  Shashank Shanbhag (University of Massachusetts, US); Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, US)
11:50 - 13:45 Lunch (Building Padre Soler: Cafeteria)
13:45 - 15:00 P2P (Session Chair: Dan Rubenstein, Columbia University) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  Peer-Assisted Content Distribution with Prices
  Christina Aperjis (Stanford University, US); Michael Freedman (Princeton University, US); Ramesh Johari (Stanford University, US)
  Uplink Allocation Beyond Choke/Unchoke or How to Divide and Conquer Best
  Nikolaos Laoutaris (Telefonica Research, ES); Damiano Carra (INRIA, FR); Pietro Michiardi (Institut Eurecom, FR)
  Maintaining Replicas in Unstructured P2P Systems
  Christof Leng (Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE); Wesley Terpstra (Darmstadt University of Technology, DE); Bettina Kemme (McGill University, CA); Wilhelm Stannat (Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE); Alejandro Buchmann (Darmstadt University of Technology, DE)
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
15:20 - 16:35 Virtual Routers and VLANs (Session Chair: Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  Towards high performance virtual routers on commodity hardware
  Norbert Egi (Lancaster University, UK); Adam Greenhalgh (University College London, UK); Mark Handley (University College London, UK); Mickael Hoerdt (University of Lancaster, UK); Felipe Huici (University College London, UK); Laurent Mathy (Lancaster University, UK)
  Efficient IP-Address Lookup with a Shared Forwarding Table for Multiple Virtual Routers
  Jing Fu (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, SE); Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University, US)
  Towards Systematic Design of Enterprise Networks
  Yu-Wei Sung (Purdue University, US); Sanjay Rao (Purdue University, US); Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School, US); David Maltz (Microsoft Research, US);
16:35 - 16:45 Break (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
16:45- 18:15 Panel (Moderator: Keith W.Ross, Polytechnic Institute of NYU) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  What is Network Science?
  Christophe Diot (Thomson, FR); Roch Guérin (University of Pennsylvania, US); Fabrizio Sestini (European Commission, Belgium); Ty Znati (NSF and University of Pittsburg, US)
 
Friday 2008-12-12
08:00 - 10:00 Registration (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
09:00 - 10:15 Security (Session Chair: Ernst Biersack, Institution EURECOM) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  ALPHA: An Adaptive and Lightweight Protocol for Hop-by-hop Authentication
  Tobias Heer (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Stefan Götz (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Oscar Garcia Morchon (Philips Research Europe, NL); Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
  Packet Dropping Adversary Identification for Data Plane Security
  Xin Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Abhishek Jain (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
  Extending Finite Automata to Efficiently Match Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions
  Michela Becchi (Washington University in St. Louis, US); Patrick Crowley (Washington University in St. Louis, US)
10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break (Building Padre Soler: Hall)
10:35 - 12:15 Wireless and Sensors (Session Chair: Theodoros Salonidis, Thomson) (Building Padre Soler: Aula de Grados)
  Quality of Monitoring of Stochastic Events by Periodic and Proportional-Share Scheduling of Sensor Coverage
  David K. Y. Yau (Purdue University, US); Nung Kwan Yip (Purdue University, US); Chris Yu Tak Ma (Purdue University, US); Nageswara Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US); Mallikarjun Shankar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
  Improving the Performance of Multi-hop Wireless Networks using Frame Aggregation and Broadcast for TCP ACKs
  Scott Nettles (University of Texas at Austin, US); Wonsoo Kim (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Hyrum Wright (The University of Texas at Austin, US)
  TDM MAC Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks
  Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Purdue University, US); Theodoros Salonidis (Thomson, FR); Henrik Lundgren (Thomson, FR); Pascal LeGuyadec (Thomson, FR); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, US); Irfan Sheriff (University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
  Opportunistic Use of Client Repeaters to Improve Performance of WLANs
  Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, US); Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research, US); Patrick P. C. Lee (Columbia University, US); Vishal Misra (Columbia University, US); Jitendra Padhye (Microsoft Research, US); Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, US); Yan Yu (Google, US)


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University Carlos III of Madrid
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