Symposium Program
The IEEE International Symposium
on Network Computing and Applications
February 11-13, 2002
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, USA
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, Technical
Committee on Distributed Processing
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General Chair and Program Co-Chair |
General Co-Chair |
Program Chair |
D. R. Avresky |
F. Lombardi |
B. W. Johnson |
E-mail: avresky@ece.neu.edu |
E-mail: lombardi@ece.neu.edu |
E-mail: bwj@virginia.edu |
Network Computing Lab. |
Northeastern University |
University of Virginia |
Northeastern University |
ECE Department |
EE Department |
ECE Department |
Boston, MA 02115, USA |
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA |
Boston, MA 02115, USA |
Program Committee
M. Azevedo, Compaq Computers, USA |
K. Birman, Cornell University, NY, USA |
J. Bruck, Caltech, CA, USA |
I. Chlamtac, UTD, TX, USA |
J. Duato, University of Valencia, Spain |
K. Fuchs, Purdue Univiversity, IN, USA |
P. Fejer, UMB, MA, USA |
C. Fetzer, AT&T, Shannon Lab., USA |
O. Frieder, IIT, IL, USA |
D. Follet, Emulex, USA |
J-L. Gaudiot, University of Southern California, CA, USA |
J. Hayes, The University of Michigan, USA |
H. Hellwagner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria |
B. Horst, 3WARE, USA |
T. Katayama, JAIST, Japan |
H. Levendel, Motorola, USA |
Q. Li, Santa Clara Univiversity, USA |
R. Melhem, University of Pittsbourgh, USA |
P. Mehra, Compaq Computers, USA |
K. Makki, Fl. Int. University, USA |
E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany |
A. Robinson, STDC, USA |
M. Raynal, IRISA, France |
J. Redi, BBN, USA |
A. Shvartsman, University of Connecticut, USA |
K. Siu, MIT, MA, USA |
A. Steininger, TUV, Austria |
P. Simienov, Germany |
J. Plank - Univ. of Tennessee, USA |
H. Verheyen, Monterey Design, USA |
K. Panetta, Tufts University, USA |
The topics of interest include, but are not
limited to: |
- Routing Mechanisms and Protocols, IP Multicast |
- System Area Networks (SAN)/Switch Fabrics |
- Performance Modeling/Analysis and Load Balancing |
- Local and Wide Area Networking |
- High Speed Networks/Protocols and Middleware |
- Optical Communication Networks |
- Terabit optical switching/routing architectures |
- Quality of Services (QoS) Issues |
- Computation-intensive Applications in Networked Systems |
- Virtual Private Networking |
- Programming Environments and Tools for Distributed Systems |
- Web Caching and Switching |
- Dependable High-Speed Wide, Local, and System Area Networks |
- Dependable Distributed Mobile Computing |
- Protocol Verification and Validation, Network Security |
- Reliable Group Communications Protocols |
- Scalable and Reliable Distributed Servers, Internet Servers |
- Practical Experiences and Prototypes, e-Commerce |
Monday, February 11, 2002 |
Session 1: Plenary |
Opening remarks 9.00am - 9.15 am |
Welcome Address |
Dr. Richard Freeland |
President, Northeastern University, |
Boston, MA, USA |
Keynote speaker 9.15am - 10.00 am |
Scalability Challenges and Solutions for Emerging Networks |
K. Birman, Cornell University, Ithaca. NY, USA |
CEO, Reliable Network solutions, Mountainview, CA, USA |
Coffee break 10.00am - 10.30am |
Keynote speaker 10.30am - 11.15am |
Trends in System Area Network |
Pankaj Mehra, Compaq Research Labs, USA |
Keynote speaker 11.15am-12.00 noon |
Constructing Ad Hoc Networks |
Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems Inc., USA |
Keynote Speaker 1.00pm - 1.45pm |
NetSolve and Its Applications |
Jack Dongarra |
University of Tennessee, USA |
Session 2A: |
2.00pm - 2.30pm |
Hardware-and Software -Based Collective Communications on the Quadrics
Network |
F. Petrini, S. Coll, E. Frachtenberg and A. Hoisie |
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA |
2.30pm - 3.00pm |
Calculation of Deadline Missing Probability in a QoS Capable Cluster |
Interconnect |
E. Kim, K.Yum and C. Das |
The Penn State University, USA |
3.00pm - 3.30pm |
Influence of Network Size and Load on the Performance of Reconfiguration |
Protocols |
R. Casado, A. Bermudez, F.Quiles and Jose Duato |
University of Castila-La Mancha and Technical University of Valencia, Spain |
Coffee break 3.30pm - 4.00pm |
Session 2B |
4.00pm - 4.30pm |
A Law-Abiding Peer-to-Peer Network for free-Software Distribution |
A. Bakker, M. Steen and Andrew Tanenbaum |
Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
4.30pm - 5.00pm |
Micro-Firewalls for Dynamic Network Security with Distributed Intrusion
detection |
K. Hwang and M. Gaugadharan, |
University of Southern California, USA |
5.00pm - 5.30pm |
Dependability under Malicious Agreement in N-modular Redundancy-on-Demand
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M. Al-Hashimi, H.H. Pu, N. Park and F. Lombardi |
Texas A&M University and Northeastern University, USA |
Coffee break 5.30pm - 6.00pm |
6.00pm - 6.15pm |
Application Routing Load Balancing (ARLB) to support QoS for VoIP |
Application over a VPNs environment |
S. Chimmanee, K. Wipusitwarakun, P. Termsinsuwan and Y. Gando |
Japan |
6.15pm - 6.30pm |
Probabilistic Semantically Reliable Multicast |
J. Pereira, L. Rodrigues, R. Oliveira and A. Kermarres |
University of Minho, University of Lisboa (Portugal) |
and Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. |
6.30pm - 6.45pm |
Replicated Database Recovery using Multicast Communications |
JoAnne Holliday |
Santa Clara University, USA |
6.45pm - 7.00pm |
Eva: an Event-Based Framework for Developing Specialized Communication
Protocols |
F. Brasiliero, F. Greve, M.Hurfin, J. Narzul and F. Tronel |
FUB,Brazil and IRISA-INRIA, France |
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 |
Session 2C |
8.30am - 9.00am |
Comparison of the Analytic N-Burst Model with Other Approximations to |
telecommunications Traffic |
L. Lipsky, H. Schwefel, M. Jobmannn and M. Greiner |
Univ. of Connecticut, USA, |
Technical University of Munich and Siemens, Germany |
9.00am - 9.30am |
Optimal Utilization of Equivalent Paths in Computer Networks with |
Static Routing |
D. Avresky, V. Shurbanov, N. Natchev, P. Mehra and F . Zuccarino |
Network Computing Lab, Northeastern University and |
Compaq Research Labs, USA |
9.30am - 10.00am |
Execution-Driven Simulation of IP Router Architectures |
L. Bhuyan and H. Wang |
University of California Riverside and Texas A&M University, USA |
Coffee Break 10.00am - 10.30am |
Keynote speaker 10.30am - 11.15am |
On the Design of High-Speed Switch Fabrics |
J.Duato |
Technical University of Valencia, Spain |
Keynote Speaker 11.15am - 12.00 |
Distributed Storage Networking Architectures: |
Fibre Channel, i-SCSI, Ethernet, InfiniBand, Hyper Transport, |
Rapid IO&3GIO Collide in the Data Center |
D. Follett, Senior Vice President, Emulex Corp., USA |
Session 3B |
1.00pm - 1.30pm |
Using Simple Remote Evaluation to Enable Efficient Application Protocols |
in Mobile Environments |
S.Czerwinski and A. Joseph |
University of Berkeley, USA |
1.30pm - 2.00pm |
Data Logistics in Network Computing: The Logistical Session Layer |
M. Swany and R. Wolski, |
University of Tennessee, USA |
2.00pm - 2.30pm |
Two-Tier Cooperation: A Scalable Protocol for Web Cache Sharing |
A. Santoro, B. Ciciani, M. Colajanni and F. Quaglia |
University of Roma, University of Modena, Italy |
2.30pm - 3.00pm |
IP Storage and the CPU Consumption Myth |
Robert Horst, 3ware, Inc. CA, USA |
3.00pm - 3.30pm |
Network Aware Symbiotic Video Transcoding for Instream Rate Adaptation |
J. Khan and Q. GU |
Kent State University, USA |
Coffee Break 3.30pm - 4.00pm |
Keynote Speaker 4.00pm - 4.45pm |
The challenges of delivering content on the Internet |
Tom Leighton, MIT, MA, USA |
Coffee Break 4.45pm - 5.00pm |
Section 3D |
Research Industrial Papers |
5.00pm - 5.30pm |
Real Time Resource Management and Adaptive Parallel Programming for a |
Cluster of Computers: A comparison of different approaches in a |
computationally intensive environment |
N.K. Roy, Microway, Inc. , MA, USA |
5.30pm - 6.00pm |
A Fault-Tolerant Approach to Network Security |
J. Lundell, CTO, |
Resilience Corporation, CA, USA |
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 |
Session 4A - Short papers |
8.30am - 8.45am |
Replica Divergence Control Protocol in Weakly Connected Environment |
A.Jebali and M. Makpango |
INRIA, France |
8.45am - 9.00am |
Component -based peer-to-peer distributed processing in heterogeneous |
networks using JAVA PORTS |
El. Manolakos, D. Galatopoullos and A.Funk |
Northeastern University, USA |
9.00am - 9.15am |
A Java Cluster Management Service |
R.Mello, M.Paiva and L. Trevelin |
Federal University of Sao Paolo, Brazil |
Coffee break 9.15am - 9.45am |
Session 4B |
Invited talk 9.45am - 10.15am |
Local Scheduling for Distributed Cooperation |
G. Malewitcz, A. Russell and A. Shvartsman |
Univ. of Connecticut, MA, USA |
10.15am - 10.45am |
Reconfigurable Algorithms in View Synchrony |
N.Lesley and A. Fekete |
University of Sidney, Australia |
10.45am - 11.15am |
Automated validation of distributed software using the IF environment |
M.Bozga, S. Graf and L. Mounier |
VERIMAG, Grenoble, France |
Keynote Speaker 11.15am - 12.00 |
Mobile Internet - Research Toy or Product Vision |
H. Schwefel, Siemens AG, Germany |
1pm - 1.30pm |
Tapping TCP Streams |
M. Orgiyan and C. Fetzer |
AT&T Labs - Research, NJ, USA |
1.30pm - 2.00pm |
There is more to service carrier-grade quality than QoS |
I.Levendel |
Motorola Global Software Group,Il, USA |
2.00pm - 2.30pm |
Partial replication in the Database State Machine |
A.Sousa,F. Pedone, R. Oliveira and F. Moura |
University of Minho, Portugal and Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA |
2.30pm - 3.00pm |
An Analytic Performance Model of Parallel Systems that Performs |
N Tasks using Processors that can fail |
G. Weerasinghe, I. Antonious and L. Lipsky |
University of Connecticut, CT, USA |
3.00pm - 3.30pm |
The Effect of Timeout Prediction and Selection on Wide Area |
Collective Operations |
J. Plank, R.Wolski and M. Allen |
University of Tennessee, TN, USA |
Coffee break 3.30pm - 4.00pm |
Session 4E - Short papers |
4.00pm - 4.15pm |
On the Scalability of Topologies for Storage Area Networks in |
Building Environments |
X. Molero, F.Silla, V. Santonja and J. Duato |
Technical University of Valencia, Spain |
4.15pm - 4.30pm |
Simulation Experiments of a High-Performance Rapid IO-based Processing |
Architecture |
J. Adams, D. Hecht, W. Rosen, C. Katsini, V. Adams, H. Narravula, |
S. Sukhtankarand R. Lachenmaier |
Rydal Inc., Drexel University, Naval Air Warfare Center, USA |
4.30pm - 4.45pm |
Monitoring of Mobile Agents in Large Cluster Systems |
M.Gonne, C. Grewe and H. Pals, |
Institute of Computer Engineering, MU Lubeck, Germany |
4.45pm - 5.00pm |
Box-to-Box Disk Mirroring using Ethernet |
Q. Li |
Santa Clara University, CA, USA |
Coffee Break 5.00 - 5.30pm |
Session 4F-Short papers |
5.30pm - 5.45pm |
Limited Scope Probing: A Distributed Approach for QoS-based Routing |
K.Teng M. Maheswaran |
University of Manitoba, Canada |
5.45 - 6.00 |
The Influence of Proportional Jitter and Delay on End To End Delay in Differentiated Service Network |
T. Quynh, H. Karl, A. Wolisz and K. Rebensburg |
Technical University of Berlin, Germany |
6.00pm - 6.15pm |
Performance Analysis of a Wireless MAN |
J. Amaro and R. Lopes |
Politechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal |
Session 4G -Short papers |
6.15pm - 6.30pm |
Static Load Balancing for CFD Simulations on a Network of Workstations |
A. Chronopoulos,Daniel Grosu, A. Wissink and M. Benche |
University of Texas, San Antonio, USA |
6.30pm - 6.45pm |
A Query Management Toolkit for Networked Information Systems |
R.Simon, J. Nolan and A. Sood |
George Masson University, VA, USA |
6.45pm - 7.00pm |
A Predicate Calculus Logic for the PKI Trust Model Analysis |
H. Bakkali and M Kaitouni |
IURS, Rabat, Marocco |
Closing remarks 7.00pm - 7.15pm
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