From misha at eecs.cwru.edu Fri Jan 5 06:59:51 2007 From: misha at eecs.cwru.edu (Michael Rabinovich) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:59:51 -0500 Subject: [sigcomm] Announcement: a new network measurement platform Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the availability of DipZoom P2P network measurement infrastructure. Unlike existing approaches that face a difficult challenge of building a measurement platform with sufficiently diverse measurements and measuring hosts, DipZoom offers a matchmaking service instead, bringing together experimenters in need of measurements with external measurement providers. Salient features of DipZoom are: 1. DipZoom is an open system. Anyone can perform measurement experiments autonomously. We seeded the system with over a hundred measurement points (MPs) on PlanetLab nodes. Several residential measurement points are also available. 2. DipZoom is an extensible system. While its current standard distribution offers wget, ping, traceroute, and nslookup measurements, anyone can add new measurements as plug-ins, and recruit participants to install these plugins on their MPs. 3. DipZoom offers a coherent view over the entire collection of measurement points, which are all accessible from any local computer with DipZoom installed. The only restriction is that, in the peer-to- peer spirit, in order to run a DipZoom client, the computer must also offer measurements by becoming a DipZooom measurement point. 4. DipZoom offers both navigational and programmatic access to the entire platform. For navigational access, there is a graphical DipZoom client that allows the user to browse available MPs, select the MPs according to a number of characteristics (platform, location, autonomous system), and obtain measurements from those MPs. For programmatic access, DipZoom provides APIs to script and run complex globally distributed measurement experiments from a local computer. The APIs are implemented by a Java class library and can be called from any Java application. As a test of the usability of DipZoom APIs, students in the Fall'07 undergraduate networking class were able to perform a complex measurement experiment (investigating the quality of Akamai's server selection) in a matter of days. 5. Utmost care is paid to security, including the rate limiting of requests to both any given measurement point and to any given measurement target. DipZoom runs on windows, linux, and Mac OS platforms, and can be freely downloaded from http://dipzoom.case.edu/ . The site also includes further details on the system and links to the mailing list and people involved. Please send your comments to any of us. We hope you will find DipZoom useful and fun. Regards, Misha Rabinovich. From guoqiang at ee.usyd.edu.au Mon Jan 8 01:42:03 2007 From: guoqiang at ee.usyd.edu.au (Guo Qiang Mao) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:42:03 +1100 (EST) Subject: [sigcomm] ACM SenSys 2007: Call for Papers Message-ID: <16304.220.233.86.132.1168249323.squirrel@www.ee.usyd.edu.au> [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ===================================================================== ACM SenSys 2007: Call for Papers The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 6-9, 2007* (subject to confirmation) Sydney, Australia http://sensys.acm.org/2007/ ===================================================================== Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED (approval pending); with support from NSF. The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Distributed systems based on networked sensors and actuators with embedded computation capabilities enable an instrumentation of the physical world at an unprecedented scale and density, thus enabling a new generation of monitoring and control applications. This conference provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and hardware, distributed systems, data management, and applications, so we welcome cross-disciplinary work. This year we particularly encourage papers that extend the scope of the conference beyond wireless mote-class sensor networks and we seek contributions from a broad range of sensing-related fields, such as actuator networks, RFID applications, mobile ad-hoc networks, camera networks, and others. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ? Sensor network architecture and protocols ? Applications ? Rich sensor systems leveraging RFID, mobile devices (e.g., cell phones), cameras, robotics, etc. ? Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits ? Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment ? Deployment experience and testbeds ? Experimental methodology, including measurement, simulation, and emulation infrastructure ? Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems, process control, and enterprise software ? Programming methodology ? Operating systems ? Sensor network algorithms such as localization, routing, time synchronization, clustering, topology control, and coverage control algorithms ? Failure resilience and fault isolation ? Energy management ? Data, information, and signal processing ? Data storage and management ? Distributed actuation and control ? Security and privacy Important dates: Paper Registration and Abstract: April 10, 2007, midnight US Eastern Time Paper Submission Deadline: April 17, 2007, midnight US Eastern Time Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 2, 2007 Camera Ready Paper Copy: August 30, 2007 All deadlines are firm; we will not honor extensions. Papers must be original, unpublished work not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 14 pages (US "Letter" size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including all material (text, figures and references). The font size must be at least 10 points. Papers should be in two-column format with no more than 59 lines of text per column and at least 0.75" margins on all sides. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The review process is double-blind and hence, all submissions must be anonymized. Selected papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. For submission details, see the conference web site. Demos: Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are solicited. SenSys is very interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, and applications of sensor systems. Abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys conference proceedings. Submissions from both industry and academia are encouraged. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for demos with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Posters: Posters showing exciting early work on sensor systems are solicited. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for posters with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Workshops: Following last year?s workshop success, workshop proposals are highly encouraged in emerging areas related to sensor networks. A call for workshop proposals will be posted on the SenSys website. Organization: General Chair: Sanjay Jha (U. New South Wales) Program Co-Chairs: Phillip B. Gibbons (Intel Research), Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt) Poster Co-Chairs: Nirupama Bulusu (Portland State), Rachel Cardell-Oliver (U. Western Australia) Demo Co-Chairs: Suman Nath (Microsoft Research), Max Ott (NICTA, Australia) Workshop Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale) Local Arrangements Chairs: Subhash Challa (U. Technology, Sydney), Salil Kanhere, (U. New South Wales) Publicity Co-Chairs: Rajeev Shorey (GM Research, India), Guoqiang Mao (U. Sydney) Web Chair: Wen Hu (CSIRO, Australia) Registration Chair: Ren Liu (CSIRO, Australia) Finance Chair: Chun Tung Chou (U. New South Wales) Steering Committee Chair: John Heidemann (USC) Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC), Gaetano Borriello (U. Washington), Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth), Peter Corke (CSIRO, Australia), Richard Han (U. Colorado), Tien He (U. Minnesota), John Heidemann (USC), Ted Herman (Iowa), Polly Huang (National Taiwan U.), Brad Karp (U. College London), Phil Levis (Stanford), Jie Liu (Microsoft Research), Chenyang Lu (Washington U. in St. Louis), Sam Madden (MIT), Miklos Maroti (U. Szeged, Hungary), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton), Lama Nachman (Intel Research), Kay R?mer (ETH Zurich), Mani Srivastava (UCLA), John Stankovic (U. Virginia), Subhash Suri (UCSB), Thiemo Voigt (SICS, Sweden) Yours sincerely, Guoqiang Guoqiang Mao, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical and Information Engineering The University of Sydney, Tel: +61 2 93512962 Fax: +61 2 93513847 Homepage: http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~guoqiang From feit at cs.huji.ac.il Thu Jan 11 03:00:09 2007 From: feit at cs.huji.ac.il (Dror Feitelson) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:00:09 +0200 Subject: [sigcomm] CFP: Workshop on Experimental computer Science Message-ID: Workshop on Experimental Computer Science ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Part of ACM FCRC, San Diego, 13-14 June 2007 (in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM) >>> URL: http://www.expcs.org Submit deadline: 9 February 2007 Notification: 23 March 2007 Final version: 7 May 2007 Call for Papers This is not a conventional "systems" conference in computer science! First, it takes a broad view including both software and hardware systems, networking, applications, software engineering, and even theory. Second, the focus is on the experimental approach to doing research. High-quality papers are solicited on the nine themes identified below. In particular, we proactively encourage papers that advance the methodological aspects of experimental computer science, or present new real-world data and observations about computer systems and use. A major criterion for acceptance will be that the paper contributes to the discourse on the subject; it does not have to be the definitive final word on it. * Experimental engineering: techniques, insights, and understanding that come from building and using computer systems, and discovering behavior that emerges from the inherent complexity of working systems. * Measurements and metrics: what to measure, how to achieve reliable measurements in face of noise and errors, and what metrics will turn raw measurements into useful information. * Experimental methodology: best practices that should be followed, and pitfalls that need to be avoided. * Tools of the trade: measurement tools that support sound instrumentation, tools for automatic flagging of anomalous conditions, and