From renata.teixeira at lip6.fr Thu Dec 2 08:30:08 2010 From: renata.teixeira at lip6.fr (Renata Teixeira) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:30:08 +0100 Subject: [e2e] Help Us with Measurement Research for Human-Centered Networks Message-ID: <4CF7C990.10909@lip6.fr> Dear colleagues, We need your help to conduct our research and are giving away gift certificates! We have designed HostView, a tool that collects network performance data along with user feedback of the network. Traces collected with HostView will help us understand end-user perception of network performance and will guide our research on diagnosing performance problems. To thank you for installing HostView, we are giving away 50$ Amazon gift certificates to 40 users selected at random from the first 100 that run it for a month. You can also ask HostView to give you feedback on the health of your network connectivity and application bandwidth consumption. HostView runs on MAC and Linux PCs. If you are not a Linux or MAC user, please forward this email to your colleagues and friends! Otherwise, please download HostView at: http://cmon.lip6.fr/EMD/Download.html. Once HostView is running there isn't much for you to do, except one thing. HostView includes a "user questionnaire" that should take 1 minute to fill out. We are interested in knowing how you perceive the performance of your machine at various performance points. There are two ways to answer this questionnaire: either when it pop ups (at most 3 times a day) or by hitting the "I am annoyed button" when you are unsatisfied with your network performance. More details on how to answer the questions is in the user manual that you can grab from the EMD project webpage. To see more about the tool and why we have done this, please see our web page at http://cmon.lip6.fr/EMD. A lot has gone into the development of HostView. We have tested and selected particular methods for data collection and data processing so as to have minimal overhead on your machine. A detailed description of HostView is in our Hotmetrics paper (http://hotmetrics.cs.caltech.edu/program.shtml). To address privacy concerns we did a user survey and we designed our tool according to majority opinions from this input (e.g., we included a pause button). The survey results appeared as a short paper in the April 2010 issue of CCR. For your privacy, we have also implemented state-of-the art anonymization techniques. A description of our commitment to your privacy can be found on the project webpage as well. Your help and participation is enormously appreciated! Diana Joumblatt, Renata Teixeira Laboratoire LIP6 CNRS AND UPMC Paris Universitas Jaideep Chandrashekar, Nina Taft Intel Labs, Berkeley From perfgeek at mac.com Thu Dec 2 19:50:11 2010 From: perfgeek at mac.com (rick jones) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:50:11 -0800 Subject: [e2e] What is the "Vovan" email? Message-ID: <6B7E6762-579C-42B7-958D-4F55CFF1BDE0@mac.com> Has there been some sort of spam filtering failure and thus all these "Vovan" emails? There are *almost* as many Vovan emails on e2e as there are emails in tcpm arguing over IW10 :) rick jones http://homepage.mac.com/perfgeek From touch at isi.edu Fri Dec 3 15:22:42 2010 From: touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:22:42 -0800 Subject: [e2e] What is the "Vovan" email? In-Reply-To: <6B7E6762-579C-42B7-958D-4F55CFF1BDE0@mac.com> References: <6B7E6762-579C-42B7-958D-4F55CFF1BDE0@mac.com> Message-ID: <4CF97BC2.6020301@isi.edu> On 12/2/2010 7:50 PM, rick jones wrote: > Has there been some sort of spam filtering failure and thus all these > "Vovan" emails? There are *almost* as many Vovan emails on e2e as there > are emails in tcpm arguing over IW10 :) > > rick jones > http://homepage.mac.com/perfgeek Hi, Rick, Yes, apparently this is just a spam filter failure. I added a rule to help drop such posts. Let's see if it works and/or causes problems. Joe (list admin) From mellia at tlc.polito.it Fri Dec 17 07:48:42 2010 From: mellia at tlc.polito.it (Marco Mellia) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:48:42 +0100 Subject: [e2e] Call for participation - P2P-TV workshop on Jan 20/21 in Torino - Italy Message-ID: <4D0B865A.9080709@tlc.polito.it> Dear all, This might be of interest to some of us. Plus, the workshop participation is free, and Torino is also close to some very nice skying resort;) Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Ciao Marco ------------------------ Call for Participation International Workshop on P2P-TV (organised by the NAPA-WINE Project) Torino, Italy, January 20-21, 2011 http://www.napa-wine.eu/workshop/ *Overview* TV services over the Internet can be provided either exploiting IP multicast functionalities or relying on a pure end-to-end (P2P) approach. The P2P approach has been successfully exploited to overcome limitations of IP-based solutions (like reliance on the network infrastructure controlled by a single broadband operator) and can potentially offer a scalable planetary infrastructure. Recently, several P2P-TV systems started to show up, with the last generation offering High Quality TV (P2P-HQTV) systems, providing a ubiquitous access to the service. These same potentialities of P2P-TV systems constitute a worry for network carriers since the traffic they generate may potentially grow without control, causing a degradation of quality of service perceived by Internet users or even the network collapse (and the consequent failure of the P2P-HQTV service itself!). *Workshop Program* The final NAPA-WINE workshop is intended as an informal forum for lively discussions on current and future trends in peer-to-peer live streaming. The program comprises four talks presenting the main NAPA-WINE achievements (and a demo of NAPA-WINE???s network-aware P2P live streaming system) as well as nine talks from external highly qualified researchers from both academia and industry, providing a broad and articulated perspective on the main challenges and solutions on the topic. There will be external presentations provided by (see http://www.napa-wine.eu/workshop/program.html for agenda details): - Presentations from other on-going European projects on P2P-TV/CDN: * Future Media Networks (FMN) cluster and ENVISION (David Griffin, UCL, GB) * COAST/SEA (Emanuele Quacchio, ST Microelectronics, IT) * P2P-NEXT (Raul Jimenez, KTH, SE) - Presentations from the industrial world (the operator/content provider vision): * Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research, ES * Enrico Marocco, Chair of IETF ALTO, Telecom Italia, IT - Presentations from academia (technical challenges) * Ernst Biersack, Eurecom, FR * Phuoc Tran-Gia, Tobias Hossfeld, University of Wuerzburg, DE * Yong Liu, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US * Victoria Fodor, Gyorgy Dan, KTH, SE *Logistics* Location: The workshop will take place at VALENTINO CASTLE (Castello del Valentino), Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Torino, Italy. Valentino Castle campus is situated quite near the main railway station of Porta Nuova, in an area characterized by open green spaces. It is in the heart of Valentino Park with a wonderful view of the Po River. More details on getting to the workshop are available at http://www.napa-wine.eu/workshop/location.html. *Schedule* - start: Thursday, January 20th, 2011, 2.00 p.m. - end: Friday, January 21st, 2011, 5.30 p.m. A social dinner will be offered by the NAPA-WINE project on Thursday evening. *Registration* There is *no* *registration* *fee* to participate in the workshop. However, participants are kindly invited to register their attendance by January 10th, 2011, at http://www.napa-wine.eu/workshop/registration.html. People that will not register may not be granted access due to seat limitations. -- Ciao, /\/\/\rco +-----------------------------------+ | Marco Mellia - Assistant Professor| | Skypeid: mgmellia | | Tel: +39-011-090-4173 | | Cel: +39-331-6714789 | /"\ .. . . . . . . . . . . . . | Politecnico di Torino | \ / . ASCII Ribbon Campaign . | Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 | X .- NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . | Torino - 10129 - Italy | / \ .- NO Word docs in e-mail. | http://www.telematica.polito.it | .. . . . . . . . . . . . . +-----------------------------------+ The box said "Requires Windows 95 or Better." So I installed Linux. From swc at iis.sinica.edu.tw Sat Dec 18 22:26:40 2010 From: swc at iis.sinica.edu.tw (Sheng-Wei (Kuan-Ta) Chen) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:26:40 +0800 Subject: [e2e] Call for Papers: NOSSDAV 2011 Message-ID: <000601cb9f45$b24f1c80$16ed5580$@sinica.edu.tw> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] +++++++++++++++++++++ [ NOSSDAV 2011 Call for Papers ] +++++++++++++++++++++++ The 21th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video June 2-3, 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/nossdav2011/ NOSSDAV 2011 is the 21th anniversary of SIGMM's leading workshop on network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. The workshop, hosted at the University of British Columbia (UBC), will continue to focus on emerging research topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research. As in previous years, we will maintain the focused single-track format a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. NOSSDAV encourages experimental research based on real systems and real data sets. Public availability of the source code and data sets discussed in papers presented at NOSSDAV is highly encouraged. For NOSSDAV 2011, we will accept papers on broad ranges of topics related to the transmission and presentation of digital audio/video objects. We are particularly interested in soliciting articles that discuss system-level support for distributed social media, as well as papers that focus on enabling multimedia applications in distributed cloud. Other topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * OS, middleware and network support * Overlay networks * Media streaming, distribution and storage support * Web 2.0 systems and social networks * Media sensor and ad hoc networks / embedded systems * Multicore architecture support * Wireless and mobile multimedia systems / network processor support * Networked GPUs, graphics and virtual environments * Networked games / real-time immersive systems * Multimedia communications and system security * Grid/Cloud computing support Please contact the workshop co-chairs to check if your topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Papers will be judged on their relevance, technical content and correctness, and the clarity of presentation of the research. Papers should not be under review at another venue nor previously published elsewhere. Submissions should be at most SIX pages, using standard ACM proceedings style. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline:24 Feb 2011 Decision Notification: 24 Mar 2011 Camera Ready Due: 7 Apr 2011 For more information, visit the workshop website @ http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/nossdav2011/ From touch at isi.edu Tue Dec 21 11:43:27 2010 From: touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:43:27 -0800 Subject: [e2e] SURVEY -- avoiding foreign-language posts -- Re: ######## In-Reply-To: <6028089346F04097BA104C5960668D0F@shazaen> References: <6028089346F04097BA104C5960668D0F@shazaen> Message-ID: <4D11035F.8050805@isi.edu> Hi, all, I've been working to limit posts to this list to avoid this kind of spam. Given the variety of non-English charsets, it is infeasible to block posts with specific languages. Instead, I am planning to block posts EXCEPT those encoded in a few specific formats: UTF-8 ISO-8859-1 us-ascii windows-1252 That change is currently pending. If you are a regular or even occasional poster to this list, can you please check the charset used by your mailer and contact me if it is NOT one of the above? (ignore case) Thanks, Joe (list admin) On 12/21/2010 6:18 AM, "??? ???????????? ?????? - 100" wrote: > ????????? ???????! > ?????????? ??? ??????????? ?? ?????????????? ???????? ???????????????, > ???????????, ???????? ?????????? ? ??????? ????? "???????? ???? ? > ??????? ????? - 2011" (???????? ? 2000 ????). > From Jon.Crowcroft at cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 30 06:47:51 2010 From: Jon.Crowcroft at cl.cam.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:47:51 +0000 Subject: [e2e] post xmas buffer bloat saga Message-ID: Can I commend people's attention to this excellent ongoing discussion which is faintly reminiscent of the Nagle infinite buffer argument only in reverse... http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/introducing-the-criminal-mastermind-bufferbloat/ This has nothing to do with the future of the Internet, just getting stuff working properly today would be just fine:) cheers jon p.s. anyone going to Comsnets in Bangalore, see you there!