IWQoS 2007 Program

June 21, 2007, Thursday

08:00-09:00 Breakfast and Registration

09:00-09:15 Welcome and Introduction

09:15-10:15 Keynote address by Professor Randy Katz, UC Berkeley

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 Session 1: Congestion Control
Session Chair: Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern Univ., USA

• Competitive and Considerate Congestion Control for Bulk Data Transfers
  Shao Liu, Milan Vojnovic, Dinan Gunawardena   [Best Student Paper]

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• PIQI-RCP: Design and Analysis of Rate-Based Explicit Congestion Control,
  Saurabh Jain, Dmitri Loguinov   [Candidate for Best Student Paper]

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• Fairness Attacks in the Explicit Control Protocol,
  Christo Wilson, Chris Coakley, Ben Y. Zhao   [Candidate for Best Student Paper]

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12:14-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 2: Peer-to-Peer Networks and Network Coding
Session Chair: Ben Zhao, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA

• Decentralized Replication Algorithms for Improving File Availability in P2P Networks,
  Wing Kai LIN, Chong YE, Dah Ming CHIU

• On the Resilience-Complexity Tradeoff of Network Coding in Dynamic P2P Networks,
  Di Niu, Baochun Li

• Parallelized Progressive Network Coding With Hardware Acceleration,
  Hassan Shojania, Baochun Li

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:30-17:30 Session 3: QoS in Wireless and Sensor Networks
Session Chair: Baochun Li, Univ. of Toronto, Canada

• Field Coverage using a Hybrid Network of Static and Mobile Sensors,
  Dan Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada),Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

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• Improving Routing Quality of Greedy Forwarding in Wireless Networks,
  Chen Wang (Michigan State University), Li Xiao (Michigan State University)

• Evaluation of a Stateful Transport Protocol for Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks,
  Ashish Raniwala (Stony Brook University), Srikant Sharma (Stony Brook University), Pradipta De (Stony Brook University), Rupa Krishnan (Stony Brook University), Tzi-cker Chiueh (Stony Brook University)

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• On the Stability Region of Linear-Memory Scheduling for Time Varying Channels,
  Mahdi Lotfinezhad (University of Toronto, Canada), Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada), Elvino Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada) (Short Paper)

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• On Area of Interest Coverage in Surveillance Mobile Sensor Networks,
  Yu Dong (Purdue University), Wing-Kai Hon (Purdue University), David Yau (Purdue University) (Short Paper)

18:30-20:00 Dinner Banquet

June 22, 2007, Friday

08:00-09:00 Breakfast and Registration

09:00-10:30 Session 4: Multi-homing, QoS Provisioning, and Policy-Constrained Routing
Session Chair: Dan Massey, Colorado State Univ., USA

• On the Feasibility of Switching ISPs in Residential Multihoming,
  Ahsan Habib (Siemens TTB Center), Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University), John Chuang (University of California, Berkeley)

• Routing QoS-Guaranteed VPNs Using Network-Wide Load Balancing,
  Kartik Gopalan (Binghamton University), Tzi-cker Chiueh (Stony Brook University), Yow-Jian Lin (Telcordia Technologies)

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• Value of Supporting Class-of-Service in IP Backbones,
  Murat Yuksel (University of Nevada - Reno), K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T), Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Joseph D. Houle (AT&T), Rita Sadhvani (AT&T) (Short Paper)

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• Efficient Algorithms for Optimizing Policy-Constrained Routing,
  Daniel Massey (Colorado State University), Ross McConnell (Colorado State University), Andrew Curtis (Colorado State University) (Short Paper)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 5: QoS Analysis and Modeling
Session Chair: Haining Wang, College of William and Mary, USA

• Drop counters are enough,
  Rade Stanojevic (Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Ireland), Robert Shorten (Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Ireland)

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• Slow and Steady: Modelling and Performance Analysis of the Network Entry Process in IEEE 802.16,
  Matthias Hollick (Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt, Germany), Parag S. Mogre (Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt, Germany), Christian Schott, Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt, Germany)

• Recall and Precision in Distributed Bandwidth Allocation,
  Patrick Stuedi (ETH Zurich), Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich) (Short Paper)

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• Improving Individual Flow Performance with Multiple Queue Fair Queuing,
  Manfred Georg (Washington University in St. Louis), Christoph Jechlitschek (Washington University in St. Louis), Sergey Gorinsky (Washington University in St. Louis) (Short Paper)

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12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Session 6: Network Security
Session Chair: Matthias Hollick, Technical Univ. of Damstardt, Germany

• Detecting Stealthy Attacks Using Online Histograms,
  Yan Gao (Northwestern University), Yao Zhao (Northwestern University), Robert Schweller (Northwestern University), Shobha Venkataraman (Northwestern University), Yan Chen (Northwestern University), Dawn Song (Carnegie Mellon University), Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern University)

• Securing BGP through Keychain-based Signatures,
  Heng Yin (College of William and Mary), Bo Sheng (College of William and Mary), Haining Wang (College of William and Mary), Jianping Pan (University of Victoria)

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15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:45 Session 7: QoS for Multimedia & E-Commerce
Session Chair: Chen-Nee Chuah, Univ. of California, Davis, USA

• Designing networks with hop bounded protection paths,
  Mansoor Alicherry (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent), Randeep Bhatia (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent), Yung-Chun (Justin) Wan (Google Inc.)

• Performance metrics and configuration strategies for group network communication,
  Tom Z.J. Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Dah Ming Chiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong),John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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• Structuring Multi-Layer Scalable Streams to Maximize Client-Perceived Quality,
  Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University, Canada) (Short Paper)

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• Profit-aware Admission Control for Overload Protection in E-commerce Web Sites,
  Chuan Yue (College of William and Mary), Haining Wang (College of William and Mary) (Short Paper)

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17:00-18:30 Campus Tour

18:30-20:00 Dinner Banquet