Sunday, November 12, 2006

07:45 - 13:30 Registration Open (Outside Santa Rosa)

08:00 - 09:00 Continental Breakfast (Outside Santa Rosa)

08:45 - 15:30 NPSec Workshop (Santa Rosa)

16:30 - 19:00 Registration Open (Outside Reagan)

17:00 - 20:00 Welcome reception (Reagan)

Monday, November 13, 2006

07:30 - 17:00 Registration Open (Outside San Rafael)

07:45 - 08:30 Continental Breafast (Outside San Rafael)

08:30 - 09:00 OPENING SESSION, San Rafael (Kevin C. Almeroth, U. C. Santa Barbara)

2006 IEEE Internet Award
Prof. Scott Shenker (University of California, Berkeley) will be presented the 2006 IEEE Internet Award, "For contributions towards an understanding of resource sharing on the Internet."

09:00 - 10:00 KEYNOTE, San Rafael (David Lee, Ohio State University)

Challenges and Opportunities of IT Education and Research
Dr. Wei Zhao (Division Director of Computer and Network Systems, NSF \& Senior Associate Vice President, Texas A&M University)

10:00 - 10:30  Coffee Break (Outside San Rafael)

10:30 - 12:00 SESSION I: P2P Networks, San Rafael (Ben Y. Zhao, U. C. Santa Barbara)

• Chunkyspread: Heterogeneous Unstructured Tree-based Peer-to-Peer Multicast
  Vidhyashankar Venkataraman (Cornell University), Kaoru Yoshida (University of Tokyo) and Paul Francis (Cornell University)
  

• DPTree: A Balanced Tree Based Indexing Framework For Peer-To-Peer Systems
  Mei Li, Wang-Chien Lee and Anand Sivasubramaniam (Pennsylvania State University)
  

• Rumor Riding: Anonymizing Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems
  Jinsong Han and Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  

• Modeling Heterogeneous User Churn and Local Resilience of Unstructured P2P Networks
  Zhongmei Yao, Derek Leonard, Xiaoming Wang and Dmitri Loguinov (Texas A&M University)
  
  

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break (Reagan)

13:30 - 15:00 SESSION II: Network Security, San Rafael (Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University)

• Forensic Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks
  Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, Mike Reiter and Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)
  
  
• Internet Cache Pollution Attacks and Countermeasures
  Yan Gao, Lewin Deng, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic and Yan Chen (Northwestern University) 
  
  
• Mitigating Attacks Against Measurement-Based Adaptation Mechanisms in Unstructured Multicast Overlay Networks
  Aaron Walters, David Zage and Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University)
  
  
• TrueLink: A Practical Countermeasure to the Wormhole Attack
  Jakob Eriksson, Srikanth Krishnamurthy and Michalis Faloutsos (University of California, Riverside)
  

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Outside San Rafael)

15:30 - 16:45 SESSION III: Wireless Routing, San Rafael (Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University)

• Impact of Routing Metrics on Path Capacity in Multi-rate and Multi-hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Hongqiang Zhai and Yuguang Fang (University of Florida)
  
  
• Reducing Congestion Effects by Multipath Routing in Wireless Networks
  Lucian Popa (University of California, Berkeley), Costin Raiciu (University College London), Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley) and David Rosenblum (University College London)
  
  
• Orthogonal Rendezvous Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks
  Bow-Nan Cheng, Murat Yuksel and Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

07:45 - 08:45 Continental Breakfast (Outside San Rafael)

08:00 - 15:30 Registration Open (Outside San Rafael)

09:00 - 10:30 SESSION IV: Protocol Design and Routing, San Rafael (Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas)

• Rigorous Protocol Design in Practice: An Optical Packet-Switch MAC in HOL
  Adam Biltcliffe (University of Cambridge), Michael Dales, Sam Jansen (Intel Research), Tom Ridge and Peter Sewell (University of Cambridge)
  
  
• Heterogeneous Congestion Control: Efficiency, Fairness and Design
  Ao Tang, David Wei, Steven Low (Caltech) and Mung Chiang (Princeton University) 
  
  
• Throughput Guaranteed Restorable Routing Without Traffic Prediction
  M. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman and Sudipta Sengupta (Lucent Bell Labs)
  
  
• Scaling IP Routing with the Core Router-Integrated Overlay
  Xinyang Zhang (Cornell University), Paul Francis (Cornell University), Jia Wang (AT&T Labs Research) and Kaoru Yoshida (The University of Tokyo)
  
  

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Outside San Rafael)

11:00 - 12:00 POSTER SESSION, Outside San Rafael (Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University)

• Improving efficiency of passive testing
  Zhi Xu, Hasan Ural, Zhang Fan (University of Ottawa, Canada)
  
• A macro mobility notification protocol for hybrid wireless mesh networks
  Rainer Baumann, Olga Bondareva, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  
• Fast RSVP -- A resource reservation protocol for mobile IPv6 networks
  Yi Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China), Bin Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P. R. China), Yucheng Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P. R. China), Gengfa Fang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China), Jinglin Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China), Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Wollongong, Australia)
  
