IMC 2013 Program
(Long papers = 25 min, shorts = 15 min)
23 Oct (Wed)
08:45-09:00 Welcome by General Chair and Technical program, and awards by Program Co-chairs.
Muddles in the Middle (09:00 - 10:45). Session Chair: Ben Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
- 9:00 - 09:15 Revealing Middlebox Intererence with Tracebox (review) (short),
G. Detal, B. Hesmans, O. Bonaventure (Université Catholique de Louvain), Y. Vanaubel and B. Donnet (Université de Liège)
- 9:15 - 09:40 Demystifying the Dark Side of the Middle: A Field Study of Middlebox Failures in Datacenters (review) (long),
R. Potharaju (Purdue University) and N. Jain (Microsoft Research)
- 9:40 - 09:55 A Method for Identifying and Confirming the Use of URL Filtering Products for Censorship (review) (short),
J. Dalek, B. Haselton, H. Noman, A. Senft, M. Crete-Nishihata (Citizen Lab), P. Gill (Citizen Lab/Stony Brook University) and R.J. Deibert (Citizen Lab)
- 9:55 - 10:20 Peer-assisted Content Distribution in Akamai NetSession (review) (long),
M. Zhao (University of Pennsylvania), P. Aditya (MPI-SWS), A. Chen (University of Pennsylvania), Y. Lin (Duke University), A. Haeberlen (University of Pennsylvania), P. Druschel (MPI-SWS), B. Maggs (Duke University/Akamai), B. Wishon and M. Ponec (Akamai)
- 10:20 - 10:45 Analyzing the Potential Benefits of CDN Augmentation Strategies for Internet Video Workloads (review) (long),
A. Balachandran (CMU), V. Sekar (Stoony Brook University), A. Akella (UW Madison) and S. Seshan (CMU)
10:45-11:15 Break.
11:15-12:00 Keynote: "From Bits to Bites", Pablo Rodriguez
12:00-13:30 Lunch.
13:30-14:40 Names and Domains. Session Chair: Aditya Akella (UW Madison)
- 13:30 - 13:45 D-mystifying the D-Root Address Change (review) (short),
M. Lentz, D. Levin, J. Castonguay, N. Spring and B. Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland)
- 13:45 - 14:10 Understanding the Domain Registration Behavior of Spammers (review) (long),
S. Hao (Georgia Institute of Technology), M. Thomas (Verisign, Inc.), V. Paxson (ICSI/UC Berkeley), N. Feamster (Georgia Institute of Technology), C. Kreibich, C. Grier (ICSI) and S. Hollenbeck (Verisign, Inc.)
- 14:10 - 14:35 On Measuring the Client-side DNS Infrastructure (review) (long),
K. Schomp, T. Callahan, M. Rabinovich (Case Western Reserve University) and M. Allman (ICSI)
14:40 - 15:10 Break.
15:10-16:15 V4 and V6. Session Chair: Ethan Katz-Bassett (USC)
- 15:10 - 15:35 Internet Nameserver IPv4 and IPv6 Address Relationships (review) (long),
A. Berger (MIT CSAIL/Akamai), N. Weaver (ICSI/UC San Diego), R. Beverly (Naval Postgraduate School) and L. Campbell (Larry Campbell)
- 15:35 - 16:00 Understanding IPv6 Internet Background Radiation (review) (long),
J. Czyz, K. Lady, S. Miller, M. Bailey (University of Michigan), M. Kallitsis and M. Karir (Merit Network)
- 16:00 - 16:15 Speedtrap: Internet-Scale IPv6 Alias Resolution (review) (short),
M. Luckie (CAIDA/UC San Diego), R. Beverly, W. Brinkmeyer (Naval Postgraduate School), and K. Claffy (CAIDA/UC San Diego)
16:15 - 16:45 Break.
