Internet Measurement Conference 2006 Program

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Introductory Remarks

9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.: Sampling
Session chair: Joel Sommers - University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Shared State Sampling,
  Frederic Raspall, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC); Sebastia Sallent, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC); Josep Yufera, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) (30 minutes)
• Fisher Information of Sampled Packets: an Application to Flow Size Estimation
  Bruno Ribeiro, University of Masachusetts at Amherst; Don Towsley, University of Masachusetts at Amherst; Tao Ye, Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories; Jean Bolot, Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories (30 minutes)
• On Unbiased Sampling for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
  Daniel Stutzbach, University of Oregon; Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon; Nick Duffield, AT&T Labs-Research; Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs-Research; Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs-Research (30 minutes)

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Security and Privacy
Session chair: Bruce Maggs - Carnegie Mellon University/Akamai

• A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon
  Moheeb Abu Rajab, Johns Hopkins University; Jay Zarfoss, Johns Hopkins University; Fabian Monrose, Johns Hopkins University; Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University (30 minutes)
• Finding Diversity in Remote Code Injection Exploits
  Justin Ma, University of California, San Diego; John Dunagan, Microsoft Research; Helen Wang, Microsoft Research; Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego; Geoffrey Voelker, University of California, San Diego (30 minutes)
• Generating a Privacy Footprint on the Internet
  Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs - Research; Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (15 minutes)

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Latency and Topology
Session chair: Timur Friedman, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS - Laboratoire LIP6

• Towards IP Geolocation using Delay and Topology Measurements
  Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington; John John, University of Washington; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; David Wetherall, University of Washington; Tom Anderson, University of Washington; Yatin Chawathe, Google (30 minutes)
• Measurement-Based Analysis, Modeling, and Synthesis of the Internet Delay Space
  Bo Zhang, Rice University; T. S. Eugene Ng, Rice University; Animesh Nandi, Rice University; Rudolf Riedi, Rice University; Peter Druschel, Max Planck Institute of Software Systems; Guohui Wang, Rice University (30 minutes)
• A Structural Approach to Latency Prediction
  Harsha Madhyastha, University of Washington; Tom Anderson, University of Washington; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Neil Spring, University of Maryland; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst (15 minutes)
• Touring the Internet in a TCP Sidecar
  Rob Sherwood, University of Maryland; Neil Spring, University of Maryland (15 minutes)

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Tools
Session chair: Neil Spring - University of Maryland

• Monarch: A Tool to Emulate Transport Protocol Flows over the Internet at Large
  Andreas Haeberlen, MPI-SWS; Marcel Dischinger, MPI-SWS; Krishna Gummadi, MPI-SWS; Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto (30 minutes)
• Semi-Automated Discovery of Application Session Structure
  Jayanthkumar Kannan, University of California at Berkeley; Jaeyeon Jung, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Vern Paxson, ICSI; Can Emre Koksal, Department of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL (30 minutes)
• On the Impact of Research Network Based Testbeds on Wide-area Experiments
  Himabindu Pucha, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (30 minutes)
  

Reception: Rio Scenarium, 7pm - 10pm

Buses will be provided for transportation.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.: Anomalies
Session chair: Dina Papagiannaki - Intel Research - Cambridge

• Detection and Identification of Network Anomalis Using Sketch Subspaces
  Authors: Xin Li, University of Southern California; Fang Bian, University of Southern California; Mark Crovella, Boston University; Christophe Diot, Thomson Technology Paris Laboratory; Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California; Gianluca Iannaccone, Intel Research Camrbidge (15 minutes)
• Avoiding Traceroute Anomalies with Paris Traceroute
  Brice Augustin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS -- Laboratoire LIP6; Xavier Cuvellier, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS -- Laboratoire LIP6; Benjamin Orgogozo, Universite Denis Diderot, CNRS -- Laboratoire LIAFA; Fabien Viger, Universite Denis Diderot, CNRS -- Laboratoire LIAFA; Timur Friedman, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS -- Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS; Matthieu Latapy, Universite Denis Diderot, CNRS -- Laboratoire LIAFA; Clemence Magnien, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS -- Laboratoire CREA; Renata Teixeira, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS -- Laboratoire LIP6 (15 minutes)
• Impact of Traffic Sampling on Anomaly Detection Metrics
  Authors: Daniela Brauckhoff, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Bernhard Tellenbach, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Arno Wagner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Anukool Lakhina, Boston University; Martin May, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (15 minutes)
• Is Sampled Data Sufficient for Anomaly Detection?
  Jianning Mai, UC Davis; Chen-Nee Chuah, UC Davis; Ashwin Sridharan, Sprint; Tao Ye, Sprint; Hui Zang, Sprint (30 minutes)

