Technical Program

The HotNets-VII workshop will have a two-day technical program, similar to past workshops. The full program is provided below.

All technical sessions take place in the Husky Oil Great Hall in the Rozsa Centre at the University of Calgary. Wireless Internet access is available via the AirUC network.

Continental breakfast is available at the Quality Inn hotel starting at 7:00am each day, and also at the Husky Oil Great Hall starting at 8:00am each day (your choice!). Morning and afternoon coffee breaks will be provided next to the meeting area. Daily lunches and the Monday evening reception will take place in the Blue Room at the Dining Centre, University of Calgary.

All HotNets 2008 papers in one PDF (20 MB)

Monday, October 6

7:30am: Registration Desk Open (Husky Oil Great Hall, Rozsa Centre)
8:00am: Continental Breakfast
8:45am: Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00am: Session 1: Router Hardware (Chair: Alex Snoeren) Summary

• Rethinking Packet Forwarding Hardware
  Martin Casado (Nicira Networks), Teemu Koponen (HIIT), Daekyeong Moon (UCB), Scott Shenker (UCB and ICSI)
• API Design Challenges for Open Router Platforms on Proprietary Hardware
  Jeffrey C. Mogul (HP Labs), Praveen Yalagandula (HP Labs), Jean Tourrilhes (HP Labs), Rick McGeer (HP Labs), Sujata Banerjee (HP Labs), Tim Connors (HP Labs), Puneet Sharma (HP Labs) Slides (PDF, 175 KB)

10:00am: Break
10:30am: Session 2: Wireless I (Chair: Majid Ghaderi) Summary

• Interference Avoidance and Control
  Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT), Rabin Patra (UC Berkeley), Hari Balakrishnan (MIT), Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley) Slides (PPT, 7.8 MB)
• Wireless ACK Collisions Not Considered Harmful
  Prabal Dutta (University of California, Berkeley), Razvan Musaloiu-E. (Johns Hopkins University), Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley), Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University) Slides (PDF, 650 KB)
• Message in Message (MIM): A Case for Shuffling Transmissions in Wireless Networks
  Naveen Kumar Santhapuri (University of South Carolina), Justin Manweiler (Duke University), Souvik Sen (Duke University), Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University), Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina), Kamesh Munagala (Duke University) Slides (PPT, 1.1 MB)

12 noon: Lunch (Blue Room, Dining Centre)
1:30pm: Session 3: Potpourri (Chair: Nick Feamster) Summary

• Can You Fool Me? Towards Automatically Checking Protocol Gullibility
  Milan Stanojevic (UCLA), Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research), Todd Millstein (UCLA), Madanlal Musuvathi (Microsoft Research) Slides (PDF, 630 KB)
• Revisiting Smart Dust with RFID Sensor Networks
  Michael Buettner (University of Washington), Ben Greenstein (Intel Research Seattle), Alanson Sample (University of Washington), Joshua R. Smith (Intel Research Seattle), David Wetherall (Intel Research Seattle, University of Washington) Slides (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Eat All You Can in an All-you-can-eat Buffet: A Case for Aggressive Resource Usage
  Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research), Jitu Padhye (Microsoft Research), Ramya Raghavendra (Microsoft Research), Brian Zill (Microsoft Research) Slides (PDF, 420 KB)

3:00pm: Break
3:30pm: Session 4: Cloud and Data Centers (Chair: Martin Arlitt) Summary

• Plugging Into Energy Market Diversity
  Asfandyar Qureshi (MIT) Slides (PDF, 2.7 MB)
• On Delivering Embarrassingly Distributed Cloud Services
  Kenneth Church (Microsoft), Albert Greenberg (Microsoft), James Hamilton (Microsoft) Slides (PPTX, 3.2 MB)
• Dr. Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication Scalability
  Ymir Vigfusson (Cornell University), Hussam Abu-Libdeh (Cornell University), Mahesh Balakrishnan (Cornell University), Ken Birman (Cornell University), Yoav Tock (IBM Haifa Research Lab) Slides (PPT, 740 KB)

5:00pm: End of Technical Sessions for Day 1
5:30pm: Evening Reception (2 hours, Blue Room, Dining Centre)

Tuesday, October 7

8:00am: Continental Breakfast
8:30am: Session 5: Wireless II (Chair: Carey Williamson) Summary

• How to Evaluate Exotic Wireless Routing Protocols?
  Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Purdue University), Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University), Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research, Pittsburgh) Slides (PPT, 650 KB)
• Wireless Networks Should Spread Spectrum Based on Demands
  Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT), Hari Balakrishnan (MIT) Slides (PPT, 680 KB)
• An Architecture for Extensible Wireless LANs
  Rohan Narayana Murty (Harvard University), Jitendra Padhye (Microsoft Research), Alec Wolman (Microsoft Research), Matt Welsh (Harvard University) Slides (PDF, 830 KB)

10:00am: Break
10:30am: Session 6: Rethinking Routing and Forwarding (Chair: Greg Minshall) Summary

• Breaking Up the Transport Logjam
  Bryan Ford (MIT), Janardhan Iyengar (Franklin and Marshall College) Slides (PDF, 180 KB)
• Reducing Transient Disconnectivity using Anomaly-Cognizant Forwarding
  Andrey Ermolinskiy (UC Berkeley), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI)
• Pathlet Routing
  Philip Brighten Godfrey (UC Berkeley), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) Slides (PDF, 380 KB)

12 noon: Lunch (Blue Room, Dining Centre)
1:30pm: Session 7: Fixing What Ails the Internet (Chair: Dave Andersen) Summary

• Towards a New Internet Routing Architecture: Arguments for Separating Edges from Transit Core
  Dan Jen (UCLA), Michael Meisel (UCLA), He Yan (Colorado State University), Dan Massey (Colorado State University), Lan Wang (University of Memphis), Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona), Lixia Zhang (UCLA) Slides (PDF, 580 KB)
• ViAggre: Making Routers Last Longer!
  Hitesh Ballani (Cornell University), Paul Francis (Cornell University), Tuan Cao (Cornell University), Jia Wang (ATT Research) Slides (PDF, 320 KB)
• Good Things Come to Those Who (Can) Wait or How to Handle Delay Tolerant Traffic and Make Peace on the Internet
  Nikolaos Laoutaris (Telefonica Research), Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica Research) Slides (PPSX, 800 KB)

3:00pm: Break
3:30pm: Session 8: Network Neutrality (Chair: Steve Gribble) Summary

• Ascertaining the Reality of Network Neutrality Violation in Backbone ISPs
  Ying Zhang (University of Michigan), Zhuoqing Morley Mao (University of Michigan), Ming Zhang (Microsoft Research) Slides (PDF, 280 KB)
• NANO: Network Access Neutrality Observatory
  Mukarram Bin Tariq (Georgia Tech), Mutaraza Motiwala (Georgia Tech), Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) Slides (PDF, 1.5 MB)

4:30pm: End of Workshop