Preliminary Workshop Program

Monday, September 29
9:00am	Welcome
9:15am	Keynote EdgeComputing: The Evolution of the Data Center William (Bill) Weihl (CTO, Akamai)
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Mobility Mobility-aware Server Selection for Mobile Streaming Multimedia Content Distribution Networks Muhammad Tariq, Ravi Jain, Toshiro Kawahara (DoCoMo Labs USA) Performance of PEPs in Cellular Wireless Networks Pablo Rodriguez, Vitali Fridman (Microsoft Research)
12:10pm	Lunch
1:15pm	Applications Edge Caching for Directory Based Web Applications: Algorithms and Performance Rajeev Gupta, Apurva Kumar (IBM) Computing on the Edge: A Platform for Replicating Internet Applications Michael Rabinovich, Zhen Xiao (AT&T Labs-Research), Amit Aggarwal (Microsoft) Exploiting templates to scale consistency maintenance in edge database caches Khalil Amiri (IBM), Sara Sprenkle (Duke), Renu Tewari, Sriram Padmanabhan (IBM)
3:00pm	Afternoon Break
3:30pm	Architectures Proxy+: Simple Proxy Augmentation for Dynamic Content Processing Chun Yuan (Microsoft Research Asia), Zhigang Hua (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia) SYNOPSIS: Multicast Cloud with Integrated Multicast and Unicast Content Distribution Routing Dan Li, Zheng Yang, Arun Desai, Kenneth Mueller, Stephen Morris, Dmitry Stavisky (Cisco) SYNOPSIS: Design, Implementation and Operation of a large Enterprise Content Distribution Network Jacobus Van der Merwe, Paul Gausman, Chuck Cranor, Rustam Akhmarov (AT&T Labs-Research) SYNOPSIS: Architectural Choices for Video-on-Demand Systems Anwar Al Hamra, Ernst W. Biersack, Guillaum Urvoy-Keller (Institut Eurecom)
5:00pm	Finished
5:00pm- 11:00pm	Sightseeing Tour and Dinner in NYC
Tuesday, September 30
9:00am	Multimedia Dynamic Cache Reconfiguration Strategies for a Cluster-Based Streaming Proxy Yang Guo, Zihui Ge, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy, Don Towsley (University of Mass., Amherst) Stream Engine: A New Kernel Interface for High-Performance Internet Streaming Servers Jonathan Lemon, Zhe Wang, Zheng Yang, Pei Cao (Cisco) Streaming Flow Analyses for Prefetching in Segment-based Proxy Caching Strategies to Improve Media Delivery Quality Songqing Chen (William and Mary), Bo Shen, Susie Wee (HP Labs), Xiaodong Zhang (NSF, William and Mary)
10:45am	Morning Break
11:15am	Customization Subscription-enhanced Content Delivery Mao Chen, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Andrea LaPaug (Princeton Univ.) Cooperative Architectures and Algorithms for Discovery and Transcoding of Multi-version Content Claudia Canali (Univ. of Parma), Valeria Cardellini (Univ. of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Michele Colajanni (Univ. of Modena), Riccardo Lancellotti (Univ. of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Philip S. Yu (IBM) SYNOPSIS: User Specific Request Redirection in a Content Delivery Network Sampath Rangarajan (Lucent Bell Labs), Pablo Rodriguez (Microsoft), Sarit Mukherjee (Lucent Bell Labs)
12:45pm	Lunch
1:45pm	P2P Friendships that last: Peer lifespan and its role in P2P protocols Fabian E. Bustamante, Yi Qiao (Northwestern Univ.) SYNOPSIS: A Fine-Grained Peer Sharing Technique for Delivering Large Media Files Over the Internet Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei (Univ. of Kentucky)
2:45pm	Afternoon Break
3:15pm	Panel: Caching the Uncachable -- An Uphill Battle Against Dynamic and Personalized Content Moderator: Zhen Xiao (AT&T Labs-Research) Panel Members: Indranil Gupta (UIUC), Arun Iyengar (IBM Research), Michael Rabinovich (AT&T Labs), Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University), Bill Weihl (Akamai)
5:00pm	Finished
Wednesday, October 1
9:00am	Performance and Measurement Proxy-Cache Aware Object Bundling for Web Access Acceleration Chi Hung Chi, HongGuang Wang, William Ku (National Univ. of Singapore) SYNOPSIS: A Case for Dynamic Selection of Replication and Caching Strategies Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen (Vrije Universiteit) SYNOPSIS: Link Prefetching in Mozilla: A Server-Driven Approach Darin Fisher, Gagan Saksena (Netscape/AOL) SYNOPSIS: A Generalized Model for Characterizing Content Modification Dynamics of Web Objects Chi Hung Chi, HongGuang Wang (National Univ. of Singapore)
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Delta encoding Server-Friendly Delta Compression for Efficient Web Access Anubhav Savant, Torsten Suel (Polytechnic Univ.) Evaluation of ESI and Class-Based Delta Encoding Mor Naaman, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke (Stanford Univ.)
12:10pm	Finished