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Chadi Barakat, Renata Teixeira, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Patrick Thiran (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'12, December 10–13, 2012, Nice, France. ACM 2012, ISBN 978-1-4503-1775-7.


Table of Contents

ACM CoNEXT 2012 General Chairs' Message
Chadi Barakat (Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée)
Renata Teixeira (CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universités)

Foreword from the TPC Chairs
K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs-Research)
Patrick Thiran (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

ACM CoNEXT 2012 Committee

CoNEXT'12 Sponsor & Supporters

CoNEXT 2012 Author Index

Session 1: Transport Protocols

Session 7: WiFi and MAC Protocols

Session 2: Data Centers

Session 8: Network Testing Tools

Session 3: Routing and Virtualization

Session 9: Cloud Computing and Search Engines

Session 4: Video Streaming

Session 10: Online Social Networks and Privacy

Session 5: Content Distribution Networks

Session 11: Security

Session 6: Energy Management for Wireless

 
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Session 1: Transport Protocols

 

MPTCP Is Not Pareto-Optimal: Performance Issues and a Possible Solution (Page 1)
Ramin Khalili (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Nicolas Gast (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Miroslav Popovic (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Utkarsh Upadhyay (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Jean-Yves Le Boudec (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

 

Architecting for Edge Diversity: Supporting Rich Services Over an Unbundled Transport (Page 13)
Fahad R. Dogar (Microsoft Research)
Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Session 2: Data Centers

 

Tuning ECN for Data Center Networks (Page 25)
Haitao Wu (Microsoft Research Asia)
Jiabo Ju (Microsoft Research Asia)
Guohan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia)
Chuanxiong Guo (Microsoft Research Asia)
Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia)
Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)

 

Datacast: A Scalable and Efficient Reliable Group Data Delivery Service for Data Centers (Page 37)
Jiaxin Cao (University of Science and Technology of China)
Chuanxiong Guo (Microsoft Research Asia)
Guohan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia)
Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia)
Yixin Zheng (Tsinghua University)
Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
Yibo Zhu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Chen Chen (University of Pennsylvania)

 

PAST: Scalable Ethernet for Data Centers (Page 49)
Brent Stephens (Rice University)
Alan Cox (Rice University)
Wes Felter (IBM Research)
Colin Dixon (IBM Research)
John Carter (IBM Research)

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Session 3: Routing and Virtualization

 

VALE, a Switched Ethernet for Virtual Machines (Page 61)
Luigi Rizzo (Università di Pisa)
Giuseppe Lettieri (Università di Pisa)

 

Towards TCAM-based Scalable Virtual Routers (Page 73)
Layong Luo (Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of CAS)
Gaogang Xie (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Steve Uhlig (Queen Mary, University of London)
Laurent Mathy (University of Liège)
Kavé Salamatian (University of Savoie)
Yingke Xie (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

Modeling Complexity of Enterprise Routing Design (Page 85)
Xin Sun (Florida International University)
Sanjay G. Rao (Purdue University)
Geoffrey G. Xie (Naval Postgraduate School)

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Session 4: Video Streaming

 

Improving Fairness, Efficiency, and Stability in HTTP-based Adaptive Video Streaming with FESTIVE (Page 97)
Junchen Jiang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Vyas Sekar (Stony Brook University)
Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University/Conviva Inc.)

 

Towards Agile and Smooth Video Adaptation in Dynamic HTTP Streaming (Page 109)
Guibin Tian (Polytechnic Institute of New York University)
Yong Liu (Polytechnic Institute of New York University)

 

QAVA: Quota Aware Video Adaptation (Page 121)
Jiasi Chen (Princeton University)
Amitabha Ghosh (Princeton University)
Josphat Magutt (Princeton University)
Mung Chiang (Princeton University)

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Session 5: Content Distribution Networks

 

Orchestrating Massively Distributed CDNs (Page 133)
Joe Wenjie Jiang (Princeton University)
Stratis Ioannidis (Technicolor)
Laurent Massoulié (INRIA)
Fabio Picconi (Technicolor)

 

Tradeoffs in CDN Designs for Throughput Oriented Traffic (Page 145)
Minlan Yu (University of Southern California)
Wenjie Jiang (Princeton University)
Haoyuan Li (University of California, Berkeley)
Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Dealer: Application-Aware Request Splitting for Interactive Cloud Applications (Page 157)
Mohammad Hajjat (Purdue University)
Shankaranarayanan P N (Purdue University)
David Maltz (Microsoft Corporation)
Sanjay Rao (Purdue University)
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai (NECTEC Thailand)

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Session 6: Energy Management for Wireless

 

Energy Consumption Anatomy of 802.11 Devices and Its Implication on Modeling and Design (Page 169)
Andres Garcia-Saavedra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Pablo Serrano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Institute IMDEA Networks)
Giuseppe Bianchi (CNIT / Universita' Tor Vergata)

 

Traffic-Aware Techniques to Reduce 3G/LTE Wireless Energy Consumption (Page 181)
Shuo Deng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Hari Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

Computing While Charging: Building a Distributed Computing Infrastructure Using Smartphones (Page 193)
Mustafa Y. Arslan (University of California, Riverside)
Indrajeet Singh (University of California, Riverside)
Shailendra Singh (University of California, Riverside)
Harsha V. Madhyastha (University of California, Riverside)
Karthikeyan Sundaresan (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.)
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside)

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Session 7: WiFi and MAC Protocols

 

Weeble: Enabling Low-Power Nodes to Coexist with High-Power Nodes in White Space Networks (Page 205)
Božidar Radunović (Microsoft Research)
Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research)
Dinan Gunawardena (Microsoft Research)

 

WiFox: Scaling WiFi Performance for Large Audience Environments (Page 217)
Arpit Gupta (North Carolina State University)
Jeongki Min (North Carolina State University)
Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University)

 

MAClets: Active MAC Protocols over Hard-Coded Devices (Page 229)
Giuseppe Bianchi (Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata)
Pierluigi Gallo (Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata)
Domenico Garlisi (Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata)
Fabrizio Giuliano (Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata)
Francesco Gringoli (Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata)
Ilenia Tinnirello (Universitá degli Studi di Palermo)

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Session 8: Network Testing Tools

 

Automatic Test Packet Generation (Page 241)
Hongyi Zeng (Stanford University)
Peyman Kazemian (Stanford University)
George Varghese (University of California, San Diego and Microsoft Research)
Nick McKeown (Stanford University)

 

Reproducible Network Experiments Using Container-Based Emulation (Page 253)
Nikhil Handigol (Stanford University)
Brandon Heller (Stanford University)
Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Stanford University)
Bob Lantz (Open Networking Laboratory)
Nick McKeown (Stanford University)

 

A SOFT Way for OpenFlow Switch Interoperability Testing (Page 265)
Maciej Kuźniar (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Peter Perešíni (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Marco Canini (TU Berlin / T-Labs & Institute IMDEA Networks)
Daniele Venzano (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Dejan Kostic (Institute IMDEA Networks)

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Session 9: Cloud Computing and Search Engines

 

FindAll: A Local Search Engine for Mobile Phones (Page 277)
Aruna Balasubramanian (University of Washington)
Niranjan Balasubramanian (University of Washington)
Samuel J. Huston (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Donald Metzler (University of Southern California)
David J. Wetherall (University of Washington)

 

VMTorrent: Scalable P2P Virtual Machine Streaming (Page 289)
Joshua Reich (Princeton University)
Oren Laadan (Columbia University)
Eli Brosh (Vidyo)
Alex Sherman (Google)
Vishal Misra (Columbia University)
Jason Nieh (Columbia University)
Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University)

 

Cloud-Based Social Application Deployment Using Local Processing and Global Distribution (Page 301)
Zhi Wang (Tsinghua University)
Baochun Li (University of Toronto)
Lifeng Sun (Tsinghua University)
Shiqiang Yang (Tsinghua University)

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Session 10: Online Social Networks and Privacy

 

FRAppE: Detecting Malicious Facebook Applications (Page 313)
Md Sazzadur Rahman (University of California, Riverside)
Ting-Kai Huang (University of California, Riverside)
Harsha V. Madhyastha (University of California, Riverside)
Michalis Faloutsos (University of California, Riverside)

 

Defending Against Large-Scale Crawls in Online Social Networks (Page 325)
Mainack Mondal (MPI-SWS)
Bimal Viswanath (MPI-SWS)
Allen Clement (MPI-SWS)
Peter Druschel (MPI-SWS)
Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI-SWS)
Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)
Ansley Post (MPI-SWS)

 

Cachet: A Decentralized Architecture for Privacy Preserving Social Networking with Caching (Page 337)
Shirin Nilizadeh (Indiana University Bloomington)
Sonia Jahid (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Prateek Mittal (University of California, Berkeley)
Nikita Borisov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Apu Kapadia (Indiana University Bloomington)

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Session 11: Security

 

BotFinder: Finding Bots in Network Traffic Without Deep Packet Inspection (Page 349)
Florian Tegeler (University of Göttingen)
Xiaoming Fu (University of Göttingen)
Giovanni Vigna (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Christopher Kruegel (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 

New Opportunities for Load Balancing in Network-Wide Intrusion Detection Systems (Page 361)
Victor Heorhiadi (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Michael K. Reiter (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Vyas Sekar (Stony Brook University)