Since 1996, this workshop has served as the premier forum for researchers and industry technologists to exchange research results and perspectives on future directions in Internet content caching and content delivery. The first four Web Caching Workshops (WCW) focused on Web cache software and caching networks for static Web content.
As Internet service architectures have evolved, the workshop focus has broadened to include all areas relating to the intersection of storage and networking for Internet content services. The 7th workshop was held in the Rocky Mountain foothills, at NCAR in beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
We have a few extra copies of the workshop proceedings. Please write to registrar at iwcw.org if you would like to receive a copy. By the way: we are holding our next conference in a new part of the world: Adelaide, Australia. We have graciously been accepted and hosted by royalflushsa.com.au. We are in the process of booking a conference center and will be sending details soon.
Here are the program details for the current event:
Program
Wednesday, August 14
10:30 – 12:15: Workloads
Workload Characterization of a Personalized Web Site — And Its Implications for Dynamic Content Caching
Weisong Shi, Randy Wright, Eli Collins, Vijay Karamcheti (New York University)
Deconstructing SPECWeb99
Erich Nahum (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Streaming Video Traffic: Characterization and Network Impact
Jacobus Van der Merwe, Subhabrata Sen, Charles Kalmanek (AT&T Labs Research)
2:00 – 3:30: Edge Services
Safe Composition of Web Communication Protocols for Extensible Edge Services
Adam D. Bradley, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury (Boston University)
Synopsis: QoS and Delivery Context in Rule-Based Edge Services
Chan-Wah Ng, Pek-Yew Tan (Panasonic Singapore Laboratories Pte Ltd)
PPT slides
An XML-Based Data Integrity Service Model for Web Intermediaries
Chi-Hung Chi, Yin Wu (National University of Singapore)
4:00 – 5:15: Evaluation Methodology
Synopsis: Evaluation of Performance of Cooperative Web Caching with Web Polygraph
Ping Du, Jaspal Subhlok (University of Houston)
When Does a Hit = a Miss?
Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University)
Chandrasekar Krishnan (Fatline Corporation)
Baoning Wu (Lehigh University)
Whole Page Performance
Leeann Bent, Geoff Voelker (University of California at San Diego)
5:15 – 7:15: Beer-N-Gear Reception
Thursday, August 15
9:00 – 10:45: Replication
Do We Need Replica Placement Algorithms in Content Delivery Networks?
Magnus Karlsson, Mallik Mahalingam (HP Labs)
Models for Internet Cache Location
Adam Wierzbicki (Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw University of Technology)
The vMatrix: A Network of Virtual Machine Monitors for Dynamic Content Distribution
Amr Awadallah, Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford University)
PPT slides
11:15 – 12:30: Traffic Management
Detective Browsers: A Software Technique to Improve Web Access Performance and Security
Songqing Chen, College of William and Mary
Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary, National Science Foundation
Synopsis: Using Mobility Support for Request Routing in IPv6 CDNs
Arup Acharya, Anees Shaikh (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
Synopsis: Using Dynamic Delay Pools for Bandwidth Management
Chamara Gunaratne, Gihan Dias (University of Moratuwa)
2:00 – 3:30: Prefetching and Consistency
Exploiting Object Relationships for Deterministic Web Object Management
Mikhail Mikhailov, Craig E. Wills (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
PDF slides
Synopsis: WCDP: A Protocol for Web Cache Consistency
Renu Tewari, Thirumale Niranjan, Srikanth Ramamurthy (IBM Research)
PPT slides
Web Prefetching: Costs, Benefits and Performance
Yingyin Jiang, Min-You Wu, Wei Shu (University of New Mexico)
PPT slides
4:00 – 5:30: Panel
What is the future of this workshop?
