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USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 1997

USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 1997
December 8-11, 1997
Monterey, California, USA

Tuesday, December 9, 1997

Opening Remarks
Carl Staelin, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Keynote Address - Puberty - The Approach to Maturity
Heidi Heiden, UUNET Technologies

Caching I

Study of Piggyback Cache Validation for Proxy Caches in the World Wide Web
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs - Research; Craig E. Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Exploring the Bounds of Web Latency Reduction from Caching and Prefetching
Thomas M. Kroeger and Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jeffrey C. Mogul, Digital Equipment Corporation

The Measured Access Characteristics of World-Wide-Web Client Proxy Caches
Bradley M. Duska, David Marwood, and Michael J. Feeley, University of British Columbia

Servers

A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems
Nick Christenson, Tim Bosserman, and David Beckemeyer, EarthLink Network, Inc.

Improving Web Server Performance by Caching Dynamic Data
Arun Iyengar and Jim Challenger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server
Gaurav Banga and Peter Druschel, Rice University
Winner, "Best Paper" Award

Potpourri

BIT: A Tool for Instrumenting Java Bytecodes
Han Bok Lee and Benjamin G. Zorn, University of Colorado, Boulder

HPP: HTML Macro-Preprocessing to Support Dynamic Document Caching
Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs - Research; Antonio Haro, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs - Research

Wednesday, December 10

Security

Lightweight Security Primitives for E-Commerce
Yossi Matias, Alain Mayer, and Avi Silberschatz, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

Going Beyond the Sandbox: An Overview of the New Security Architecture in the Java Development Kit 1.2
Li Gong, Marianne Mueller, Hemma Prafullchandra, and Roland Schemers, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Secure Public Internet Access Handler (SPINACH)
Elliot Poger and Mary G. Baker, Stanford University

Monitoring

Web Facts and Fantasy
Stephen Manley, Network Appliance; Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

SPAND: Shared Passive Network Performance Discovery
Srinivasan Seshan, IBM; Mark Stemm and Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley

Rate of Change and other Metrics: a Live Study of the World Wide Web
Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, and Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs - Research; Jeffrey Mogul, Digital Equipment Corporation

Applications

RainMan: A Workflow System for the Internet
Santanu Paul, Edwin Park, and Jarir Chaar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Salamander: A Push-based Distribution Substrate for Internet Applications
G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, and Sushila Subramanian, University of Michigan

Creating a Personal Web Notebook
Udi Manber, University of Arizona

Thursday, December 11

Caching II

Cost-Aware WWW Proxy Caching Algorithms
Pei Cao, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandy Irani, University of California, Irvine

System Design Issues for Internet Middleware Services: Deductions from a Large Client Trace
Steven D. Gribble and Eric A. Brewer, University of California, Berkeley

Alleviating the Latency and Bandwidth Problems in WWW Browsing
Tong Sau Loon and Vaduvur Bharghavan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Information Retrieval and Searching

The Search Broker
Udi Manber and Peter A. Bigot, University of Arizona

Using the Structure of HTML Documents to Improve Retrieval
Michal Cutler, Yungming Shih, and Weiyi Meng, State University of New York, Binghamton

SASE: Implementation of a Compressed Text Search Engine
Srinidhi Varadarajan and Tzi-cker Chiueh, State University of New York, Stony Brook

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