From detlef.bosau at web.de Fri Mar 13 04:54:22 2009
From: detlef.bosau at web.de (Detlef Bosau)
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:54:22 +0100
Subject: [e2e] TCP Loss Differentiation
In-Reply-To: <49908411.1000800@reed.com>
References: <49902B22.80403@web.de> <499058D5.9040807@reed.com>
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David P. Reed wrote:
>
> My main point was that these loss processes are not characterizable by
> a "link loss rate". They are not like Poisson losses at all, which
> are statistically a single parameter (called "rate"), memoryless
> distribution. They are causal, correlated, memory-full processes.
> And more importantly, one end or the other of the relevant link
> experiences a directly sensed "loss of connectivity" event.
>
Does anybody happen to have some good reference for this one? Something
like: "The failure of poisson modelling of mobile wireless links" or
something
simuilar?
What I have seen so far, simply assumes the contrary and uses Gilbert
Markov Models and the like.
Actually, this fails to model even a scenario where a user is waiting
for a bus at the bus station and talking to someone else with his mobile
and walks around a bit, one step to the left (broken connection) or to
the right (excellent connectivity).
Although this seems rather obvious to me, I don't know a paper, or a
well accepted text book, which explicitely states that Gilbert Markov
Models and the like are theoretically appealing, but do not reflect reality.
I would appreciate any hint here.
Detlef Bosau Mail: detlef.bosau at web.de
Galileistrasse 30 Web: http://www.detlef-bosau.de
70565 Stuttgart Skype: detlef.bosau
Mobile: +49 172 681 9937
From lachlan.andrew at gmail.com Fri Mar 13 16:00:46 2009
From: lachlan.andrew at gmail.com (Lachlan Andrew)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:00:46 +1100
Subject: [e2e] TCP Loss Differentiation
In-Reply-To: <49BA496E.2030100@web.de>
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<cd4882200902090943sc2b898fve2f833beddc0daad@mail.gmail.com>
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Greetings Detlef,
2009/3/13 Detlef Bosau <detlef.bosau at web.de>:
> David P. Reed wrote:
>>
>> My main point was that these loss processes are not characterizable by a
>> "link loss rate". ?They are not like Poisson losses at all, which are
>> statistically a single parameter (called "rate"), memoryless distribution.
>> ?They are causal, correlated, memory-full processes. And more importantly,
>> one end or the other of the relevant link experiences a directly sensed
>> "loss of connectivity" event.
>>
>
> Does anybody happen to have some good reference for this one? Something
> like: "The failure of poisson modelling of mobile wireless links" or
> something
> simuilar?
>
> What I have seen so far, simply assumes the contrary and uses Gilbert Markov
> Models and the like.
Although the Gilbert model is far from perfect, it is very much better
than a Poisson model for wireless. They are correlated and
"memory-full", and have the notion of "loss of connectivity" (i.e.,
being in the bad state). It certainly can model the case you describe
of periods of a broken connection interleaved with excellent
connectivity.
Although your work may need better wireless models, I think that for
most people on this list the law of diminishing returns means that
going from Poisson to Gilbert is enough.
David, could you explain what it means for a stochastic process to be
"causal"? My understanding was that a filtration on a random process
is always causal in the sense of having being increasing in one
direction, while the time reverse of the underlying random process is
always another valid random process, albeit a different process except
in the case of reversible processes.
Cheers,
Lachlan
--
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Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
<http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/landrew> <http://netlab.caltech.edu/lachlan>
Ph +61 3 9214 4837
From kuntan at microsoft.com Sat Mar 14 03:52:26 2009
From: kuntan at microsoft.com (Kun Tan)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:52:26 +0800
Subject: [e2e] CFP - MobiArch 2009
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Sorry if you have received duplicated copies.
- Kun Tan
Researcher | Wireless and Networking Group | Microsoft Research Asia
====================================================================================================
Call for Papers
The 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility
in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2009)
-----------------------------------------------------
Co-located with MobiSys, 22 June 2009, Krakow, Poland
http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/2009/
With the recent development of technologies in wireless access and mobile devices, user, terminal, and network mobility has become an indispensable component of today's Internet vision, and it is likely to continue in the near future, while affecting the whole architectural design of the future Internet. Yet, issues like efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multi-homing, security, wireless access and related operational/deployment concerns are still in their early stages of development. Moreover, the Internet architecture, its end-to-end principles, and business models will require rethinking due to the massive penetration of mobility into the Internet. For instance, an appropriate system that allows communicating with a mobile host requires addressing several fundamental issues with the Internet architecture, such as ability to locate the mobile host/service, preserving ongoing communications upon changes of locations, as well as efficient and secure handover management. As another example, the emerging wireless technologies may pose additional challenges to the Internet architecture since they introduce design principles different from the original Internet.
