BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement, Instrumentation, and Characterization
From: Azer Bestavros (best@cs.bu.edu)
Date: Mon, Jul 19 1999
From: "Azer Bestavros" <best@cs.bu.edu>
To: "Undisclosed Recipients" <nobody@cs.bu.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:10:22 -0400
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Subject: BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement, Instrumentation, and Characterization
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BU/NSF Workshop on
INTERNET MEASUREMENT, INSTRUMENTATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Monday August 30, 1999
(Preceding ACM SIGCOMM'99)
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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Objectives and Overview
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Because of its growth in size, scope, and complexity --- as well as
its increasingly central role in society --- the Internet has become
an important object of study and evaluation. Many significant
innovations in the networking community in recent years have been
directed at obtaining a more accurate understanding of the fundamental
behavior of the complex system that is the Internet. These
innovations have come in the form of better models of components of
the system, better tools which enable us to measure the performance of
the system more accurately, and new techniques coupled with
performance evaluation which have delivered better system
utilization. The continued development and improvement of our
understanding of the properties of the Internet is essential to guide
designers of hardware, protocols, and applications for the next decade
of Internet growth.
As a research community, an important next step involves a
comprehensive look at the challenges that lie ahead in this area.
This includes an evaluation of both the current unsolved challenges
and the upcoming challenges the Internet will present us with in the
near future, and a discussion of the promising new techniques that
innovators in the field are currently developing. To this end, the
Networking Research Group at Boston University, with support from the
National Science Foundation (pending), is organizing a one-day
workshop which will be held at Boston University on Monday, August 30,
1999, and which will immediately precede SIGCOMM '99.
Workshop Program and Speakers
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The BU/NSF Internet Measurement, Instrumentation and Characterization
(IMIC) workshop will feature four technical sessions:
- Modeling and Characterization
- Internet Instrumentation and Measurement
- End-to-End Protocols and Services;
- Network Support for Next Generation Internet Applications.
Each session will consist of 3 invited presentations to be followed by
an open discussion.
The workshop will conclude with a panel of researchers from academia
and industry, as well as representatives from funding agencies, who
will discuss opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and
initiatives to be undertaken.
A final report, including materials presented and discussion summaries
will be available on-line as a NSF report.
The list of workshop presentations will be posted on this page, once
the technical program is finalized. For more details, please contact
John Byers at (byers@bu.edu).
Local Arrangements
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The workshop will be held on the 9th floor of the Photonics Center at
the heart of the Boston University Campus. The Boston University
Campus is located in Boston, across the Charles River from Harvard
University and MIT. For directions, please check the following URL:
http://www.bu.edu/admissions/visit/campus/directns.html. All other
questions concerning local arrangements should be directed to Paul
Barford at (barford@bu.edu).
Registration
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An on-site registration fee of $50.00 (payable in cash, money order,
or check drawn on a US bank) will be charged per attendee to defray
the costs of food and beverage services.
Pending support from the NSF, the registration fee will be waived for
full-time students on a First-Come-First-Serve basis. If you are
interested in such a waiver, please contact Michael Mitzenmacher at
(michaelm@deas.harvard.edu).
Workshop Organizing Committee
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- Paul Barford, Research Fellow, Boston University
- Azer Bestavros, Associate Professor, Boston University
- John Byers, Assistant Professor, Boston University
- Mark Crovella, Assistant Professor, Boston University
- Ibrahim Matta, Assistant Professor, Boston University
- Michael Mitzenmacher, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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For more information check the IMIC Workshop Home Page at
http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/imic