Network Modeling for the Internet

Closing Workshop
June 25-26, 2004

 

General Information

The Closing Workshop for the SAMSI Program on Network Modeling for the Internet will be held on Friday-Saturday, June 25-26, at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute in Research Triangle Park, NC.  The goals of the Closing Workshop are to:

 

Registration

*** Space is limited, please register ASAP ***

Registration information, including requests for financial support, should be submitted as soon as possible. The registration deadline is June 4, 2004.

Recommended accommodation is at the Radisson Hotel Research Triangle Park (formerly the Radisson Governors Inn). Please make reservations at the Radisson as soon as possible, the room block cutoff date is June 9. If you have a change in plans, individual room reservations must be cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival. Check-in is at 3:00 PM; check-out is 12:00 noon.

 

Tentative Program

Friday -- June 25, 2004

NISS-SAMSI Building, Room 104

8:30-9:10 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

 
9:10-9:15 AM

Welcome

Jim Berger, Director of SAMSI

 
9:15-9:30 AM

SAMSI Internet Overview

J.S. Marron, UNC & SAMSI Associate Director

 
9:30-10:25 AM SAMSI Research I

 

9:30-9:45     "Long-Range-Dependence in a Changing Internet Traffic Mix"

                     Don Smith, University of North Carolina

 

9:50-10:05   "Dependent SiZer: Goodness of Fit Tests for Time Series Models"

                     Cheolwoo Park, SAMSI


10:10-10:25  "Wavelet-based synthesis of the Rosenblatt process"

                      Vladas Pipiras, University of North Carolina


10:30-11:00 AM

Coffee Break

 
11:00-12:15 PM SAMSI Research II

 

11:00-11:15  "Algebraic Equations for Blocking Probabilities in Asymmetric Networks"

                      Ian Dinwoodie, Duke University & SAMSI

11:20-11:35   "Adaptive Scheduling using Online Measurements for Efficient Delivery of  

                            Quality of Service"

                       P. Xu, North Carolina State University

11:40-11:55  "Semi experiment analysis of the shifting knee wavelet spectrum"

                      Felix Hernandez-Campos, University of North Carolina & SAMSI

12:00-12:15  "Long Range Dependence Analysis of Internet Traffic"

                      J. S. Marron, University of North Carolina & SAMSI

 
12:15-1:45 PM

Lunch

 
1:45-3:00 PM New Directions I

 

1:45-2:00     "Splitting and merging of a traffic model: validation"

                     Nicolas Hohn, University of Melbourne

2:05-2:20     "Traffic Utilization Profiles of Internet Users"

                     M. Rosario de Silva Oliveira, Instituto Superior Tecnico and CEMAT

2:25-2:40     "Delay Tomography"

                     Earl Lawrence, University of Michigan

2:45-3:00     "File Sizes Reloaded"

                     Diman Todorov, Vienna Technical University

 
3:00-3:30 PM

Coffee Break

 
3:30-4:45 PM

New Directions II

 

3:30-3:45     "Biased Sampling from Heavy Tailed Data"

                     Barbara Gonzalez, University of Louisiana

3:50-4:05     "Advanced Distribution Theory for SiZer" 

                     Jan Hannig, Colorado State University

4:10-4:25     "Analysis of TCP Round Trip Times"

                     Jasleen Kaur, University of North Carolina

4:30-4:45     "Analysis of wireless information locality and 
                     association patterns in a campus"

                     Maria Papadopouli, University of North Carolina
 

 
4:50-5:05 PM

Open Discussion:  "Wished I had said..." Session

 
6:30-8:30 PM

Reception at the Radisson Research Triangle Park

 


 
Saturday -- June 26, 2004

NISS-SAMSI Building, Room 104

8:30-9:10 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

 
9:10-10:05 AM SAMSI Research III

 

9:10-9:25     "Thresholded Log-Log Correlation Analyses of TCP Characteristics"

                     Felix Hernandez-Campos, University of North Carolina & SAMSI

 

9:30-9:45     "Impact of the sampling rate on the estimation of the parameters of fractional

                     Brownian motion"

                     Zhengyuan Zhu, University of North Carolina


9:50-10:05    "Queueing Analysis of Network Traffic"

                      David Rolls, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 

 

 
10:10-10:40 AM

Coffee Break

 
10:40-11:55 AM SAMSI Research IV

 

10:40-10:55  "Visualization and Inference Based on Wavelet Coefficients, SiZer and       

                      SiNos"

                      Cheolwoo Park, SAMSI

11:00-11:15   "Identification of periodic and cyclic fractional stable motions"

                       Vladas Pipiras, University of North Carolina

11:20-11:35  "Robust estimation of self-similarity parameter using the wavelet transform"

                      Zhengyuan Zhu, University of North Carolina

11:40-11:55  "Heavy Traffic Working Group"

                      Robert Buche,  North Carolina State University

 

 
12:00-1:30 PM

Lunch

 
1:30-4:00 PM ISERC

 

1:30-2:20     Overview and Future Directions
                     J. S. Marron, University of North Carolina & SAMSI
                     Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs

2:20-3:30     Breakout Discussion Groups & Break

3:30-4:00     Discussion Results Presentations

 

Scientific Committee

Kevin Jeffay (UNC), Jim Landwehr (Avaya), John P. Lehoczky (Carnegie Mellon), J. S. Marron (Co-Chair, SAMSI and UNC), Ruth Williams (Co-Chair, UC San Diego), Walter Willinger (AT&T), Don Towsley (U Mass)

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