Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering, September 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004

Organizers:

Bruce Hajek
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
b-hajek@uiuc.edu
http://www.uiuc.edu/~b-hajek/

and

Donald Towsley
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
towsley@cs.umass.edu
http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/personnel/towsley.html

This workshop will bring together a group of researchers working in specialized problem areas at the interface between mathematics/statistics and networking research to discuss recent progress and outline the main challenges associated with measuring, simulating, modeling, and analyzing large-scale, heterogeneous, and complex internetworks such as the global Internet. Topics will include modeling of component technologies such as network protocols and routers, modeling and simulation of large-scale networks, and measurement of network traffic and performance. Mathematical topics include stochastic modeling, statistical inference, and dynamical systems.

Note that there is a reception followed by a public lecture on January 7, the first day of the short course preceding this workshop. The reception runs 5-6:30 pm and the public lecture, by Steven H. Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order begins at 7pm, Smith Hall 100.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
MONDAY, JANUARY 12 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:30	Coffee and Registration	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:15	Douglas N. Arnold, Scot Adams, and Organizers	Welcome and Introduction
9:30	Mark Crovella Boston University	Structural Analysis of Network Traffic Flows Slides:   pdf
10:20	Discussion Discussant: John Nevil Brownlee (University of Auckland)
10:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00	James Roberts France T�l�com R&D	Flow Level Modelling and Control of IP Traffic Slides:   pdf
11:50	Discussion Discussant: Vishal Misra (Columbia University)
12:00	Lunch Break
1:30	Andrew M. Odlyzko University of Minnesota	The Economics of the Internet Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt
2:20	Discussion Discussant: Bruce Hajek (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
2:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:00	SECOND CHANCES, i.e., speakers of the day respond to further questions, suggestions, re-frame their main points, look toward future directions.
3:30	Group Photos here
3:40	IMA Tea/Reception (with POSTER SESSION) 400 Lind Hall Mark Coates McGill University Deterministic Packet Marking for Congestion Price Estimation Wanyang Dai Nanjing University Networks with Multicast Services and Multitype Input Sources Mor Harchol-Balter Carnegie Mellon University Improving Response Times for Static and Dynamic Web Requests Kevin Jeffay University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A Non-Parametric Approach to Generation and Validation of Synthetic Network Traffic George Michailidis University of Michigan Active Network Tomography: Design and Estimation Issues Sanjay Shakkottai University of Texas at Austin Time-scale Decomposition and Equivalent Rate Based Marking
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
9:00	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30	Nicholas G. Duffield AT&T Labs - Research	Challenges for Using Sampled Traffic Measurements Slides:   pdf
10:20	Discussion Discussant: Mark Coates (McGill University)
10:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00	Sally Floyd ICSI	Internet Research Needs a Critical Perspective Towards Models Slides:    html    pdf    ps    ppt
11:50	Discussion Discussant: Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts)
12:00	Lunch Break
1:30	David M. Nicol University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Models of Internet Worm Defense Slides:  pdf
2:20	Discussion Discussant: Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon)
2:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:00	Jennifer Rexford AT&T Labs - Research	Dynamics of Hot-Potato Routing in IP Networks Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt Paper:   pdf
3:50	Discussion Discussant: Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota)
4:00	SECOND CHANCES, i.e., speakers of the day respond to further questions, suggestions, re-frame their main points, look toward future directions.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
9:00	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30	Andre Broido CAIDA	Applications of network spectroscopy
10:20	Discussion Discussant: Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs - Research)
10:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00	Laurent Massoulié Microsoft Research Ltd.	End-System Emulation of Low-Priority Data Transport Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt
11:50	Discussion Discussant: Srisankar Kunniyur (University of Pennsylvania)
12:00	Lunch Break
1:30	Yuval Shavitt Tel Aviv University	Internet Dynamics: Missing Data, Missing Models
2:20	Discussion Discussant: Mark Crovella (Boston University)
2:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:00	SECOND CHANCES, i.e., speakers of the day respond to further questions, suggestions, re-frame their main points, look toward future directions.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
9:00	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30	Robert Nowak University of Wisconsin-Madison	Network Tomography from Multiple Sources Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt
10:20	Discussion Discussant: George Michailidis (University of Michigan)
10:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00	François Baccelli INRIA-Ecole Normale Superieure	Mean-Field Interaction Models for Large TCP Networks Slides:   pdf
11:50	Discussion Discussant: Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft Research)
12:00	Lunch Break
1:30	Donald Towsley University of Massachusetts	Analysis and Detection of Internet Worms Slides:   pdf
2:20	Discussion Discussant: David M. Nicol (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
2:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:00	SECOND CHANCES, i.e., speakers of the day respond to further questions, suggestions, re-frame their main points, look toward future directions.
6:00	Workshop Dinner	Kikugawa at Riverplace, 43 Main Street SE. (Shuttle from Radisson Hotel, 5:30 PM, meet at Bell Captain's Desk.)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:30	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:00	Bill Woodcock Packet Clearing House	Design and Deployment of a Global Data-Collection Infrastructure
9:45	Bill Woodcock Packet Clearing House	Interaction between Peering, Routing, Topology and Economics
10:30	Discussion Discussant: Kim Claffy (CAIDA)
10:40	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00	R. Srikant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Congestion Control in Overlay Networks Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt
11:50	Discussion Discussant: Murat Alanyali (Boston University)
12:00	Lunch Break
1:30	Darryl Veitch University of Melbourne, currently on sabbatical at Sprint ATL	Synchronising Software Clocks on the Internet Slides:   pdf
2:20	Discussion Discussant: Kevin Jeffay (University of North Carolina)
2:30	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:00	SECOND CHANCES, i.e., speakers of the day respond to further questions, suggestions, re-frame their main points, look toward future directions.
3:30	Concluding Remarks by Organizers
3:40	End of Workshop

