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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Complete Technical Sessions
By Day: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
By Session: General Sessions | FREENIX | SIGs | Guru Is In | WiPs
Locations: See the complete technical sessions.
Tuesday, June 29
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9:00 a.m.10:00 a.m.
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Tuesday
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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.
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10:00 a.m.10:30 a.m. Break
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10:30 a.m.12:00 p.m.
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Tuesday
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GENERAL SESSION PAPERS
Overlays in Practice
Session Chair: Fred Douglis, IBM Research
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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
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SIG SESSIONS
Using Globus with FreeBSD
Brooks Davis and Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation
Building a NIDS with OpenBSD
Kamal Hilmi Othman, NISER; Mohammad Rizal Othman, JARING
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GURU SESSIONS
Deploying Commercial DB on Linux
Steve Rees, DB2 Development, IBM Toronto Lab
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Steve Rees is a Senior Performance Manager in DB2 development at
the IBM Toronto Lab, focusing on transaction processing performance
on Linux. He's been part of DB2 development for twelve years and
has been working on performance for the last six. He still likes getting
bits under his fingernails.
This session will deal with various aspects of performance as
related to commercial database systems for Linux. This includes
the technical challenges of producing high-performance, high-quality
code on Linux, as well as performance questions customers may face
when deploying a large database system on Linux.
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12:00 p.m.1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 p.m.3:00 p.m.
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Tuesday
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GENERAL SESSION PAPERS
Secure Services
Session Chair: Atul Adya, Microsoft Research
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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
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SIG SESSIONS
UseBSD SIG |
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The NetBSD Update System
Alistair Crooks, The NetBSD Project
A Software Approach to Distributing Requests for DNS Service Using GNU Zebra,
ISC BIND 9, and FreeBSD
Joe Abley, Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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GURU SESSIONS
NFS Deployment for High Performance
Tom Talpey, Network Appliance, Inc.
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NFS is increasingly deployed in performance-sensitive environments,
where numerous new issues are confronted relative to "traditional"
workgroup-style deployments. Tom will discuss goals, issues, and
tunings that may be relevant to NFS. Also, he and his audience will explore
new transport-level developments that NFS will be taking advantage
of in the near future.
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3:00 p.m.3:30 p.m. Break |
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3:30 p.m.5:00 p.m.
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Tuesday
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GENERAL SESSION PAPERS
The Network-Application Interface
Session Chair: Vivek Pai, Princeton University
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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
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SIG SESSIONS
UseBSD SIG |
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Building a Secure Digital Cinema Server Using FreeBSD
Nate Lawson, Cryptography Research
Panel: The State of the
BSD Projects
Chair: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant
The FreeBSD Project
Robert Watson, Core Team Member, The FreeBSD Project
Since 1992, the FreeBSD Project has been one of the the open source
community's organizational and technical success stories. In addition
to serving the needs of some of the most well-known players on the
Internet, it has managed to forge some of the most significant and
long-running ties between the commercial world and BSD's open source
contingent. Robert Watson will discuss what lessons have been learned
over the course of the last decade and some of the more recent
developments in the BSD world.
The NetBSD Project
Christos Zoulas, President, NetBSD Foundation
Celebrating its 11th year of development, NetBSD is the most portable
operating system in the world. It runs on everything from the oldest
VAXes to the latest AMD64 systems, from big-iron servers to embedded
and handheld devices.
The DragonFly BSD Project
Matt Dillon, Project Leader, The DragonFly BSD Project
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GURU SESSIONS
Lessons from the Trenches: Enterprise Wireless LANs
Philippe Joubert, ReefEdge Networks
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Philippe Joubert is the Director of Engineering at ReefEdge Networks.
In this session Philippe will discuss
the common pitfalls of WLAN deployments and how
they can be avoided. Topics of discussion include
security, mobility, management, deployment, support,
and network design.
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5:15 p.m.6:00 p.m. |
Tuesday
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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.
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