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Tuesday, June 29
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Tuesday
Plenary Session Network Complexity: How Do I Manage All of This? (PDF) Eliot Lear, Corporate Irritant, Cisco Systems Listen in MP3 format In the evolution of computers and networks, we have developed complex mechanisms to manage one, the other, or both. We organize teams based on technology or task, only to find that the tools they use converge at times and then diverge again. I'll discuss the latest convergences in the context of distributed systems management, network management, security, and voice in a world of ISPs, ASPs, Web services. It all boils down to this: why can't we manage the network just like one large UNIX box? Eliot Lear started his career developing distributed management tools for UNIX in 1987 at Rutgers University. From 1991 through 1998 he was part of a team that ran a large computer manufacturer network. Since 1998, Eliot has been the Corporate Irritant of Cisco Systems, focusing on the area of network management, network applications, and cross-functional integration.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.   Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Tuesday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Overlays in Practice Session Chair: Fred Douglis, IBM Research Awarded Best Paper! Handling Churn in a DHT Sean Rhea and Dennis Geels, University of California, Berkeley; Timothy Roscoe, Intel Research, Berkeley; John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley A Network Positioning System for the Internet T.S. Eugene Ng, Rice University; Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University Early Experience with an Internet Broadcast System Based on Overlay Multicast Yang-hua Chu and Aditya Ganjam, Carnegie Mellon University; T.S. Eugene Ng, Rice University; Sanjay G. Rao, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Jibin Zhan, and Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
SIG SESSIONS UseBSD SIG Using Globus with FreeBSD Brooks Davis and Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation Building a NIDS with OpenBSD Kamal Hilmi Othman, NISER; Mohammad Rizal Othman, JARING
GURU SESSIONS Deploying Commercial DB on Linux Steve Rees, DB2 Development, IBM Toronto Lab Steve Rees is a Senior Performance Manager in DB2 development at the IBM Toronto Lab, focusing on transaction processing performance on Linux. He's been part of DB2 development for twelve years and has been working on performance for the last six. He still likes getting bits under his fingernails. This session will deal with various aspects of performance as related to commercial database systems for Linux. This includes the technical challenges of producing high-performance, high-quality code on Linux, as well as performance questions customers may face when deploying a large database system on Linux.
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.   Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Tuesday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Secure Services Session Chair: Atul Adya, Microsoft Research Reliability and Security in the CoDeeN Content Distribution Network Limin Wang, KyoungSoo Park, Ruoming Pang, Vivek Pai, and Larry Peterson, Princeton University Building Secure High-Performance Web Services with OKWS Maxwell Krohn, MIT REX: Secure, Extensible Remote Execution Michael Kaminsky and Eric Peterson, MIT; Daniel B. Giffin, NYU; Kevin Fu, MIT; David Mazières, NYU; M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT
SIG SESSIONS UseBSD SIG The NetBSD Update System Alistair Crooks, The NetBSD Project A Software Approach to Distributing Requests for DNS Service Using GNU Zebra, ISC BIND 9, and FreeBSD Joe Abley, Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
GURU SESSIONS NFS Deployment for High Performance Tom Talpey, Network Appliance, Inc. NFS is increasingly deployed in performance-sensitive environments, where numerous new issues are confronted relative to "traditional" workgroup-style deployments. Tom will discuss goals, issues, and tunings that may be relevant to NFS. Also, he and his audience will explore new transport-level developments that NFS will be taking advantage of in the near future.
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.   Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Tuesday
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS The Network-Application Interface Session Chair: Vivek Pai, Princeton University Network Subsystems Reloaded: A High-Performance, Defensible Network Subsystem Anshumal Sinha, Sandeep Sarat, and Jonathan S. Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University accept()able Strategies for Improving Web Server Performance Tim Brecht, David Pariag, and Louay Gammo, University of Waterloo Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event-Driven Servers Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, and Alan L. Cox, Rice University; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL, Lausanne
SIG SESSIONS UseBSD SIG Building a Secure Digital Cinema Server Using FreeBSD Nate Lawson, Cryptography Research Panel: The State of the BSD Projects Chair: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant The FreeBSD Project Robert Watson, Core Team Member, The FreeBSD Project Since 1992, the FreeBSD Project has been one of the the open source community's organizational and technical success stories. In addition to serving the needs of some of the most well-known players on the Internet, it has managed to forge some of the most significant and long-running ties between the commercial world and BSD's open source contingent. Robert Watson will discuss what lessons have been learned over the course of the last decade and some of the more recent developments in the BSD world. The NetBSD Project Christos Zoulas, President, NetBSD Foundation Celebrating its 11th year of development, NetBSD is the most portable operating system in the world. It runs on everything from the oldest VAXes to the latest AMD64 systems, from big-iron servers to embedded and handheld devices. The DragonFly BSD Project Matt Dillon, Project Leader, The DragonFly BSD Project
GURU SESSIONS Lessons from the Trenches: Enterprise Wireless LANs Philippe Joubert, ReefEdge Networks Philippe Joubert is the Director of Engineering at ReefEdge Networks. In this session Philippe will discuss the common pitfalls of WLAN deployments and how they can be avoided. Topics of discussion include security, mobility, management, deployment, support, and network design.
5:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.	Tuesday
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs) Session Chair: Vivek Pai, Princeton University Short, pithy, and fun, Work-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, send a one- to two-page summary (in PDF format) to usenix04wips@usenix.org. We are particularly interested in presenting students' work. A schedule of presentations will be posted at the conference, and the speakers will be notified in advance. Work-in-Progress reports are five-minute presentations; the time limit will be strictly enforced. Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. EST, May 27.