GENERAL SESSIONS

Complete Technical Sessions
By Day: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
By Session: General Sessions | FREENIX | SIGs | Guru Is In | WiPs

Location: General Sessions will take place in Salon E.

Monday, June 28
8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m.	Monday
Opening Remarks & Awards Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Monday
Plenary Session Open Source and Proprietary Software: A Blending of Cultures Alan Nugent, VP & CTO, Novell Listen in MP3 format As a 20-year provider of proprietary software for the enterprise market, Novell has built products and a culture around proprietary (or closed) software. Within the last 18 months, we have embraced open source development and Linux and have injected them into our corporate DNA. While different, the two approaches are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I would argue embracing open source as a proprietary company is more straightforward than an open source company trying to move "up the stack." In this talk I will examine the myths, challenges, and opportunities for companies attempting to understand the best of both worlds. Alan F. Nugent serves as chief technology officer of Novell. Prior to Novell, Alan was the Managing Partner, Technology, at Palladian Partners. Mr. Nugent has successfully led many different technology organizations. He serves on the Board of Directors and on the Technical Committee for the Object Management Group and is a widely respected writer and speaker on OT, BPR, and Information Management. He sits on the board of directors of several technology startup companies.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.   Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Monday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Instrumentation and Debugging Session Chair: Val Henson, Sun Microsystems Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a First-Class Result Yaoping Ruan and Vivek Pai, Princeton University Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems Bryan M. Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro, and Adam H. Leventhal, Sun Microsystems Flashback: A Lightweight Extension for Rollback and Deterministic Replay for Software Debugging Sudarshan M. Srinivasan, Srikanth Kandula, Christopher R. Andrews, and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.   Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Monday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Swimming in a Sea of Data Session Chair: Yuanyuan Zhou, UIUC Email Prioritization: Reducing Delays on Legitimate Mail Caused by Junk Mail Dan Twining, Matthew M. Williamson, Miranda J. F. Mowbray, and Maher Rahmouni, Hewlett-Packard Labs Redundancy Elimination Within Large Collections of Files Purushottam Kulkarni, University of Massachusetts; Fred Douglis, Jason LaVoie, and John M. Tracey, IBM T.J. Watson Alternatives for Detecting Redundancy in Storage Systems Data Calicrates Policroniades and Ian Pratt, Cambridge University
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.   Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Monday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Network Performance Session Chair: Carl Staelin, HP Labs Monkey See, Monkey Do: A Tool for TCP Tracing and Replaying Yu-Chung Cheng, University of California, San Diego; Urs Hölzle and Neal Cardwell, Google; Stefan Savage and Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego A Transport Layer Approach for Improving End-to-End Performance and Robustness Using Redundant Paths Ming Zhang and Junwen Lai, Princeton University; Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yale University; Larry Peterson and Randolph Wang, Princeton University Multihoming Performance Benefits: An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University; Anees Shaikh, IBM T.J. Watson
Tuesday, June 29
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Tuesday
Plenary Session Network Complexity: How Do I Manage All of This? (PDF) Eliot Lear, Corporate Irritant, Cisco Systems Listen in MP3 format In the evolution of computers and networks, we have developed complex mechanisms to manage one, the other, or both. We organize teams based on technology or task, only to find that the tools they use converge at times and then diverge again. I'll discuss the latest convergences in the context of distributed systems management, network management, security, and voice in a world of ISPs, ASPs, Web services. It all boils down to this: why can't we manage the network just like one large UNIX box? Eliot Lear started his career developing distributed management tools for UNIX in 1987 at Rutgers University. From 1991 through 1998 he was part of a team that ran a large computer manufacturer network. Since 1998, Eliot has been the Corporate Irritant of Cisco Systems, focusing on the area of network management, network applications, and cross-functional integration.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.   Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Tuesday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Overlays in Practice Session Chair: Fred Douglis, IBM Research Awarded Best Paper! Handling Churn in a DHT Sean Rhea and Dennis Geels, University of California, Berkeley; Timothy Roscoe, Intel Research, Berkeley; John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley A Network Positioning System for the Internet T.S. Eugene Ng, Rice University; Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University Early Experience with an Internet Broadcast System Based on Overlay Multicast Yang-hua Chu and Aditya Ganjam, Carnegie Mellon University; T.S. Eugene Ng, Rice University; Sanjay G. Rao, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Jibin Zhan, and Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.   Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Tuesday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Secure Services Session Chair: Atul Adya, Microsoft Research Reliability and Security in the CoDeeN Content Distribution Network Limin Wang, KyoungSoo Park, Ruoming Pang, Vivek Pai, and Larry Peterson, Princeton University Building Secure High-Performance Web Services with OKWS Maxwell Krohn, MIT REX: Secure, Extensible Remote Execution Michael Kaminsky and Eric Peterson, MIT; Daniel B. Giffin, NYU; Kevin Fu, MIT; David Mazières, NYU; M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.   Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Tuesday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS The Network-Application Interface Session Chair: Vivek Pai, Princeton University Network Subsystems Reloaded: A High-Performance, Defensible Network Subsystem Anshumal Sinha, Sandeep Sarat, and Jonathan S. Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University accept()able Strategies for Improving Web Server Performance Tim Brecht, David Pariag, and Louay Gammo, University of Waterloo Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event-Driven Servers Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, and Alan L. Cox, Rice University; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL, Lausanne
5:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.	Tuesday
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs) Session Chair: Vivek Pai, Princeton University Short, pithy, and fun, Work-in-Progress reports introduce interesting new or ongoing work. If you have work you would like to share or a cool idea that's not quite ready for publication, send a one- to two-page summary (in PDF format) to usenix04wips@usenix.org. We are particularly interested in presenting students' work. A schedule of presentations will be posted at the conference, and the speakers will be notified in advance. Work-in-Progress reports are five-minute presentations; the time limit will be strictly enforced. Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. EST, May 27.
Wednesday, June 30
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Wednesday
Plenary Session Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Listen in MP3 format All security decisions involve trade-offs: how much security you get, and what you give up to get it. When we decide whether to walk down a dimly lit street, purchase a home burglar alarm system, or implement an airline passenger profiling system, we're making a security trade-off. Everyone makes these trade-offs all the time. It's intuitive and natural, and fundamental to being alive. But paradoxically, people are astonishingly bad at making rational decisions about these trade-offs. Security expert Bruce Schneier discusses this notion of security trade-offs and how we are all "security consumers." He makes use of a five-step process to explicate these intuitive trade-offs and shows how the process can be applied to decisions both small and large. Learn how security works in the real world, and what you can do to get the security you want . . . not the security that is forced upon you. Internationally renowned security expert Bruce Schneier has written eight books, including Beyond Fear and Secrets and Lies, as well as the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms. Schneier has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, has testified before Congress, and is a frequent writer and lecturer on issues surrounding security and privacy.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.   Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Wednesday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Unplugged Session Chair: Scott F. Kaplan, Amherst Awarded Best Paper! Energy Efficient Prefetching and Caching Athanasios E. Papathanasiou and Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester Time-based Fairness Improves Performance in Multi-Rate WLANs Godfrey Tan and John Guttag, MIT EmStar: A Software Environment for Developing and Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks Lewis Girod, Jeremy Elson, Alberto Cerpa, Thanos Stathopoulos, Nithya Ramanathan, and Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles