Internet Measurement Conference 2009 Program

Wednesday, November 4

9:00 – 9:15   Welcome

9:15 – 10:30   Session 1: Security (75 minutes)

Antidote: Understanding and Defending against Poisoning of Anomaly Detectors
Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein (UC Berkeley), Ling Huang (Intel Research, Berkeley), Anthony D. Joseph, Shing-hon Lau, Blaine Nelson, Satish Rao (UC Berkeley), Nina Taft (Intel Research, Berkeley), J. D. Tygar (UC Berkeley)

When Private Keys are Public: Results From the 2008 Debian OpenSSL Vulnerability
Scott Yilek (UC San Diego), Eric Rescorla (RTFM, Inc.), Hovav Shacham, Brandon Enright, Stefan Savage (UC San Diego)

Anomaly Extraction in Backbone Networks using Association Rules
Daniela Brauckhoff, Arno Wagner, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (ETH Zurich), Kave Salamatian (Lancaster University)

10:30 – 11:00   Break

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2: Online Social Networks (90 minutes)

Understanding Online Social Network Usage from a Network Perspective
Fabian Schneider, Anja Feldmann (TU Berlin / Deutsche Telekom Laboratories), Balachander Krishnamurthy, Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs – Research)

Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks
Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Meeyoung Cha (MPI-SWS), Virgílio Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

Network Level Footprints of Facebook Applications
Atif Nazir, Saqib Raza, Dhruv Gupta, Chen-Nee Chuah (UC Davis), Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs – Research)

12:30 – 14:00   Lunch

14:00 – 15:30   Session 3: Application Mix and Traffic Characteristics (90 minutes)

TCP Revisited: A Fresh Look at TCP in the Wild
Feng Qian (University of Michigan), Alexandre Gerber (AT&T Labs – Research), Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan), Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs – Research)

On Dominant Characteristics of Residential Broadband Internet Traffic
Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann (TU Berlin / Deutsche Telekom Laboratories), Vern Paxson (ICSI / UC Berkeley), Mark Allman (ICSI)

Detecting Traffic Differentiation in Backbone ISPs with NetPolice
Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan), Ming Zhang (Microsoft Research)

15:30 – 16:00   Break

16:00 – 17:30   Session 4: Access Networks (90 minutes)

Characterizing VLAN-Induced Sharing in a Campus Network
Ahmed Mansy, Mukarram bin Tariq, Nick Feamster, Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Tech)

Challenging Statistical Classification for Operational usage: the ADSL Case
Marcin Pietrzyk, Jean-Laurent Costeux (France Telecom R&D Orange Labs), Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Taoufik En-Najjary (Eurecom)

Mining Policies From Enterprise Network Configuration
Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin), David Maltz (Microsoft Research)

On Calibrating Enterprise Switch Measurements
Boris Nechaev (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology), Vern Paxson (ICSI / UC Berkeley), Mark Allman (ICSI), Andrei Gurtov (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)

18:00   Reception at the Hyatt

Thursday, November 5

9:00 – 10:15   Session 5: Tools/Analysis (75 minutes)

Sampling Biases in Network Path Measurements and What To Do About It
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research)

An Analysis of Packet Sampling in the Frequency Domain
Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Chadi Barakat (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis)

Triangle Inequality Variations in the Internet
Cristian Lumezanu, Randy Baden, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattarcharjee (University of Maryland)

Geolocalization of Proxied Services and its Application to Fast-Flux Hidden Servers
Claude Castelluccia, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Pere Manils, Daniele Perito (INRIA Grenoble)

10:15 – 10:45   Break

10:45 – 12:30   Session 6: Content Distribution and Mobility (105 minutes)

Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance
Rupa Krishnan (Google), Harsha V. Madhyastha (UC San Diego), Sridhar Srinivasan, Sushant Jain (Google), Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson (University of Washington), Jie Gao (Stony Brook University)

The Nature of Datacenter Traffic: Measurements and Analysis
Srikanth Kandula, Sudipta Sengupta, Albert Greenberg, Parveen Patel (Microsoft Research)

Characterizing Podcast Services: Publishing, Usage, and Dissemination
Dinan Gunawardena, Thomas Karagiannis, Alexandre Proutiere, Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research)

One-Click Hosting Services: A File-Sharing Hideout
Demetris Antoniades, Evangelos P. Markatos (ICS-FORTH), Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech)

12:30 – 13:45   Lunch

13:45 – 15:00   Session 7: Reachability (75 minutes)

Impact of Prefix-Match Changes on IP Reachability
Yaping Zhu, Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), Shubho Sen, Aman Shaikh (AT&T Labs – Research)

