Programme
Networking Important Dates
  • Abstract submission
    November 26, 2010
  • Paper submission
    December 10, 2010
  • Acceptance Notification
    January 31, 2011
  • Camera Ready Due
    February 15, 2011
  • Networking Conference
    9-13 May 2011

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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Tuesday 10 May 2011

Session 1A:  Network Topology Configuration

Session Chair: Frank Y Li, University of Agder, Norway
Room: 0.1
12:00-13:30h

Optimal Node Placement in Distributed Wireless Security Architectures
Fabio Martignon (University of Bergamo, Italy); Stefano Paris (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Geographical Location and Load based Gateway Selection for Optimal Traffic Offload in Mobile Networks
Tarik Taleb (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France); Stefan Schmid (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)

Femtocell Coverage Optimisation Using Statistical Verification
Tiejun Ma (Imperial College, United Kingdom); Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Points of Interest Coverage with Connectivity Constraints using Wireless Mobile Sensors
Milan Erdelj (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France); Tahiry Razafindralambo (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France); David Simplot-Ryl (Université Lille1 - Sciences et Technologies, France)


Session 1B:  Content Management

Session Chair: Josep Domenèch, U.P.V., Spain
Room: 0.2
12:00-13:30h

Efficient Processing of Multi-Connection Compressed Web Traffic
Yehuda Afek (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel); Yaron Koral (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

The Resource Efficient Forwarding in the Content Centric Network
Yifan Yu (France Telecom R&D Beijing, P.R. China)

Modelling and Evaluation of CCN-Caching Trees
Ioannis Psaras (University College London, United Kingdom); Richard G Clegg (University College London, United Kingdom); Raul L Landa (University College London, United Kingdom); Wei Koong Chai (University College London, United Kingdom); George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom)

Empirical Evaluation of HTTP Adaptive Streaming under Vehicular Mobility
Jun Yao (University of New South Wales, Australia); Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, Australia); Imran Hossain (University of New South Wales, Australia); Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales, Australia)


Session 2A:  Pricing

Session Chair: Pedro Cuenca, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Room: 0.1
15:00-16:30h

BGP and inter-AS economic relationships
Enrico Gregori (CNR-IIT, Italy); Alessandro Improta (University of Pisa, Italy); Luciano Lenzini (University of Pisa, Italy); Lorenzo Rossi (CNR-IIT, Italy); Luca Sani (University of Pisa, Italy)
Network Non-neutrality Debate: An Economic Analysis
Eitan Altman (INRIA, France); Arnaud Legout (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Yuedong Xu (INRIA, France)

Strategyproof Mechanisms for Content Delivery via Layered Multicast
Ajay Gopinathan (University of Calgary, Canada); Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary, Canada)

A Flexible Auction Model for Virtual Private Networks
Kamil Kotys (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Krzysztof Pienkosz (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Eugeniusz Toczyowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)


Session 2B: Path Diversity

Session Chair: Juan Carlos Cano, U.P.V., Spain
Room: 0.2
15:00-16:30h

oBGP: an Overlay for a Scalable iBGP Control Plane
Iuniana Oprescu (Orange Labs, France); Mickael Meulle (Orange Labs R&D, France); Steve Uhlig (TU Berlin/T-labs, Germany); Cristel Pelsser (IIJ, Japan); Olaf Maennel (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Philippe Owezarski (LAAS, France)

Scalability of iBGP Path Diversity Concepts
Uli Alexander Bornhauser (University of Bonn, Germany); Peter Martini (University of Bonn, Germany); Martin Horneffer (Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany)

MultiPath TCP: From theory to practice
Sébastien Barré (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Christoph Paasch (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Olivier Bonaventure (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Stealthier Inter-packet Timing Covert Channels
Sebastian Zander (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia); Grenville Armitage (Swinburne university of Technology, Australia); Philip Branch (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)


Session 3A:  Mobility Modelling

Session Chair: Alexander Klein, Technische Universität München, Germany
Room: 0.1
17:00-18:30h

A Collaborative AAA Architecture to Enable Secure Real-World Network Mobility
Panagiotis Georgopoulos (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Ben McCarthy (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Christopher Edwards (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

Markov Modulated Bi-variate Gaussian Processes for Mobility Modeling and Location Prediction
Paulo Salvador (University of Aveiro, Portugal); António Nogueira (University of Aveiro/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Mobility Prediction Based Neighborhood Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Xu Li (University of Waterloo, Canada); Nathalie Mitton (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, CNRS UMR 8022, IRCICA, USTL, France); David Simplot-Ryl (Université Lille1 - Sciences et Technologies, France)

