Large Scale Communication Networks Tutorials

Part of the Long Program Large Scale Communication Networks
March 12 - 15, 2002

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Morning Session

Network Architectures - Design Principles, Evolution and Theory
8:30 - 9:25 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:25 - 9:30 Welcome Remarks - Mark Green/Walter Willinger
9:30 - 11:30
Bob Braden (USC Information Sciences Institute)

Architectural principles of the Internet
PDF Presentation
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:00 - 3:00
Fernando Paganini (UCLA)

Control Theory and Congestion
PDF Presentation
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:30
John Doyle (California Institute of Technology)

Toward a theory of complex networks


Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Morning Session

Network Protocols - Design and Dynamics
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 11:30
Tim Griffin (AT&T)

IP Routing
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:00 - 3:00
Steven Low (California Institute of Technology)

TCP Congestion Control: Algorithms & Models
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:30
Erich Nahum (IBM Watson Research Center)

Web Servers: Implementation and Performance
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

Thursday, March 14, 2002

Morning Session

Network Simulations - Tools, Topology and Morphology
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
John Heidemann (USC) and Polly Huang (ETH Zurich)

ns Tutorial: Case Studies
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:30 - 11:30
John Heidemann (USC) and Polly Huang (ETH Zurich)

Network modeling and traffic analysis with ns-2
PDF Presentation
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session
1:00 - 2:00
Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA)

Large-scale network simulation engines: QualNet

2:00 - 3:00
BJ Premore (Dartmouth College)

SSFNet and Routing Simulation
PDF Presentation
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:30
Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Modeling Internet Topology
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

Friday, March 15, 2002

Morning Session

Network Measurements - Data, Inference, and Analysis
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 11:30
Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin)

Network-wide Measurement Infrastructures
PDF Presentation
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
12:30 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 5:00
David Donoho (Stanford University)

Network measurements: Inference and Analysis

5:00 Conclusion