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Large-Scale Communication Networks: Topology, Routing, Traffic, and Control

March 18 - 22, 2002

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Mini-Workshop on "Internet Congestion Control"


Monday, March 18, 2002

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30

Frank Kelly (Stanford University)

"Introduction"

9:30 - 10:00

Glenn Vinnicombe (Cambridge University)

"Robust Congestion Control for the Internet"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Fernando Paganini (UCLA)

"Scalable Laws for Stable Network Congestion Control"
Presentation (PDF File)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:00

Teun Ott (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

"Explicit Congestion Notification and the TCP Paradigm."

12:00 - 12:30

François Baccelli (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)

"Interaction of TCP flows as Billiards (joint work with D. Hong)"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Steven Low (California Institute of Technology)

"Equilibrium and Dynamics of TCP/AQM"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30

Priya Ranjan (University of Maryland, ISR)

"Nonlinear Dynamics of TCP with Red Control"

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Srisankar Kunniyur (University of Pennsylvania)

"An exact penalty function view of resource allocation and congestion control in the Internet"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:00 - 5:30

Sanjay Shakkottai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Functional Differential Equation Models for Proportionally-Fair Congestion Controllers"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:30 - 6:00

Hari Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"OverQoS: End-to-end QoS without End-to-end Machinery"


Tuesday, March 19, 2002

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30

Vishal Misra (Columbia University)

"Active queue management: theory, experiment and implementation"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:30 - 10:00

Milan Vojnovic (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL))

"Observations on Equation-Based Rate Control "
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Peter Key (Microsoft Research)

"Congestion control for heterogeneous sources: strategies and cooperation."

11:30 - 12:00

Jim Roberts (France Telecom)

"Insensitivity in IP network performance"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 12:30

Laurent Massoulie (Microsoft Research)

"Flow level dynamics of congestion control for file transfers"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Mini-Workshop on "Internet-wide Measurements"

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin)

"Introduction"

3:00 - 3:30

David Moore (Caida)

"Pitfalls and Problems with Internet Data"

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Les Cottrell (Stanford University)

"A new infrastructure for high throughput network and application performance measurement"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:00 - 5:30

Harry Delano (Matrix)

 

5:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30

Gomathi Ramachandran (AT&T)

"Active Performance Measurements on the AT&T IP Backbone"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:30 - 10:00

Christophe Diot (Sprint)

"Over-provisioning, the only solution to QoS and Traffic Engineering"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Constantinos Dovrolis (University of Delaware)

"End-to-end available bandwidth estimation"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 12:30

Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research)

"Server-based Characterization and Inference of Internet Performance"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Kihong Park (Purdue University)

"Performance implications of power-law topology for network control"

3:00 - 3:30

Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington)

"Measuring ISP topologies with Rocketfuel"

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:30

Martin Arlitt (University of Calgary)

"Large Scale WAN Emulation"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:30 - 5:00

Matthias Grossglauser (AT&T)

"Trajectory Engine: A Backend for Trajectory Sampling"

5:00 - 5:30

Anja Feldmann (Saarland University)

"Generating Realistic BGP Traffic"
Presentation (PDF File)


Thursday, March 21, 2002

Morning Session

9:00 - 10:00

George Varghese (University of California at San Diego)

"Detecting Traffic Patterns at High Speeds in Routers"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

David Plonka (University of Wisconsin)

"IP Flow-based Measurement and Analysis with FlowScan"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:00

Matthew Roughan (AT&T)

"SNMP: Simple Network Measurements Please"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)

Mini-Workshop on "Internet Routing and Topology"

Afternoon Session

Structure and Modeling

1:00 - 1:30

Chen-Nee Chuah (Sprint ATL)

"Design principles of a 1-tier IP backbone"

1:30 - 2:00

Mark Crovella (Boston University)

"On the Geographic Location of Internet Resources"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

2:00 - 2:30

Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts)

"Power Laws and the Internet Topology"

2:30 - 3:00

Fan Chung Graham (University of California at San Diego)

"Random graphs and Internet graphs"

3:00 - 3:30 Break

BGP Monitoring, Hierarchy, Impact

3:30 - 4:00

Tim Griffin (AT&T)

"What is the Sound of One Route Flapping?"

4:00 - 4:30

Andy Ogielski (Renesys Corporation)

"Global Routing Instabilities"

4:30 - 5:00

Jennifer Rexford (AT&T)

"Controlling the Impact of BGP Policy Changes on IP Traffic"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:00 - 5:30

Ramesh Johari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Routing and Peering in a Competitive Internet"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, March 22, 2002

Morning Session

Modeling and Optimization

9:00 - 9:30

Milena Mihail (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Explaining Power Laws by Trade-Offs"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:30 - 10:00

John Doyle (California Institute of Technology)

"Self-Similarity, Power Laws and Internet Topology"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Ramesh Govindan (ICSI)

"Network Topologies: Large-Scale Structure and Hierarchy"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Stability, Convergence, QOS

1:00 - 1:30

Lixia Zhang (UCLA)

"Simple Protocols, Complex Behavior"

1:30 - 2:30

Cengiz Alaettinoglu (Packet Design)

"Detailed Analysis of ISIS Routing on the Qwest Backbone:A Recipe for Subsecond ISIS Convergence"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:30 - 3:00

Ion Stoica (University of California at Berkeley)

"Internet Indirection Infrastructure"

3:00 Conclusion

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