The official conference report for NSDI 2006 (PDF, 208K) has been published in the August 2006 issue of ;login:. These notes were taken by students in exchange for travel scholarships. In comparison to the summaries I published in May, the official report covers the session I missed on the first day while preparing for my own talk.
Though I wasn’t really paying attention, it looks like the annual Usenix Technical Conference is well underway just down the street. If you happen to be in town and want to meet up, send me an e-mail.
Virtualization and large distributed systems continue to be hot topics. Larry Peterson gave the keynote about PlanetLab, the ever popular, sometimes frustrating, Internet-wide [...]
Finally, closing out my NSDI 2006 summaries: sessions from the last day. I hope you’ve found these useful; maybe they’ll inspire some interesting NSDI 2007 submissions. Get started today!
Wireless and Sensor Networks
Ming Li had the unenviable position of giving the first talk on the last day; much like my post lunch talk on the first day, people drifted in [...]
Following up my summaries of the morning sessions, this post reviews the second half of the second day of NSDI 2006. (This post was updated to correct bogus timestamp and add links to papers in the first session.)
Measurement and Analysis
Haifeng Yu began the afternoon session with his award paper on the availability of multi-object operations (PDF). The main concern is [...]
The second day of NSDI was the longest day, with 4 technical sessions where the last one was an extra long 2 hour session. This post summarizes the first two sessions.
Wide Area Network Services
Mike Freedman, author of the popular Coral content distribution service, opened the day by talking about OASIS. OASIS is designed to answer the following [...]
This week was the Third Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, sponsored by Usenix and held this year in San Jose. As with any conference, there were many opportunities for networking and meeting other researchers: I met and caught-up with students (mostly) from from CMU, Cornell, NYU, UCSB, UCLA, UMass Amherst, UT Austin as well as old MIT colleagues [...]
Some notes from the technical sessions at the 2004 Internet Measurement Conference; the conference was fun, not only for the good papers that I saw, but also for the food and travel opportunity.
Talks that I particularly liked:
Walter Willinger’s talk on “A pragmatic approach to dealing with high-variability in network measurements”. Darryl Veitch’s talk about “Robust Synchronization of Software Clocks [...]
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