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

Part of the Long Program Large Scale Communication Networks
March 18 - 22, 2002

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

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
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
5:00 - 5:30
Sanjay Shakkottai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Functional Differential Equation Models for Proportionally-Fair Congestion Controllers
PDF Presentation

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
9:30 - 10:00
Milan Vojnovic (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL))

Observations on Equation-Based Rate Control
PDF Presentation

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Jim Roberts (France Telecom)

Insensitivity in IP network performance
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 12:30
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
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00
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
9:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
Constantinos Dovrolis (University of Delaware)

End-to-end available bandwidth estimation
PDF Presentation

11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
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
PDF Presentation

4:30 - 5:00
5:00 - 5:30
Anja Feldmann (Saarland University)

Generating Realistic BGP Traffic
PDF Presentation


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

Mini-Workshop on "Internet Routing and Topology"

Afternoon Session

Structure and Modeling

1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
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
4:00 - 4:30
Andy Ogielski (Renesys Corporation)

Global Routing Instabilities

4:30 - 5:00
5:00 - 5:30
Ramesh Johari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Routing and Peering in a Competitive Internet
PDF Presentation

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

Afternoon Session

Stability, Convergence, QOS

1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
Ion Stoica (University of California at Berkeley)

Internet Indirection Infrastructure

3:00 Conclusion