0900–0915: Welcome

0915–1030: Measuring Network Outages and Infections
Session chair: Christian Kreibich (ICSI)

• Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship
  Alberto Dainotti (University of Napoli Federico II)
  Claudio Squarcella (Roma Tre University)
  Emile Aben (RIPE NCC)
  Kimberly C. Claffy (CAIDA)
  Marco Chiesa (Roma Tre University)
  Michele Russo (University of Napoli Federico II)
  Antonio Pescapè (University of Napoli Federico II)
  

• Pingin' in the Rain
  Aaron Schulman (University of Maryland)
  Neil Spring (University of Maryland)
  

• Detecting, Validating, and Characterizing Computer Infections in the Wild
  Elias Raftopoulos (ETH Zurich)
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (ETH Zurich)
  

1030–1100: Break

1100–1230: Privacy and Trust
Session chair: Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (ETH Zurich)

• I Know Where You Are and What You are Sharing: Exploiting P2P Communications to Invade Users' Privacy
  Stevens Le Blond (MPI-SWS)
  Chao Zhang (NYU-Poly)
  Arnaud Legout (INRIA)
  Keith Ross (NYU-Poly)
  Walid Dabbous (INRIA)
  

• Analyzing Facebook Privacy Settings: User Expectations vs. Reality
  Yabing Liu (Northeastern University)
  Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS)
  Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T LabsResearch)
  Alan Mislove (Northeastern University
  

• An Analysis of Underground Forums
  Marti Motoyama (UC San Diego)
  Damon McCoy (UC San Diego)
  Kirill Levchenko (UC San Diego)
  Stefan Savage (UC San Diego)
  Geoffrey M. Voelker (UC San Diego)
  

• Sharing Graphs using Differentially Private Graph Models
  Alessandra Sala (UC Santa Barbara)
  Xiaohan Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
  Christo Wilson (UC Santa Barbara)
  Haitao Zheng (UC Santa Barbara)
  Ben Y. Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
  

1230–1330: Lunch

1330–1500: Measurement in Wireless Networks
Session chair: Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

• Can they Hear Me Now?: A Case for a Client-Assisted Approach to Monitoring Wide-Area Wireless Networks
  Sayandeep Sen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Jongwon Yoon (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Joshua Hare (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Justin Ormont (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  

• Evaluation of Data Communication Opportunities for Oil Field Locations at Remote Areas
  Yang Chen (Schlumberger)
  Jens O. Berg (Schlumberger)
  Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  

• Over The Top Video: the Gorilla in Cellular Networks
  Jeffrey Erman (AT&T Labs Research)
  Alexandre Gerber (AT&T Labs Research)
  K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs Research)
  Subhabrata Sen (AT&T Labs Research)
  Oliver Spatscheck (AT&T Labs Research)
  

• Airshark: Detecting Non-WiFi RF Devices using Commodity WiFi Hardware
  Shravan Rayanchu (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Ashish Patro (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  

1500–1530: Break

1530–1645: TCP Performance
Session chair: K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs Research)

• Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP
  Nandita Dukkipati (Google)
  Matt Mathis (Google)
  Yuchung Cheng (Google)
  Monia Ghobadi (Google)
  

• Measuring the State of ECN Readiness in Servers, Clients, and Routers
  Steven Bauer (MIT)
  Robert Beverly (Naval Postgraduate School)
  Arthur Berger (MIT CSAIL / Akamai)
  

• Is it still possible to extend TCP?
  Michio Honda Keio University)
  Yoshifumi Nishida (Keio University)
  Costin Raiciu (Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti)
  Adam Greenhalgh (University College London)
  Mark Handley (University College London)
  Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio University)
  

1645–1730: News and Community Feedback Session
Session chair: Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

1730–1830: Reception

1830–2030: Visit of Schloss Charlottenburg

Thursday, November 3

0900–1030: Analyzing IPTV Systems and their Usage
Session chair: Chadi Barakat (INRIA)

• Q-score: Proactive Service Quality Assessment in a Large IPTV System
  Han Hee Song (University of Texas at Austin)
  Zihui Ge (AT&T Labs Research)
  Ajay Mahimkar (AT&T Labs Research)
  Jia Wang (AT&T Labs Research)
  Jennifer Yates (AT&T Labs Research)
  Yin Zhang (University of Texas at Austin)
  Andrea Basso (AT&T Labs Research)
  Min Chen (AT&T)
  

• Measurement and Analysis of a Large Scale Commercial Mobile Internet TV System
  Yuheng Li (Tsinghua University)
  Yiping Zhang (Shandong Technology)
  Ruixi Yuan (Tsinghua University)
  

• Understanding Couch Potatoes: Modeling Interactive Usage of IPTV at Large Scale
  Vijay Gopalakrishnan (AT&T Labs Research)
  Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs Research)
  K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs Research)
  Deborah F. Swayne (AT&T Labs Research)
  Vinay A. Vaishampayan (AT&T Labs Research)
  

1030–1100: Break

1100–1230: Users Behaving Badly
Session chair: Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research)

• Suspended Accounts in Retrospect: An Analysis of Twitter Spam
  Kurt Thomas (UC Berkeley)
  Chris Grier (UC Berkeley)
  Vern Paxson (UC Berkeley)
  Dawn Song (UC Berkeley)
  

• Uncovering Social Network Sybils in the Wild
  Zhi Yang (Peking University)
  Christo Wilson (UC Santa Barbara)
  Xiao Wang (Peking University)
  Tingting Gao (Renren Inc.)
  Ben Y. Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
  Yafei Dai (Peking University)
  

• Monitoring the Initial DNS Behavior of Malicious Domains
  Shuang Hao (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Nick Feamster (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Ramakant Pandrangi (Verisign Corporation)
  

• Understanding Fraudulent Activities in Online Ad Exchanges
  Brett Stone-Gross (UC Santa Barbara)
  Ryan Stevens (UC Santa Barbara)
  Apostolis Zarras (Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas)
  Christopher Kruegel (UC Santa Barbara)
  Richard Kemmerer (UC Santa Barbara)
  Giovanni Vigna (UC Santa Barbara)
  

1230–1400: Lunch

1400–1530: Web Traffic Revisited
Session chair: Steve Uhlig (TU Berlin / T-Labs)

• Towards Understanding Modern Web Traffic
  Sunghwan Ihm (Princeton University)
  Vivek S. Pai (Princeton University)
  

• Understanding Website Complexity: Measurements, Metrics, and Implications
  Michael Butkiewicz (UC Riverside)
  Harsha Madhyastha (UC Riverside)
  Vyas Sekar (Intel Labs)
  

• Identifying Diverse Usage Behaviors of Smartphone Apps
  Qiang Xu (University of Michigan)
  Jeffrey Erman (AT&T Labs Research)
  Alexandre Gerber (AT&T Labs Research)
  Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)
  Jeffrey Pang (AT&T Labs Research)
  Shobha Venkataraman (AT&T Labs Research)
  

1530–1600: Break

1600–1730: Social Media (YouTube) and the Web
Session chair: Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs Research)

• YouTube Everywhere: Impact of Device and Infrastructure Synergies on User Experience
  Alessandro Finamore (Politecnico di Torino)
  Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino)
  Maurizio Munafo (Politecnico di Torino) Ruben Torres (Purdue University)
  Sanjay G. Rao (Purdue University)
  

• Broadcast Yourself: Understanding YouTube Uploaders
  Yuan Ding (NYU-Poly)
  Yuan Du (NYU-Poly)
  Yingkai Hu (NYU-Poly)
  Zhengye Liu (AT&T Labs)
  Luqin Wang (NYU-Poly)
  Keith Ross (NYU-Poly)
  Anindya Ghose (NYU)
  

• Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling
  Jia Zhou (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  Yanhua Li (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  Vijay Kumar Adhikari (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  

