Internet Measurement Conference 2008 Program


Monday October 20th 2008

9:00am - 9:15am: Welcome

9:15am - 10:15am: Keynote

Graph Mining: Laws, Generators and Tools
Prof. Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University

10:15am - 10:45am: Break

10:45am - 12:15pm: Peer to Peer and Content Distribution Networks


Detecting BitTorrent Blocking
Marcel Dischinger (MPI-SWS) Alan Mislove (MPI-SWS and RiceUniversity) Andreas Haeberlen (MPI-SWS and Rice University) Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI-SWS) (15 Minutes)

On The Difficulty of Finding the Nearest Peer in P2P Systems
Vivek Vishnumurthy (Cornell University) Paul Francis (Cornell University) (15 Minutes)

Measuring and Evaluating Large-Scale CDNs
Cheng Huang (Microsoft Research) Angela Wang (Polytechnic University) Jin Li (Microsoft Research) Keith W. Ross (Polytechnic University) (30 Minutes)

Thinning Akamai
Ao-Jan Su (Northwestern University) Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University) (30 Minutes)

12:15pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Online Social Networks and IPTV


Unveiling Facebook: A Measurement Study of Social Network Based Applications
Atif Nazir (University of California, Davis) Saqib Raza (University of California, Davis) Chen-Nee Chuah (University of California, Davis) (30 Minutes)

Online Social Networks: Sheer Volume vs Social Interaction
Hyunwoo Chun (KAIST) Haewoon Kwak (KAIST) Young-Ho Eom (KAIST) Yong-Yeol Ahn (KAIST) Sue Moon (KAIST) Hawoong Jeong (KAIST) (30 Minutes)

Watching Television Over an IP Network
Meeyoung Cha (MPI-SWS) Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica Research) Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge) Sue Moon (KAIST) Xavier Amatriain (Telefonica Research) (30 Minutes)

3:30pm - 4:00pm: Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Panel


Measurement Challenges in Online Social Networks
Moderator: Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs
Panelists: Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech), Krishna Gummadi (MPI), Sue Moon (KAIST), Stefan Saroiu (U. of Toronto)

7:00pm: Reception


Tuesday October 21st 2008


9:00am - 10:30am: Wireless


Analysis of a Mixed-Use Urban WiFi Network: When Metropolitan becomes Neapolitan

Mikhail Afanasyev (UC San Diego) Tsuwei Chen (Google) Geoffrey M. Voelker (UC San Diego) Alex C. Snoeren (UC San Diego) (30 Minutes)

Mark-and-Sweep: Getting the "Inside" Scoop on Neighborhood Networks
Dongsu Han (Carnegie Mellon University) Aditya Agarwala(Carnegie Mellon University) David G. Andersen (Carnegie Mellon University) Michael Kaminsky (Intel Research Pittsburgh) Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Pittsburgh) Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University) (15 Minutes)

802.11n Under the Microscope
Vivek Shrivastava (University of Wisconsin Madison) Shravan Rayanchu (University of Wisconsin Madison) Jongwon Yoon (University of Wisconsin Madison) Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin Madison) (15 Minutes)

A Measurement Study of a Commercial-grade Urban WiFi Mesh
Vladimir Brik (University of Wisconsin Madison) Shravan Rayanchu (University of Wisconsin Madison) Sharad Saha (University of Wisconsin Madison) Sayandeep Sen (University of Wisconsin Madison) Vivek Shrivastava (University of Wisconsin Madison) Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin Madison) (30 Minutes)

10:30am - 11:00am: Break

11:00am - 12:15pm: Internet Coordinates and Anomaly Detection


Correcting Congestion-Based Error in Network Telescope's Observations of Worm Dynamics
Songjie Wei (University of Delaware) Jelena Mirkovic (Information Sciences Institute) (15 Minutes)


Distributed Algorithms for Stable and Secure Network Coordinates
Guohui Wang (Rice University) T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University) (30 Minutes)

How Healthy Are Today's Enterprise Networks?
Saikat Guha (Cornell University) Jaideep Chandrashekar (Intel Research Santa Clara) Nina Taft (Intel Research Berkeley) Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Pittsburgh) (15 Minutes)


