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Conference Program


June 4, 2012


8:30 - 9:30
Registration

9:30 - 10:30
Opening
Keynote talk 1
: Quality of Service: Who is Being Served?
Prof. Ariel Orda

Technion Department of Electrical Engineering, Israel

Session Chair: Torsten Braun

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40
Session 1 - Quality of cloud services and cloud computing 1

Session Chair: Xiaoming Fu

Maximizing the Bandwidth Multiplier Effect for Hybrid Cloud-P2P Content Distribution
Zhenhua Li (Peking University, P.R. China); Tieying Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yan Huang (Tencent Research, P.R. China); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA); Yafei Dai (Peking University, P.R. China).

Preventing TCP Incast Throughput Collapse at the Initiation, Continuation, and Termination
Adrian Tam (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA); Kang Xi (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); Yang Xu (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); H. Jonathan Chao (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA).

On the Impact of Virtualization on Dropbox-like Cloud File Storage/Synchronization Services
Haiyang Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Ryan Shea (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Feng Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada).

NetDEO: Automating Network Design, Evolution, and Optimization
Zhenyu Wu (The College of William and Mary, USA); Yueping Zhang (NEC Labs America, USA); Vishal Kumar Singh (NEC Labs, USA); Guofei Jiang (NEC Labs America, USA); Haining Wang (College of William and Mary, USA).


12:40 AM - 14:00 AM

Lunch

14:00 AM - 15:40 AM
Session 2 - Scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control

Session chair: João Vilela


On the Partial Caching of Streaming Video
UmaMaheswari C Devi (IBM India Research Laboratory, India); Ramana Polavarapu (IBM India PVT. LTD., India); Malolan Chetlur (IBM Research - India, India); Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM Research - India, Bangalore, India).

Adaptive Dynamic Priority Scheduling for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Jinho Hwang (The George Washington University, USA); Timothy Wood (The George Washington University, USA).

Enhancing AQM to Combat Wireless Losses
Chengdi Lai (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Ka-Cheong Leung (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Victor O. K. Li (University of Hong Kong, P.R. China).

AIST: Insights into Queuing and Loss on Highly Multiplexed Links
Maxim Podlesny (University of Waterloo, Canada); Sergey Gorinsky (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain); Balaji Rengarajan (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain).

15:40 AM - 16:10 AM
Coffee Break

16:10 AM - 17:30 AM
Session 3 - Network operations, pricing and billing, network and service management

Session Chair: Sergey Gorinsky 

Approaching Optimal Compression with Fast Update for Large Scale Routing Tables
Tong Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Shenjiang Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Bo Yuan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Ting Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Ruian Duan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yi Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China).

Pricing, Competition and Innovation: A Profitable Business Model to Resolve the Tussle Involved in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Applications
Libin Yang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong).

DECOR: a Distributed Coordinated Resource Monitoring System
Shan-Hsiang Shen (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA); Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA).

17:30 AM - 18:30 AM
Session 4 - Poster session

Network Calculus and Mixed-Integer LP Applied to a Switched Aircraft Cabin Network
Emanuel Heidinger (EADS Innovation Works, Germany); Nils Kammenhuber (Technische Universität München, Germany); Alexander Klein (Technische Universität München, Germany); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany).

A Contract-Ruled Economic Model for QoS Guarantee in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Streaming Services
Libin Yang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong).

A Service Quality Coordination Model Bridging QoS and QoE
Tatsuya Yamazaki (National Institute of Information Communications Technology, Japan); Masato Eguchi (NTT Communications Corporation, Japan); Takumi Miyoshi (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan); Kyoko Yamori (Asahi University, Japan).

Improving the Throughput and Delay Performance of Network Processors by Applying Push Model
Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Bo Yuan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China).

Fast Cloned-Tag Identification Protocols for Large-Scale RFID Systems
Kai Bu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Xuan Liu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, P.R. China); Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong).

Mining Frequent Partial Periodic Patterns in Spectrum Usage Data
Pei Huang (Michigan State University, USA); Chin-Jung Liu (Michigan State University, USA); Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA); Jin Chen (Michigan State University, USA).

