23rd IEEE Annual
Computer Communications Workshop

October 18-21, 2009
Lenox, Massachusetts

Workshop Program (PDF file for download)
 
Day 1 - October 18, 2009
17:30 - 19:00 Welcome reception  
Day 2 - October 19, 2009
07:30 - 08:30 Continental breakfast  
08:30 - 09:00 Introduction and Discussion on Recent Events in Networking  
09:00 - 09:30 Break  
09:30 - 12:00 Session I: Virtualization and Overlay Networks
Session chairs: Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen) & Jorg Liebeherr (University of Toronto)
  1. Joe Touch, Information Sciences Institute, "Next Steps in Enabling a Virtual Internet"
  2. Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "Parallelizing Data Plane in Virtual Network Substrate"
  3. Oliver Waldhorst, University Karlsruhe: "Constructing Spontaneous Virtual Networks in Heterogeneous Communication Environments”
  4. Jorg Liebeherr, University of Toronto: "Cross-substrate Advertising in Multi-substrate Overlay Networks"
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch  
13:00 - 16:00 Session II: Wireless Networks
Session Chairs: Biplab Sikdar & Ken Vastola (RPI)		  
 
  1. Tony Ephremides (U. Maryland), "Co-operation at the Network Level"
  2. Chris Hayes (RPI & Lincoln Labs) and Ken Vastola (RPI), "Synchronization of Multi-user MIMO-SDMA Systems"
  3. Hari Balakrishnan (MIT), "Cross-Layer Bit Rate Adaptation"
  4. Edmund Yeh (Yale), "Throughput Optimal Control of Wireless Networks Under an SINR Model"
16:00 - 16:30 Break  
16:30 - 17:30 Special Topics I: "The Internet Operating System: Middleware for Adaptive Large-Scale Distributed Computing ", Carlos A. Varela (RPI)
Day 3 - October 20, 2009
07:30 - 08:30 Continental breakfast  
08:30 - 12:00 Session III: Physical Layer Security
Session Chairs: Wade Trappe (Rutgers Unv) & Babak Azimi-Sadjadi (IAI)
 
  1. Wade Trappe (Rutgers Unv), “An Overview of Physical Layer Security”
  2. Ruoheng Liu et al. (Princeton Unv), “Secure Broadcast over MIMO Wireless Channels”
  3. Alex Reznik (InterDigital Corp.), “Trusting emerging wireless networks: what does it mean and how can we get there”
  4. Aylin Yener (Penn State), “Cooperation, Interference and Secrecy: Lessons learned from Information Theory”
  5. Babak Azimi-Sadjadi et al. (IAI), “Secret key generation from signal envelopes in wireless networks”
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch  
13:00 - 16:00 Session IV: "Security and Privacy Challenges in Next Generation Internet"
 Session Chairs: Susanne Wetzell (Stevens) & Nasir Memon (NYU-Poly)
 
  1. Susanne Wetzell (Stevens Ins. Tech.), "Privacy-preserving Policy Reconciliation"
  2. Reza Curtmola (NJIT), "Security - is it at odds with performance in wireless mesh networks?"
  3. Nasir Memon (NYU-Poly), "Botnet Detection"
  4. Scott Coull (UNC), "Toward Privacy Definitions for Anonymized Network Data"
  5. Bulent Yener et al. (RPI & TUB), "Multiway Analysis of User Profile"
16:00 - 16:30 Break  
16:30 - 17:30 Special Topics: "Building a semantic framework for escience"
Deborah L. McGuinness (RPI)
17:30 - 18:00 TCCC meeting and CCW planning  
19:00 - Dinner @ Cafe Lucia Lenox MA  
Day 4 - October 21, 2009
07:30 - 08:30 Continental breakfast  
08:30 - 09:30 Special Topic: " W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science (HCLSIG)"
Joanne Luciano (Predictive Medicine, Inc.)
09:30 - 10:00 Break  
10:00 - 12:00 Session V: “The Science of Networking”
 Session Chair: Joe Touch, USC/ISI
  1. John Day, Boston Univ., "Revisiting Fundamental Principles"
  2. Bryan Ford, Yale Univ., "Network Architecture Refactoring: Roles versus Tools"
  3. Joe Touch, USC/ISI, "From Shannon to Recursive Nets: How Multihop, Multiparty Properties Drive Network Architecture"
12:00 - Closing Remarks  

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