26. ICDCS 2006: Lisboa, Portugal

Introduction

• Message from the General Chair.
  
• Program Co-chair's Message.
  
• Program and Organizing Committee.
  
• Full Program Committee.
  
• External Reviewers.
  

Session 1A: Middleware

• Michael Menth, Robert Henjes:
  Analysis of the Message Waiting Time for the FioranoMQ JMS Server. 1
  
• Francisco Perez-Sorrosal, Marta Patiño-Martínez, Ricardo Jiménez-Peris, Jaksa Vuckovic:
  Highly Available Long Running Transactions and Activities for J2EE Applications. 2
  
• Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda, W. Keith Edwards, Umakishore Ramachandran:
  A Bridging Framework for Universal Interoperability in Pervasive Systems. 3
  

Session 1B: Network Optimization

• Long Le, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith:
  A Loss and Queuing-Delay Controller for Router Buffer Management. 4
  
• Jiangzhuo Chen, Ravi Sundaram, Madhav V. Marathe, Rajmohan Rajaraman:
  The Confluent Capacity of the Internet: Congestion vs. Dilation. 5
  
• Sumantra R. Kundu, Bodhisatwa Chakravarty, Kalyan Basu, Sajal K. Das:
  FastFlow: A Framework for Accurate Characterization of Network Traffic. 6
  

Session 1C: Autonomic Computing

• Dimitrios E. Pendarakis, Jeremy Silber, Laura Wynter:
  Autonomic Management of Stream Processing Applications via Adaptive Bandwidth Control. 7
  
• Sandip Agarwala, Karsten Schwan:
  SysProf: Online Distributed Behavior Diagnosis through Fine-grain System Monitoring. 8
  
• Nagarajan Kandasamy, Sherif Abdelwahed, Mohit Khandekar:
  A Hierarchical Optimization Framework for Autonomic Performance Management of Distributed Computing Systems. 9
  

Session 2A: Security

• Michael T. Goodrich, Michael Sirivianos, John Solis, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun:
  Loud and Clear: Human-Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio. 10
  
• Yougang Song, Ying Xu, Brett D. Fleisch:
  Design and Performance Evaluation of a Proxy-based Java Rewriting Security System. 11
  
• Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller:
  Store, Forget, and Check: Using Algebraic Signatures to Check Remotely Administered Storage. 12
  

Session 2B: Peer-to-Peer I

• Kai Wei, Alan J. Smith, Yih-Farn Robin Chen, Binh Vo:
  WhoPay: A Scalable and Anonymous Payment System for Peer-to-Peer Environments. 13
  
• Ivan Osipkov, Peng Wang, Nicholas Hopper:
  Robust Accounting in Decentralized P2P Storage Systems. 14
  
• Haiying Shen, Cheng-Zhong Xu:
  Elastic Routing Table with Provable Performance for Congestion Control in DHT Networks. 15
  

Session 2C: Fault-Tolerance

• Gadi Taubenfeld:
  Computing in the Presence of Timing Failures. 16
  
• Domenico Cotroneo, Salvatore Orlando, Stefano Russo:
  Failure classification and analysis of the Java Virtual Machine. 17
  
• Selma Ikiz, Vijay K. Garg:
  Efficient Incremental Optimal Chain Partition of Distributed Program Traces. 18
  

Session 3A: Distributed Processing I

• Kunal Agrawal, Yuxiong He, Charles E. Leiserson:
  An Empirical Evaluation ofWork Stealing with Parallelism Feedback. 19
  
• Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni:
  Load Unbalancing to Improve Performance under Autocorrelated Traffic. 20
  
• Jianhong Zhou, Ashfaq A. Khokhar:
  ParRescue: Scalable Parallel Algorithm and Implementation for Biclustering over Large Distributed Datasets. 21
  

Session 3B: Publish-Subscribe

• Emmanuelle Anceaume, Maria Gradinariu, Ajoy Kumar Datta, Gwendal Simon, Antonino Virgillito:
  A Semantic Overlay for Self- Peer-to-Peer Publish/Subscribe. 22
  
• Ioannis Aekaterinidis, Peter Triantafillou:
  PastryStrings: A Comprehensive Content-Based Publish/Subscribe DHT Network. 23
  
• Cristian Lumezanu, Sumeer Bhola, Mark Astley:
  Utility Optimization for Event-Driven Distributed Infrastructures. 24
  