MobiArch 2009 welcomes submissions, from both researchers and practitioners, in exploration of recent advances in architectures, protocols, and experiences with emerging technologies on various mobility issues over the Internet, with an emphasis on wireless infrastructures and mobility patterns for mobility support, new mobility protocols, service discovery, routing and location management, mobile network performance evaluation and modelling, multi-homing, security, architectural impacts and deployment considerations. Furthermore, the potential of usability of mobility services for connecting people and devices in developing regions of the world into the Internet infrastructure will be also explored.
Topics of MobiArch 2009 cover all aspects of architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to:
* Impacts of new wireless technologies/services, networking
technologies, and mobility patterns on the Internet architecture
* Architectures and protocols for mobility support in the Internet,
ranging from approaches in link, network, transport to
session/application layers and cross-layer design
* Location management, routing, locator/identifier split, multi-homing
and load sharing issues
* Security and privacy issues in mobility networks and impacts to
Internet architecture
* Architectures and mechanisms for wireless/mobile connectivity in
extreme environments (e.g., remote areas, developing countries)
* Performance issues with mobility in the Internet
* QoS and middlebox issues in mobility networks and impacts to Internet
architecture
* Economic and deployment issues of mobility solutions (infrastructure
and devices)
* Impact of social aspects on mobility architectures, mobile application
and protocol design
* Technologies for mobile wireless access and interactions
Submissions must present original results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and have impact and implications for ongoing or future research.
Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, two columns, with no characters in smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. All paper submission will be handled via EDAS (http://edas.info/7188). Papers will be reviewed single blind.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 15 March 2009 (extended)
Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2009
Camera Ready Due: 15 April 2009
Workshop Date: 22 June 2009
TPC Chairs:
Joerg Ott Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia
For more information, contact workshop co-chairs at mobiarch-chairs at informatik.uni-goettingen.de.
From dpreed at reed.com Sat Mar 14 08:51:20 2009
From: dpreed at reed.com (David P. Reed)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:51:20 -0400
Subject: [e2e] TCP Loss Differentiation
In-Reply-To: <aa7d2c6d0903131600q1d0237c6y89ba636d57116ef2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <49902B22.80403@web.de> <499058D5.9040807@reed.com>
<cd4882200902090943sc2b898fve2f833beddc0daad@mail.gmail.com>
<49908411.1000800@reed.com> <49BA496E.2030100@web.de>
<aa7d2c6d0903131600q1d0237c6y89ba636d57116ef2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <49BBD278.6030409@reed.com>
The primary causality I was trying to reflect by that choice of words is
that in all systems there are large-scale causality relationships
(application layer or user layer, in most cases) that break the
fundamental assumption that there are a collection of memoryless
processes in the system. These are really significant in most networks,
ignored by most models:
- users behave differently when networks get slow (they go to the cafe
or panic and start hitting keys harder and faster).
- wireless network transmissions are a primary source of noise to other
transmissions, so any correlations or dependence can get amplified when
noise causes retransmission by other nodes, causing more noise, ... the
probability that wireless networks have modes of highly synchronizing
"resonances" that correlate rather than decorrelate signals is high -
and can be used to increase SNR by techniques like analog network coding
(zigzag, for example) if you realize that the phenomenon is not a noise
process at all, since it adds no uncertainty.
It's easy to create models full of independent, memoryless processes
that *appear* to the student (or full professor) to be valid because the
normal human reaction is to think that complexity is best modeled by
lots of randomness. Complex systems are not random merely because they
are complex. E.G., PRNG's are perfectly non-random. It's a form of
mysticism to think that they are the same as true random processes
outside a very narrow domain of applicability, where they can add
insight. This is where most engineering math practitioners get it
wrong. Not knowing when your modeling approach fails... because you use
the "religion of your peers" (the NS2 wireless modeling toolkit, for
example, which teaches nothing about actual propagation and dependence
of noise).
Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> Greetings Detlef,
>
> 2009/3/13 Detlef Bosau <detlef.bosau at web.de>:
>
>> David P. Reed wrote:
>>
>>> My main point was that these loss processes are not characterizable by a
>>> "link loss rate". They are not like Poisson losses at all, which are
>>> statistically a single parameter (called "rate"), memoryless distribution.
>>> They are causal, correlated, memory-full processes. And more importantly,
>>> one end or the other of the relevant link experiences a directly sensed
>>> "loss of connectivity" event.
>>>
>>>
>> Does anybody happen to have some good reference for this one? Something
>> like: "The failure of poisson modelling of mobile wireless links" or
>> something
>> simuilar?
>>
>> What I have seen so far, simply assumes the contrary and uses Gilbert Markov
>> Models and the like.
>>
>
> Although the Gilbert model is far from perfect, it is very much better
> than a Poisson model for wireless. They are correlated and
> "memory-full", and have the notion of "loss of connectivity" (i.e.,
> being in the bad state). It certainly can model the case you describe
> of periods of a broken connection interleaved with excellent
> connectivity.
>
> Although your work may need better wireless models, I think that for
> most people on this list the law of diminishing returns means that
> going from Poisson to Gilbert is enough.
>
> David, could you explain what it means for a stochastic process to be
> "causal"? My understanding was that a filtration on a random process
> is always causal in the sense of having being increasing in one
> direction, while the time reverse of the underlying random process is
> always another valid random process, albeit a different process except
> in the case of reversible processes.
>
> Cheers,
> Lachlan
>
>
From touch at ISI.EDU Sat Mar 14 10:20:07 2009
From: touch at ISI.EDU (Joe Touch)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:20:07 -0700
Subject: [e2e] CFP test -- please ignore
Message-ID: <49BBE747.9030306@isi.edu>
Please ignore.
From touch at ISI.EDU Sat Mar 14 10:25:38 2009
From: touch at ISI.EDU (Joe Touch)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:25:38 -0700
Subject: [e2e] CFP test 2 -- please ignore
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Please ignore.
From touch at ISI.EDU Sat Mar 14 11:05:34 2009
From: touch at ISI.EDU (Joe Touch)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:05:34 -0700
Subject: [e2e] CFP test 3 - please ignore
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From touch at ISI.EDU Sat Mar 14 11:05:49 2009
From: touch at ISI.EDU (Joe Touch)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:05:49 -0700
Subject: [e2e] cfp test 4 - please ignore
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From detlef.bosau at web.de Sat Mar 14 15:04:01 2009
From: detlef.bosau at web.de (Detlef Bosau)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:04:01 +0100
Subject: [e2e] TCP Loss Differentiation
In-Reply-To: <49BBD278.6030409@reed.com>
References: <49902B22.80403@web.de> <499058D5.9040807@reed.com>
<cd4882200902090943sc2b898fve2f833beddc0daad@mail.gmail.com>
<49908411.1000800@reed.com> <49BA496E.2030100@web.de>
<aa7d2c6d0903131600q1d0237c6y89ba636d57116ef2@mail.gmail.com>
<49BBD278.6030409@reed.com>
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David P. Reed wrote:
> The primary causality I was trying to reflect by that choice of words
> is that in all systems there are large-scale causality relationships
> (application layer or
I think, "large scale" is the very point.
When the drop/loss ratio is approximately constant over a certain period
of time, it does not really matter whether the sender's individual
response to a loss event is correct or not. As long as the sender does
congestion recovery "adequately often", anything is fine.
> user layer, in most cases) that break the fundamental assumption that
> there are a collection of memoryless processes in the system. These
> are really significant in most networks, ignored by most models:
>
> - users behave differently when networks get slow (they go to the cafe
> or panic and start hitting keys harder and faster).
This exactly reflects my "bus stop scenario". A user may move some feet
to the left or to the right - and even this may result in a Rayleigh
fading maximum or a Rayleigh fading minimum. And we did not even talk
about other causes for fading or interference.
> - wireless network transmissions are a primary source of noise to
> other transmissions, so any correlations or dependence can get
> amplified when noise causes retransmission by other nodes, causing
> more noise, ... the probability that wireless networks have modes of
> highly synchronizing "resonances" that correlate rather than
> decorrelate signals is high - and can be used to increase SNR by
> techniques like analog network coding (zigzag, for example) if you
> realize that the phenomenon is not a noise process at all, since it
> adds no uncertainty.
