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TECHNICAL SESSIONS

All sessions will take place in the Republic Ballroom unless otherwise noted.
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Wednesday, March 30 | Thursday, March 31 | Friday, April 1
Wednesday, March 30
8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Wednesday

Opening Remarks and Awards Presentation

NSDI '11 Program Co-Chairs: David G. Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University; Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Labs Berkeley

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NSDI '11 Best Paper Awards
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Wednesday

Speed, Speed, and More Speed

Session Chair: Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin—Madison

SSLShader: Cheap SSL Acceleration with Commodity Processors
Keon Jang and Sangjin Han, KAIST; Seungyeop Han, University of Washington; Sue Moon and Kyoungsoo Park, KAIST

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Awarded Best Paper!
ServerSwitch: A Programmable and High Performance Platform for Data Center Networks
Guohan Lu, Chuanxiong Guo, Yulong Li, Zhiqiang Zhou, Tong Yuan, Haitao Wu, Yongqiang Xiong, Rui Gao, and Yongguang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia

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TritonSort: A Balanced Large-Scale Sorting System
Alexander Rasmussen, George Porter, and Michael Conley, University of California, San Diego; Harsha V. Madhyastha, University of California, Riverside; Radhika Niranjan Mysore, University of California, San Diego; Alexander Pucher, Vienna University of Technology; Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego

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10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break
11:00 a.m.–noon Wednesday

Performance Diagnosis

Session Chair: Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University

Diagnosing Performance Changes by Comparing Request Flows
Raja R. Sambasivan, Carnegie Mellon University; Alice X. Zheng, Microsoft Research; Michael De Rosa, Google; Elie Krevat, Spencer Whitman, Michael Stroucken, William Wang, Lianghong Xu, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

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Profiling Network Performance for Multi-tier Data Center Applications
Minlan Yu, Princeton University; Albert Greenberg and Dave Maltz, Microsoft; Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University; Lihua Yuan, Srikanth Kandula, and Changhoon Kim, Microsoft

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Noon–1:30 p.m.  Symposium Luncheon, Back Bay C/D
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Wednesday

Nothing but Net

Session Chair: Hari Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Efficiently Measuring Bandwidth at All Time Scales
Frank Uyeda, University of California, San Diego; Luca Foschini, University of California, Santa Barbara; Fred Baker, Cisco; Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara; George Varghese, University of California, San Diego

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ETTM: A Scalable Fault Tolerant Network Manager
Colin Dixon, Hardeep Uppal, Vjekoslav Brajkovic, Dane Brandon, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington

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Awarded Best Paper!
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Congestion Control for Multipath TCP
Damon Wischik, Costin Raiciu, Adam Greenhalgh, and Mark Handley, University College London

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3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.  Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesday

Data-Intensive Computing

Session Chair: David Maltz, Microsoft Research

CIEL: A Universal Execution Engine for Distributed Data-Flow Computing
Derek G. Murray, Malte Schwarzkopf, Christopher Smowton, Steven Smith, Anil Madhavapeddy, and Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

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A Semantic Framework for Data Analysis in Networked Systems
Arun Viswanathan, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute; Alefiya Hussain, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and Sparta Inc.; Jelena Mirkovic, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute; Stephen Schwab, Sparta Inc.; John Wroclawski, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

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Paxos Replicated State Machines as the Basis of a High-Performance Data Store
William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research; Dexter Bradshaw, Randolph B. Haagens, Norbert P. Kusters, and Peng Li, Microsoft

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Wednesday, March 30 | Thursday, March 31 | Friday, April 1
Thursday, March 31
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Thursday

Security and Privacy

Session Chair: KyoungSoo Park, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Bootstrapping Accountability in the Internet We Have
Ang Li, Xin Liu, and Xiaowei Yang, Duke University

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Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising
Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research India; Bin Cheng and Paul Francis, MPI-SWS

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Bazaar: Strengthening User Reputations in Online Marketplaces
Ansley Post, MPI-SWS and Rice University; Vijit Shah and Alan Mislove, Northeastern University

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10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break
11:00 a.m.–noon Thursday

Energy and Storage

Session Chair: Andrew Birrell, Microsoft Research

Dewdrop: An Energy-Aware Runtime for Computational RFID
Michael Buettner, University of Washington; Benjamin Greenstein, Intel Labs Seattle; David Wetherall, University of Washington and Intel Labs Seattle

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SSDAlloc: Hybrid SSD/RAM Memory Management Made Easy
Anirudh Badam and Vivek S. Pai, Princeton University

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Noon–1:30 p.m.  Lunch (on your own) Thursday
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Thursday

Debugging and Correctness

Session Chair: Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Labs Berkeley

Model Checking a Networked System Without the Network
Rachid Guerraoui and Maysam Yabandeh, EPFL

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FATE and DESTINI: A Framework for Cloud Recovery Testing
Haryadi S. Gunawi, University of California, Berkeley; Thanh Do, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Pallavi Joshi, Peter Alvaro, and Joseph M. Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley; Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Koushik Sen, University of California, Berkeley; Dhruba Borthakur, Facebook

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SliceTime: A Platform for Scalable and Accurate Network Emulation
Elias Weingärtner, Florian Schmidt, Hendrik vom Lehn, Tobias Heer, and Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University

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3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.  Break
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Thursday

Mobile Wireless

Session Chair: Brad Karp, University College London

Accurate, Low-Energy Trajectory Mapping for Mobile Devices
Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, and Lewis Girod, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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Improving Wireless Network Performance Using Sensor Hints
Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, and Samuel Madden, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Thursday

Poster Session and Reception

Constitution Ballroom

Session Chair: Michael Walfish, The University of Texas at Austin

NSDI will be continuing its tradition of showcasing early research in progress at a poster session during the reception. Check out the list of accepted posters.

Wednesday, March 30 | Thursday, March 31 | Friday, April 1
Friday, April 1
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Friday

Datacenters Learning to Share

Session Chair: David G. Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University

Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center
Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Matei Zaharia, Ali Ghodsi, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley

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Sharing the Data Center Network
Alan Shieh, Microsoft Research and Cornell University; Srikanth Kandula, Microsoft Research; Albert Greenberg and Changhoon Kim, Windows Azure; Bikas Saha, Microsoft Bing

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Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types
Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley

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10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Friday

Wireless and More

Session Chair: Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PIE in the Sky: Online Passive Interference Estimation for Enterprise WLANs
Vivek Shrivastava, Shravan Rayanchu, and Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Labs, Pittsburgh

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SpecNet: Spectrum Sensing Sans Frontières
Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Krishna Chintalapudi, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, and Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research India; Chandra R. Murthy, Indian Institute of Science

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Towards Street-Level Client-Independent IP Geolocation
Yong Wang, UESTC and Northwestern University; Daniel Burgener, Marcel Flores, and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University; Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research

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