ACM SIGMETRICS 2008 Student Thesis Panel: Call for Submission

June 3, 2008

Annapolis, Maryland, USA

http://www.research.att.com/~jiawang/SSTP08.html

The Sigmetrics 2008 is encouraging students to submit extended abstracts describing work-in-progress thesis research to the student thesis panel. The thesis panel provides a live forum for students to promote and get feedback on their work, exchange research experiences, and interact with established researchers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Performance evaluation studies of: computer networks, Internet servers, network applications, topology and routing, computer architectures, database systems, operating systems, distributed systems, multimedia systems, file and storage systems, memory systems, language and runtime systems, real-time systems, sensor networks, mobile devices and wireless networks, security, and fault-tolerant systems.

• Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for: analytic modeling, system measurement and monitoring, model verification and validation, workload characterization, simulation, statistical analysis, stochastic modeling, experimental design, reliability analysis and management, performance optimization and hybrid models.

Both analytical and empirical studies are encouraged to be submitted to the student thesis panel.

Student Thesis Panel

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel committee, from which a number of abstracts will be selected for presentation at the thesis panel. Each thesis panel is chaired by a well established researcher in the field and student authors of accepted submissions will speak as panelists.

An Award (and a prize) will be given to the best student panelist. A limited number of student travel grants will also be available to the accepted student authors who will present at the student thesis panel.

Submission Guidelines

Extended abstracts should not exceed 2 pages double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format. All submissions should be in PDF format.

Please submit extended abstract via email to Jia Wang <jiawang (at) research.att.com> with the subject line “ACM SIGMETRICS 2008 Student Thesis Panel”.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 31, 2008

Acceptance notifications: April 15, 2008

Camera ready deadline: May 3, 2008

Student Thesis Panel: June 3, 2008

Student Thesis Panel Program (June 3, 2008)

17:15 – 18:15 Panel Session 1: Network Performance Modeling and Measurement (Session chair: Jun Xu, Georgia Tech, USA)

• Optimal Active Probing Rate for Networks, Ben Parker (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
• Network Statistical Inference: Cost-Performance Tradeoffs, Animashree Anandkumar (Cornell University, USA)
• Detecting and Filtering Non-responsive Traffic in AQM Queues without Packet Header Examination, Yi Pan (University of California - Irvine, USA)
• Towards Noise-Tolerant Network Service Diagnosis, Yao Zhao (Northwestern University, USA)

18:30 – 19:30 Panel Session 2: System and Wireless Network (Session chair: Martin Arlitt, University of Calgary, Canada)

• Location Privacy; Moving Beyond K-anonymity, Cloaking and Anonymizers, Ali Khoshgozaran (University of Southern California, USA)
• Efficient Management of Idleness in Systems, Ningfang Mi (College of William and Mary, USA)
• Delay Based Analytical Models in Wireless Mesh Networks, Jiazhen Zhou (University of Missouri, USA)
• Synchronized Network Emulation, Elias Weingärtner (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Best Student Thesis Panelist Award

Chuck Kalmanek (Vice President of AT&T Labs – Research) presented the Best Student Thesis Panelist Award to Elias Weingärtner at the student dinner.

Thesis Panel Committee

Chair

Jia Wang AT&T Labs - Research, USA

Committee Members

Aditya Akella University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

Sara Alouf INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Y. Charlie Hu Purdue University, USA

John C.S. Lui Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sudipta Sengupta Microsoft Research, USA

Evgenia Smirni College of William and Mary, USA

Walter Willinger AT&T Labs - Research, USA

Charles P Wright IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA