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BU/NSF Workshop on
INTERNET MEASUREMENT, INSTRUMENTATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Monday August 30, 1999
(Preceding ACM SIGCOMM'99)
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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Objectives and Overview
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Because of its growth in size, scope, and complexity --- as well
as
its increasingly central role in society --- the Internet has
become
an important object of study and evaluation. Many
significant
innovations in the networking community in recent years have
been
directed at obtaining a more accurate understanding of the
fundamental
behavior of the complex system that is the Internet.
These
innovations have come in the form of better models of components
of
the system, better tools which enable us to measure the performance
of
the system more accurately, and new techniques coupled
with
performance evaluation which have delivered better
system
utilization. The continued development and improvement of
our
understanding of the properties of the Internet is essential to
guide
designers of hardware, protocols, and applications for the next
decade
of Internet growth.
As a research community, an important next step involves
a
comprehensive look at the challenges that lie ahead in this
area.
This includes an evaluation of both the current unsolved
challenges
and the upcoming challenges the Internet will present us with in
the
near future, and a discussion of the promising new techniques
that
innovators in the field are currently developing. To this end,
the
Networking Research Group at Boston University, with support from
the
National Science Foundation (pending), is organizing a
one-day
workshop which will be held at Boston University on Monday, August
30,
1999, and which will immediately precede SIGCOMM '99.
Workshop Program and Speakers
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The BU/NSF Internet Measurement, Instrumentation and
Characterization
(IMIC) workshop will feature four technical sessions:
- Modeling and Characterization
- Internet Instrumentation and Measurement
- End-to-End Protocols and Services;
- Network Support for Next Generation Internet Applications.
Each session will consist of 3 invited presentations to be followed
by
an open discussion.
The workshop will conclude with a panel of researchers from
academia
and industry, as well as representatives from funding agencies,
who
will discuss opportunities and challenges that lie ahead,
and
initiatives to be undertaken.
A final report, including materials presented and discussion
summaries
will be available on-line as a NSF report.
The list of workshop presentations will be posted on this page,
once
the technical program is finalized. For more details, please
contact
John Byers at (byers@bu.edu).
Local Arrangements
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The workshop will be held on the 9th floor of the Photonics Center
at
the heart of the Boston University Campus. The Boston
University
Campus is located in Boston, across the Charles River from
Harvard
University and MIT. For directions, please check the following
URL:
http://www.bu.edu/admissions/visit/campus/directns.html. All
other
questions concerning local arrangements should be directed to
Paul
Barford at (barford@bu.edu).
Registration
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An on-site registration fee of $50.00 (payable in cash, money
order,
or check drawn on a US bank) will be charged per attendee to
defray
the costs of food and beverage services.
Pending support from the NSF, the registration fee will be waived
for
full-time students on a First-Come-First-Serve basis. If you
are
interested in such a waiver, please contact Michael Mitzenmacher
at
(michaelm@deas.harvard.edu).
Workshop Organizing Committee
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- Paul Barford, Research Fellow, Boston University
- Azer Bestavros, Associate Professor, Boston University
- John Byers, Assistant Professor, Boston University
- Mark Crovella, Assistant Professor, Boston University
- Ibrahim Matta, Assistant Professor, Boston University
- Michael Mitzenmacher, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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For more information check the IMIC Workshop Home Page at
http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/imic
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