MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2001

9:00 am - 10:00 am

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.

10:00 am - 10:30 am    Break

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

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

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm    Symposium Luncheon

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm    Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Panel Discussion More details coming soon!

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2001

9:00 am - 10:00 am

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.

10:00 am - 10:30 am    Break

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

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 Web–A 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

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm    Lunch (on your own)

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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.

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm    Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2001

9:00 am - 10:00 am

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

10:00 am - 10:30 am    Break

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

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