Wednesday
October 23, 2002
8am Breakfast will be provided by the Holiday Inn
9am- 5pm Tutorial

Prof. Bobby Bhattacharjee
University of Maryland

and

Prof. Daniel Rubenstein
Columbia University

Overlay and P2P Systems: Protocols, Applications, and Analysis.

Overlay systems can be used to deploy a wide-range of sophisticated applications such as scalable media streaming and scalable information retreival and lookup services without requiring modification to the underlying network infrastructure. In this tutorial, we examine the current state-of-the-art overlay technologies, with a particular emphasis on peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols.

We cover, in detail, the different flavors of overlay topology construction algorithms that implement large scale data distribution and retrieval. In particular, we explore the various ways in which P2P technologies can be used to support group forwarding paradigms such as multicast and anycast. After describing the different approaches, we compare and contrast their scalability and efficiency using simulation and experimental results, along with mathematical analysis on simple abstract models.

Next, we outline the range of applications that can be supported by these overlay topologies. We discuss media streaming, distributed document storage and lookup, distributed filesystems, archival storage, and anonymous communication protocols, covering the underlying overlay protocols these applications are based-upon with a emphasis on service scalability.

Lunch will be provided by the Holiday inn on the day of the tutorial.

Thursday
October 24, 2002
8am Breakfast will be provided by the Holiday Inn
9am -- 9:15am
Welcoming Session

9:15am -- 10:15
Opening Keynote:
PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING: WHAT ARE THE RESEARCH PROBLEMS?
Prof. Frans Kaashoek
 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:15am -- 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45am - Noon
Security
Session Chair: Markus Hoffman
Bell Labs 		Offering a multicast delivery service in a programmable secure IP VPN environment
Lina Alchaal, Vincent Roca, and Michel Habert
 

Performance comparison of stateful and stateless group rekeying algorithms
Weifeng Chen and Lakshminath R. Dondeti
 

Multicast Congestion Control with Distrusted Receivers
Sergey Gorinsky, Sugat Jain, and Harrick Vin
Noon-1:30 LUNCH will be provided by the Holiday Inn
2:00pm -- 2:50pm
Multimedia
Session Chair: John Byers
Boston University		 Cost-optimal Dimensioning of a Large Scale Video on Demand System
David Choi, Ernst W. Biersack, and Guillaume Urvoy-Keller
 

A Buffer-and-Relay Approach to Streaming Media Delivery for Asynchronous Clients
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros
2:50 -- 3:20pm Coffee Break
3:20pm -- 5pm
Application-level Topics
Session Chair: Laurent Mathy
Lancaster University 		Universal IP Multicast Delivery
Beichuan Zhang, Sugih Jamin, and Lixia Zhang

An Evaluation of Topology-sensitive Subgroup Communication mechanism in Large-scale multicast applications
Jangwon Lee and Gustavo de Veciana

Counting the Number of Members in Multicast Communication
Fethi Filali, Hitoshi Asaeda and Walid Dabbous

Rendezvous Points-Based Scalable Content Discovery with Load Balancing
Jun Gao and Peter Steenkiste
Social Event 7:15pm -- Social Event Dinner: McCormick and Schmick's in the theatre district.
Friday
October 25, 2002
8am Breakfast will be provided by the Holiday Inn
8:30am -- 9:20am
Routing
Session Chair: Zongming Fei
University of Kentucky
 A Name-Based Architecture for Source-Specific Multicast Service
Vincent P. Laviano and David R. Cheriton

A Scalable and fault-Tolerant Architecture for Internet Multicasting Using Meshes
JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Saravanan Balasubramaniyan, and Ramesh Balakrishnan
9:20am -- 10:10
Mobility
Session Chair: Burkhard Stiller
UniBw Munich and ETH Zurich 		Scalable Team Multicast in Wireless Ad hoc Networks Exploiting Coordinated Motion
Yunjung Yi, Xiaoyan Hong, and Mario Gerla

M-HBH - Efficient Mobility Management in Multicast
Rolland Vida, Luis H M K Costa, and Serge Fdida
10:10am -- 10:40am Coffee Break
10:40am -- Noon Panel
Peer-to-Peer: Answering Fundamental Research or Benefiting Illegal Activities?

Panelists:
  • Azer Bestavros (Boston University)
  • Alan Boulanger (New England Electronic Crimes Task Force and IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
  • Markus Hoffman (Lucent Technologies)
  • Erich Nahum (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
    Moderator: Brian Neil Levine

     

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    Noon-1:30pm LUNCH will be provided by the Holiday Inn
    1:30pm --  2:45pm
    Fairness and QoS
    Session Chair: Serge Fdida
    University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6)
    		On Max-min Intra-session Fairness in Replicated Multicast Services 
    Zongming Fei and Mengkun Yang

    Quality of Service Multipath Multicast Protocol
    Pierpaolo Baccichet, Elena Pagani, and Gian Paolo Rossi

    Core Stateless Fair Bandwidth Allocation for Unicast and Multicast Flows
    Albert Banchs, Frederic Raspall, David Anguera, and Sebastia Sallent
     
    2:45--3:15pm Coffee Break
    3:15 -- 4:30
    Peer-to-Peer
    Session Chair: Mostafa Ammar
    Georgia Tech University
    		 A Multicast Congestion Control Model for Overlay Networks and its Performance
    Guillaume Urvoy-Keller and Ernst W. Biersack
     

    Peer-to-Peer Networking for Discovering Programmable Resources
    Paul Smith, Steven Simpson, and David Hutchison
     

    Overlay Optimizations for End-host Multicast
    Wenjie Wang, David Helder, Sugih Jamin, and Lixia Zhang
    4:30pm -- 5:00pm
    5pm -- 5:15pm    		 Closing Session