• Flow-based buffer management scheme suitable for broadband router
  Yusuke Shinohara, Hideki Tode, Koso Murakami (Osaka University, Japan)
  
• Using fuzzy PI controller to provide QoS on Web servers
  Ka Ho Chan, Xiaowen Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
  
• Traffic flow confidentiality enhancements in IPsec: Design and preliminary implementation
  Simone Teofili (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), Fabrizio Formisano (CNIT, Italy), Csaba Kiraly (CNIT/Univ. Trento, Italy), Giuseppe Bianchi (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
  
• Constraint-driven virtual network design on a shared substrate
  Jing Lu, Jonathan Turner (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
  
• Adding selection into protocol stacks -- Communication with choices
  Yu-Shun Wang, Joseph Touch, John Silvester (University of Southern California, USA)
  
• Towards quantifying metrics for resilient and survivable networks
  Abdul Jabbar Mohammad (The University of Kansas, USA), David Hutchison (Lancaster University, UK), James P. G. Sterbenz (The University of Kansas, USA/Lancaster University, UK)
  
• Improving delay-tolerant network performance using forward routing information
  Shantnu Chaturvedi, Prasanth Kalakota, Chin-Tser Huang (University of South Carolina, USA)
  

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break (Reagan)

13:30 - 15:00 SESSION V: Security, San Rafael (Bob Briscoe, BT Research)

• On the Practical and Security Issues of Batch Content Distribution via Network Coding
  Qiming Li, Dah-Ming Chiu and John C.S. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 
  
  
• Vault: A Secure Binding Service
  Guor-Huar Lu, Changho Choi and Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota)
  
  
• Key Grids: A Protocol Family for Assigning Symmetric Keys
  Amitanand Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi and Mohamed Gouda (University of Texas at Austin)
  
  
• High Speed Pattern Matching for Network Based IDS/IPS
  Mansoor Alicherry, Muthuprasanna Muthusrinivasan and Vijay Kumar (Lucent Technologies)
  
  

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Outside San Rafael)

15:30 - 17:00 SESSION VI: Wireless and Sensor Networks (Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

• Virtual Surrounding Face Geocasting with Guaranteed Message Delivery for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  Jie Lian, Kshirasagar Naik (University of Waterloo), Yunhao Liu and Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  
  
• Benefit-based Data Caching in Ad Hoc Networks
  Bin Tang, Himanshu Gupta and Samir Das (Stony Brook University)
  
  
• A Distributed Algorithm for Joint Sensing and Routing in Wireless Networks with Non-Steerable Directional Antennas
  Chun Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts), Yong Liu (Polytechnic University), Don Towsley and Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts)
  
  
• RAIN: A Reliable Wireless Network Architecture
  Chaegwon Lim (UIUC, SNU), Haiyun Luo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Chong-Ho Choi (Seoul National University)
  
  

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

07:45 - 08:45 Continental Breakfast (Outside San Rafael)

08:00 - 13:30 Registration Open (Outside San Rafael)

09:00 - 10:15 SESSION VII: File Sharing and Overlay Networks, San Rafael (Shudong Jin, Case Western Reserve University)

• The Delicate Tradeoffs in Bit Torrent-like File Sharing Protocol Design
  Bin Fan, Dah-Ming Chiu and John C.S. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 

• Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic
  Mohamed Hefeeda and Osama Saleh (Simon Fraser University)
  

• Characterizing and Mitigating Inter-domain Policy Violations in Overlay Routes
  Srinivasan Seetharaman and Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  
  

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (Outside San Rafael)

10:45 - 12:00 PANEL SESSION, San Rafael (Michalis Faloutsos, U. C. Riverside)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break (Fiesta Room)

13:30 - 15:00 SESSION VIII: BGP and Traffic Engineering (Abraham I. Matta, Boston University)

• Robust Path-Vector Routing Despite Inconsistent Route Preferences
  Aaron D. Jaggard (Tulane University) and Vijay Ramachandran (Stevens Institute of Technology)
  

• Differentiated BGP Update Processing for Improved Routing Convergence
  Wei Sun, Morley Mao and Kang Shin (University of Michigan)
  

• Pretty Good BGP: Improving BGP by Cautiously Adopting Routes
  Josh Karlin (University of New Mexico), Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute) and Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)
  

• Robust Egress Interdomain Traffic Engineering
  Jian Qiu and Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts)
  
  

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Outside San Rafael)

15:30 - 16:45 SESSION IX: Wireless Networks, San Rafael (John C. S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• O-MAC: A Receiver Centric Power Management Protocol
  Hui Cao (The Ohio State University), Kenneth Parker (The Samraksh Company) and Anish Arora (The Ohio State University)
  

• Dynamic Conflict-free Query Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Octav Chipara, Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) and John Stankovic (Virginia University)
  

• Cross-Layer Exploitation of MAC Layer Diversity in Wireless Networks
  Min Cao, Vivek Raghunathan and Panganamala Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  
  

16:45 - 17:00 CLOSING SESSION (San Rafael)