Summer Schedule, 2001
Monday, 4pm

Date Facilitator/
Assistant		 Paper
08/27/01 Khaled Harfoush "Core-Stateless Guaranteed Rate Scheduling Algorithms". Jasleen Kaur and Harrick Vin. In proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, March, 2001
Talk Abstract. Slides.

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[Stoica:sigcomm99]:"Providing Guaranteed Services Without Per Flow Management". Ian Stoica and Hui Zhang. In proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 99. . 
[Zhang:sigcomm00]:"Decoupling QoS control from core routers: a novel bandwidth broker architecture for scalable support of guaranteed services". Zhili Zhang, Zhenhai Duan, Lixin Gao and Yiwei Hou. In proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 00. . 
08/06/01 Lujun (Richard) Jia
(Northeastern)		 "An Efficient Distributed Algorithm for Constructing Small Dominating Sets". Lujun Jia, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Torsten Suel. In proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 2001
Talk Abstract. Slides.

Related Links:

[Web:Raj]:"Rajmohan Rajaraman: Papers". . 
07/16/01 Manish Sharma
Liang Guo		 "Implementation of SRPT Scheduling in Web Servers". Mor Harchol-Balter, Nikhil Bansal, Bianca Schroeder, and Mukesh Agrawal. CMU Tech Report CMU-CS-00-170, "Analysis of SRPT Scheduling: Investigating Unfairness". Nikhil Bansal and Mor Harchol-Balter. in ACM SIGMETRICS 2001.
Talk Abstract. Slides.

Related Links:

[Web:Harchol-Balter]:"Mor Harchol-Balter: Papers". . 
07/09/01 Allen Downey 
(Wellesley)		 ``The structural cause of file size distributions''. Allen Downey. in ACM SIGMETRICS poster session and proceedings of MASCOTS 2001.
Talk Abstract. Slides.

Related Links:

[Web:LRD]:"Self-similarity and Long Range Dependence in Networks". Webpage maintained by Paul Barford. . 
07/02/01 Alberto 
Medina 		What do ISP's care about?
Talk Abstract. Slides.
06/25/01 Dario Vlah 
(Harvard)		 ``Load-Balancing Routing for Wireless Access Networks''. P.H. Hsiao, A. Hwang, H.T. Kung and D. Vlah, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'01, 986-995,
Talk Abstract. Slides.
06/20/01 Steven Low
(CalTech)		 BU-CS Colloquium Series "Duality Model of TCP and Queue Management Algorithms ". Steven Low. California Institute of Technology.
06/18/01 N/A SIGMETRICS break
06/11/01 Ibrahim Matta
Liang Guo		 "Understanding TCP Vegas: A Duality Model". Steven Low, Larry Peterson and Limin Wang. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2001. 
Talk Abstract, Slides.

Related Links:

[Kelly:math01]:"Mathematical modelling of the Internet". Frank Kelly. In "Mathematics Unlimited - 2001 and Beyond".2001. 685-702. 
[Kelly:JORS98]:"Rate control for communication networks: Shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability". Frank Kelly, Journal of Operations Research Society, 1998.
[Low:TON99]:"Optimization flow control, I:basic algorithm and convergence". Steven Low and Dave Lapsley, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 1999.
[Web:OR]: "Introduction to Constrained Optimization". (Including Karush-Kuhn-Tucker theorem).
06/04/01 Jun Liu 
Weichao Ma 		 "What do Packet Dispersion Techniques Measure". Constantinos Dovrolis, Parmesh Ramanathan, David Moore. In IEEE INFOCOM 2001. 
Talk Abstract., Slides.

Related Links:

[Carter:PE96]:"Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks". Robert Carter and Mark Crovella. Performance Evaluation, vol. 27-28, 1996 . 
[Lai:Infocom99]:"Measuring Bandwidth". Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, April, 1999
05/28/01 God Memorial Day.
05/21/01 John
Byers		 ``Computing the Unmeasured: An Algebraic Approach to Internet Mapping''. Yuval Shavitt, Xiaodong Sun, Avishai Wool, Bulent Yener. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2001.
Talk Abstract., Slides.
05/14/01 NRG  NRG organizational meeting 
1) discuss the role that NRG should serve, 
2) propose an organization for the set of NRG meetings during the summer (and beyond), 
3) brainstorm about the set of topics we would like to see covered in NRG in the near term