USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2006: Boston, MA, USA
Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, May 30 - June 3, 2006, Boston, MA, USA. USENIX 2006
Opening Remarks, Awards, Keynote
Opening Remarks.
Larry L. Peterson: PlanetLab: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design in Planetary-Scale Infrastructure.
Virtualization
Stephen T. Jones, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau: Antfarm: Tracking Processes in a Virtual Machine Environment. 1-14
Aravind Menon, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen (awarded best paper). 15-28
Jiuxing Liu, Wei Huang, Bülent Abali, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: High Performance VMM-Bypass I/O in Virtual Machines. 29-42
Storage
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, Margo I. Seltzer: Provenance-Aware Storage Systems. 43-56
Partho Nath, Michael Kozuch, David R. O'Hallaron, Jan Harkes, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Niraj Tolia, Matt Toups: Design Tradeoffs in Applying Content Addressable Storage to Enterprise-scale Systems Based on Virtual Machines. 71-84
Short Papers Session I
John Black: Compare-by-Hash: A Reasoned Analysis. 85-90
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox: An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems. 91-96
Hyoseung Kim, Hojung Cha: Towards a Resilient Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks. 103-108
Server Implementation
Tatuya Jinmei, Paul Vixie: Implementation and Evaluation of Moderate Parallelism in the BIND9 DNS Server. 115-128
Brendan Burns, Kevin Grimaldi, Alexander Kostadinov, Emery D. Berger, Mark D. Corner: Flux: A Language for Programming High-Performance Servers. 129-142
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai: Understanding and Addressing Blocking-Induced Network Server Latency. 143-156
Security
Rangarajan Vasudevan, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus E. van der Merwe: Reval: A Tool for Real-time Evaluation of DDoS Mitigation Strategies. 157-170
Vyas Sekar, Nick G. Duffield, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, Hui Zhang: LADS: Large-scale Automated DDoS Detection System. 171-184
Jonathan M. McCune, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reiter: Bump in the Ether: A Framework for Securing Sensitive User Input. 185-198
Management and Administration
David E. Irwin, Jeffrey S. Chase, Laura E. Grit, Aydan R. Yumerefendi, David Becker, Ken Yocum: Sharing Networked Resources with Brokered Leases. 199-212
Fábio Oliveira, Kiran Nagaraja, Rekha Bachwani, Ricardo Bianchini, Richard P. Martin, Thu D. Nguyen: Understanding and Validating Database System Administration. 213-228
Li Yin, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Madhukar R. Korupolu, Kaladhar Voruganti, Randy H. Katz: SMART: An Integrated Multi-Action Advisor for Storage Systems. 229-242
Short Papers Session II
Jianbin Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu: sMonitor: A Non-Intrusive Client-Perceived End-to-End Performance Monitor of Secured Internet Services. 243-248
KyoungSoo Park, Vivek S. Pai, Kang-Won Lee, Seraphin B. Calo: Securing Web Service by Automatic Robot Detection. 255-260
Tobias Holgers, David E. Watson, Steven D. Gribble: Cutting through the Confusion: A Measurement Study of Homograph Attacks. 261-266
Ioannis C. Avramopoulos, Jennifer Rexford: Stealth Probing: Efficient Data-Plane Security for IP Routing. 267-272
Wide Area Distributed Systems
David L. Oppenheimer, Brent N. Chun, David A. Patterson, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat: Service Placement in a Shared Wide-Area Platform. 273-288
Dennis Geels, Gautam Altekar, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica: Replay Debugging for Distributed Applications (Awarded Best Paper!). 289-300
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat: Loose Synchronization for Large-Scale Networked Systems. 301-314
Network and Operating System Support
Dimitris Syrivelis, Spyros Lalis: System- and Application-level Support for Runtime Hardware Reconfiguration on SoC Platforms. 315-327
Yi Qiao, Fabián E. Bustamante: Structured and Unstructured Overlays under the Microscope: A Measurement-based View of Two P2P Systems That People Use. 341-355
Short Papers Session III
Evan Cooke, Richard Mortier, Austin Donnelly, Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs: Reclaiming Network-wide Visibility Using Ubiquitous Endsystem Monitors. 357-362
Eric Eide, Leigh Stoller, Tim Stack, Juliana Freire, Jay Lepreau: Integrated Scientific Workflow Management for the Emulab Network Testbed. 363-368
Ming Zhang, Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai, Jennifer Rexford: How DNS Misnaming Distorts Internet Topology Mapping. 369-374
Utku Irmak, Svilen Mihaylov, Torsten Suel, Samrat Ganguly, Rauf Izmailov: Efficient Query Subscription Processing for Prospective Search Engines. 375-380
Muli Ben-Yehuda, Oleg Goldshmidt, Elliot K. Kolodner, Zorik Machulsky, Vadim Makhervaks, Julian Satran, Marc Segal, Leah Shalev, Ilan Shimony: IP Only Server. 381-386
Invited Talks
Matt Welsh: Deploying a Sensor Network on an Active Volcano.
Stephen R. Walli: Panel: Open Source Software Business Models.
Peiter Zatko: Success, Failure, and Alternative Solutions for Network Security.
Gernot Heiser: Panel: Is University Systems Teaching and Research Relevant to Industry?.
Cliff Young: Architectures and Algorithms for Biomolecular Simulation.
Steven M. Bellovin: Permissive Action Links, Nuclear Weapons, and the History of Public Key Cryptography.
Butler W. Lampson: Gold and Fool's Gold: Successes, Failures, and Futures in Computer Systems Research.
Radia J. Perlman: Routing Without Tears, Bridging Without Danger.
Eric Blossom: An Introduction to Software Radio.
Paul Graham: Hackers and Founders.
Guru Sessions
Dan Appelman: Computers, Developers, and The Law.
David N. Blank-Edelman: Hacking Perl².
Stephen C. Johnson: Algorithms and Data Structures for the 21st Century.
Evan Marcus: Sure, You Can Archive Data, But Will You Be Able to Retrieve It in 20 Years?.
John Sellens: RRDTool: Logging and Graphing.
Rik Farrow: Security Is Broken.
Heison Chak: VoIP Security.
Steven M. Bellovin: Privacy & Cryptography.
Gray Watson: Surviving Spam Mail.
Jacob Farmer: High Capacity and High Performance Storage on a Limited Budget.



