3rd Annual
CoNEXT Conference
Columbia University
New York, NY
December 10-13, 2007

Changing Internetworking Paradigms

Sponsored by ACM Sigcomm

Technical Program

The papers are now available on-line.
Day Time Churrascaria Low Library Rotunda Plenary
Mon 08:45 AM-06:00 PM     Student workshop
Tue 09:00 AM-09:15 AM     Welcome and introductory remarks
  09:15 AM-10:15 AM     Keynote presentation : Conext rising star award
  10:35 AM-12:15 PM     Security
  02:00 PM-03:15 PM     New Architectures and their Evaluation
  03:35 PM-05:15 PM     Improving Communication Efficiency
  05:15 PM-05:45 PM     Community interest session
  08:00 PM-10:00 PM R: Reception and dinner at Churrascaria Plataforma    
Wed 09:00 AM-09:01 AM     Best paper award
  09:02 AM-10:15 AM     Delay Tolerant Networks
  10:35 AM-12:15 PM     Network Engineering, Monitoring, and Modeling
  12:15 PM-02:00 PM   Lunch  
  02:00 PM-03:15 PM     Mesh Networks
  03:35 PM-05:15 PM     Panel
Thu 09:00 AM-10:15 AM     Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks
  10:35 AM-12:15 PM     Resiliency

Monday, Dec 10

8:45 AM - 6:00 PM

Student workshop

See detailed technical program of student workshop by clicking on the link in the menu on the left.

Tuesday, Dec 11

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome and introductory remarks

Roch Guerin (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Olivier Bonaventure (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Keynote presentation : Conext rising star award

The 2007 Conext rising star award will be given to Ion Stoica in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, on advances in Internet architecture, overlay networks and practical distributed systems.
Laurent Mathy (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

10:35 AM - 12:15 PM

Security

Xiaowei Yang (University of California at Irvine, USA)
A Hybrid Finite Automaton for Practical Deep Packet Inspection
Michela Becchi (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Patrick Crowley (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Detecting Worm Variants using Machine Learning
Oliver Sharma (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom); Joseph Sventek (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom); Mark Girolami (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking
Zheng Zhang (Purdue University, USA); Ying Zhang (University of Michigan, USA); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, USA); Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan, USA)
Identifying Dynamic IP Address Blocks Serendipitously through Background Scanning Traffic
Yu Jin (University of Minnesota, USA); Esam Sharafuddin (University of Minnesota, USA); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA)

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

New Architectures and their Evaluation

Peter Key (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom)
Modeling the Adoption of New Network Architectures
Dilip Joseph (University C. Berkeley, USA); Nikhil Shetty (University of California at Berkeley, USA); John Chuang (University of California at Berkeley, USA); Ion Stoica (University Of California, Berkeley, USA)
Internet Economics: The use of Shapley value for ISP settlement
Richard Ma (Columbia University, USA); Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); John C. S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Vishal Misra (Columbia University, USA); Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, USA)
On the Cost of Caching Locator/ID Mappings
Luigi Iannone (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Olivier Bonaventure (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

3:35 PM - 5:15 PM

Improving Communication Efficiency

George Polyzos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
ER: Efficient Retransmission Scheme for Wireless LANs
Eric Rozner (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Anand Padmanabha Iyer (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Yogita Mehta (University of Texas, Austin, USA); Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Near-Optimal Co-ordinated Coding in Wireless Multihop Networks
Björn Scheuermann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany); Wenjun Hu (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Multipath Code Casting for Wireless Mesh Networks
Christos Gkantsidis (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom); Wenjun Hu (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Peter Key (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom); Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom); Steluta Gheorghiu (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain)
Multipath Live Streaming via TCP: Scheme, Performance and Benefits
Bing Wang (University of Connecticut, USA); Wei Wei (University of Massachusetts, USA); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)

5:15 PM - 5:45 PM

Community interest session

This session will contain the following short presentations describing initiatives that could be of general interest to the networking community
  • Ad-Hoc Testing on RIPE NCC Test Traffic Boxes, Franz Schwarzinger (RIPE, Amsterdam)
  • DipZoom: a global network measurement infrastructure at your fingertips, Misha Rabinovich (CWRU)
  • 6PlanetLab, an IPv6-enabled, slice-based network innovation platform, Maoke Chen, (CERNET, China)
  • The GENI initiative, Heidi Dempsey
  • FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) within FP7 in Europe, Fabrizio Sestini (EC)
Olivier Bonaventure (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

R: Reception and dinner at Churrascaria Plataforma

316 W 49th (around 9th Ave)
Take the #1 subway downtown, to 50th Street.
Churrascaria

Wednesday, Dec 12

9:00 AM - 9:01 AM

Best paper award

The award for the best paper presented at CoNEXT 2007 is given to the paper entitled "The Diameter of Opportunistic Mobile Networks" written by Augustin Chaintreau, Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Laurent Massoulie and Christophe Diot.

9:02 AM - 10:15 AM

Delay Tolerant Networks

Rute Sofia (INESC Porto, Portugal)
The Diameter of Opportunistic Mobile Networks
Augustin Chaintreau (Thomson, France); Abderrahmen Mtibaa (Thomson Paris Research Lab, France); Laurent Massoulie (Thomson Paris Research Lab, France); Christophe Diot (Thomson, France)
Fair and Efficient Scheduling in Data Ferrying Networks
Shimin Guo (University of Waterloo, Canada); Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Otiy: Locators tracking nodes
Mathias Boc (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France); Anne Fladenmuller (University Paris 6 - LIP6, France); Marcelo Dias de Amorim (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)

10:35 AM - 12:15 PM

Network Engineering, Monitoring, and Modeling

Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (New York University, USA)
Router Buffer Sizing Revisited: The Role of the Output/Input Capacity Ratio
Ravi Prasad (Georgia Tech, USA); Constantinos Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, USA); Marina Thottan (Bell Labs, USA)
Improving Service Differentiation in IP Networks through Dual Topology Routing
Kin-Wah Kwong (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Roch Guerin (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Anees Shaikh (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA); Shu Tao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Rethinking Internet Traffic Management: From Multiple Decompositions to a Practical Protocol
Jiayue He (Princeton University, USA); Martin Suchara (Princeton University, USA); Ma'ayan Bresler (UC Berkeley, USA); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, USA); Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University, USA)
NetDiagnoser: Troubleshooting network unreachabilities using end-to-end probes and routing data
Amogh Dhamdhere (Georgia Tech, USA); Renata Teixeira (CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France); Constantinos Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, USA); Christophe Diot (Thomson, France)

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

Low Library Rotunda

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Mesh Networks

Paulo Mendes (INESC Porto, Portugal)
Joint MAC-aware Routing and Load Balancing in Mesh Networks
Vivek Mhatre (Alcatel-Lucent, India); Francois Baccelli (INRIA-ENS, France); Henrik Lundgren (Thomson, France); Christophe Diot (Thomson, France)
Scalable Real-Time Gateway Assignment in Mobile Mesh Networks
Edward Bortnikov (The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Israel Cidon (Technion, Israel); Idit Keidar (Technion, Israel)
Practical Service Provisioning for Wireless Meshes
Saumitra Das (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA); Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Purdue University, USA); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, USA)

3:35 PM - 5:15 PM

Panel

Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Thursday, Dec 13

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks

Augustin Chaintreau (Thomson, France)
An Energy-conscious Transport Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Niky Riga (Boston University, USA); Ibrahim Matta (Boston University, USA); Alberto Medina (BBN, USA); Craig Partridge (BBN Technologies, USA); Jason Redi (BBN Technologies, USA)
Backpressure Multicast Congestion Control in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Björn Scheuermann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany); Matthias Transier (University of Mannheim, Germany); Christian Lochert (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany); Martin Mauve (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany); Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Experience with an Implementation of the Idle Sense Wireless Access Method
Yan Grunenberger (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France); Martin Heusse (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France); Franck Rousseau (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France); Andrzej Duda (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France)

10:35 AM - 12:15 PM

Resiliency

Shu Tao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Internet Routing Resilience to Failures: Analysis and Implications
Jian Wu (University of Michigan, USA); Ying Zhang (University of Michigan, USA); Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan, USA); Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA)
On Improving the Efficiency and Manageability of NotVia
Ang Li (University of California, Irvine, USA); Pierre Francois (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Xiaowei Yang (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Proactive Replication in Distributed Storage Systems Using Machine Availability Estimation
Alessandro Duminuco (Institut EURECOM, France); Ernst Biersack (Institut EURECOM, France); Taoufik En-Najjary (Institut Eurecom, France)
Building a Reliable P2P System Out of Unreliable P2P Clients: the Case of KAD
Damiano Carra (Institut Eurecom, France); Ernst Biersack (Institut EURECOM, France)

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