"On the Edge"
7th International Workshop on
Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW)
Boulder, Colorado
August 14-16, 2002
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Program


Wednesday, August 14

10:30 - 12:15: Workloads

Workload Characterization of a Personalized Web Site --- And Its Implications for Dynamic Content Caching
Weisong Shi, Randy Wright, Eli Collins, Vijay Karamcheti (New York University)
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Deconstructing SPECWeb99
Erich Nahum (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
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Streaming Video Traffic: Characterization and Network Impact
Jacobus Van der Merwe, Subhabrata Sen, Charles Kalmanek (AT&T Labs Research)
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2:00 - 3:30: Edge Services

Safe Composition of Web Communication Protocols for Extensible Edge Services
Adam D. Bradley, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury (Boston University)
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Synopsis: QoS and Delivery Context in Rule-Based Edge Services
Chan-Wah Ng, Pek-Yew Tan (Panasonic Singapore Laboratories Pte Ltd)
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An XML-Based Data Integrity Service Model for Web Intermediaries
Chi-Hung Chi, Yin Wu (National University of Singapore)
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4:00 - 5:15: Evaluation Methodology

Synopsis: Evaluation of Performance of Cooperative Web Caching with Web Polygraph
Ping Du, Jaspal Subhlok (University of Houston)
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When Does a Hit = a Miss?
Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University)
Chandrasekar Krishnan (Fatline Corporation)
Baoning Wu (Lehigh University)
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Whole Page Performance
Leeann Bent, Geoff Voelker (University of California at San Diego)
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5:15 - 7:15: Beer-N-Gear Reception


Thursday, August 15

9:00 - 10:45: Replication

Do We Need Replica Placement Algorithms in Content Delivery Networks?
Magnus Karlsson, Mallik Mahalingam (HP Labs)
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Models for Internet Cache Location
Adam Wierzbicki (Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw University of Technology)
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The vMatrix: A Network of Virtual Machine Monitors for Dynamic Content Distribution
Amr Awadallah, Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford University)
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11:15 - 12:30: Traffic Management

Detective Browsers: A Software Technique to Improve Web Access Performance and Security
Songqing Chen, College of William and Mary
Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary, National Science Foundation
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Synopsis: Using Mobility Support for Request Routing in IPv6 CDNs
Arup Acharya, Anees Shaikh (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
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Synopsis: Using Dynamic Delay Pools for Bandwidth Management
Chamara Gunaratne, Gihan Dias (University of Moratuwa)
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2:00 - 3:30: Prefetching and Consistency

Exploiting Object Relationships for Deterministic Web Object Management
Mikhail Mikhailov, Craig E. Wills (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
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Synopsis: WCDP: A Protocol for Web Cache Consistency
Renu Tewari, Thirumale Niranjan, Srikanth Ramamurthy (IBM Research)
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Web Prefetching: Costs, Benefits and Performance
Yingyin Jiang, Min-You Wu, Wei Shu (University of New Mexico)
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4:00 - 5:30: Panel

What is the future of this workshop?
Geoff Voelker, Sally Floyd, Alex Rousskov, Magnus Karlsson, John Dilley, Pei Cao


Friday, August 16

9:00 - 10:45: Media

Pervasive Web Content Delivery with Efficient Data Reuse
Chi-Hung Chi, Yang Cao (National University of Singapore)
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Architecture and Pragmatics of Server-Directed Transcoding
Bjorn Knutsson, Honghui Lu (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeffrey Mogul (HP Labs Western Research Lab)
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Service Level Agreement Based Distributed Resource Allocation for Streaming Hosting Systems
Yun Fu, Amin Vahdat (Duke University)
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11:15 - 12:30: New Applications

A Performance Study of a Large-scale Data Collection Problem
Cheng-Fu Chou (University of Maryland)
Yung-Chun (Justin) Wan (University of Maryland)
William C. Cheng (TeleGIF)
Leana Golubchik (University of Southern California)
Samir Khuller (University of Maryland)
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Synopsis: Are File Swapping Networks Cacheable? Characterizing P2P Traffic
Nathaniel Leibowitz, Aviv Bergman, Roy Ben-Shaul, Aviv Shavit (Expand Networks Ltd.)
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Synopsis: CDNs for Personal Broadcasting and Individual Reception
Sujata Banerjee, Jack Brassil, Amy Dalal, Sung-Ju Lee, Ed Perry, Puneet Sharma, Andrew Thomas (HP Labs)
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