5. NCA 2006: Cambridge, MA, USA

Keynote Speech Abstracts

• Mike Afergan:
  Experience with some Principles for Building an Internet-Scale Reliable System. 3
  
• Alan Ganek:
  Challenges in Managing Complexity: Autonomic Computing. 4
  
• Leslie Lamport:
  The +CAL Algorithm Language. 5
  
• Ravishankar K. Iyer:
  Application-Aware Reliability and Security: The Trusted ILLIAC Approach. 6
  

Networking Protocols

• Jiazheng Zhou, Xuan-Yi Lin, Yeh-Ching Chung:
  A Tree-Turn Model for Irregular Networks. 11-18
  
• Seth E. Webster, Richard Lippmann, Marc A. Zissman:
  Experience Using Active and Passive Mapping for Network Situational Awareness. 19-26
  
• Bo Yan, Hamid Gharavi:
  Multi-Path Multi-Channel Routing Protocol. 27-31
  
• Jay A. Patel, Indranil Gupta, Noshir S. Contractor:
  JetStream: Achieving Predictable Gossip Dissemination by Leveraging Social Network Principles. 32-39
  
• Florent Claerhout, Ajoy Kumar Datta, Maria Gradinariu, Michel Hurfin:
  Self* Architecture for Trajectory Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks. 40-47
  
• Gene Cooperman, Viet Ha Nguyen, Igor Malioutov:
  Parallelization of Geant4 Using TOP-C and Marshalgen. 48-55
  
• Luís Moura Silva, Henrique Madeira, João Gabriel Silva:
  Software Aging and Rejuvenation in a SOAP-based Server. 56-65
  
• Paul Royal, Mitch Halpin, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan:
  Utilizing Network Processors in Distributed Enterprise Environments. 66-76
  

Peer-to-Peer and Publish Subscribe Systems

• Zhenhui Shen, Srikanta Tirthapura:
  Faster Event Forwarding in a Content-Based Publish-Subscribe System through Lookup ReuseEvent. 77-84
  
• Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Ophir Frieder:
  Improved Result Ranking in P2P File-Sharing Systems by Probing for Metadata. 85-92
  
• Fivos Constantinou, Panayiotis Mavrommatis:
  Identifying Known and Unknown Peer-to-Peer Traffic. 93-102
  

Real-Time Scheduling

• Frederic Thouin, Mark Coates, Dominic Goodwill:
  Video-on-Demand Equipment Allocation. 103-110
  
• Zhenghao Zhang, Lin Liu, Yuanyuan Yang:
  Slotted Optical Burst Switching (SOBS) Networks. 111-117
  
• Raúl Martínez, Francisco José Alfaro, José L. Sánchez:
  Implementing the Advanced Switching Minimum Bandwidth Egress Link Scheduler. 118-125
  
• Michael Treaster, William Conner, Indranil Gupta, Klara Nahrstedt:
  ContagAlert: Using Contagion Theory for Adaptive, Distributed Alert Propagation. 126-136
  

Security and Trust

• Stephen Frechette, Dimiter R. Avresky:
  A Proxy Network Topology and Reconfiguration Algorithm for Resistance to DoS Attacks. 137-144
  
• Leonardo B. Oliveira, Hao Chi Wong, Marshall W. Bern, Ricardo Dahab, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro:
  SecLEACH - A Random Key Distribution Solution for Securing Clustered Sensor Networks. 145-154
  

Middleware

• Paolo Romano, Francesco Quaglia:
  Providing e-Transaction Guarantees in Asynchronous Systems with Inaccurate Failure Detection. 155-162
  
• Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Yves Deswarte:
  From DC-Nets to pMIXes: Multiple Variants for Anonymous Communications. 163-172
  

Distributed Storage

• James S. Plank, Lihao Xu:
  Optimizing Cauchy Reed-Solomon Codes for Fault-Tolerant Network Storage Applications. 173-180
  
• Benjamin Atkin, Kenneth P. Birman:
  Network-Aware Adaptation Techniques for Mobile File Systems. 181-188
  
• Fabius Klemm, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Karl Aberer:
  Congestion Control for Distributed Hash Tables. 189-195
  
• Peter Sobe, Kathrin Peter:
  Comparison of Redundancy Schemes for Distributed Storage Systems. 196-203
  
• Lásaro J. Camargos, Fernando Pedone, Rodrigo Schmidt:
  A Primary-Backup Protocol for In-Memory Database Replication. 204-211
  
• Nobutatsu Nakamura, Ken-ichiro Fujiyama, Eiji Kawai, Hideki Sunahara:
  A Flexible Replication Mechanism with Extended Database Connection Layers. 212-222
  

Short Papers

• Bin Wu, Ajay D. Kshemkalyani:
  Analysis Models for Blind Search in Unstructured Overlays. 223-226
  
• Wei Shen, Qing-An Zeng:
  A Novel Decision Strategy of Vertical Handoff in Overlay Wireless Networks. 227-230
  
• Axel Treßel, Jorg Keller:
  A System for Secure IP Telephone Conferences. 231-234
  
• Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni:
  A Distributed Architecture for Gracefully Degradable Web-Based Services. 235-238
  
• Alejandro Martínez, Francisco José Alfaro, José L. Sánchez, José Duato:
  Full QoS Support with 2 VCs for Single-chip Switches. 239-242
  
• Hou-Cheng Tzeng, Ching-Te Chiu:
  A Flexible Cross Connect LCAS for Bandwidth Maximization in 2.5G EoS. 243-246
  
• Jie Hu, Raymond Klefstad:
  Decentralized Load Balancing on Unstructured Peer-2-Peer Computing Grids. 247-250
  
• Junchang Ma, Zhimin Gu:
  Finding Shared Fragments in Large Collections of Web Pages for Fragment-Based Web Caching. 251-254
  
• Yongjun Li, Wandong Cai, Wei Wang, Guangli Tian:
  Lossy Node Identification in Wireless Sensor Network. 255-258
  
• Huifang Cheng, Zhimin Gu:
  IntranetWeb: a Peer-to-Peer Based Scalable Web Caching System. 259-262
  
• Li-jia Chen, Jing Wu, Puliu Yan, Jian-guo Zhou, Hao Jiang:
  A Novel Probability Evaluation Method for Selective Forwarding Routing in Wireless Sensor Network. 263-268
  

Adaptive Grid Computing Workshop

• Bo Lang, Ian T. Foster, Frank Siebenlist, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Timothy Freeman:
  A Multipolicy Authorization Framework for Grid Security. 269-272
  
• Wilson Lozano, Wilson Rivera:
  An Adaptive Quality of Service Based Scheduling Algorithm for Wide Area Large Scale Problems. 273-276
  
• Weibin Pei, Zhongliang Chen, Chunhao Feng, Zhi Wang:
  Design and Implementation of a Plain Grid Monitoring and Information Service. 277-284
  

Trustworthy Network Computing Workshop

• Partha Pratim Pal, Franklin Webber, Michael Atighetchi, Nate Combs:
  Trust Assessment from Observed Behavior: Toward and Essential Service for Trusted Network Computing. 285-292
  
• Harry Gros-Desormeaux, Hacène Fouchal, Philippe Hunel:
  An Improved Test Derivation Technique. 293-300