tools for automatic management of experiments. * Explanation and hypothesis testing: the study of complex systems, with the goal of achieving a deeper understanding of why they behave in the way they do. * Reproducibility: reproducing previous results, the scope to which they pertain, and factors that affect them. * Data collection and data manipulation: reports on collecting and using data, including issues like anonymization and sanitization. * Theory and practice: cases where theory leads to hypotheses that can be checked experimentally, and cases where experimentation questions assumptions used as a basis for theory. * Education and an experimental culture: the need for a cultural change in order to make the experimental approach more prevalent, and development of courses and curricular material. In the interest of reproducibility and advancing the state of the art, it is highly desirable that papers be accompanied by software and data sets used in the experiments. Measurement Challenge In addition to contributed papers, we are planning to have a session devoted to a common measurement challenge, where participants present (and discuss) how they approached a given problem. The challenge this year is to measure the indirect overhead of a context switch, i.e. the degradation in performance due to perturbation of cache state. This is non-trivial, as it obviously this depends on myriad details including workload behavior and architecture. To participate, submit a report of your approach and results by the paper submittal deadline. Selected reports will be included in the proceedings. Roundtable on Experimentation in Computer Science Education Experimentation and empirical data seem to be all but absent from current computer science curricula. We are planning to hold a roundtable on this issue, with emphasis on operational ways to advance experimentation in computer science education, including the design of complete courses, how to add experimentation into existing courses, and ideas for term projects. To participate, submit a position paper by the paper submittal deadline. A joint paper summarizing the roundtable will be included in the proceedings. For more details, submittals, and up-to-date information, see http://www.expcs.org From ddc at csail.mit.edu Thu Jan 11 05:20:51 2007 From: ddc at csail.mit.edu (David Clark) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:20:51 -0500 Subject: [sigcomm] Opportunity to get involved in the NSF FIND research program Message-ID: <45A639B3.9010500@csail.mit.edu> Folks, Many of you may know that NSF has announced a focus area for research funding called Future Internet Design, or FIND. The idea behind FIND is to bring together interested researchers to discuss options for a future Internet, and to develop integrated proposals for such a network. NSF understands that there is lots of interesting, relevant work that has been funded from sources other than NSF, and there may be folks who would like to come to the meetings and participate in the process, on a BYOF (Bring Your Own Funding) basis. You might have funding from a different NSF program, from another funding agency, or from your company. Perhaps you are from a different country with its own funding mechanisms. However you are funded, if you are interesting in being part of the intellectual effort, please read the attached announcement, which is an invitation to send in an informal white paper describing what you are up to. If you can conceive of other ways to build bridges between this FIND program and other research efforts, please send me a message directly. We are open to other ideas. David Clark (for the FIND Planning Committee) ---- CALL FOR RESEARCH COLLABORATION ON FUTURE INTERNET ARCHITECTURES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE US NSF FIND PROGRAM BACKGROUND Much energy has recently crystallized within the international network research community for developing fresh perspectives on how to architect a single, coherent, global data network. The Internet's unquestionable success at embodying one such architecture has also led over the decades of its operation to unquestionable difficulties with regard to support for some types of functionality and sound operation. As a reflection of this growing community interest, the U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a focus area for networking research called FIND, or Future Internet Design. The agenda of this focus area is to invite the research community to take a long-range perspective, and to consider what our global network of 10 or 15 years should be, and how to build a network that meets the future requirements. (For further information on the FIND program, see NSF solicitation 07-507, available at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07507.) The research funded by FIND aims to contribute to the emergence of one or more integrated visions of a future network. A vital part of this effort concerns fostering collaboration and consensus-building among researchers working on future global network architecture. To this end, NSF has created a FIND Planning Committee, which is working with NSF to organize a series of meetings among FIND grant recipients structured around activities to identify and refine overarching concepts for a network of the future. A BROADER COMMUNITY