Systems and Networking Seminar: Spring 2009

Schedule

Automating Network Application Dependency Discovery: Experiences,
Limitations, and New Solutions
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Xu Chen, University of Michigan; Ming Zhang, Microsoft Research; Z.
Morley Mao, University of Michigan; Paramvir Bahl, Microsoft Research

Tenative candidate list of papers (incomplete)

• A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture; Mohammad Al-Fares (UC San Diego); Alexander Loukissas (UC San Diego); Amin Vahdat (UC San Diego)
• XL: An Efficient Network Routing Algorithm; Kirill Levchenko (UC San Diego); Geoffrey M. Voelker (UC San Diego); Ramamohan Paturi (UC San Diego); Stefan Savage (UC San Diego)
• Floodless in SEATTLE: A Scalable Ethernet Architecture for Large Enterprises; Changhoon Kim (Princeton University);Matthew Caesar (Princeton University); Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)
• A Policy-aware Switching Layer for Data Centers; Dilip A. Joseph (UC Berkeley); Arsalan Tavakoli (UC Berkeley); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
• Packet Caches on Routers: The Implications of Universal Redundant Traffic Elimination; Ashok Anand (UW Madison); Archit Gupta (UW Madison); Aditya Akella (UW Madison); Srinivasan Seshan (CMU); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley)
• BitTorrent is an Auction: Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent's Incentives; Dave Levin (University of Maryland); Katrina LaCurts (University of Maryland); Neil Spring (University of Maryland); Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland)
• Deflating the Big Bang: Fast and Scalable Deep Packet Inspection with Extended Finite Automata; Randy Smith (UW Madison); Cristian Estan (UW Madison); Somesh Jha (UW Madison); Shijin Kong (UW Madison)
• Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics; Yinglian Xie (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley); Fang Yu (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley); Kannan Achan (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley); Rina Panigrahy (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley); Geoff Hulten (Microsoft Corporation); Ivan Osipkov (Microsoft Corporation)
• DCell: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Network Structure for Data Centers; Chuanxiong Guo (Microsoft Research Asia); Haitao Wu (Microsoft Research Asia); Kun Tan (Microsoft Research Asia); Lei Shi (Tsinghua University); Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia); Songwu Lu (UCLA)

• Network Imprecision: A New Consistency Metric for Scalable Monitoring
  Navendu Jain, Microsoft Research; Prince Mahajan and Dmitry Kit, University of Texas at Austin; Praveen Yalagandula, HP Labs; Mike Dahlin and Yin Zhang, University of Texas at Austin

• Lightweight, High-Resolution Monitoring for Troubleshooting Production Systems
  Sapan Bhatia, Princeton University; Abhishek Kumar, Google Inc.; Marc E. Fiuczynski and Larry Peterson, Princeton University

• Automating Network Application Dependency Discovery: Experiences, Limitations, and New Solutions
  Xu Chen, University of Michigan; Ming Zhang, Microsoft Research; Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan; Paramvir Bahl, Microsoft Research

• Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes
  Ashok Anand and Sayandeep Sen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Krioukov, University of California, Berkeley; Florentina Popovici, Google; Aditya Akella, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
  Diwaker Gupta, University of California, San Diego; Sangmin Lee, University of Texas at Austin; Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego

• Ostra: Leveraging Trust to Thwart Unwanted Communication; Alan Mislove and Ansley Post, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Rice University; Peter Druschel and Krishna P. Gummadi, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

• Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication Brendan Cully, Geoffrey Lefebvre, Dutch Meyer, Mike Feeley, and Norm Hutchinson, University of British Columbia; Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia and Citrix Systems, Inc.

• Reducing Network Energy Consumption via Sleeping and Rate-Adaptation Sergiu Nedevschi and Lucian Popa, University of California, Berkeley, and Intel Research, Berkeley; Gianluca Iannaccone and Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Research, Berkeley; David Wetherall, University of Washington and Intel Research, Seattle

• Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
  John P. John, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• UsenetDHT: A Low-Overhead Design for Usenet
  Emil Sit, Robert Morris, and M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT CSAIL