16:45-17:45 News and Community Feedback Session (IMC Steering Committee)
24 Oct (Thur)
08:30-10:00 Money and Madison Avenue. Session Chair: Krishna Gummadi(MPI-SWS)
- 08:30 - 08:55 A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names (review) (long),
S. Meiklejohn, M. Pomarole, G. Jordan, K. Levchenko (UC San Diego), D. McCoy (George Mason University), G. Voelker and S. Savage (UC San Diego)
- 08:55 - 09:10 Follow the Money: Understanding Economics of Online Aggregation and Advertising (review) (short) Best paper award,
P. Gill (The Citizen Lab/Stony Brook University), V. Erramilli (Telefonica Research), A. Chaintreau (Columbia University), B. Krishnamurthy (AT&T Research), K. Papagiannaki, and P. Rodriguez (Telefonica Research)
- 09:10 - 09:35 Understanding the Effectiveness of Video Ads: A Measurement Study (review) (long),
S.S. Krishnan (Akamai) and R.K. Sitaraman (UMass Amherst/Akamai)
- 09:35 - 10:00 Follow the Green: Growth and Dynamics in Twitter Follower Markets (review) (long),
G. Stringhini, G. Wang (UC Santa Barbara), M. Egele (CMU), C. Kruegel, G. Vigna, H. Zheng and B.Y. Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
10:00 - 10:30 Break.
10:30-12:00 Weather in the Clouds. Session Chair: Victoria Manfredi (BBN)
- 10:30 - 10:55 Next Stop, the Cloud: Understanding Modern Web Service Deployment in EC2 and Azure (review) (long),
K. He, A. Fisher, L. Wang, A. Gember, A. Akella and T. Ristenpart (UW Madison)
- 10:55 - 11:20 Choreo: Network-Aware Task Placement for Cloud Applications (review) (long),
K. LaCurts, S. Deng, A. Goyal and H. Balakrishnan (MIT CSAIL)
- 11:20 - 11:35 Benchmarking Personal Cloud Storage (review) (short),
I. Drago (University of Twente), E. Bocchi, M. Mellia (Politecnico di Torino), H. Slatman and A. Pras (University of Twente)
- 11:35 - 12:00 Measuring and Mitigating Web Performance Bottlenecks in Broadband Access Networks (review) (long) Community contribution award,
S. Sundaresan, N. Feamster (Georgia Institute of Technology), R. Teixeira (CNRS/UPMC Sorbonne Universities) and N. Magharei (Cisco Systems)
12:00-13:30 Lunch.
13:30-14:30 Routing. Session Chair: Renata Teixeira (CNRS/UPMC Sorbonne Universities)
- 13:30 - 13:45 Studying Interdomain Routing over Long Timescales (review) (short),
G. Comarela, G. Gursun and M. Crovella (Boston University)
- 13:45 - 14:00 AS-level Topology Collection Through Looking Glass Servers (review) (short),
A. Khan (Seoul National University, South Korea), T. Kwon, H.-C. Kim (Sangmyung University, South Korea) and Y. Choi (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- 14:00 - 14:25 AS Relationships, Customers Cones, and Validations (review) (long),
M. Luckie, B. Huffaker, A. Dhamdhere (CAIDA/UC San Diego), V. Giotsas (University College London) and K. Claffy (CAIDA/UC San Diego)
14:30 - 14:45 Break.
14:45-15:50 Fun with Phones. Session Chair: David Wetherall (University of Washington)
- 14:45 - 15:00 RILAnalyzer: a Comprehensive 3G Monitor on Your Phone (review) (short),
N. Vallina-Rodriguez, A. Aucinas (University of Cambridge), M. Almeida, Y. Grunenberger, D. Papagiannaki (Telefonica Research) and J. Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
- 15:00 - 15:25 Signals from the Crowd: Uncovering Social Relationships through Smartphone Probes (review) (long),
M.V. Barbera, A. Epasto, A. Mei, V.C. Perta and J. Stefa (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
- 15:25 - 15:50 Rise of the Planet of the Apps: A Systematic Study of the Mobile App Ecosystem (review) (long),
T. Petsas, A. Papadogiannakis (FORTH-ICS), M. Polychronakis (Columbia University), E.P. Markatos (FORTH-ICS) and T. Karagiannis (Microsoft Research)
15:50 - 16:10 Break.
