Networking and Distributed Computing Seminar

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss research problems related to networked-based computing and communications, and examine solutions to these problems and their implementation in the LNDC laboratory.

In this quarter, we plan to discuss some recent papers in routing (both unicast and multicast), resource allocation, and scheduling.  These papers would be selected from the latest networking, operating systems, and theory conferences.  A tentative list of papers is included below.

If you are interested in participating, please send a brief email message specifying relevant background. To follow the seminar, you should have background in networking and operating systems. You will be expected to contribute to our meetings by presenting a research paper and/or helping with the design/implementation of distributed system support.

Participants

• Bryant York
• Gene Cooperman
• Ibrahim Matta
• Rajmohan Rajaraman
• Liang Guo
• Mani Sundaram
• Alberto Medina
• Dennis Dean
• Tony Sena
• Dimitri Vlachos
• Ambari Toha
• Marcos Ruben
• Germinal Isern

Schedule

• "A Performance Comparison of Competitive On-Line Routing and State-Dependent Routing", by W. Aiello, M. Andrews, S. Bhatt, K. R. Krishnan, and L. Zhang.
• "A Control-Based Middleware Framework for Quality of Service Adaptations", by Baochun Li andKlara Nahrstedt.
• "On-Line Throughput Competitive Algorithm for Multicast Routing and Admission Control", by A. Goel, M.R. Henzinger, and S. Plotkin. In Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 1998
• "Connection Caching", by E. Cohen, H.Kaplan, and U. Zwick.  To appear in Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, May 1999.
• "Optimal Partition of QoS Requirements on Unicast Paths and Multicast Trees", by D. Lorenz and A. Orda.  To appear in INFOCOMM'99.

If you have comments or suggestions, please email me at rraj@ccs.neu.edu

Last updated  Jan 13, 1999