USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2006: Boston, MA, USA

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
  
• Liuba Shrira, Hao Xu:
  Thresher: An Efficient Storage Manager for Copy-on-write Snapshots. 57-70
  
• 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
  
• Alma Riska, Erik Riedel:
  Disk Drive Level Workload Characterization. 97-102
  
• Hyoseung Kim, Hojung Cha:
  Towards a Resilient Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks. 103-108
  
• James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, Emery D. Berger:
  Transparent Contribution of Memory. 109-114
  

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
  
• Aameek Singh, Ling Liu, Mustaque Ahamad:
  Privacy Analysis for Data Sharing in *nix Systems. 249-254
  
• 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
  
• Teemu Koponen, Pasi Eronen, Mikko Särelä:
  Resilient Connections for SSH and TLS. 329-340
  
• 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.

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