Internet Measurement Conference 2008 Program


Monday October 20th 2008

9:00am - 9:15am: Welcome

9:15am - 10:15am: Keynote
Graph Mining: Laws, Generators and Tools  [pdf]
Prof. Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University

10:15am - 10:45am: Break

10:45am - 12:15pm: Peer to Peer and Content Distribution Networks

Session Chair: Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech


Detecting BitTorrent Blocking [pdf]
Marcel Dischinger (MPI-SWS) Alan Mislove (MPI-SWS and RiceUniversity) Andreas Haeberlen (MPI-SWS and Rice University) Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI-SWS) (15 Minutes)

On The Difficulty of Finding the Nearest Peer in P2P Systems [pdf]
Vivek Vishnumurthy (Cornell University) Paul Francis (Cornell University) (15 Minutes)

Thinning Akamai [pdf]
Ao-Jan Su (Northwestern University) Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University) (30 Minutes)

12:15pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Online Social Networks and IPTV

Session Chair: Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge


Unveiling Facebook: A Measurement Study of Social Network Based Applications [pdf]
Atif Nazir (University of California, Davis) Saqib Raza (University of California, Davis) Chen-Nee Chuah (University of California, Davis) (30 Minutes)

Comparison of online social relations in volume vs interaction: a case study of cyworld [pdf]
Hyunwoo Chun (KAIST) Haewoon Kwak (KAIST) Young-Ho Eom (KAIST) Yong-Yeol Ahn (KAIST) Sue Moon (KAIST) Hawoong Jeong (KAIST) (30 Minutes)

Watching Television Over an IP Network [pdf]
Meeyoung Cha (MPI-SWS) Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica Research) Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge) Sue Moon (KAIST) Xavier Amatriain (Telefonica Research) (30 Minutes)

3:30pm - 4:00pm: Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Panel


Measurement Challenges in Online Social Networks
Moderator: Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs
Panelists: Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech), Krishna Gummadi (MPI), Sue Moon (KAIST), Stefan Saroiu (U. of Toronto)

7:00pm: Reception


Tuesday October 21st 2008


9:00am - 10:30am: Wireless

Session Chair: Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research


Analysis of a Mixed-Use Urban WiFi Network: When Metropolitan becomes Neapolitan [pdf]

Mikhail Afanasyev (UC San Diego) Tsuwei Chen (Google) Geoffrey M. Voelker (UC San Diego) Alex C. Snoeren (UC San Diego) (30 Minutes)

Mark-and-Sweep: Getting the "Inside" Scoop on Neighborhood Networks [pdf]
Dongsu Han (Carnegie Mellon University) Aditya Agarwala(Carnegie Mellon University) David G. Andersen (Carnegie Mellon University) Michael Kaminsky (Intel Research Pittsburgh) Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Pittsburgh) Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University) (15 Minutes)

802.11n Under the Microscope [pdf]
Vivek Shrivastava (University of Wisconsin Madison) Shravan Rayanchu (University of Wisconsin Madison) Jongwon Yoon (University of Wisconsin Madison) Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin Madison) (15 Minutes)

A Measurement Study of a Commercial-grade Urban WiFi Mesh [pdf]
Vladimir Brik (University of Wisconsin Madison) Shravan Rayanchu (University of Wisconsin Madison) Sharad Saha (University of Wisconsin Madison) Sayandeep Sen (University of Wisconsin Madison) Vivek Shrivastava (University of Wisconsin Madison) Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin Madison) (30 Minutes)

10:30am - 11:00am: Break

11:00am - 12:15pm: Internet Coordinates and Anomaly Detection

Session Chair: Shubho Sen, AT&T Research


Correcting Congestion-Based Error in Network Telescope's Observations of Worm Dynamics [pdf]
Songjie Wei (University of Delaware) Jelena Mirkovic (Information Sciences Institute) (15 Minutes)


Distributed Algorithms for Stable and Secure Network Coordinates [pdf]
Guohui Wang (Rice University) T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University) (30 Minutes)

How Healthy Are Today's Enterprise Networks? [pdf]
Saikat Guha (Cornell University) Jaideep Chandrashekar (Intel Research Santa Clara) Nina Taft (Intel Research Berkeley) Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Pittsburgh) (15 Minutes)