Internet Optometry: Assessing the Broken Glasses in Internet Reachability
Randy Bush (IIJ), Olaf Maennel (TU Berlin / Deutsche Telekom Laboratories), Matthew Roughan (University of Adelaide), Steve Uhlig (TU Berlin / Deutsche Telekom Laboratories)

Measurement Methods for Fast and Accurate Blackhole Identification with Binary Tomography
Ítalo Cunha (Thomson / UPMC Paris Universitas), Renata Teixeira (CNRS / UPMC Paris Universitas), Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech), Christophe Diot (Thomson)

15:00 – 15:15   Break

15:15 – 16:30   Session 8: Mobile Connectivity (75 minutes)

Measuring Serendipity: Connecting People, Locations and Interests in a Mobile 3G
Ionut Trestian (Northwestern University), Supranamaya Ranjan (Narus Inc.), Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University), Antonio Nucci (Narus Inc)

Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones: A Measurement Study and Implications for Network Applications
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arun Venkataramani (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Where's that Phone?: Geolocationg IP Addresses on 3G Networks
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Iqbal Mohomed, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian (Microsoft Research)

17:30   Conference Banquet

Friday, November 6

9:00 – 10:30   Session 9: Social Networks (90 minutes)

Minung Communiteis in Networks: A Solution for Consistency and its Evaluation
Haewoon Kwak, Yoonchan Choi, Young-Ho Eom, Hawoong Jeong, Sue Moon (KAIST)

Evolution of an Online Social Aggregation Network: An Empirical Study
Sanchit Garg, Trinabh Gupta (IIT Delhi), Niklas Carlsson (University of Calgary), Anirban Mahanti (National ICT Australia)

Scalable Proximity Estimation and Link Prediction in Online Social Networks
Han Hee Song, Tae Won Cho, Vacha Dave, Yin Zhang, Lili Qiu (University of Texas at Austin)

10:30 – 11:00   Break

11:00 – 12:30   Session 10: Routing (90 minutes)

IXPs: Mapped?
Brice Augustin (CNRS / UPMC Paris Universitas), Balachander Krishnamurthy, Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs – Research)

Understanding Slow BGP Routing Table Transfers
Zied Ben Houidi (France Telecom R&D Orange Labs / UPMC Paris Universitas / CNRS), Mickael Meulle (France Telecom R&D Orange Labs), Renata Teixeira (CNRS / UPMC Paris Universitas

Understanding the Efficacy of Deployed Internet Source Address Validation Filtering
Robert Beverly, Aurthur Berger (MIT CSAIL), Young Hyun, K Claffy (CAIDA)

Quantifying ASes Multiconnectivity using Multicast Information
Pascal Mérindol, Virginie Van der Schrieck, Benoit Donnet, Olivier Bonaventure (Université catholique Louvain), Jean-Jacques Pansiot (Université de Strasbourg)

12:30 – 14:00   Lunch

14:00 – 15:30   Session 11: Interference vs. Overhearing (90 minutes)

Non-Intrusive, Dynamic Interference Detection for 802.11 Networks
Kan Cai, Michael Blackstock, Michael J. Feeley, Charles Krasic (University of British Columbia

The Importance of Being Overheard: Throughput Gains in Wireless Mesh Networks Mikhail Afanasyev, Alex C. Snoeren (UC San Diego)

Impact of transient CSMA/CA access delays on Active Bandwidth Measurements
Marc Portoles-Comeras (CTTC), Albert Cabellos-Aparicio (DAC-UPC), Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (CTTC), Albert Banchs (UC3M), Jordi Domingo-Pascual (DAC-UPC)

Practical Beamforming based on RSSI Measurements using Off-the-shelf Wireless Clients
Sriram Lakshmanan (Georgia Tech), Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Laboratories America), Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Tech)

15:30 – 15:45   Break

15:45 – 17:15   Session 12: New Media (90 minutes)

Live Streaming Performance of the Zattoo Network
Hyunseok Chang (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs), Sugih Jamin (University of Michigan), Wenjie Wang (Zattoo Inc)

Modeling User Activities in a Large IPTV System
Tongqing Qiu (Georgia Tech), Zihui Ge, Seungjoon Lee, Jia Wang (AT&T Labs – Research), Jun (Jim) Xu (Georgia Tech), Qi Zhao (AT&T Labs – Research)

Inside the Bird's Nest: Measurements of Large-Scale Live VoD from the 2008 Olympics Hao Yin, Xuening Liu (Tsinghua University), Feng Qiu (ChinaCache Co., Ltd), Ning Xia (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Chuang Lin (Tsinghua University), Hui Zhang, Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University), Geyong Min (University of Bradford)