TECH SESSIONS

Monday, May 8

8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Monday
Opening Remarks
Timothy Roscoe and Larry Peterson, Program Chairs

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9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Monday
Keynote Address
Udi Manber, VP of Engineering, Google Inc.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.    Break
10:30 a.m.–noon Monday
Wide-Area Network Services I
Session Chair: Steve Hand

Awarded Best Paper!
Experience with an Object Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Filesharing

Kevin Walsh and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University

Corona: A High Performance Publish-Subscribe System for the World Wide Web
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Ryan Peterson, and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University

Scale and Performance in the CoBlitz Large-File Distribution Service
KyoungSoo Park and Vivek S. Pai, Princeton University

Noon–1:30 p.m.    Lunch   (on your own)
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Monday

Replication and Availability
Session Chair: Steve Gribble

Efficient Replica Maintenance for Distributed Storage Systems
Byung-Gon Chun, University of California, Berkeley; Frank Dabek, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Andreas Haeberlen, Rice University/MPI-SWS; Emil Sit, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Hakim Weatherspoon, University of California, Berkeley; M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley; Robert Morris, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

PRACTI Replication
Nalini Belaramani, Mike Dahlin, Lei Gao, Amol Nayate, Arun Venkataramani, Praveen Yalagandula, and Jiandan Zheng, University of Texas at Austin

Exploiting Availability Prediction in Distributed Systems
James W. Mickens and Brian D. Noble, University of Michigan

3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.    Break

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Monday

Tools
Session Chair: Neil Spring

To Infinity and Beyond: Time-Warped Network Emulation
Diwaker Gupta, Kenneth Yocum, Marvin McNett, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego

The Dark Oracle: Perspective-Aware Unused and Unreachable Address Discovery
Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, and Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan; Richard Mortier, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Pip: Detecting the Unexpected in Distributed Systems
Patrick Reynolds, Duke University; Charles Killian, University of California, San Diego; Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey C. Mogul, and Mehul A. Shah, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto; Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego

5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m.    Reception and Poster Session
Tuesday, May 9

8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Tuesday
Wide-Area Network Services II
Session Chair: Emin Gün Sirer

OASIS: Anycast for Any Service
Michael J. Freedman, New York University and Stanford University; Karthik Lakshminarayanan, University of California, Berkeley; David Mazières, Stanford University

OverCite: A Distributed, Cooperative CiteSeer
Jeremy Stribling, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Jinyang Li, New York University and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory via University of California, Berkeley; Isaac G. Councill, Pennsylvania State University; M. Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Colyseus: A Distributed Architecture for Online Multiplayer Games
Ashwin Bharambe, Jeffrey Pang, and Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University

10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.    Break

10:30 a.m.–noon Tuesday
End-System Design
Session Chair: David Anderson

Na Kika: Secure Service Execution and Composition in an Open Edge-Side Computing Network
Robert Grimm, Guy Lichtman, Nikolaos Michalakis, Amos Elliston, Adam Kravetz, Jonathan Miller, and Sajid Raza, New York University

Connection Conditioning: Architecture-Independent Support for Simple, Robust Servers
KyoungSoo Park and Vivek S. Pai, Princeton University

PCP: Efficient Endpoint Congestion Control
Thomas Anderson, Andrew Collins, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and John Zahorjan, University of Washington

Noon–1:30 p.m.    Symposium Luncheon

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Tuesday
Measurement and Analysis
Session Chair: John Byers

Awarded Best Paper!
Availability of Multi-Object Operations

Haifeng Yu, Intel Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University; Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Suman Nath, Microsoft Research

Subtleties in Tolerating Correlated Failures in Wide-area Storage Systems
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research; Haifeng Yu and Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University

Open Versus Closed: A Cautionary Tale
Bianca Schroeder, Adam Wierman, and Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University

3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.    Break

3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Tuesday
Architectures and Abstractions (and Email)
Session Chair: Alex Snoeren

An Architecture for Internet Data Transfer
Niraj Tolia, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Research Pittsburgh; David G. Andersen and Swapnil Patil, Carnegie Mellon University

OCALA: An Architecture for Supporting Legacy Applications over Overlays
Dilip Joseph and Jayanth Kannan, University of California, Berkeley; Ayumu Kubota, KDDI Labs; Karthik Lakshminarayanan and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley; Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University

Distributed Quota Enforcement for Spam Control
Michael Walfish, J.D. Zamfirescu, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI

RE: Reliable Email
Scott Garriss, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Michael J. Freedman, New York University and Stanford University; Brad Karp, University College London; David Mazières, Stanford University; Haifeng Yu, Intel Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University


Wednesday, May 10

8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Wednesday
Wireless and Sensor Networks
Session Chair: Matt Welsh

PRESTO: Feedback-driven Data Management in Sensor Networks
Ming Li, Deepak Ganesan, and Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Practical Data-Centric Storage
Cheng Tien Ee, University of California, Berkeley; Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Research Berkeley; Scott Shenker, ICSI and University of California, Berkeley

Geographic Routing Without Planarization
Ben Leong, Barbara Liskov, and Robert Morris, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.    Break  

10:30 a.m.–noon Wednesday
File and Storage Systems
Session Chair: John Hartman

Virtualization Aware File Systems: Getting Beyond the Limitations of Virtual Disks
Ben Pfaff, Tal Garfinkel, and Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University

Olive: Distributed Point-in-Time Branching Storage for Real Systems
Marcos K. Aguilera, Susan Spence, and Alistair Veitch, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto

Pastwatch: A Distributed Version Control System
Alexander Yip, Benjie Chen, and Robert Morris, MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory

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