Session 3C: Web and Collaborative Systems

• Yixin Diao, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Sujay S. Parekh, Hidayatullah Shaikh, Maheswaran Surendra:
  Controlling Quality of Service in Multi-Tier Web Applications. 25
  
• Vasile Gaburici, Peter J. Keleher, Bobby Bhattacharjee:
  File System Support for Collaboration in theWide Area. 26
  
• Giorgio Zanin, Alessandro Mei, Luigi V. Mancini:
  A Secure and Efficient Large Scale Distributed System for Data Sharing. 27
  

Session 4A: Distributed Processing II

• Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza, David Valencia:
  Distributed Computing for Efficient Hyperspectral Imaging Using Fully Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations. 28
  
• Gennaro Cordasco, Grzegorz Malewicz, Arnold L. Rosenberg:
  On Scheduling Expansive and Reductive Dags for Internet-Based Computing. 29
  
• Jason D. Sonnek, Mukesh Nathan, Abhishek Chandra, Jon B. Weissman:
  Reputation-Based Scheduling on Unreliable Distributed Infrastructures. 30
  

Session 4B: Storage

• Akshat Verma, Ashok Anand:
  On Store Placement for Response Time Minimization in Parallel Disks. 31
  
• Qing Yang, Weijun Xiao, Jin Ren:
  PRINS: Optimizing Performance of Reliable Internet Storages. 32
  
• Kristal T. Pollack, Sandeep Uttamchandani:
  Genesis: A Scalable Self-Evolving Performance Management Framework for Storage Systems. 33
  

Session 4C: Byzantine Fault-Tolerance

• Barbara Liskov, Rodrigo Rodrigues:
  Tolerating Byzantine Faulty Clients in a Quorum System. 34
  
• Alysson Neves Bessani, Joni da Silva Fraga, Miguel Correia, Lau Cheuk Lung:
  Sharing Memory between Byzantine Processes using Policy-Enforced Tuple Spaces. 35
  
• Vadim Drabkin, Roy Friedman, Alon Kama:
  Practical Byzantine Group Communication. 36
  

Session 5A: Countering Attacks

• Fanglu Guo, Jiawu Chen, Tzi-cker Chiueh:
  Spoof Detection for Preventing DoS Attacks against DNS Servers. 37
  
• Xuxian Jiang, Aaron Walters, Dongyan Xu, Eugene H. Spafford, Florian P. Buchholz, Yi-Min Wang:
  Provenance-Aware Tracing ofWorm Break-in and Contaminations: A Process Coloring Approach. 38
  
• Yan Gao, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen:
  A DoS Resilient Flow-level Intrusion Detection Approach for High-speed Networks. 39
  

Session 5B: Consistency and Cache Management

• Xin Chen, Haining Wang, Shansi Ren:
  DNScup: Strong Cache Consistency Protocol for DNS. 40
  
• Ming Zhao, Renato J. O. Figueiredo:
  Application-Tailored Cache Consistency for Wide-Area File Systems. 41
  
• Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaodong Zhang:
  A Locality-Aware Cooperative Cache Management Protocol to Improve Network File System Performance. 42
  

Session 5C: Content Delivery

• Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Ling Liu, Jianjun Zhang:
  Efficient Formation of Edge Cache Groups for Dynamic Content Delivery. 43
  
• Chee Yong Chan, Yuan Ni:
  Content-based Dissemination of Fragmented XML Data. 44
  
• Mayur Deshpande, Bo Xing, Iosif Lazaridis, Bijit Hore, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Sharad Mehrotra:
  CREW: A Gossip-based Flash-Dissemination System. 45
  

Session 6A: Routing in MANETs

• Mingqiang Xue, Inn Inn Er, Winston Khoon Guan Seah:
  Analysis of Clustering and Routing Overhead for Clustered Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 46
  
• Sameh Gobriel, Daniel Mossé, Rami G. Melhem:
  Mitigating the FloodingWaves Problem in Energy-Efficient Routing for MANETs. 47
  
• Sabyasachi Roy, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra M. Das, Y. Charlie Hu:
  High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks. 48
  
• Shibo Wu, K. Selçuk Candan:
  GMP: Distributed Geographic Multicast Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. 49
  

Session 6B: Sensor Networks

• Shashidhar Gandham, Ying Zhang, Qingfeng Huang:
  Distributed Minimal Time Convergecast Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks. 50
  
