This year, WORLDS will again feature a demo session in which researchers will have the opportunity to demonstrate the real, running distributed systems they have built.

The demo session will take place during the Welcome Get-Together for OSDI '06, which is co-located with WORLDS '06.

Accepted Demos

Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices
Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Sean Rhea, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

iPlane: An Information Plane for Distributed Services
Harsha V. Madhyastha, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst

A Random Membership Sampler Based on Guided Random Walks
Ming Zhong and Kai Shen, University of Rochester

Colyseus: A Distributed Architecture For Online Multiplayer Games
Ashwin Bharambe, Jeffrey Pang, and Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University

Measuring the Internet's edge with Illuminati
Michael Freedman and Martin Casado, Stanford University

PrMon: A Fast Distributed Monitoring System for PlanetLab
NAVENDU Jain, Dmitry Kit, and Prince Mahajan, University of Texas at Austin; Praveen Yalagandula, HP Labs; Mike Dahlin and Yin Zhang University of Texas at Austin

Fern: Scalable Certificate Dissemination and Revocation for P2P
Ryan Spring and Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas at El Paso

Resource Management for Global Public Computing: Many Policies Are Better Than (N)one
Evangelos Kotsovinos, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories; Iulia Ion, International University in Germany; Tim Harris, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Plush: An Infrastructure for Managing and Visualizing Distributed Applications
Jeannie Albrecht, Ryan Braud, John Jersin, Nickolay Topilski, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego