infocom 99 papers

Neal Cardwell (cardwell@cs.washington.edu)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:20:50 -0800 (PST)

The infocom '99 program looks like it has a lot of papers that we might
find interesting. Here are a bunch that i thought folks here might find
most interesting (apologies for the HTML tag gunk). Some of these might be
good for 590nl.

INCFOCOM 99
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http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/infocom/paper_sessions.html

Web stuff
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<dt> <i>On The Optimal Placement of Web Proxies in the Internet</i>
<dd>Bo Li (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology), Mordecai Golin
(Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology), Giuseppe Italiano (Hong
Kong Univ. of Science and Technology), Kazem Sohraby (Lucent
Technology)

<dt> <i>Performance of Web Proxy Caching in Heterogeneous Bandwidth
Environments</i> <dd>Anja Feldmann (AT&T Labs-Research), Ramon Caceres
(AT&T Labs-Research), Fred Douglis (AT&T Labs-Research), Gideon Glass
(Cobal t Microserver, Inc), Michael Rabinovich (AT&T Labs-Research)

<dt> <i>Cache-based Compaction: A New Technique for Optimizing Web
Transfer</i><dd>Mun Choon Chan (Bell Labs), Thomas Woo (Bell Labs)

<dt> <i>Web Caching and Zipf-like Distributions: Evidence and
Implications</i> <dd>Lee Breslau (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center),
Pei Cao (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Li Fan (University of
Wisconsin, Ma dison), Graham Phillips (University of Southern
California), Scott Shenker (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)

<dt> <i>Design and Performance of a Web Server Accelerator</i>
<dd>Eric Levy, Arun Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Junehwa
Song (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Daniel Dias (IBM T.

<dt> <i>Accessing Multiple Mirror Sites in Parallel: Using Tornado
Codes to Speed Up Downloads</i> <dd>John Byers (Boston University),
Michael Luby (International Computer Science Insititute), Michael
Mitzenmacher (Compaq Systems
Research Center)

<dt> <i>Efficient Algorithms for Predicting Requests to Web
Servers</i> <dd>Edith Cohen (AT&T Labs--Research), Balachander
Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs--Research), Jennifer Rexford (AT&T Labs -
Research)

<dt> <i>A Scalable System for Consistently Caching Dynamic Web
Data</i> <dd>Jim Challenger (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Arun
Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Paul Dantzig (IBM
T.J. Watso n Research Center)

<dt> <i>Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the
Internet</i> <dd>Andy Myers (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Dinda
(Carnegie Mellon University), Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)

<dt> <i>Globally Progressive Interactive Web Delivery</i> <dd>Jeffrey
Gilbert (UC Berkeley), Robert Brodersen (UC Berkeley)

<dt> <i>Proxy Prefix Caching for Multimedia Streams</i>
<dd>Subhabrata Sen (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst), Jennifer Rexford
(AT&T Labs - Research), Don Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts
Amherst)

Routing Stuff
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<dt> <i>Optimization Algorithms for Large Self-Structuring
Networks</i> <dd>Rajesh Krishnan (BBN Technologies, GTE
Internetworking), Ram Ramanathan (BBN Technologies, GTE
Internetworking), Martha Steens trup (BBN Technologies, GTE
Internetworking)

<dt> <i>A Reliable, Efficient Topology Broadcast Protocol for Dynamic
Networks</i> <dd>Bhargav Bellur (SRI International), Richard Ogier
(SRI International)

<dt> <i>An Architecture for a Global Internet Host Distance Estimation
Service</i> <dd>Paul Francis (NTT), Sugih Jamin (Univ. of Michigan),
Vern Paxson (LBNL), Lixia Zhang (UCLA), Daniel Gryniewicz (Univ. of
Michi gan), Yixin Jin (UCLA)

<dt> <i>Origins of Internet Routing Instability</i> <dd>Craig Labovitz
(University of Michigan), Gerald Malan (University of Michigan),
Farnam Jahanian (University of Michigan)

<dt> <i>Inference of Multicast Routing Trees and Bottleneck Bandwidths
using End-to-end Measurements</i> <dd>Sylvia Ratnasamy (Univ. of
California, Berkeley), Steven McCanne (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

<dt> <i>Virtual Private Networks: Joint Resource Allocation And
Routing Design</i> <dd>Debasis Mitra (Bell Labs), John A. Morrison
(Bell Labs), K.G. Ramakrishnan (Bell Labs)

<dt> <i>Virtual Path Network Topology Optimization Using Random
Graphs</i> <dd>Andras Farago (Univ. of Texas at Dallas), Imrich
Chlamtac (University of Texas at Dallas)

<dt> <i>A Decentralized Model for Virtual Path Capacity Allocation</i>
<dd>Seung Rhee (University of Texas at Austin), Takis Konstantopoulos
(Univ. of Texas at Austin)

TCP/Congestion Control stuff
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<dt> <i>Measurement and Modelling of the Temporal Dependence in Packet
Loss</i> <dd>Maya Yajnik (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst), Sue Moon
(Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst), Jim Kurose (Univ. of Massachusetts
Am herst), Don Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)

<dt> <i>Measuring Bandwidth</i>
<dd>Kevin Lai (Stanford University), Mary Baker (Stanford University)

<dt> <i>Bandwidth Modelling for Network-Aware Applications</i>
<dd>Juerg Bolliger (ETH Zuerich), Thomas Gross (Carnegie Mellon/ ETH
Zuerich), Urs Hengartner (Carnegie Mellon)

<dt> <i>A Model for Window Based Flow Control in Packet-Switched
Networks</i> <dd>Xiaowei Yang (MIT)

<dt> <i>Using Back-Pressure to Improve TCP Performance with Many
Flows</i> <dd>Carlos Pazos (UCLA), Juan Sanchez-Agrelo (UCLA), Mario
Gerla (UCLA)

<dt> <i>A Transport Protocol For Heterogeneous Packet Flows</i>
<dd>Jia-Ru Li (University of Illinois), Dane Dwyer (Equinox
Solutions), Vaduvur Bharghavan (University of Illinois)

<dt> <i>Fairness and Stability of Congestion Control Mechanism of TCP</i>
<dd>Go Hasegawa (Osaka University), Masayuki Murata (Osaka University),
Hideo Miyahara (Osaka University)

<dt> <i>An End-to-end Rate-based Congestion Control Mechanism for Realtime
Streams in the Internet</i>
<dd>Reza Rejaie (USC/ISI), Mark Handley (USC/ISI), Deborah Estrin
(USC/ISI)

<dt> <i>Analysis and Comparison of TCP Reno and Vegas</i>
<dd>Jeonghoon Mo (UC Berkeley), Richard La (UC Berkeley), Venkat
Anantharam (UC Berkeley), Jean Walrand (Univ of California, Berke
http://www.path.berkeley.edu/~jhmo/draft4.ps

<dt> <i>The Window Distribution of Idealized TCP Congestion Avoidance with
Variable Packet Loss</i>
<dd>Archan Misra (Bell Communications Research), Teunis Ott (Bell
Communications Research)

<dt> <i>The TIME-WAIT state in TCP and Its Effect on Busy Servers</i>
<dd>Faber Theodore (USC/ISI), Joe Touch (USC/ISI), Wei Yue (USC/ISI)