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Peer to peer
Session chair: Alex Snoeren, University of California - San Diego

• Comprehensive View of a Live Network Coding P2P System
  Pablo Rodriguez, Microsoft Research, Cambridge; Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge; John Miller, Microsoft Research, Cambridge (30 minutes)
• Understanding Churn in Peer-to-Peer Networks
  Daniel Stutzbach, University of Oregon; Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon (30 minutes)
• Rarest First and Choke Algorithms Are Enough
  Arnaud Legout, INRIA; Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Institut Eurecom; Pietro Michiardi, Institut Eurecom (30 minutes)

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Traffic
Session chair: Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs Research

• Delving into Internet Streaming Media Delivery: A Quality and Resource Utilization Perspective
  Lei Guo, The Ohio State University; Enhua Tan, The Ohio State University; Songqing Chen, George Mason University; Zhen Xiao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs-Research; Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University (30 minutes)
• A Measurement-based Deployment Proposal for IP Anycast
  Hitesh Ballani, Cornell University; Paul Francis, Cornell University; Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel-Research Berkeley (30 minutes)
• Web Search Clickstreams
  Nils Kammenhuber, Technische Universität München; Julia Luxenburger, Max-Planck Institute of Informatics; Anja Feldmann, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories; Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute of Informatics (15 minutes)
• An Independent-Connection Model for Traffic Matrices
  Vijay Erramilli, Boston University; Mark Crovella, Boston University; Nina Taft, Intel Research (15 minutes)

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Wireless
Session chair: Martin Arlitt - HP Labs/University of Calgary

• The Need for Cross-layer Information in Access Point Selection
  Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Georgia Tech; Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Cambridge (15 minutes)
• A Study of the Short Message Service of a Nationwide Cellular Network
  Petros Zerfos, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories; Xiaoqiao Meng, University of California Los Angeles; Starsky H.Y. Wong, University of California Los Angeles; Vidyut Samanta, University of California, Los Angeles; Songwu Lu, University of California Los Angeles (15 minutes)

4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.: BGP
Session chair: Renata Teixeira, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS - Laboratoire LIP6

• Quantifying Path Exploration in the Internet
  Ricardo Oliveira, UCLA; Beichuan Zhang, University of Arizona; Dan Pei, ATT Labs Research; Daniel Massey, Colorado State University; Lixia Zhang, UCLA (30 minutes)
• BGP Convergence in Virtual Private Networks
  Dan Pei, AT&T Labs - Research; Jacobus Van der Merwe, AT&T Labs - Research (15 minutes)

5:30p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Birds of a Feather: Measurement in the GENI Infrastructure
Session chair: Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin

Banquet: Barra Brasa, 8pm - 11pm

Within walking distance of hotel. A map of how to walk to the Barra Brasa is here.

Friday, October 27, 2006

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Pattern Matching and Parsing
Session chair: Mark Crovella - Boston University

• BinPAC: A yacc for Writing Application Protocol Parsers
  Ruoming Pang, Google Inc.; Vern Paxson, ICSI; Robin Sommer, ICSI, Larry Peterson, Princeton University (30 minutes)
• Approximate Fingerprinting to Accelerate Pattern Matching
  Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Lukas Kencl, Intel Research, Cambridge; Gianluca Iannaccone, Intel Research, Cambridge (15 minutes)
• Efficient Sequence Alignment of Network Traffic
  Christian Kreibich, University of Cambridge; Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge (15 minutes)

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Malware
Session chair: Geoff Voelker, University of California, San Diego

• Unexpected Means of Protocol Inference
  Justin Ma, University of California San Diego; Kirill Levchenko, University of California San Diego; Christian Kreibich, University of Cambridge; Stefan Savage, University of California San Diego; Geoffrey Voelker, University of California San Diego (30 minutes)
• A Study of Malware in Peer-to-peer Networks
  Andrew Kalafut, Indiana University; Abhinav Acharya, Indiana University; Minaxi Gupta, Indiana University (15 minutes)
• Malware Prevalence in the KaZaA File-Sharing Network
  Seungwon Shin, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI); Jaeyeon Jung, MIT; Hari Balakrishnan, MIT (15 minutes)