STEPS - an approach for human mobility modelling
Anh Dung Nguyen (University of Toulouse, France); Patrick Senac (ISAE, France); Victor Ramiro (Universidad de Chile, Chile); Michel Diaz (Laas CNRS, France)


Session 3B:  TPC

Session Chair: Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Room: 0.2
17:00-18:30h

Revisiting TCP Congestion Control using Delay Gradients
David Hayes (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia); Grenville Armitage (Swinburne university of Technology, Australia)

NF-TCP: A Network Friendly TCP Variant for Background Delay-Insensitive Applications
Mayutan Arumaithurai (University of Goettingen, Germany); Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany); K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)

Impact of queueing delay estimation error on equilibrium and its stability
Emre A. Yavuz (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Corentin Briat (KTH, Sweden); Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

On the Uplink Performance of TCP in Multi-rate 802.11 WLANs
Naeem Khademi (University of Oslo, Norway); Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, Norway); Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)


TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Wednesday 11 May 2011

Session 4A:  Next Generation Internet

Session Chair: Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Room: 0.1
12:00-13:30h

A Deep Dive into the LISP Cache and what ISPs should know about it
Juhoon Kim (TU Berlin, Germany); Luigi Iannone (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany); Anja Feldmann (TU-Berlin, Germany)

Data Plane Optimization in Open Virtual Routers
Muhammad Siraj Rathore (KTH University Stockholm, Sweden); Markus Hidell (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Peter Sjödin (KTH, Sweden)

Performance Comparison of Hardware Virtualization Platforms
Daniel Schlosser (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Michael Duelli (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Sebastian Goll (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)

A Novel Scalable IPv6 Lookup Scheme Using Compressed Pipelined Tries
Michel Hanna (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Sangyeun Cho (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Rami Melhem (University of Pittsburgh, USA)


Session 4B:  Resource Allocation

Session Chair: Alan Davy, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Room: 0.2
12:00-13:30h

Collaboration between ISPs for Efficient Overlay Traffic Management
Eleni Agiatzidou (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Optimal Joint Call Admission Control with Vertical Handoff on Heterogeneous Networks
Diego Pacheco-Paramo (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Vicent Pla (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Vicente Casares-Giner (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain); Jorge Martinez-Bauset (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

Balancing by PREFLEX: Congestion Aware Traffic Engineering
João Taveira Araújo (University College London, United Kingdom); Richard G Clegg (University College London, United Kingdom); Imad Grandi (University College London, United Kingdom); Miguel Rio (UCL, United Kingdom); George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom)

EFD: An efficient low-overhead scheduler
Jinbang Chen (Eurecom, France); Martin Heusse (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France); Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France)


Session 5A:  Peer to peer

Session Chair: Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
Room: 0.1
15:00-16:30h

UDP NAT and Firewall Puncturing in the Wild
Gertjan Halkes (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Johan A. Pouwelse (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Enhancing Peer-to-Peer Traffic Locality Based on Selective Tracker Blocking
Haiyang Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Feng Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Defending Against Sybil Nodes in BitTorrent
Jung Ki So (North Carolina State University, USA); Douglas Reeves (North Carolina State University, USA)

Traffic Localization for DHT-based BitTorrent networks
Matteo Varvello (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Moritz Steiner (Bell-Labs / Alcatel-Lucent, USA)


Session 5B:  Resource Allocation Radio

Session Chair: Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France
Room: 0.2
15:00-16:30h

Flexible dynamic spectrum allocation in cognitive radio networks based on game-theoretical mechanism design
Jose R Vidal (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Vicent Pla (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Luis Guijarro (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Jorge Martinez-Bauset (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

Channel Assignment and Access Protocols for Spectrum-agile Networks with Single-Transceiver Radio
Haythem A. Bany Salameh (Yarmouk University, Jordan); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)

The Problem of Sensing Unused Cellular Spectrum
Daniel Willkomm (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany); Sridhar Machiraju (Google, USA); Jean Bolot (Technicolor, USA); Adam M Wolisz (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices
Farid Molazem Tabrizi (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Joseph G Peters (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University, Canada)


Session 6A:  Social Networks

Session Chair: Gunes Ercal, University of Kansas, USA
Room: 0.1
17:00-18:30h

SMS: Collaborative Streaming in Mobile Social Networks
Chenguang Kong (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Victor O. K. Li (University of Hong Kong, P.R. China)

Assessing the Effects of a Soft Cut-off in the Twitter Social Network
Saptarshi Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Ajitesh Srivastava (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India); Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Characterising aggregate inter-contact times in heterogeneous opportunistic networks
Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy); Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy)

Are Social Relations Overrated? A Study for the Social Aggregator Digg.com
Christian Doerr (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Siyu Tang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Norbert Blenn (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Piet Van Mieghem (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)