An Empirical Evaluation of Entropy-based Traffic Anomaly Detection
George Nychis (Carnegie Mellon University) Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University) David Andersen (Carnegie Mellon University) Hyong Kim (Carnegie Mellon University) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) (15Minutes)

Lunch 12:15pm - 1:45pm

1:45pm - 3:15pm: Internet Properties


On the Internet delay space dimensionality
Bruno Abrahao (Cornell University) Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University) (30 Minutes)

Census and Survey of the Visible Internet
John Heidemann (USC/ISI) Yuri Pradkin (USC/ISI) Ramesh Govindan (USC/Computer Science Dept.) Christos Papadopoulos (Colorado State U.) Genevieve Bartlett (USC/Computer Science Dept.) Joseph Bannister (Aerospace Corp.) (30 Minutes)

Ten Years in the Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem
Amogh Dhamdhere (Georgia Tech) Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech) (30 Minutes)

3:15pm - 3:45pm: Break

3:45pm - 5:30pm: Infrastructure


Experimental Study of Router Buffer Sizing
Neda Beheshti (Stanford University) Yashar Ganjali (University of Toronto) Monia Ghobadi (University of Toronto) Nick McKeown (Stanford University) Geoff Salmon (University of Toronto) (30 Minutes)

Understanding the Implications of DNS Server Provisioning
Andrew J. Kalafut (Indiana University) Craig A. Shue (Indiana University) Minaxi Gupta (Indiana University) (15 Minutes)

Context-aware Clustering of DNS Query Traffic
David Plonka (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin - Madison) (30 Minutes)

Quantifying the Operational Status of the DNSSEC Deployment
Eric Osterweil (UCLA) Michael Ryan (UCLA) Dan Massey (Colorado State University) Lixia Zhang (UCLA) (30 Minutes)

8:30pm: Banquet



Wednesday October 22nd 2008

9:00am - 11:15am: Sampling and Probing


Towards Optimal Sampling for Flow Size Estimation
Paul Tune (University of Melbourne) Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne) (30 Minutes)

Fast Monitoring for Traffic Subpopulations
Anirudh Ramachandran (Georgia Tech) Srinivasan Seetharaman (Georgia Tech) Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) (30 Minutes)

Adaptive Shared-State Sampling
Frederic Raspall (Technical University of Catalonia) Sebastia Sallent (Technical University of Catalonia) (30 Minutes)

A resource-minimalist flow size distribution estimator
Bruno Ribeiro (UMass Amherst) Tao Ye (Sprint ATL) Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) (15 Minutes)

Spectral Probing, Crosstalk and Frequency Multiplexing in Internet Paths
Partha Kanuparthy (Georgia Institute of Technology) Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Institute of Technology) Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology) (30 Minutes)

Break 11:15am - 11:45am

11:45am - 1:15pm: Routing and Network Topology

On the predictive power of shortest-path weight inference
Andrew Coyle (University of Adelaide) Miro Kraetzl (DSTO) Olaf Maennel (University of Adelaide) Matthew Roughan (University of Adelaide) (15 Minutes)

Traceroute probe method and forward IP path inference
Matthew Luckie (University of Waikato) Young Hyun (CAIDA) Brad Huffaker (CAIDA) (30 Minutes)

Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti and other missing links: what we don't know about the AS graph
Matthew Roughan (University of Adelaide) Jonanthan Tuke (University of Adelaide) Olaf Maennel (University of Adelaide) (15 Minutes)

Towards a meaningful MRA analysis of traffic matrices
David Rincon (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Matthew Roughan (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide) Walter Willinger (AT&T Research) (15 Minutes)

Fixing Ally's Growing Pains with Velocity Modeling
Adam Bender (University of Maryland) Rob Sherwood (University of Maryland) Neil Spring (University of Maryland) (15 Minutes)

1:15pm - 1:30pm: Closing Notes

 

3:00pm - 5:00pm: IP Flow Information export (IPFIX) Tutorial