NSF recognizes that its efforts at funding research to contribute to a future global network exists within a broader set of efforts with similar goals supported by other agencies, industry, and nations. Accordingly, NSF seeks researchers external to the FIND program itself?but who share a likeminded vision?to participate in the collaboration and consensus-building. NSF particularly welcomes international collaboration?any vision of a future global network will greatly benefit from global participation. To this end, external researchers interested in such participation are invited to submit short white papers describing themselves and their work. Based on evaluation of these white papers, a select number of researchers will be invited to join the FIND meetings and other events, as overall meeting sizes and logistics permit. EXPECTATIONS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA Since the efficacy of FIND meetings is in part a function of their size and coherence, the evaluation of the white papers will focus on certain criteria that are listed below, along with expectations regarding what external participation entails. Naturally, interested parties should take these considerations into account as they write their white papers, and include information in their papers sufficient to allow the FIND program to evaluate the aptness of their participation. ? In a few sentences, please describe your research and its intended impact. When possible, include as an attachment (or a URL) a longer description, which if you wish can be something prepared for another purpose (e.g. your original funding proposal or a publication). It will help to limit the supporting material to 15 pages or fewer. ? Please summarize in the white paper the ways you see your research as being compatible with the objectives of FIND (the URL for the FIND solicitation is included above). Research that accords with the FIND program will generally be based on a long-term vision of future networking, rather than addressing specific near-term problems, and framed in terms of how it might contribute to an overall architecture for a future network. ? The FIND meetings have been organized for the benefit of researchers who have already been funded and are actively pursuing their research. Research described in white papers should already be funded. Please describe the means you have available to cover your FIND-related research: the source of funds, their duration, and (roughly) the supported level of effort. Unfortunately, NSF lacks additional funds to financially support your participation in the meetings, so you must be prepared to cover those costs as well. If you are planning to submit a FIND research proposal to the current NeTS solicitation, you should not submit a white paper here based on that research. Successful FIND grant recipients will automatically be invited to join the FIND community. ? As one of the goals of FIND is to develop an active community of researchers who over time work increasingly together towards coherent, overall architectural visions, we aim for external participants to likewise become significantly engaged. To this end, you should anticipate (and have resources for) participating in FIND project meetings in an active, sustained fashion. ? Your research must not be encumbered by intellectual property restrictions that prevent you from fully discussing your work and its results with the other participants. Please try to limit your white paper to 2 pages. Your white paper (and the supporting research description) will be read by members of the research community, so do not submit anything that you would not reveal to your peers. (White papers are not viewed as formal submissions to NSF.) TIMING AND SUBMISSION You may submit a white paper at any time during the FIND program. Before each scheduled FIND PI meeting, the papers on hand will be reviewed. Meetings are anticipated to occur approximately three times a year, in March, July/August and November. The next FIND meeting is scheduled for March 5/6, 2007, and priority in consideration for that meeting will be given to white papers that are received by Friday, January 19th, 2007. Send your white paper to Darleen Fisher and Allison Mankin for coordination. From touch at ISI.EDU Thu Jan 11 07:43:31 2007 From: touch at ISI.EDU (Joe Touch) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:43:31 -0800 Subject: [sigcomm] Posting topics reminder In-Reply-To: <45A639B3.9010500@csail.mit.edu> References: <45A639B3.9010500@csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <45A65B23.7020808@isi.edu> Hi, all, As a reminder, as noted on the mailing list website http://www.postel.org/sigcomm/ : Solicitations for papers and participation (for conferences, workshops, journals, book chapters, etc.) are permitted ONLY when SIGCOMM-sponsored and co-sponsored. ---------------------------- All other posts should be checked before posting. The recent FIND post, e.g., was outside the scope of this list. If you have any questions as to whether a post is appropriate, please feel free to contact me in advance Thanks, Joe (as list admin) -- ---------------------------------------- Joe Touch Sr. Network Engineer, USAF TSAT Space Segment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/sigcomm/attachments/20070111/a7c9a51f/signature.bin