• On Word-of-Mouth Based Discovery of the Web
  Tiago Rodrigues (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
  Fabrício Benevenuto (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
  Meeyoung Cha (Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST)
  Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
  Virgílio Almeida (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
  

1730–1930: Visit of the Reichstag

2015–0000: Conference Dinner

Friday, November 4

0900–1030: Security
Session chair: Anja Feldmann (TU Berlin / T-Labs)

• GQ: Practical Containment for Measuring Modern Malware Systems
  Christian Kreibich (ICSI)
  Nicholas Weaver (ICSI)
  Chris Kanich (UCSD)
  Weidong Cui (MSR)
  Vern Paxson (ICSI & UCB)
  

• Measurement and Evaluation of a Real World Deployment of a Challenge-Response Spam Filter
  Jelena Isacenkova (Eurecom)
  Davide Balzarotti (Eurecom)
  

• The SSL Landscape – A Thorough Analysis of the X.509 PKI Using Active and Passive Measurements
  Ralph Holz (TU München)
  Lothar Braun (TU München)
  Nils Kammenhuber (TU München)
  Georg Carle (TU München)
  

1030–1100: Break

1100–1230: Measurement and Tools in Support of Traffic Engineering
Session chair: Patrick Thiran (EPFL)

• On the Prevalence and Characteristics of MPLS Deployments in the Open Internet
  Joel Sommers (Colgate University)
  Brian Eriksson (Boston University)
  Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  

• Latency Inflation with MPLS-based Traffic Engineering
  Abhinav Pathak (Purdue University)
  Ming Zhang (Microsoft Research)
  Y Charlie Hu (Purdue University)
  Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research)
  Dave Maltz (Microsoft Research)
  

• ShaperProbe: End-to-end Detection of ISP Traffic Shaping using Active Methods
  Partha Kanuparthy (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  

• Sketching the Delay: Tracking Temporally Uncorrelated Flow-Level Latencies
  Josep Sanjuas-Cuxart (UPC BarcelonaTech)
  Pere Barlet-Ros (UPC BarcelonaTech)
  Nick Duffield (AT&T Labs Research)
  Ramana Kompella (Purdue University)
  

1230–1400: Lunch

1400–1530: Network Monitoring and Management
Session chair: Joel Sommers (Colgate University)

• The Evolution of Network Configuration: A Tale of Two Campuses
  Hyojoon Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Theophilus Benson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Nick Feamster (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  

• Understanding and Characterizing PlanetLab Resource Usage for Federated Network Testbeds
  Wonho Kim (Princeton University)
  Ajay Roopakalu (Princeton University)
  Katherine Y. Li (Princeton University)
  Vivek S. Pai (Princeton University)
  

• vPF_RING: Towards Wire-Speed Network Monitoring Using Virtual Machines
  Alfredo Cardigliano (ntop)
  Luca Deri (ntop)
  Joseph Gasparakis (Intel Corporation)
  Francesco Fusco (IBM Research)
  

1530–1600: Break

1600–1730: Measurement of Content Distribution Networks
Session chair: Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs Research)

• Going Viral: Flash Crowds in an Open CDN
  Patrick Wendell (Princeton University)
  Michael J. Freedman (Princeton University)
  

• Characterizing Roles of Front-end Servers in End-to-End Performance of Dynamic Content Distribution
  Yingying Chen (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  Sourabh Jain (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  Vijay Kumar Adhikari (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  

• Overclocking the Yahoo! CDN for Faster Web Page Loads
  Mohammad Al-Fares (UCSD)
  Khaled Elmeleegy (Yahoo! Research)
  Benjamin Reed (Yahoo! Research)
  Igor Gashinsky (Yahoo! Inc)
  

• Web Content Cartography
  Bernhard Ager (TU Berlin / T-Labs)
  Wolfgang Mühlbauer (ETH Zurich)
  Georgios Smaragdakis (TU Berlin / T-Labs)
  Steve Uhlig (TU Berlin / T-Labs)