CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar Schedule of Talks Latest News and Announcements Link to the Seminar in Spring 2006 Link to the Seminar in Fall 2005 Point of Contact: Indranil Gupta (indy at cs dawt uiuc dot edu). Other contacts: Nitin Vaidya, Robin Kravets, Haiyun Luo. This seminar is devoted to a critical analysis of the new and latest papers in hot topics of systems and networking (includes traditional systems, wired and wireless networking, distributed systems, multimedia networked systems, and much much more). Best papers and award-quality papers will be selected from conferences of interest (including but not limited to SIGCOMM, MOBICOM, MOBISYS, INFOCOM, SOSP, Usenix workshops, NSDI, Sensys, ICDCS, DSN, and others) and prominent journals, if necessary. There are 2 goals for this seminar:  Introduce systems and networking students to a breadth of top-notch and award quality papers that everyone else in the systems&networking is talking about today. Have students give top-quality presentations, and prepare themselves for future job and conference talks. Students will be able to obtain 1 hour credit for this seminar -- please register through the usual channels for CS 591 SN.       SCHEDULE Note: If you are signed up for credit, and/or would like to present a paper, please contact the appropriate "Faculty Host" (see below) for the session in which your chosen paper belongs. If no papers are listed for that session yet, you may also send paper suggestions to the faculty host. Date Student Presenters and Slides Faculty Host Conference (clickable) Session Papers Sep 1 [pdf] [ppt] Indranil Gupta and other faculty Introduction and Organization Please attend for information on the seminar. This session will be short! Sep 8   Indranil Gupta NSDI 06 Experience with an Object Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Filesharing. Kevin Walsh and Emin Gun Sirer (Best Paper Awardee) Availability of Multi-Object Operations. Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath (Best Paper Awardee)  Sep 15   Jennifer Hou MOBICOM 06 Improving Spatial Reuse Through Tuning Transmit Power, Carrier Sense Threshold, and Data Rate in Multihop Wireless Networks. Tae-Suk Kim, Hyuk Lim, Jennifer Hou On Accurate Measurement of Link Quality in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks. Kyu-Han Kim, Kang G. Shin Sep 22   Haiyun Luo SIGCOMM 06 Enabling Contribution Awareness in an Overlay Broadcasting System. Yu-Wei Sung, Michael Bishop, Sanjay Rao Quantifying Skype User Satisfaction. Kuan-Ta Chen, Chun-Ying Huang, Polly Huang, Chin-Laung Lei Sep 29   Klara Nahrstedt CCS 06 Safety and Consistency in Policy-Based Authorization Systems. Adam J. Lee and Marianne Winslett Optimizing BGP Security by Exploiting Path Stability. William Aiello, Kevin Butler, and Patrick McDaniel Oct 6   Indranil Gupta Middleware 06 Efficient Probabilistic Subsumption Checking for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems. Aris Ouksel, Oana Jurca, IvanaPodnar, KarlAberer Trading off resources between overlapping overlays. Brian Cooper Oct 13   Jennifer Hou INFOCOM 06 Delay and Capacity Trade-offs in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: a global perspective. Gaurav Sharma, Ravi Mazumdar, Ness Shroff (Best Paper Awardee) Towards Performance modeling of IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks: a unified framework and its applications. K. Medepalli and F. Tobagi Oct 20     DSN 06 Automatic Instruction-Level Software-Only Recovery Methods. Jonathan Chang, George A. Reis, David I. August. (William C. Carter Award for Best Thesis). Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication to Wide Area Networks. Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Danny Dolev, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Josh Olsen and David Zage Oct 27   Haiyun Luo MOBISYS 06 Fast Handoff for Seamless Wireless Mesh Networks. Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Michael Hilsdale, Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, and Nilo Rivera. ARIADNE: A Dynamic Indoor Signal Map Construction and Localization System. Yiming Ji, Saad Biaz, Santosh Pandey, Prathima Agrawal Nov 3     OSDI 06 Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data.Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber BAR Gossip. Harry Li, Allen Clement, Edmund Wong, Jeff Napper, Indrajit Roy, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Michael Dahlin Nov 10   Jennifer Hou Mobihoc 05 Topology control meets SINR: the scheduling complexity of arbitrary topologies. T. Moscibroda, R. Wattenhofer, A. Zollinger  Asymptotic critical transmission radius to greedy forwarding routing in wireless ad hoc networks. Peng-Jun Wan and Chih-Wei Yi. Nov 17   Klara Nahrstedt HotNets 05/06 Paper 1   Paper 2 Nov 24 No seminar - Thanksgiving break. Dec 1   Indranil Gupta HotDep 06 Paper 1   Paper 2 Dec 8     HotOS 06 Paper 1   Paper 2   NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 8/20: One Page Handout: [pdf] (alternatively: [ppt]) 8/20: Mailing List: cs591sn at cs dawt uiuc dot edu. To subscribe, visit here 8/20: First meeting of the group will be on September 1, 2006 at TBD in TBD Siebel Center. It is mandatory for students to show up, especially if they're taking the course for credit.it.