16:10-17:15 Web. Session Chair: Alberto Dainotti (CAIDA)
- 16:10 - 16:35 Analysis of the HTTPS Certificate Ecosystem (review) (long),
Z. Durumeric, J. Kasten, M. Bailey, J.A. Halderman (University of Michigan)
- 16:35 - 16:50 Exploring EDNS-Client-Subnet Adopters in Your Free Time (review) (short),
F. Streibelt, J. Boettger, N. Chatzis (TU Berlin), G. Smaragdakis (T-Labs/TU Berlin), and A. Feldmann (TU Berlin)
- 16:50 - 17:15 Mapping the Expansion of Google's Serving Infrastructure (review) (long),
M. Calder (USC), X. Fan, Z. Hu (USC/ISI), R. Govindan (USC), J. Heidemann (USC/ISI) and E. Katz-Bassett (USC)
21:00 Conference Dinner at Sotavento
25 Oct (Fri)
9:00-10:10 Big or Fast. Session Chair: Craig Partridge (BBN)
- 9:00 - 9:15 Indexing Millions of Packets per Second using GPUs (review) (short),
F. Fusco (ETH Zurich), M. Vlachos (IBM Research Zurich), X. Dimitropoulos (ETH Zurich) and L. Deri (ntop)
- 9:15 - 9:40 On the Benefits of Using a Large IXP as an Internet Vantage Point (review) (long),
N. Chatzis (TU Berlin), G. Smaragdakis (T-Labs/TU Berlin), J. Boettger, T. Krenc, and A. Feldmann (TU Berlin)
- 9:40 - 9:55 Growth Analysis of a Large ISP (review) (short),
A. Ferguson, J. Place and R. Fonseca (Brown University)
- 9:55 - 10:10 Understanding the Super-sized Traffic of the Super Bowl (review) (short),
J. Erman and K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Research)
10:10 - 10:40 Break.
10:40-12:00 Detective Stories. Session Chair: Konstantina Papagiannaki (Telefonica Research)
- 10:40 - 10:55 Appraising the Delay Accuracy in Browser-based Network Measurement (review) (short),
W. Li, R. Mok, R. Chang and W. Fok (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
- 10:55 - 11:10 Network Fingerprinting: TTL-based Router Signatures (review) (short),
Y. Vanaubel (Université de Liège), J.-J. Pansiot, P. Merindol (Université de Strasbourg) and B. Donnet (Université de Liège)
- 11:10 - 11:35 Peeking Behind the NAT: An Empirical Study of Home Networks (review) (long),
S. Grover, M.S. Park, S. Sundaresan, S. Burnett, H. Kim, B. Ravi and N. Feamster (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- 11:35 - 12:00 Identifiability of Link Metrics Based on End-to-End Path Measurements (review) (long),
L. Ma (Imperial College, London, UK), T. He (IBM T.J. Watson Research, Yorktown, NY, USA), K.K. Leung (Imperial College, London, UK), A. Swami (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA) and D. Towsley (UMass Amherst)
12:00-13:30 Lunch.
13:30-14:20 Intriguing Results. Session Chair: Haewoon Kwak (Telefonica Research)
14:20 - 14:50 Break.
14:50-16:10 Paths and Flows. Session Chair: Walter Willinger (Niksun)
- 14:50 - 15:05 From Paris to Tokyo: On the Suitability of Ping to Measure Latency (review) (short),
C. Pelsser (Internet Initiative Japan), L. Cittadini (Roma Tre University), S. Vissicchio (Université Catholique de Louvain) and R. Bush (Internet Initiative Japan)
- 15:05 - 15:20 A Comparison of Syslog and IS-IS for Monitoring Link State (review) (short),
D. Turner, K. Levchenko, S. Savage and A.C. Snoeren (UC San Diego)
- 15:20 - 15:45 Scap: Stream-Oriented Network Traffic Capture and Analysis for High-Speed Networks (review)(long),
A. Papadogiannakis (FORTH-ICS), M. Polychronakis (Columbia University) and E.P. Markatos (FORTH-ICS)
- 15:45 - 16:10 A Measurement-based Study of Multipath TCP performance over Wireless Networks (review) (long),
Y.-C. Chen, Y.-S. Lim (UMass Amherst), R.J. Gibbens (University of Cambridge), E.M. Nahum (IBM Research), R. Khalili (Deutsche Telekom) and D. Towsley (UMass Amherst)