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

NAME	DEPARTMENT	AFFILIATION
Scot Adams	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Soohan Ahn	Department of Statistics	Seoul National University
Murat Alanyali		Boston University
David Alderson	Department of Computer Science	California Institute of Technology
Virgilio Almeida	Department of Computer Science	Federal University of Minas Gerais
Greg Anderson	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Douglas Arnold	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Donald Aronson	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Gerard Awanou	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Francois Baccelli	INRIA	École Normale Supérieure
Karen Ball	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Antar Bandyopadhyay	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Suman Banerjee	Department of Computer Science	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paul Barford	Department of Computer Science	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Keith Berrier		Rice University
Stephan Bohacek	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Delaware
Marie-Claude Boily	Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie	Imperial College London
Andre Broido	UCSD / SDSC	University of California, San Diego
Nevil Brownlee	Department of Computer Science	University of Auckland
John Byers	Department of Computer Science	Boston University
Hi Jun Choe	Department of Mathematics	Yonsei University
Changho Choi		University of Minnesota
Kim Claffy	UCSD / SDSC	CAIDA
Mark Coates	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	McGill University
Mark Crovella	Department of Computer Science	Boston University
Wanyang Dai	Department of Mathematics	Nanjing University
Jim Diehl	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
David Du	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Nick Duffield	Statistics Research	AT&T Laboratories - Research
Darin England	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Sally Floyd		International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
Shmuel Friedland	Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science	University of Illinois at Chicago
Ayalvadi Ganesh		Microsoft Research
Tim Garoni	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Aric Hagberg	Center for Nonlinear Studies	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bruce Hajek	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chuan-Hsiang Han	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Mor Harchol-Balter	Department of Computer Science	Carnegie Mellon University
Naresh Jain	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Kevin Jeffay	Department of Computer Science	University of North Carolina
Lili Ju	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Bill Kamp	Department of Mathematics	IAGP
Herve Kerivin	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Mohammad Khan	Department of Mathematics	Kent State University
Dohyun Kim	Department of Statistics	Seoul National University
Hye-Ryoung Kim		Seoul National University
Seonho Kim	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Srisankar Kunniyur	Electrical and Systems Engineering Department	University of Pennsylvania
Jim Kurose	Department of Computer Science	University of Massachusetts
Thomas Kurtz	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eva Kusmierek	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
Yingping Lu	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
Laurent Massoulie		Microsoft Research
Richard McGehee	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
George Michailidis	Department of Statistics	University of Michigan
Vishal Misra	Department of Computer Science	Columbia University
Haewon Nam	Institute of Mathematics and Statistics	University of Minnesota
David Nicol	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amir Niknejad	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Nowak	Department of Computer Science	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrew Odlyzko	Digital Technology Center	University of Minnesota
Lea Popovic	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Grzegorz Rempala	Department of Mathematics	University of Louisville
Jennifer Rexford	Statistics Research	AT&T Laboratories - Research
James Roberts		France Telecom R&D, LLC
Fadil Santosa	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Arnd Scheel	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Khushboo Shah		University of Southern California
Sanjay Shakkottai	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Texas at Austin
Yuval Shavitt	Department of Electrical Engineering Systems	Tel Aviv University
Eran Shir	Department of Electrical Engineering Systems	Tel Aviv University
Ness Shroff	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Purdue University
R. Srikant	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pieter Swart	Theoretical Division	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Donald Towsley	Department of Computer Science	University of Massachusetts
Yolanda Tsang	Department of Electrical Engineering	Rice University
Eric van den Berg	Applied Communication Sciences	Telcordia
Darryl Veitch	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Melbourne
Hui Wang	Division of Applied Mathematics	Brown University
Jing Wang	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Walter Willinger	Statistics Research	AT&T Laboratories - Research
Youjip Won	Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Hanyang University
Bill Woodcock		Packet Clearing House
Kuai Xu	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Yuhong Yang	Department of Statistics	Iowa State University
Mehmet Yildiz	Department of Electrical Engineering	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tesfay Yohannes	Office of the President	Government of Eritrea
Ofer Zeitouni	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Bo Zeng	Department of Industrial Engineering	Purdue University
Zhi-Li Zhang	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
Jun Zhao	Institute of Mathematics and its Application	University of Minnesota