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Internet Measurement Workshop 2002

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Wednesday November 6, 2002

09:00-09:15 Opening Session

09:15-10:15 DNS

• King: Estimating latency between arbitrary Internet end hosts.
  Krishna P. Gummadi, Stefan Saroiu, Steven D. Gribble. (slides in PDF).

• Diversity in DNS Performance Measures.
  Richard Liston, Sridhar Srinivasan, Ellen Zegura. (slides in PDF).

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Modeling

• A flow-based model for Internet backbone traffic.
  Chadi Barakat, Patrick Thiran, Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, Phillipe Owezarski. (slides in PDF).

• Testing the Gaussian approximation of aggregate traffic.
  Jorma Kilpi, Ilkka Norros.

• Does fractal scaling at the IP level depend on TCP flow arrival processes?
  Nicolas Hohn, Darryl Veitch, Patrice Abry.

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Inference and statistical analysis

• A Signal Analysis of Network Traffic Anomalies.
  Paul Barford, Jeffrey Kline, David Plonka, Amos Ron. (slides in PDF).

• Statistical Analysis of Malformed Packets and Their Origins in the Modern Internet.
  Marina Bykova, Shawn Ostermann. (slides in Postscript).

• Iterative Bayesian Estimation of Network Traffic Matrices in the Case of Bursty Flows.
  Sandrine Vaton, Annie Gravey. (slides in Postscript).

• Experience in Measuring Backbone Traffic Variability: Models, Metrics, Measurements and Meaning.
  Matthew Roughan, Albert Greenberg, Charles Kalmanek, Michael Rumsewicz, Jennifer Yates and Yin Zhang. (slides in HTML).

• Passive Network Tomography Using Bayesian Inference.
  Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Lili Qiu, Helen J. Wang. (slides in HTML).

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-17:00 Traffic anomalies

• Measuring Packet Reordering.
  John Bellardo, Stefan Savage. (slides in PDF).

• Detection and Analysis of Routing Loops in Packet Traces.
  Urs Hengartner, Sue Moon, Richard Mortier, Christophe Diot. (slides in PDF).

• Measurement and Classification of Out-of-Sequence Packets in a Tier-1 IP Backbone.
  Sharad Jaiswal, Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley.

19:00- Réception


Thursday November 7, 2002

09:00-10:30 P2P and streaming

• A Hierarchical Characterization of a Live Streaming Media Workload.
  Eveline Veloso, Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira, Azer Bestavros, Shudong Jin. (slides in PDF).

• MediaPlayer versus RealPlayer - A Comparison of Network Turbulence.
  Mingzhe Li, Mark Claypool, Bob Kinicki. (slides in PDF).

• Analyzing Peer-to-Peer Traffic Across Large Networks.
  Subhabrata Sen, Jia Wang. (slides in HTML).

• Provisioning On-line Games: A Traffic Analysis of a Busy Counter-Strike Server.
  Wu-chang Feng, Francis Chang, Wu-chi Feng, Jonathan Walpole. (slides in Postscript).

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:15 Flow measurement

• Properties and Prediction of Flow Statistics from Sampled Packet Streams.
  Nick Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel Thorup. (slides in PDF).

• NetFlow: Information loss or win?
  Robin Sommer, Anja Feldmann. (slides in PDF).

• A Pragmatic Definition of Elephants in Internet Backbone Traffic.
  Konstantina Papagiannaki, Nina Taft, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Patrick Thiran, Kave Salamatian, Christophe Diot. (slides in HTML).

• Automated Measurement of High Volume Traffic Clusters.
  Cristian Estan, Stefan Savage, George Varghese. (slides in Postscript).

• Traffic classification for application specific peering.
  Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jia Wang. (slides in HTML).

12:15-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:00 BGP

• Observation and Analysis of BGP Behavior under Stress.
  Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Randy Bush, Daniel Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang. (slides in PDF).

• BGP Routing Stability of Popular Destinations.
  Jennifer Rexford, Jia Wang, Zhen Xiao, Yin Zhang. (slides in Postscript).

• An Empirical Study of Router Response to Large BGP Routing Table Load.
  Di-Fa Chang, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann. (slides in PDF).

• On the structure and application of BGP policy Atoms.
  (slides in PDF). Yehuda Afek, Omer Ben-Shalom, Anat Bremler-Barr.

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-17:00 IGP and topology

• A Case Study of OSPF Behavior in a Large Enterprise Network.
  Aman Shaikh, Chris Isett, Albert Greenberg, Matthew Roughan, Joel Gottlieb. (slides in Postscript).

• Inferring Link Weights using End-to-End Measurements.
  Ratul Mahajan, Neil Spring, David Wetherall, Tom Anderson. (slides in PDF).

• Analysis of link failures in an IP backbone.
  Gianluca Iannaccone, Chen-nee Chuah, Richard Mortier, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Christophe Diot. (slides in PDF).

• Topology Inference from BGP Routing Dynamics.
  David Andersen, Nick Feamster, Steve Bauer, Hari Balakrishnan. (slides in PDF).

• On the Geographic Location of Internet Resources.
  Anukool Lakhina, John Byers, Mark Crovella, Ibrahim Matta. (slides in PDF).

17:30 Bus to Dinner

18:30 Apéritif

20:30 Dîner


Friday November 8, 2002

09:00-10:30 Traffic analysis

• Observed Structure of Addresses in IP Traffic.
  Eddie Kohler, Jinyang Li, Vern Paxson, Scott Shenker. (slides in PDF).

• A Technique for Counting NATted Hosts.
  Steven Bellovin. (slides in Postscript). (slides in PDF).

• Code-Red: a case study on the spread and victims of an Internet worm.
  David Moore, Colleen Shannon, k claffy. (slides in PDF).

• Agile and Scalable Analysis of Network Events.
  Mike Fisk, George Varghese.

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Active measurement

• Active Probing using Packet Quartets.
  Attila Pasztor, Darryl Veitch. (slides in Postscript).

• Predicting and Bypassing End-to-End Internet Service Degradations.
  Anat Bremler-Barr, Edith Cohen, Haim Kaplan, Yishay Mansour. (slides in Postscript).

• The effect of layer-2 switches on pathchar-like tools.
  Ravi S. Prasad, Constantinos Dovrolis, Bruce A. Mah. (slides in PDF).

• Preliminary Measurements on the Effect of Server Adaptation for Web Content Delivery.
  Balachander Krishnamurthy, Craig Wills, Yin Zhang. (slides in HTML).