2nd USITS Symposium on Internet Technologies & Systems
(USITS '99)

October 11-14, 1999
Regal Harvest House Hotel
Boulder, Colorado, USA

Tuesday, October 12, 1999

9:00am - 10:30am    Opening Session

Opening Remarks
Fred Douglis, Program Chair, AT&T Labs-Research

Keynote Address: E-Commerce--An Optimistic View

Udi Manber is Chief Scientist at Yahoo!. Before joining Yahoo! in 1998, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Arizona. He wrote more than 50 technical articles, 3 of which won best paper awards, co-developed Agrep, Glimpse, Harvest, and the Search Broker, and wrote a popular textbook on design of algorithms.

11:00am - 12:30pm

Shared Caching
Session Chair: P. Krishnan, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Scalable Web Caching of Frequently Updated Objects Using Reliable Multicast
Dan Li and David R. Cheriton, Stanford University

Hierarchical Cache Consistency in a WAN
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Mike Dahlin, and Calvin Lin, University of Texas at Austin

Organization-Based Analysis of Web-Object Sharing and Caching
Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Nitin Sharma, Neal Cardwell, Molly Brown, Tashana Landray, Denise Pinnel, Anna Karlin, and Henry Levy, University of Washington

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Applications
Session Chair: TBA

The Ninja Jukebox
Ian Goldberg, Steven D. Gribble, David Wagner, and Eric A. Brewer, University of California at Berkeley

Cha-Cha: A System for Organizing Intranet Search Results
Mike Chen, Jason Hong, James Lin, and Marti Hearst, University of California at Berkeley

A Document-based Framework for Internet Application Control
Todd D. Hodes and Randy H. Katz, University of California at Berkeley

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Techniques
Session Chair: Eric A. Brewer, University of California at Berkeley and Inktomi

Sting: A TCP-based Network Measurement Tool
Stefan Savage, University of Washington

JPEG Compression Metric as a Quality-Aware Image Transcoding
Surendar Chandra and Carla Schlatter Ellis, Duke University

Wednesday, October 13, 1999

9:00am - 10:30am

Proxy Implementation
Session Chair: Jeffrey Mogul, Compaq Western Research Laboratory

Secondary Storage Management for Web Proxies
Evangelos P. Markatos, Manolis G.H. Katevenis, Dionisis Pnevmatikatos, and Michail Flouris, ICS-FORTH

Compression Proxy Server: Design and Implementation
Chi-Hung Chi, Jing Deng, and Yan-Hong Lim, National University of Singapore

On the Performance of TCP Splicing for URL-Aware Redirection
Ariel Cohen, Sampath Rangarajan, and Hamilton Slye, Bell Laboratories

11:00am - 12:00pm

Prefetching
Session Chair: Geoffrey H. Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College

Prefetching Hyperlinks
Dan Duchamp, AT&T

Mining Longest Repeating Subsequences to Predict WWW Surfing
Jim Pitkow and Peter Pirolli, Xerox PARC

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Architectures
Session Chair: David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University

Active Names: Flexible Location and Transport of Wide-Area Resources
Amin Vahdat, Duke University; Michael Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin; Thomas Anderson and Amit Aggarwal, University of Washington

Person-level Routing in the Mobile People Architecture
Mema Roussopoulos, Petros Maniatis, Edward Swierk, Kevin Lai, Guido Appenzeller, and Mary Baker, Stanford University

A User's and Programmer's View of the New JavaScript Security Model
David M. Kristol and Alain Mayer, Bell Labs

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Works-in-Progress Reports
Session Chair: Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan

Short, pithy, and fun, Works-in-Progress Reports introduce interesting new or ongoing work. If you have work you would like to share or a cool idea that's not quite ready for publication, contact the WIPS coordinators via email at usits99wips@usenix.org. We are particularly interested in presenting students' work. A list of topics is announced on-site.

Thursday, October 14, 1999

9:00am - 10:30am

Caching Policies
Session Chair: Katia Obraczka, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Using Full Reference History for Efficient Document Replacement in Web Caches
Hyokyung Bahn, Seoul National University; Sam H. Noh, Hong-Ik University; Kern Koh and Sang Lyul Min, Seoul National University

Providing Dynamic and Customizable Caching Policies
J. Fritz Barnes and Raju Pandey, University of California at Davis

Exploiting Result Equivalence in Caching Dynamic Web Content
Ben Smith, Anurag Acharya, and Tao Yang, University of California at Santa Barbara

11:00am - 12:30pm

Server Implementation
Session Chair: Fred Douglis,AT&T Labs-Research

Efficient Support for Content-based Routing in Web Server Clusters
Chu-Sing Yang and Mon-Yen Luo, National Sun Yat-Sen University

Rapid Reverse DNS Lookups for Web Servers
William LeFebvre, Group sys Consulting; Ken Craig, CNN Internet Technologies

Connection Scheduling in Web Servers
Mark Crovella and Robert Frangioso, Boston University; Mor Harchol-Balter, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science