Network Reading Group, Summer/Fall 2002

The network reading group discusses network research literature and ideas.

Location: 320 Soda Hall

Date & Time: Friday Noon-1pm

Organizer: Matthew Caesar mccaesar@EECS.Berkeley.EDU.

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To email people: The alias for the group is netread@iceberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU.

Past meetings of the reading group:

Schedule:
9/20/02 Matthew Caesar
  • Topic: ``Traffic Matrix Estimation: Existing Techniques and New Directions, '' A. Medina (Sprint Labs, Boston University) , N. Taft (Sprint Labs), K. Salamatian (University of Paris VI), S. Bhattacharyya, C. Diot (Sprint Labs)
  • Talk slides: [ppt]
  • 9/27/02 Ananthapadmanabha Rajagopala-Rao
  • Topic: Wave and Equation Based Rate Control Using Multicast Round Trip Time. Michael Luby, Vivek K Goyal (Digital Fountain), Simon Skaria (UC Irvine), Gavin B. Horn (Pulsent). pdf
  • Network Topology Generators: Degree-Based vs. Structural. H. Tangmunarunkit (USC-ISI), R. Govindan (ICSI), S. Jamin (University of Michigan) , S. Shenker (ICSI), W. Willinger (AT&T Research) pdf
  • Talk slides: ppt 1 pdf 2
  • 10/4/02 George Porter
  • Topic: "Statistical Analysis of Malformed Packets and Their Origins in the Modern Internet" Bykova and Ostermann / Ohio University
    "Experience in Measuring Backbone Traffic Variability: Models, Metrics, Measurements and Meaning" Roughan, Greenberg, Kalmanek, Rumsewicz, Yates, and Zhang
    "Measuring Packet Reordering" Bellardo and Savage / UCSD
    Papers are available here
  • Talk slides: ppt 1 ppt 2 ppt 3
  • 10/11/02 Karthik Lakshminarayanan
  • Topic: Load Balancing in Distributed Hash Tables (work in progress)
  • 10/18/02 Adam Costello
  • Topic: "Lightweight Network Support for Scalable End-to-End Services" html
  • Talk handout: text
  • 10/25/02 Weidong Cui
  • Topic: Backup Path Allocation Based on a Correlated Link Failure Probability Model in Overlay Networks (practice talk for ICNP 2002)
  • 11/1/02 Yan Chen
  • Topic: On the Clustering of Web Content for Efficient Replication (Practice talk for ICNP 2002)
  • 11/8/02 TBA
  • Topic: CANCELLED
  • 11/15/02 Jayanth Kannan
  • Topic: Directed diffusion: A scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan and Deborah Estrin ps
  • Information-Driven Dynamic Sensor Collaboration for Tracking Applications, F . Zhao, J. Shin, J. Reichi, pdf
  • 11/22/02 Rodrigo Fonseca
  • Topic: On the Intrinsic Locality Properties of Web Reference Streams Rodrigo Fonseca, Virgilio Almeida, Mark Crovella and Bruno Abrahão. (Practice talk for Infocom 2003) ps.gz
  • 11/29/02 Cancelled (thanksgiving)
  • Topic: TBA
  • 12/6/02 Ben Y. Zhao)
  • Topic: Implementation and Deployment of a Large-scale Network Infrastructure
  • Talk slides: ppt
  • 12/13/02 Jimmy Shih
  • Topic: TBA
  • Links of Interest:

    Other reading groups/seminars:

    [Berkeley Multimedia and Graphics Networking, Communications and DSP ]

    [MIT reading group] [Georgia Tech reading group] [Boston University reading group]

    [Stanford Netseminar Stochnet Mobile/wireless ]