BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement, Instrumentation, and Characterization
From: Azer Bestavros (best@cs.bu.edu)
Date: Thu, Aug 19 1999
From: "Azer Bestavros" <best@cs.bu.edu>
To: "Undisclosed Recipients" <nobody@cs.bu.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:59:21 -0400
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Subject: BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement, Instrumentation, and Characterization
BU/NSF Workshop on
Internet Measurement, Instrumentation and Characterization
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Monday August 30, 1999
(Preceding ACM SIGCOMM'99)
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 an
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 ACM SIGCOMM '99.
Technical Program
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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. For more details, please contact
John Byers at (byers@bu.edu).
Preliminary Schedule
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08:00-08:45 Registration and Breakfast
08:45-09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Azer Bestavros
09:00-10:20 Session I: Internet Instrumentation and Measurement
Chair: Paul Barford
- Ramesh Govindan, USC ISI
- Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-12:00 Session II: Modeling and Characterization
Chair: Mark Crovella
- Walter Willinger, AT&T Research
- Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Jim Pitkow, Xerox PARC
12:00-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:00 Session III: End-to-End Protocols and Services
Chair: John Byers
- Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech
- Venkata Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research
- Vaduvur Bharghavan, UIUC
15:00-15:20 Break
15:20-16:40 Session IV: Network Support for Next Generation
Applications
Chair: Ibrahim Matta
- Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
- Bala Rajagopalan, NEC Research Labs
- John Zinky, BBN
16:40-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 Panel on IMIC Challenges and Initiatives
Coordinator: Azer Bestavros
18:00-18:15 Closing Remarks
Local Arrangements and Directions
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The workshop will be held in the Boston University Photonics Center.
Registration and the workshop sessions will be held in the auditorium
(room 206) on the 2nd floor. Lunch will be served on the 9th floor.
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
The Photonics Center is located just off Commonwealth Avenue at the
heart of the BU campus. If you are traveling either eastbound or
westbound on Commonwealth Av. turn onto St. Mary's street (the only
direction you can turn is south - there is a Radio Shack on the
corner) and the Photonics Center is 50 yards down the street on your
left. There are a number of parking lots near the Photonics center
which cost between $6 and $12 per day. If you are taking the subway -
take the green line B train toward Boston College. Get off at the
Boston University Central stop which is adjacent to St. Mary's street
and walk down St. Mary's street 50 yrds to the Photonics Center.
All other questions concerning local arrangements should be directed
to Paul Barford at (barford@bu.edu).
Registration
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To register for the workshop, please complete the information below
and email it to Michael Mitzenmacher at (michaelm@deas.harvard.edu).
Name: _____________________________________________
Affiliation: ______________________________________
Address: __________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________
Phone: ____________ Fax: __________________________
Email: ____________________________________________
Brief Description of Research Interests: (Optional)
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