Preliminary Workshop Program

Note the visit to the Great Wall on Thursday!!

Special announcement: discussions on hot topics in content delivery

To stimulate active participation and to generate great ideas, we will ask the participants to form 5-7 groups. Each group will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation on the next hot topics in content delivery (networks). These presentations may help in setting up the next workshop, and may be just plain fun to get some discussions and debates. Groups will be organized around themes, for example:

  • Multimedia and streaming
  • Systems management
  • Placement and redirection
  • Decentralized control (aka peer-to-peer?)
  • Consistency management

We're open to other themes, and encourage you to already think how you could contribute to the discussion and presentations. There is nothing wrong with presenting controversial ideas :-) We particularly encourage the PhD students to make suggestions: you may be actively involved in organizing future workshops, so this is the right time to stand up and make yourself heard!

Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions? Please don't hesitate to get in touch with me (Maarten van Steen) by e-mail. I expect to arrive at the conference hotel around Sunday morning local time, so you can also talk to me then.


Day 1: Monday, 18 October

09.00
 Welcome
09.15
 Keynote by Michael Rabinovich (AT&T Labs - Research)
XML-Aware Networks: the Next Frontier or the Latest Fad?
10.30
 Morning break
11.00
 Session: Placement and redirection (chair: Maarten van Steen)
11.00 DotSlash: A Self-configuring and Scalable Rescue System for Handling Web Hotspots Effectively
Weibin Zhao, Henning Schulzrinne - Columbia University
11.30
 Dynamic Content Placement for Mobile Content Distribution Networks
Wagner Aioffi, Geraldo Mateus, Jussara Almeida, Raquel Melo - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
12.00
 Overhaul: Extending HTTP to Combat Flash Crowds (synopsis)
Jay Patel, Indranil Gupta - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12.20
 Lunch
13.45
 Session: Structured overlays (chair TBA)
13.45
 ShortCuts: Using Soft State To Improve DHT Routing
Kiran Tati, Geoffrey Voelker - UC San Diego
14.15
 Distributed Hashtable on Pre-structured Overlay Networks
Kai Shen - University of Rochester
Yuan Sun - UC Santa Barbara
14.45
 Afternoon break
15.15
 Session: Architectural issues (chair: Misha Rabinovich)
15.15
 Application Networking: An Architecture for Pervasive Content Delivery
Chi-Hung Chi, Mu Su - National University of Singapore
15.45
 Data Integrity Framework and Language Support For Active Web Intermediaries
Chi-Hung Chi, XiaoYan Yu, WenJie Zheng - National University of Singapore
16.15
 Xeja: A Scalable Channel-Based Multi-Source Content Distribution System (synopsis)
Pei Zheng - Arcadia University
Chen Wang - Michigan State University
16.35
 Finish
17.00
 Conference Dinner

Day 2: Tuesday, 19 October

09.15
 Break-out session to prepare hot-topics discussion
10.30
 Morning break
11.00
 Session: Multimedia caching (chair: Chi-Hung Chi)
11.00 Segment-based Adaptive Caching for Streaming Media Delivery on the Internet
Shaohua Qin - Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
11.30
 A Client-based Web Prefetching Management System Based on Detection Theory
Kelvin Lau, Yiu-Kai Ng - Brigham Young University
12.00
 Partially caching proxies for mixed media (synopsis)
Frank T. Johnsen, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen - University of Oslo
12.20
 Lunch
13.45
 Session: Caching in peer-to-peer systems (chair: Geoff Voelker)
13.45
 Performance Evaluation of Distributed Prefetching for Asynchronous Multicast in P2P Networks
Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta - Boston University
14.15
 On the Equivalence of Forward and Reverse Query Caching in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks
Ali Butt, Nipoon Malhotra - Purdue University
Sunil Patro - Microsoft Corporation
Y. Charlie Hu - Purdue University
14.45
 Afternoon break
15.15
 Session: Algorithms (chair: Bo Shen)
15.15
 FatNemo: Building a Resilient Multi-Source Multicast Fat Tree
Stefan Birrer, Dong Lu, Fabian E. Bustamante, Yi Qiao, Peter A. Dinda - Northwestern University
15.45
 A Real-time Selection Method of an Acceptable Transcoding Path in a MPEG21 DIA for Mobile Terminals
Sungmi Chon, Younghwan Lim - Soongsil University, Korea
16.05
 Design and Analysis of a Variable Bit Rate Caching Algorithm for Continuous Media Data (synopsis)
Ligang Dong - Hangzhou University of Commerce
Bharadwaj Veeravalli - National University of Singapore
16.25
 Afternoon break
16.45 Discussion: next hot topics in content delivery networks
17.30
 Finish

Day 3: Wednesday, 20 October

09.30
 Session: Systems management (chair TBA)
09.30 A Configuration Tool for Caching Dynamic Pages
Ikram Chabbouh, Mesaac Makpangou - INRIA Rocquencourt
10.00
 Towards Informed Web Content Delivery
Leeann Bent, Geoff Voelker - UC San Diego
Michael Rabinovich, Zhen Xiao - AT&T Research Labs
10.30
 Morning break
11.00
 Session: Systems evaluation (chair: Zhen Xiao)
11.00
 Unveiling the Performance Impact of Lossless Compression to Web Page Content Delivery
Chi-Hung Chi, Jun-Li Yuan - National University of Singapore
11.30
 An Empirical Study of a Segment-based Streaming Proxy in an Enterprise Environment
Sumit Roy, Bo Shen - HP Labs
Songqing Chen, Xiaodong Zhang - College of William and Mary
12.00
 Bottlenecks and their Performance Implications in E-Commerce Systems
Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni - College of William and Mary
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel - Seagate Research
12.20 Lunch
13.30
 Afternoon (no events)

Day 4: Thursday, 21 October

Social event: visit to the Great Wall (don't miss it!)