Geoff Voelker, Sally Floyd, Alex Rousskov, Magnus Karlsson, John Dilley, Pei Cao
Friday, August 16
9:00 – 10:45: Media
Pervasive Web Content Delivery with Efficient Data Reuse
Chi-Hung Chi, Yang Cao (National University of Singapore)
PPT slides
Architecture and Pragmatics of Server-Directed Transcoding
Bjorn Knutsson, Honghui Lu (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeffrey Mogul (HP Labs Western Research Lab)
PPT slides
Service Level Agreement Based Distributed Resource Allocation for Streaming Hosting Systems
Yun Fu, Amin Vahdat (Duke University)
PPT slides
11:15 – 12:30: New Applications
A Performance Study of a Large-scale Data Collection Problem
Cheng-Fu Chou (University of Maryland)
Yung-Chun (Justin) Wan (University of Maryland)
William C. Cheng (TeleGIF)
Leana Golubchik (University of Southern California)
Samir Khuller (University of Maryland)
PDF slides
Synopsis: Are File Swapping Networks Cacheable? Characterizing P2P Traffic
Nathaniel Leibowitz, Aviv Bergman, Roy Ben-Shaul, Aviv Shavit (Expand Networks Ltd.)
PPT slides
Synopsis: CDNs for Personal Broadcasting and Individual Reception
Sujata Banerjee, Jack Brassil, Amy Dalal, Sung-Ju Lee, Ed Perry, Puneet Sharma, Andrew Thomas (HP Labs)
Call for Papers
The workshop solicits technical papers related to Internet content caching, content delivery, and content services networking. Particular areas of interest include:
- Internet caching architecture and protocols
- Content placement and request routing
- Web workload analysis and characterization
- Empirical studies of deployed content delivery systems
- Wide-area upload and “content gathering”
- Consistency management
- Edge services and dynamic content caching
- Peering and content services internetworking
- Memory and storage management for content caches
- Streaming media caching
- Overlay networks for content delivery
- Caching and edge services for the wireless Web
- Security and availability of Web service architectures
Program Committee
- Jeff Chase, Duke University (chair)
- Martin Arlitt, HP Labs/University of Calgary
- Mike Dahlin, University of Texas Austin
- John Dilley, Akamai Technologies
- Sally Floyd, ICIR
- Dilip Kandlur, IBM Research
- Terence Kelly, University of Michigan
- Evangelos Markatos, ICS FORTH, Greece
- Jim O’Toole, Cisco
- Misha Rabinovich, AT&T; Research
- Geoff Voelker, University of California San Diego
- Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
Steering Committee
- Pei Cao, Cisco
- Valentino Cavalli, Terena
- Peter Danzig, University of Southern California
- John Martin, Network Appliance
- Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Warsaw University
- Duane Wessels, The Measurement Factory
Submission Guidelines
Technical Papers and Synopses
Technical papers describe previously unpublished research results or empirical evaluations of current systems. Synopses are summaries of interesting new problems or approaches, or of standards or development efforts in progress. Technical papers are limited to 5000 words; synopses are limited to 3000 words. The Program Committee will judge submitted papers on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and technical merit. We encourage authors to submit any technically sound contributions of interest. Please do not submit product marketing material or material that is previously published or under review elsewhere.
Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings distributed to participants and made available on the Web. Authors of accepted papers will present their work in 15-minute or 25-minute talks at the workshop. Accepted technical papers with significant research contributions are also eligible for journal publication, as in previous years. For the 2001 workshop, 9 of 21 accepted technical papers were published in Elsevier’s Computer Communications. We plan a similar arrangement for the 2002 workshop.
Please submit technical papers and synopses in PDF format through the submission form on the conference Website.
Proposals for Panels
WCW panels bring together researchers from industry and academia. These panels are an important element of WCW. Please send panel proposals in plain text by e-mail to the Program Chair (chase@cs.duke.edu).
Important Dates
04/29: Nominal deadline for submissions
05/06: Extended deadline: submissions due at 0900 EST
06/24: Acceptance notification
07/30: Camera-ready papers due