Session 6B:  Resource Allocation Wireless

Session Chair: Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA
Room: 0.2
17:00-18:30h

Multiscale Fairness and its Application to Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
Eitan Altman (INRIA, France); Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Sreenath Ramanath (INRIA, France)

Fast-Converging Scheduling and Routing algorithms for WiMAX Mesh Networks
Salim Nahle (University of Paris 6, France); Naceur Malouch (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)

OFDMA Downlink Burst Allocation Mechanism for IEEE 802.16e Networks
Juan Ignacio del-Castillo (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain); Francisco Manuel Delicado (University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain); José Villalón (UCLM, Spain)

Adaptive On-The-Go Scheduling for End-to-end Delay Control in TDMA-based Wireless Mesh Networks
Yung-Cheng Tu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Meng Chang Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Yeali S. Sun (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)


TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Thursday 13 May 2011

Session 7A:  Anomaly Detection

Session Chair: Luigi Iannone, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
Room: 0.1
12:00-13:30h

BotTrack: Tracking Botnets using NetFlow and PageRank
Jérôme François (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Shaonan Wang (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Radu State (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Thomas Engel (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)

Learning Entropy
Lele Zhang (University of Melbourne, Australia); Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Machine Learning Approach for IP-Flow Record Anomaly Detection
Cynthia Wagner (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Jérôme François (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Radu State (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Thomas Engel (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)

UNADA: Unsupervised Network Anomaly Detection using Sub-Space Outliers Ranking
Pedro Casas (LAAS-CNRS, France); Johan Mazel (LAAS-CNRS, France); Philippe Owezarski (LAAS, France)


Session 7B:  Energy Efficiency

Session Chair: Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Room: 0.2
12:00-13:30h

Using Coordinated Transmission with Energy Efficient Ethernet
Pedro Reviriego (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Spain); Ken Christensen (University of South Florida, USA); Alfonso Sánchez-Macián (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Spain), Juan A. Maestro (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Spain)

Online Job-Migration for Reducing the Electricity Bill in the Cloud
Niv Buchbinder (Technion University, Israel); Navendu Jain (Microsoft Research, USA); Ishai Menache (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Stochastic Traffic Engineering for live audio/video delivering over Energy-limited wireless access networks
Nicola Cordeschi (''Sapienza'' University of Rome, Italy); Tatiana Patriarca (University of Rome, Sapienza, Italy); Enzo Baccarelli (University of Rome ''''La Sapienza'''', Italy)

VMFlow: Leveraging VM Mobility to Reduce Network Power Costs in Data Centers
Vijay Mann (IBM Research, New Delhi, India); Avinash Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Partha Dutta (IBM India Research Lab, India); Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM Research - India, Bangalore, India)


Session 8A:  Network Science

Session Chair: Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Room: 0.1
15:00-16:30h

Epidemic Spread in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Determining the Tipping Point
Nicholas Valler (University of California, Riverside, USA); B. Aditya Prakash (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Hanghang Tong (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Michalis V. Faloutsos (University of California Riverside, USA); Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Small Worlds and Rapid Mixing with a Little More Randomness on Random Geometric Graphs
Gunes Ercal (University of Kansas, USA)

A Random Walk Approach to Modeling the Dynamics of the Blogosphere
M. Zubair Shafiq (Michigan State University, USA); Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA)

A Nash bargaining solution for Cooperative Network Formation Games
Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Jocelyne Elias (Paris Descartes University, France); Fabio Martignon (University of Bergamo, Italy); Giovanni Neglia (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Leon Petrosyan (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)


Session 8B:  DTN and Sensor Networks

Session Chair: Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Room: 0.2
15:00-16:30h

MAC Layer Support for Delay Tolerant Video Transport in Disruptive MANETs
Morten Lindeberg (University of Oslo, Norway); Stein Kristiansen (University of Oslo, Norway); Vera H. Goebel (University of Oslo, Norway); Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway)

DTN support for news dissemination in an urban area
Tuan-Minh Pham (UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France); Serge Fdida (UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France)

Stochastic Scheduling for Underwater Sensor Networks
Dimitri Marinakis (University of Victoria, Canada); Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada); Sue Whitesides (University of Victoria, Canada)

Using SensLAB as a First Class Scientific Tool for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Network Experiments
Clément Burin des roziers (Inria, France); Guillaume Chelius (INRIA, France); Tony Ducrocq (Inria, France); Eric Fleury (ENS Lyon / INRIA, France); Antoine Fraboulet (INSA de Lyon / INRIA, France); Antoine Gallais (University of Strasbourg, France); Nathalie Mitton (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, CNRS UMR 8022, IRCICA, USTL, France); Thomas Noel (University of Strasbourg, France); Julien Vandaele (Inria, France)