---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sixth International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA June 20-22, 2001 http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/wcw01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview -------- The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW) is a premiere technical meeting for researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of content caching, distribution and delivery on the Internet. This year's meeting will be held on the Boston University Campus and will build on the successes of the five previous WCW meetings. We have assembled a strong program consisting of eight technical sessions and three panels. Please refer to the various sections of WCW'01 web site for more information. WCW'01 is sponsored by Cisco Systems, InfoLibria, Measurement Factory, and Volera. Final Program ------------- Wednesday June 20th 09:00 Welcome 09:15 Session 1: Content Delivery Networks I - "The Trickle-Down Effect: Web Caching and Server Request Distribution", Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Syam Gadde, Amin M. Vahdat - "CDN Brokering", Alex Biliris, Chuck Cranor, Fred Douglis, Michael Rabinovich, Sandeep Sibal, Oliver Spatscheck, Walter Sturm - Synopsis: "Web Service Scalability and Performance with Optimising Intermediaries", Mark Nottingham 10:30 Morning Break 10:45 Session 2: Content Delivery Networks II - "Object Replication Strategies in Content Distribution Networks", Jussi Kangasharju, James Roberts, Keith W. Ross - "Topology-Informed Internet Replica Placement", Pavlin Radoslavov, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin - "A Novel Approach to Managing Consistency in Content Distribution Networks", Zongming Fei 12:15 Lunch 14:00 Panel 1: Resolved: Publish no more papers on Web cache replacement policies Moderator: Jeffrey Mogul, Compaq Western Research Lab  Panelists: Martin Arlitt, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Pei Cao, Cisco Systems; Alex Rousskov, The Measurement Factory; Carey Williamson, University of Saskatchewan 15:30 Afternoon Break 15:45 Session 3: Edge and Browser Services - "Content Services Network: the Architecture and Protocols", Wei-Ying Ma, Bo Shen, and Jack Brassil - "Enabling the Internet to Deliver Content-Oriented Services", Andre Beck, Markus Hofmann - Synopsis: "Evaluating Dynamic Deployment Mechanisms for Application Network Provisioning on the Internet", O. Ardaiz, F. Freitag, L. Navarro - Synopsis: "Expanding the Scope of Prefetching through Cross-Domain Cooperation", Amy S. Hughes and Joseph D. Touch Thursday June 21st 09:15 Session 4: Architectures  - "Instantaneous Offloading of Transient Web Server Load", Vsevolod V. Panteleenko and Vincent W. Freeh - "The Cyclone Server Architecture: Streamlining Delivery of Popular Content", Stanislav Rost, John Byers, Azer Bestavros - Synopsis: "MPLS-based Request Routing", Arup Acharya, Anees Shaikh, Renu Tewari, Dinesh Verma 10:30 Morning Break 10:45 Panel 2: Content Distribution Internetworking: Vital or Valueless? Moderator: Mark Day, Cisco Systems Panelists: Lisa Amini,IBM; Brad Cain, Cereva; Fred Douglis, AT&T; Dave Farber, Cable & Wireless; Avi Freedman, Akamai; Phil Rzewski, Inktomi 12:15 Lunch 14:00 Session 5: Prefetching - "Provably Efficient Stream Merging", E.G. Coffman, Jr. Predrag Jelenkovic, Petar Momcilovic - "The potential costs and benefits of long-term prefetching for content distribution", Arun Venkataramani, Praveen Yalagandula, Ravi Kokku, Sadia Sharif, Mike Dahlin - "Assertion: Prefetching With GET is Not Good", Brian D.Davison 15:30 Afternoon Break 15:45 Panel 3: Rule-Based Active Edge Services Moderator: Micah Beck, University of Tennessee & Lokomo Systems Panelists: Markus Hofmann, Lucent Technologies; Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research China; Mark Nottingham, Akamai Technologies 18:00 Workshop Banquet on-board the Spirit of Boston Friday June 22nd 09:00 Session 6: Workload Characterization - "Thin-Client Web Access Patterns: Measurements from a Cache-Busting Proxy", Terence Kelly - "Analysis of Web Workloads Using the Bootstrap Methodology", Johnson Lee, William Miniscalco, Meng Li, W. David Shambroom, John Buford - "Analyzing the Impact of Robots on Performance of Web Caching Systems", V. Almeida, D. Menasce, R. Riedi, F. Peligrinelli, R. Fonseca, W. Meira Jr. 10:30 Morning Break 10:45 Session 7: Performance Measurement - "The Design and Evaluation of a Method for Measuring Web Performance", Richard Liston, Ellen Zegura - "The Medusa Proxy: A Tool For Exploring User-Perceived Web Performance", Mimika Koletsou, Geoffrey M. Voelker - "Comparative measurements of Internet traffic using cache-triangle", Serge A. Krashakov and Lev N. Shchur 12:15 Lunch 14:00 Session 8: Streaming Media Delivery - "Streaming media traffic: an empirical study", Dario Luparello, Sarit Mukherjee, Sanjoy Paul - "An Interactive Video Delivery and Caching System Using Video Summarization", Sung-Ju Lee, Wei-Ying Ma, and Bo Shen - "Joint Server Scheduling and Proxy Caching for Video Delivery", Olivier Verscheure, Chitra Venkatramani, Pascal Frossard and Lisa Amini Registration Information ------------------------ Please complete the WCW'01 registration form (available from WCW'01 Web Site) and mail it along with applicable fees to: Ellen Grady (WCW'01) Computer Science Department Boston University 111 Cummington street Boston, MA 02215 Early registration must be received by June 8th, 2001. Once we have received your registration, we will acknowledge it via email. Accommodation ------------- The Web Caching and Content Distribution Workshop will be held on the Charles River Campus of Boston University. Boston is a very busy city, especially in the summer! We recommend that you finalize your local arrangements early. There are a number of options for accommodations that the workshop was able to secure. Please check WCW'01 web pages for details. Workshop Organization --------------------- Program Committee Chairs: + Azer Bestavros (CS Dept, Boston University) + Michael Rabinovich (AT&T Research) Program Committee Members: + Virgilio Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) + John Byers (CS Dept, Boston University) + Jeff Chase (CS Dept, Duke University) + Mark Crovella (Network Appliance & CS Dept, Boston University) + Arun Iyengar (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) + Mike Dahlin (University of Texas, Austin) + Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Research) + Steve McCanne (FastForward Networks) + Jeff Mogul (Compaq Western Research Lab) + Keith Ross (Eurocomm Institute) + Gary Tomlison (Entera Inc.) + Craig Wills (CS Dept, Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Publication Chair: + Valentino Cavalli, Terena Steering Committee: + Pei Cao, Cisco + Valentino Cavalli, Terena + Peter Danzig, Akamai Technologies + John Martin, Network Appliance + Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Warsaw University + Duane Wessels, NLANR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For updated information about the workshop please refer to the workshop's web page at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/wcw01 ----------------------------------------------------------------------