• Joel W. Branch, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Chris Giannella, Ran Wolff, Hillol Kargupta:
  In-Network Outlier Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks. 51
  
• Landon P. Cox, Miguel Castro, Antony I. T. Rowstron:
  POS: A Practical Order Statistics Service forWireless Sensor Networks. 52
  
• Patrick E. Lanigan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan:
  Sluice: Secure Dissemination of Code Updates in Sensor Networks. 53
  

Session 6C: Networks

• Ying Zhu, Baochun Li:
  Overlay Multicast with Inferred Link Capacity Correlations. 54
  
• Seong-ryong Kang, Amit Bhati, Dmitri Loguinov, Xiliang Liu:
  On Estimating Tight-Link Bandwidth Characteristics over Multi-Hop Paths. 55
  
• Sam C. M. Lee, Joe W. J. Jiang, John C. S. Lui, Dah-Ming Chiu:
  Interplay of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization. 56
  
• Stefan Dobrev, Paola Flocchini, Nicola Santoro:
  Cycling Through a Dangerous Network: A Simple Efficient Strategy for Black Hole Search. 57
  

Session 7A: Secure Communication

• Sachin Agarwal, Moshe Laifenfeld, Ari Trachtenberg, Murat Alanyali:
  Fast data access over asymmetric channels using fair and secure bandwidth sharing. 58
  
• Ginger Perng, Michael K. Reiter, Chenxi Wang:
  M2: Multicasting Mixes for Efficient and Anonymous Communication. 59
  
• Yuanyuan Zhao, Daniel C. Sturman:
  Dynamic Access Control in a Content-based Publish/Subscribe System with Delivery Guarantees. 60
  

Session 7B: Wireless Networks

• Ray K. Lam, John C. S. Lui, Dah-Ming Chiu:
  On the Access Pricing Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks. 61
  
• Richard T. B. Ma, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein:
  Modeling and Analysis of Generalized Slotted-Aloha MAC Protocols in Cooperative, Competitive and Adversarial Environments. 62
  
• Venkata Nishanth Lolla, Lap Kong Law, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Chinya V. Ravishankar, Dharmaiah Manjunath:
  Detecting MAC Layer Back-off Timer Violations in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 63
  

Session 7C: Peer-to-Peer II

• Dongsheng Li, Xicheng Lu, Baosheng Wang, Jinshu Su, Jiannong Cao, Keith C. C. Chan, Hong Va Leong:
  Delay-Bounded Range Queries in DHT-based Peer-to-Peer Systems. 64
  
• Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu, Huabei Yin, Hu Cao:
  Search-and-Discover in Mobile P2P Network Databases. 65
  
• Ruchir Bindal, Pei Cao, William Chan, Jan Medved, George Suwala, Tony Bates, Amy Zhang:
  Improving Traffic Locality in BitTorrent via Biased Neighbor Selection. 66
  

Session 8A: Reliable and Secure Sensor Networks

• Dan Wang, Qian Zhang, Jiangchuan Liu:
  Self-Protection for Wireless Sensor Networks. 67
  
• Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer:
  Fault-Tolerant Clustering in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. 68
  
• Hongbo Jiang, Shudong Jin:
  Scalable and Robust Aggregation Techniques for Extracting Statistical Information in Sensor Networks. 69
  

Session 8B: Streaming

• Shansi Ren, Lei Guo, Xiaodong Zhang:
  ASAP: an AS-Aware Peer-Relay Protocol for High Quality VoIP. 70
  
• Lisa Amini, Navendu Jain, Anshul Sehgal, Jeremy Silber, Olivier Verscheure:
  Adaptive Control of Extreme-scale Stream Processing Systems. 71
  
• Zoë Abrams, Jie Liu:
  Greedy is Good: On Service Tree Placement for In-Network Stream Processing. 72
  

Session 8C: Network Characterization

• Rongmei Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Xiaojun Lin, Sonia Fahmy:
  A Hierarchical Approach to Internet Distance Prediction. 73
  
• Jonathan Ledlie, Peter R. Pietzuch, Margo I. Seltzer:
  Stable and Accurate Network Coordinates. 74
  
• Ittai Abraham, Cyril Gavoille, Andrew V. Goldberg, Dahlia Malkhi:
  Routing in Networks with Low Doubling Dimension. 75