4. USITS 2003: Seattle, Washington, USA

Keynote Address

• David E. Culler:
  PlanetLab: An Open, Community-Driven Infrastructure for Experimental Planetary-Scale Services.
  

Robustness

• David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. Patterson:
  Why Do Internet Services Fail, and What Can Be Done About It?
  
• Kiran Nagaraja, Xiaoyan Li, Ricardo Bianchini, Richard P. Martin, Thu D. Nguyen:
  Using Fault Injection and Modeling to Evaluate the Performability of Cluster-Based Services.
  
• David G. Andersen:
  Mayday: Distributed Filtering for Internet Services.
  

Resource Management and Scheduling

• Matt Welsh, David E. Culler:
  Adaptive Overload Control for Busy Internet Servers.
  
• Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Omer M. Asad, Wei Jin, Amin Vahdat:
  Model-Based Resource Provisioning in a Web Service Utility.
  
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  Conflict-Aware Scheduling for Dynamic Content Applications.
  

Web Servers and CDNs

• Ludmila Cherkasova, Jangwon Lee:
  FastReplica: Efficient Large File Distribution Within Content Delivery Networks.
  
• E. N. Elnozahy, Michael Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony:
  Energy Conservation Policies for Web Servers.
  

Invited Talk

• Michael Luby:
  Fast, Reliable Data Transport.
  

DHTs and Overlays

• Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Stefan Saroiu, Marvin Theimer, Alec Wolman:
  SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties.
  
• Gurmeet Singh Manku, Mayank Bawa, Prabhakar Raghavan:
  Symphony: Distributed Hashing in a Small World.
  
• Sushant Jain, Ratul Mahajan, David Wetherall:
  A Study of the Performance Potential of DHT-based Overlays.
  

Work-in-Progress Reports

Novel Web Architectures

• Michael Rabinovich, Zhen Xiao, Fred Douglis, Charles R. Kalmanek:
  Moving Edge-Side Includes to the Real Edge - the Clients.
  
• Vivek S. Pai, Alan L. Cox, Vijay S. Pai, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  A Flexible and Efficient Application Programming Interface (API) for a Customizable Proxy Cache.
  
• Ravi Kokku, Praveen Yalagandula, Arun Venkataramani, Michael Dahlin:
  NPS: A Non-Interfering Deployable Web Prefetching System.
  

Transport and Session Layer

• Ken Yocum, Darrell C. Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, Amin Vahdat:
  Anypoint: Extensible Transport Switching on the Edge.
  
• Jon Salz, Hari Balakrishnan, Alex C. Snoeren:
  TESLA: A Transparent, Extensible Session-Layer Architecture for End-to-end Network Services.
  

Distributed Systems and Services

• Neil T. Spring, David Wetherall, Thomas E. Anderson:
  Scriptroute: A Public Internet Measurement Facility.
  
• An-Cheng Huang, Peter Steenkiste:
  Network-Sensitive Service Discovery.
  
• Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie R. Albrecht, Abhijeet Bhirud, Amin Vahdat:
  Using Random Subsets to Build Scalable Network Services.