That's, what's continously ignored by quite a lot of work.
Now, the problem for me is twofold.
First: If an end-to-end loss differentiation in a highly dynamic mobile
networking environment is not feasible, this would be helpful for the
little sketch
I submitted recently. (And now, I'm eager to read the reviewer comments.)
Second: I'm still thinking, how an alternative approach can be
evaluated. All the simulations I know so far assume Markov models,
Gilbert Markov models,
Jake's model and the like, which exhibit a more or less stationary or
quasi stationary behaviour, particularly on large time scales.
--
Detlef Bosau Mail: detlef.bosau at web.de
Galileistrasse 30 Web: http://www.detlef-bosau.de
70565 Stuttgart Skype: detlef.bosau
Mobile: +49 172 681 9937
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From cwestphal at docomolabs-usa.com Mon Mar 23 11:13:31 2009
From: cwestphal at docomolabs-usa.com (Cedric J A. Westphal)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:13:31 -0700
Subject: [e2e] Last Reminder: VISA'09 Paper submission deadline this Friday,
3/27 (ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure,
Systems and Architectures)
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Dear Colleagues,
this is a last reminder for the submission deadline for the ACM Sigcomm
Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Architectures and Systems
(VISA'09, Barcelona, August 17). Do not forget to upload your paper!
Paper submission deadline: Friday March 27, 2009
Acceptance notification: Friday May 1, 2009
Camera ready final submission: Friday May 29, 2009
Workshop: Monday August 17, 2009
This is a firm deadline. Please find the final CFP below.
-----------------------------------------
--- VISA 2009: The First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized
Infrastructure Systems and Architectures ---
in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2009, August 17th 2009,
Barcelona, Spain.
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/workshops/visa/
* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *
Infrastructure virtualization has emerged as an important architecture
and experimentation concept for the Internet infrastructure. The global
computing and communication infrastructure will encompass (as it does
today) a diverse and huge collection of networking, computing and
storage resources. Together they need to form a coherent infrastructure
and meet our society's requirements for the 21st century. Infrastructure
virtualization involves creation of a virtual slice of network,
computing and storage resources in support of a service, an application,
or an experiment from a physical substrate of diverse resources. This
allows users of a virtualized infrastructure slice to access resources
on a potentially global scale without incurring the cost of building
such an infrastructure. Thus infrastructure virtualization provides a
platform to allow innovation on a global scale and enables new business
models.
As we envision and research Future Internet, there is increasing
recognition that Infrastructure Virtualization will play an important
role. However, there are many technical problems to solve: how to
discover and advertise the resources; how to create and manage an
infrastructure slice across diverse resources; how does virtualization
extend to the wireless edge; how to implement virtualization across
diverse resources and across layers of protocol stack; how to map an
application or service to run on an infrastructure slice; what
applications and capabilities are enabled by infrastructure
virtualization; what kind of cross-layer protocols are possible; how
does infrastructure virtualization impact the business models of network
operators; and others.
Many research groups in the US, Europe, Japan, and elsewhere are
pursuing different aspects of infrastructure virtualization; various
international funding agencies are actively supporting research in this
area; and many providers and vendors are very interested in exploring
how this concept and associated technologies would help solve their
business problems and create new growth opportunities. The goal of the
workshop is to feature recent research and developments related to
infrastructure virtualization to allow exchange of ideas and help build
a research and user community to explore and help realize the potential
of infrastructure virtualization.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST *
We solicit previously unpublished work on the following, non exhaustive,
list of topics:
* Infrastructure virtualization architecture;
* Resource allocation to virtual slices;
* Management tools for infrastructure virtualization;
* Implementation and transition map for infrastructure
virtualization;
* Isolation and slice independence in a virtualized
infrastructure;
* Integration of the wireless edge into a virtualized network;
* Inter-operability and federation of virtualized infrastructures;
* Cross-layer protocols for virtualized networks;
* Applications and services enabled by virtualized infrastructure;
and
* Security issues with virtualized infrastructure.
* EXTENDED DEADLINES *
Paper submission deadline: Friday March 27, 2009
Acceptance notification: Friday May 1, 2009
Camera ready final submission: Friday May 29, 2009
Workshop: Monday August 17, 2009
* INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS *
Authors should submit pdf papers exclusively, to the EasyChair
conference management system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=visa09.
