ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop 2001 --- Program

ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop 2001

Thursday, November 1

9:00AM - 9:15AM Welcome

9:15AM - 10:30AM Topology and routing

On the Marginal Utility of Network Topology Measurements. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Mark Crovella -- University of Wisconsin, Madison; Boston University.

Topology Modeling via Cluster Graphs. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jia Wang -- AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ.

Towards Global Network Positioning. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
T. S. Eugene Ng and Hui Zhang -- Department of Computer Science, CMU.

An Analysis of BGP Multiple Origin AS (MOAS) Conflicts. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, and Lixia Zhang -- North Carolina State University; UC Los Angeles; Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA; UC Davis.

10:30AM-11AM Break

11AM-12:30PM Passive measurements

Pop-Level and Access-Link-Level Traffic Dynamics in a Tier-1 POP. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Supratik Bhattacharyya, Christophe Diot, Jorjeta Jetcheva, and Nina Taft -- Sprint Advanced Technologies Laboratories, Burlingame CA.

Characterizing Large DNS Traces Using Graphs. (PDF). (Postscript slides).
Charles D. Cranor, Emden Gansner, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Oliver Spatscheck -- AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ.

Characteristics of Network Traffic Flow Anomalies. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Paul Barford and David Plonka -- University of Wisconsin, Madison.

New Directions in Traffic Measurement and Accounting. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Cristian Estan and George Varghese -- CAIDA, UC San Diego.

12:30PM-2PM Lunch (on your own)

2PM-3PM Traffic characterization

Characteristics of Fragmented IP Traffic on Internet Links. (PDF).
Colleen Shannon, David Moore, and k claffy -- CAIDA, UC San Diego.

Connection-level Analysis and Modeling of Network Traffic.
Shriram Sarvotham, Rudolf Riedi, and Richard Baraniuk -- Department of Electrical Engineering, Rice University.

Early Measurements of a Cluster-based Architecture for P2P Systems. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jia Wang and Yinglian Xie -- AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ.

3PM-4PM Break / Work-in-progress posters

Sensitivity of Quake3 Players to Network Latency and Jitter, Grenville Armitage. (PDF slides).

Detecting Changes in Traffic Demands Using Sampled Measurement, Baek-Young Choi, Jaesung Park, and Zhi-Li Zhang -- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota.

An Analysis on Intra-Domain Routing Instability, Zhang Shu -- Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan.

Characterizing Flash Crowd Traffic, Jaeyeon Jung, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Michael Rabinovich -- AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ.

4PM-5:30PM Active measurements

Experience in Black-Box OSPF Measurement. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Aman Shaikh and Albert Greenberg -- UC Santa Cruz; AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ.

Using Loss Pairs to Discover Network Properties. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Jun Liu and Mark Crovella -- Department of Computer Science, Boston University.

Measuring End-to-End Bulk Transfer Capacity. (PDF). (Postscript slides).
Mark Allman -- BBN Technologies / NASA Glenn Research Center.

Towards Improving Packet Probing Techniques. (PDF). (HTML slides).
Matthew J. Luckie, Anthony J. McGregor, and Hans-Werner Braun -- NLANR, UC San Diego.

6:45PM Shuttles depart from Holiday Inn for Chalker's

7PM-10PM Dinner and socializing, Chalkers Billiard Club, 101 Spear St. +1 415-512-0450

Friday, November 2

9AM-10:30AM Application level performance

DNS Performance and the Effectiveness of Caching. (PDF). (Postscript slides).
Jaeyeon Jung, Emil Sit, Hari Balakrishnan, and Robert Morris -- MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.

On the Use and Performance of Content Distribution Networks. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides). (HTML slides).
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Craig Wills, and Yin Zhang -- AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ; Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

The Inktomi Climate Lab: An Integrated Environment for Analyzing and Simulating Customer Network Traffic. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Stephane Gigandet, Ashok Sudarsanam, and Anshu Aggarwal -- Inktomi Corporation, Foster City CA.

Analyzing the Browse Patterns of Mobile Clients. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Atul Adya, Paramvir Bahl, and Lili Qiu -- Microsoft Research, Redmond WA.

10:30AM-11AM Break

11AM-12:30PM Timescales and stability

On the Constancy of Internet Path Properties. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides). (HTML slides).
Yin Zhang, Nick Duffield, Vern Paxson, and Scott Shenker -- AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ; AT&T Center for Internet Research at ICSI, Berkeley CA.

A Non-Intrusive, Wavelet-Based Approach to Detecting Network Performance Problems. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides). (Postscript slides).
Polly Huang, Anja Feldmann, Walter Willinger -- Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Computer Science Department, Universitat des Saarlandes, Saabrucken, Germany; AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ.

Evidence for Long-Tailed Distributions in the Internet. (PDF). (Postscript slides).
Allen B. Downey -- Computer Science Department, Wellesley College.

12:30PM-2PM Lunch (on your own)

2PM-3:30PM Dealing with high speed links and other measurement challenges

Charging from Sampled Network Usage. (PDF). (PDF slides).
Nick Duffield, Carsten Lund, and Mikkel Thorup -- AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ.

A Method to Compress and Anonymize Packet Traces. (PDF). (PDF landscape slides). (PDF handout slides).
Markus Peuhkuri -- Helsinki University of Technology, Networking Laboratory, Espoo, Finland.

On the Design and Performance of Prefix-Preserving IP Traffic Trace Anonymization. (PDF).
Jun Xu, Jinliang Fan, Mostafa Ammar, and Sue B. Moon -- College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sprint Advanced Technologies Laboratories, Burlingame CA.

Monitoring Very High Speed Links. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, Ian Graham, Nick McKeown -- Sprint Advanced Technologies Laboratories, Burlingame CA; University of Waikato; Stanford University.

Timestamping Network Packets. (PDF).
Jorg Micheel, Stephen Donnelly, and Ian Graham -- WAND, Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; NLANR MOAT, SDSC, UC San Diego.

3:30PM-4PM Break

4PM-5PM Video

Measurement Study of Low-bitrate Internet Video Streaming. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Dmitri Loguinov and Hayder Radha -- Computer Science Department, City University of New York; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University..

An Empirical Study of RealVideo Performance Across the Internet. (PDF). (Powerpoint slides).
Yubin Wang, Mark Claypool, and Zheng Zuo -- EMC Corporation, Hopkinton MA; Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.