Technical Sessions
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2001
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9:00 am - 10:00 am
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Opening Remarks, Best Paper Awards, and Keynote Address
Keynote:
Interfaces Are Forever, or, It's the Hole, Stupid
Scott Guthery, CTO of Mobile-Mind, Inc.
The characteristics of a technology's connections to its neighbors have as much
to do with its success and persistence as with the characteristics of the
technology itself. This talk will attempt to draw a roadmap of Internet
technologies and systems--particularly those in the mobile and wireless space--by
examining the interfaces between the technologies. Interfaces that are tried and
true, interfaces that are emerging, interfaces that are fading, and even
interfaces that are needed but nowhere in sight are all considered. The talk
concludes with the observation that standards meetings aren't just about good
restaurants in exotic locations.
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10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
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10:30 am - 12:00 noon
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Streaming Media
Session Chair: Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University
Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming Media Workload
Maureen Chesire and Alec Wolman, University of Washington; Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego; and Henry M. Levy, University of Washington
Partial Prefetch for Faster Surfing in Composite Hypermedia
Javed I. Khan and Qingping Tao, Kent State University
Modular and Efficient Resource Management in the Exedra Media Server
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Kenneth C. Sevcik, and Michael Stumm, University of Toronto
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12:00 noon - 2:00 pm Symposium Luncheon
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Novel Architectures
Session Chair: Steve McCanne, Fast Forward
An Architecture for Content Routing Support in the Internet
Mark Gritter and David R. Cheriton, Stanford University
ALMI: An Application Level Multicast Infrastructure
Dimitrios Pendarakis, Tellium Optical Network Systems; Sherlia Shi, Washington University in St. Louis; Dinesh Verma, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; and Marcel Waldvogel, Washington University in St. Louis
CSP: A Novel System Architecture for Scalable Internet and Communication Services
Hemal V. Shah, Dave B. Minturn, Annie Foong, Gary L. McAlpine, Rajesh S. Madukkarumukumana, and Greg J. Regnier, Intel Corporation
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Break
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Flea Market
Session Chair: Greg Minshall, Redback Networks
The Age Penalty and Its Effect on Cache Performance
Edith Cohen, AT&T Labs--Research; and Haim Kaplan, Tel-Aviv University
On-Line Markets for Distributed Object Services: The MAJIC System
Lior Levy, Liad Blumrosen, and Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Panel Discussion
More details coming soon!
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TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2001
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9:00 am - 10:00 am
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Invited Talk: Search Engine Experience and Internals
Mike Burrows, Compaq Computer Corporation Systems Research Center
Mike worked on a Web search site called AltaVista from 1995 to 1997. After
giving an overview of how the Web site was structured and some operational
problems encountered, he'll describe some software internals, focusing on things
he enjoyed building. Parts of the talk will be interesting to
system administrators, parts to people who enjoy algorithms and data structures,
and a (small) part to people who enjoy over-optimizing short sections
of assembly language.
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10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
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10:30 am - 12:00 noon
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Internet Measurements
Session Chair: Vivek Pai, Princeton University
End-to-End WAN Service Availability
Bharat Chandra, Mike Dahlin, Lei Gao, and Amol Nayate, University of Texas at Austin
PRO-COW: Protocol Compliance on the WebA Longitudinal Study
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs--Research; and Martin Arlitt, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Nettimer: A Tool for Measuring Bottleneck Link Bandwidth
Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, Stanford University
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12:00 noon - 2:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Work-in-Progress Reports
Session Chair: Steve Gribble, University of Washington
Short, pithy, and fun, Work-in-Progress reports introduce
interesting new or ongoing work, and the USITS audience
provides valuable discussion and feedback. If you have
work you'd like to share or a cool idea that's not quite
ready for publication, then send in a brief summary to
usitswips@usenix.org.
Submissions are due by 6:00pm
on Friday March 16th; your submission must be less
than a page in length. We'll send out acceptances
by Wednesday, March 22nd. We are particularly interested
in presenting students' work.
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Break
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Adaptation
Session Chair: Mary Baker, Stanford University
CANS: Composable, Adaptive Network Services Infrastructure
Xiaodong Fu, Weisong Shi, Anatoly Akkerman, and Vijay Karamcheti, New York University
Dynamic Host Configuration for Managing Mobility Between Public and Private Networks
Allen Miu, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; and Paramvir Bahl, Microsoft Research
Puppeteer: Component-based Adaptation for Mobile Computing
Eyal de Lara, Dan S. Wallach, and Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2001
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9:00 am - 10:00 am
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Cool Hacks
Session Chair: Brian Pinkerton, Excite
Alpine: A User-Level Infrastructure for Network Protocol Development
David Ely, Stefan Savage, and David Wetherall, University of Washington
Measuring Client-Perceived Response Time on the WWW
Ramakrishnan Rajamony and Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab
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10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
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10:30 am - 12:00 noon
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Scalability and Fault Tolerance
Session Chair: Bill Weihl, Akamai Technologies
Neptune: Scalable Replication Management and Programming Support for Cluster-based Network Services
Kai Shen, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu, JoAnne L. Holliday, Douglas A. Kuschner, and Huican Zhu, University of California, Santa Barbara
System Support for Scalable, Reliable, and Highly Manageable Web Hosting Service
Mon-Yen Luo and Chu-Sing Yang, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Fine-Grained Failover Using Connection Migration
Alex C. Snoeren, David G. Andersen, and Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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