Periodical Auctioning for QoS Aware Virtual Network Embedding
Abdallah Jarray (University of Ottawa, Canada); Ahmed Karmouch (University of Ottawa, Canada).

Exploring the Policy Selection of P2P VoD System-A Simulation based Research
Zhen Ma (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Ke Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yifeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, P.R. China).

Dishonest Reporting in Queue-Based Cross-Layer Network Optimization
Dimitris Giatsios (University of Thessaly, Greece); Iordanis Koutsopoulos (University of Thessaly and CERTH, Greece); Thanasis Korakis (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA).

Next Hop of Strict Partial Order for NSFIB Construction & Aggregation
Qing Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Meng Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China).

Application Dependency Discovery Using Matrix Factorization
Min Ding (NEC Laboratories America, USA); Vishal Kumar Singh (NEC Labs, USA); Yueping Zhang (NEC Labs America, USA); Guofei Jiang (NEC Labs America, USA).

Simulating CSMA/CA Behavior for Performance Evaluation of Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Akihito Hiromori (Osaka University, Japan); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan); Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan).

20:00 AM
Workshop dinner



June 5, 2012


9:30 - 10:30
Keynote talk 2
: Quality of Service: rambling without end
Prof. Rui Aguiar

Institute of Telecommunications and University of Aveiro, Portugal

Session chair: Edmundo Monteiro

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40
Session 5 - Quality of cloud services and cloud computing 2

Session Chair: Wei Lou

CloudGPS: A Scalable and ISP-Friendly Server Selection Scheme in Cloud Computing Environments
Cong Ding (University of Goettingen, Germany); Yang Chen (Duke University, USA); Tianyin Xu (UC San Diego, USA); Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany).

Understanding Video Propagation in Online Social Networks
Haitao Li (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Ke Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China).

Understanding the Impact of Denial of Service Attacks on Virtual Machines
Ryan Shea (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada).

InSite: QoE-Aware Video Delivery from Cloud Data Centers
Vijay Gabale (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Partha Dutta (IBM, India); Ravi Kokku (IBM Research, India); Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM Research - India, Bangalore, India).


12:40 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:40
Session 6 - Architectures and protocols for IP, overlay and peer-to-peer networks

Session Chair: James Gross

NCShield: Securing Decentralized, Matrix Factorization-Based Network Coordinate Systems
Shining Wu (University of Goettingen, Germany); Yang Chen (Duke University, USA); Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany); Jun Li (University of Oregon, USA).

Elite: Differentiating the Playback Lag for Peer-Assisted Live Video Streaming
Shiping Li (Fudan University, P.R. China); Jin Zhao (Fudan University, P.R. China); Xin Wang (Fudan University, P.R. China).

Division-of-labor between Server and P2P for Streaming VoD
YiPeng Zhou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Zhengjia Fu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

Audio-on-Demand over Wireless Sensor Networks
Hanhua Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Lingchao Guo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Shaoliang Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Tao Gu (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark).

15:40 - 16:10
Coffee Break

16:10 - 17:50
Session 7 - Quality evaluation metrics and methodologies

Session Chair: Fernando Boavida

Geo-Fencing: Geographical-Fencing based Energy-Aware Proactive Framework for Mobile Devices
Jihoon Ryoo (Stony Brook University, USA); Samir R. Das (Stony Brook University, USA); Hwangnam Kim (Korea University, Korea).

Session reconstruction for HTTP adaptive streaming: Laying the foundation for network-based QoE monitoring
Raf Huysegems (Bell Labs, Belgium); Bart De Vleeschauwer (Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium); Koen De Schepper (Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium); Chris Hawinkel (Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium); Tingyao Wu, Mr. (Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium); Koen Laevens (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Werner Van Leekwijck (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium).

Video quality estimator for wireless mesh networks
Elisangela Aguiar (Federal University of Para, Brazil); André Riker (UFPA, Brazil); Antonio Jorge Gomes Abelem (UFPA - Federal University of Pará, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Mu Mu (Lancaster University, United Kingdom).

Scheduling with Outdated CSI: Effective Service Capacities of Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Policies
James Gross (RWTH Aachen University, Germany).

17:50
Closing