Please follow the format of ACM Sigcomm 2009 submissions, except
anonymity is not required and the page limit is eight pages. This
workshop strongly encourages the submission of exploratory results that
point to new directions and challenges in the design and management of a
virtualized infrastructure.
Please contact visa09 at easychair.org for any inquiry regarding the
workshop.
* WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION *
Steering Committee:
- Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University and NICT
- Anja Feldmann, TU Berlin and T Labs
- Nick McKeown, Stanford University
- Guru Parulkar, Stanford University
- Larry Peterson, Princeton University
- Cedric Westphal, DoCoMo Labs USA
Program Chairs:
- Guru Parulkar, Stanford University
- Cedric Westphal, DoCoMo Labs USA
Program Committee Members:
- Hasan Alkhatib, Microsoft
- Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University and NICT
- Jack Brassil, HP Labs
- Stephan Baucke, Ericsson
- Simon Crosby, Citrix Systems
- Christophe Diot, Thomson Labs
- Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center
- Serge Fdida, UPMC - Paris 6
- Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech
- Anja Feldmann, TU Berlin and T Labs
- Silvano Gai, Cisco Systems
- Albert Greenberg, Microsoft
- James Kempf, Ericsson
- Dae Young Kim, Chungnam National University
- Ulas Kozat, Docomo Labs USA
- Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University
- Nick McKeown, Stanford University
- Sue Moon, KAIST
- Akihiro Nakao, The University of Tokyo
- K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs
- Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University
- Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University
- Robert Ricci, University of Utah
- Martin Stiemerling, NEC Labs Europe
- Amin Vahdat, UCSD
From touch at ISI.EDU Thu Mar 26 09:00:01 2009
From: touch at ISI.EDU (Joe Touch)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:00:01 -0700
Subject: [e2e] Last Reminder: VISA'09 Paper submission deadline this
Friday, 3/27 (ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure,
Systems and Architectures)
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From laurent at comp.lancs.ac.uk Tue Mar 31 11:05:21 2009
From: laurent at comp.lancs.ac.uk (Laurent Mathy)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:21 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [e2e] CFP IMC 2009
Message-ID: <200903311805.n2VI5LSj011960@gateway.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
[Apologies for multiple copies]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2009
Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and in cooperation with USENIX
November 4 - 6, 2009
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.imconf.net/imc-2009/
The Ninth Internet Measurement Conference is a two and a half day
event focusing on Internet measurement and analysis, building on the
success of past IMCs. We invite submissions of papers that contribute
to our understanding of how to collect or analyze Internet
measurements, or give insight into Internet structure and
behavior. Examples of relevant topics are:
- Internet traffic analysis
- Internet structure and topology characteristics
- Internet performance measurements
- Measurement-based network management such as traffic engineering
- Inter-domain and intra-domain routing
- Network applications such as multimedia streaming, gaming and on-line social networks
- Measurements of content distribution, peer-to-peer, overlay, and social networks
- Data-centric issues, including anonymization, querying, and storage
- Measurement-based inference of network properties
- Design of monitoring systems, sampling methods, signal processing methods
- Network anomaly detection
- Network security threats and countermeasures
- Software tools and environments in support of measurement
- Measurement-based assessment of simulation/testbeds
- Measurement-based workload generation
- Measurement-based modeling
- Reappraisal of previous measurement findings
- Internet-oriented wireless, and mobility measurement
Papers that do not in some fashion relate to measuring Internet
properties are out of scope. Authors can contact the Program Chairs at
imc09tpchairs at comp.lancs.ac.uk for clarification if they are unsure
whether their paper is in scope.
Ethical standards for measurement must be considered by all IMC
authors. In particular, authors must be aware of and conform to
acceptable use policies for individual domains that are probed or
monitored, data privacy and anonymity for all personally identifiable
information, and etiquette for using shared measurement data (see
Allman and Paxson, IMC '07). If applicable, authors are also urged to
notify parties of security flaws in their products or services in
advance of publication. Adherence to ethical standards for measurement
will be a criteria for all submissions and violations will be grounds
for rejection.
Important dates
May 4, 2009: 10PM EDT: Registration of title and 250-word abstract
May 11, 2009: 10PM EDT HARD submission deadline
July 17, 2009: Notification
August 22, 2009: Camera Ready Copy due