An Empirical Evaluation of Entropy-based Traffic Anomaly Detection [pdf]
George Nychis (Carnegie Mellon University) Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University) David Andersen (Carnegie Mellon University) Hyong Kim (Carnegie Mellon University) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) (15Minutes)

Lunch 12:15pm - 1:45pm

1:45pm - 3:15pm: Internet Properties

Session Chair: Simon Leinen, SWITCH


On the Internet delay space dimensionality [pdf]
Bruno Abrahao (Cornell University) Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University) (30 Minutes)

Census and Survey of the Visible Internet [pdf]
John Heidemann (USC/ISI) Yuri Pradkin (USC/ISI) Ramesh Govindan (USC/Computer Science Dept.) Christos Papadopoulos (Colorado State U.) Genevieve Bartlett (USC/Computer Science Dept.) Joseph Bannister (Aerospace Corp.) (30 Minutes)

Ten Years in the Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem [pdf]
Amogh Dhamdhere (Georgia Tech) Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech) (30 Minutes)

3:15pm - 3:45pm: Break

3:45pm - 5:30pm: Infrastructure

Session Chair: Jaideep Chandrashekar, Intel Research


Experimental Study of Router Buffer Sizing [pdf]
Neda Beheshti (Stanford University) Yashar Ganjali (University of Toronto) Monia Ghobadi (University of Toronto) Nick McKeown (Stanford University) Geoff Salmon (University of Toronto) (30 Minutes)

Understanding the Implications of DNS Server Provisioning [pdf]
Andrew J. Kalafut (Indiana University) Craig A. Shue (Indiana University) Minaxi Gupta (Indiana University) (15 Minutes)

Context-aware Clustering of DNS Query Traffic [pdf]
David Plonka (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin - Madison) (30 Minutes)

Quantifying the Operational Status of the DNSSEC Deployment [pdf]
Eric Osterweil (UCLA) Michael Ryan (UCLA) Dan Massey (Colorado State University) Lixia Zhang (UCLA) (30 Minutes)

8:30pm: Banquet



Wednesday October 22nd 2008

9:00am - 11:15am: Sampling and Probing

Session Chair: Renata Teixeira, LIP6


Towards Optimal Sampling for Flow Size Estimation [pdf]
Paul Tune (University of Melbourne) Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne) (30 Minutes)

Fast Monitoring for Traffic Subpopulations [pdf]
Anirudh Ramachandran (Georgia Tech) Srinivasan Seetharaman (Georgia Tech) Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) (30 Minutes)

Adaptive Shared-State Sampling [pdf]
Frederic Raspall (Technical University of Catalonia) Sebastia Sallent (Technical University of Catalonia) (30 Minutes)

A resource-minimalist flow size distribution estimator [pdf]
Bruno Ribeiro (UMass Amherst) Tao Ye (Sprint ATL) Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) (15 Minutes)

Spectral Probing, Crosstalk and Frequency Multiplexing in Internet Paths [pdf]
Partha Kanuparthy (Georgia Institute of Technology) Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Institute of Technology) Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology) (30 Minutes)

Break 11:15am - 11:45am

11:45am - 1:15pm: Routing and Network Topology
Session Chair: Darryl Veitch, University of Melbourne

On the predictive power of shortest-path weight inference [pdf]
Andrew Coyle (University of Adelaide) Miro Kraetzl (DSTO) Olaf Maennel (University of Adelaide) Matthew Roughan (University of Adelaide) (15 Minutes)

Traceroute probe method and forward IP path inference [pdf]
Matthew Luckie (University of Waikato) Young Hyun (CAIDA) Brad Huffaker (CAIDA) (30 Minutes)

Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti and other missing links: what we don't know about the AS graph [pdf]
Matthew Roughan (University of Adelaide) Jonanthan Tuke (University of Adelaide) Olaf Maennel (University of Adelaide) (15 Minutes)

Towards a meaningful MRA analysis of traffic matrices [pdf]
David Rincon (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Matthew Roughan (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide) Walter Willinger (AT&T Research) (15 Minutes)

Fixing Ally's Growing Pains with Velocity Modeling [pdf]
Adam Bender (University of Maryland) Rob Sherwood (University of Maryland) Neil Spring (University of Maryland) (15 Minutes)

1:15pm - 1:30pm: Closing Notes

 

3:00pm - 5:00pm: IP Flow Information export (IPFIX) Tutorial