2006 University Collaborations Symposium Agenda

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Shannon Laboratory 180 Park Avenue - Bldg. 103

Florham Park, NJ

August 3 & 4, 2006

Florham Park - Auditorium, C050

Middletown - Conference Room A5-5A02 (with video link)

Austin, Texas - Room 220 at 9505 Arboretum Boulevard (with video link)

San Ramon, California - Toyon Room at 2600 Camino Ramon (with video link)

*** Continental Breakfast 8 AM (outside Auditorium) ***

AGENDA

August 3, 2006 - Thursday

Time	Subject	Presenter / Research Teams	Institution
9:00	Introduction and University Collaborations Research	Mahmoud Daneshmand	AT&T Labs
9:15	Opening Remarks and AT&T Labs	Keith Cambron	AT&T Labs
9:35	Information and Software Systems Research	Dave Belanger	AT&T Labs
9:55	IP and Voice Services Research	Rich Cox	AT&T Labs
10:15	Internet and Network Systems Research	Charles Kalmanek Albert Greenberg	AT&T Labs
10:35	Coffee Break
10:55	LiveRAC: Live Reorderable Accordion Drawing	Tamara Munzner, UBC Peter McLachlan, UBC Stephen North, AT&T Labs Eleftherios Koutsofios, AT&T Labs	UBC
11:15	Dragnet: Towards a Framework of Internet Forensics	Hui Zhang, CMU	CMU
11:35	Modulation Envelopes of Speech Signals Can't be Strictly Positive and Real	Les Atlas, U of Washington Bishnu Atal, U of Washington Eric Rombokos, U of Washington	U of Washington
11:55	Time-Frequency Reassignment and Modulation	Eric Rombokos, U of Washington	U of Washington
12:10	Verbal Query for IP-TV: A Natural Interface to the World of Entertainment	Antonio Moreno, Georgia Tech Partha Parthasarathy, AT&T Labs Fred Juang, Georgia Tech Jay G. Wilpon, AT&T Labs	Georgia Tech
12:30	Lunch for Presenters / Research Teams (Cafeteria)
1:30	Research and Benchmarking of Advanced Video Search Technologies	Eric Zavesky, Columbia Behzad Shahraray, AT&T Labs Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs David Gibbon, AT&T Labs Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia	Columbia
1:50	Statistical Techniques for Network Data	Eric Vance, Duke Tamraparni Dasu, AT&T Labs David Banks, Duke	Duke
2:10	A P2P Distributed Storage Service for the AT&T Lightspeed Network	Jeremy Rahe, UC, Berkeley Yih-Farn Robin Chen, AT&T Labs Alan J. Smith, UC, Berkeley Yennun Huang, AT&T Labs Bin Wei, AT&T Labs	UCB
2:30	Enabling AT&T 4G Systems	Vahid Tarokh, Harvard Saeed Ghassemzadeh, AT&T Labs Dongwoon Bai, Harvard Robert R. Miller, AT&T Labs	Harvard
2:50	Multi-User and Multi-Cellular MIMO Wireless Communication	Arunabha Ghosh, AT&T Labs Jeff Andrews, UT, Austin Robert Heath, UT, Austin Runhua Chen, UT, Austin	UT, Austin
3:10	Coffee Break
3:30	Failure management in Commercial Data Centers	Kaustubh Joshi, UIUC William Sanders, UIUC Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs	UIUC
3:50	Towards a Free-Viewpoint Video System	Alan O'Connor, Harvard Roger Brockett, Harvard Shankar Krishnan, AT&T Labs Vinay A. Vaishampayan, AT&T Labs Amy Reibman, AT&T Labs	Harvard
4:10	Next Generation Video Coding and Image/Video Quality Assessment Algorithms	Pierre Costa, AT&T Labs Al Bovik, UT, Austin Kalpana Seshadrinathan, UT, Austin Sumohana Channappayya, UT Austin	UT, Austin
4:30	Incorporating Prosody in Speech Translation	Vivek Rangarajan, USC Shrikanth Narayanan, USC Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs	USC
4:50	Using Tree-Drawing Algorithms to Visualize Tree-Like Networks	Adrian Rusu, Rowan University Yehuda Koren, AT&T Labs	Rowan U
5:10	XTreeNet: A Scalable Unified Overlay Network for XML Content Access and Distribution	Yin Zhang, UT, Austin Jon Gibson, UT, Austin K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Emiran Curtmola, UCSD	UT, Austin Case Western UCSD
5:30	Wrap Up	Mahmoud Daneshmand	AT&T Labs
5:30	Wine & Cheese Reception for All (Cafeteria)
7:30	Dinner for Presenters / Research Teams (Hamilton Park Hotel)

*** 8/4 - Continental Breakfast starting 8AM (outside Auditorium) ***

August 4, 2006 - Friday

Time	Subject	Presenters /Research Teams	Institution
8:45	Review of Day's Activities	Mahmoud Daneshmand	AT&T Labs
9:00	Distributed Route Control for Customer Traffic Load-Balancing	Patrick Verkaik, UCSD Kobus van der Merwe, AT&T Labs Dan Pei, AT&T Labs Aman Shaikh, AT&T Labs Alex C. Snoeren, UCSD	UCSD
9:15	Emulating Large Scale Enterprise Networks	Calvin Hubble, UCSD Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs Jim Pelletier, AT&T Labs Amin Vahdat, UCSD	UCSD
9:30	Simulation and Analysis of Failures and Impairments for Multimedia Distribution Networks	Justin Burke, UCSD K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs Dongmei Wang, AT&T Labs Kostas Oikonomou, AT&T Labs Guangzhi Li, AT&T Labs Amin Vahdat, UCSD	UCSD
9:45	Toward a Fair and Robust Internet Backbone Routing	Jerry Chou, UCSD Bill Lin, UCSD Sen Shubho, AT&T Labs Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs	UCSD
10:00	Multi-Level RAID for Very Large Disk Arrays - VLDAs	Alexander Thomasian, NJIT	NJIT
10:15	Troubleshooting in MPLS Virtual Private Networks	Ying Zhang, U of Michigan Z. Morley Mao, U of Michigan Dan Pei, AT&T Labs Jia Wang, AT&T Labs	U of Michigan
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Technology Diffusion and Long Term Forecasting: Application to Growth of Wireless Mobile Services	M. Hosein Fallah, Stevens Elias Aravantinos, Stevens	Stevens
11:00	Robust and Loss-Tolerant Link and Transport Protocols for Wireless Network Environments	Vijay Subramanian, RPI Shiv Kalyanaraman, RPI K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs	RPI
11:15	Underwater Sensor Networks: Applications and Challenges	Jun-Hong Cui, UCONN	UCONN
11:30	RFID Lab Experiments and Performance Analysis	Chonggang Wang, U of Arkansas Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T Labs Kazem Sohraby, U of Arkansas	U of Arkansas
11:45	Reliability in RFID systems	Ahmad Rahmati, Rice Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs Lin Zhong, Rice	Rice University
12:00	Mobility of Inventors and Growth of Technology Clusters: An examination of innovation networks in the telecom industry	M. Hosein Fallah, Stevens Jiang He, Stevens	Stevens
12:15	Optimizing Large File Transfers with WORMHOLE	Hasan Abbasi, Georgia Tech Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs Vinay Vaishampayan, AT&T Labs	Georgia Tech
12:30	Lunch for Presenters / Research Teams (Cafeteria)
1:30	Better Traffic Matrix Estimation on A Large ISP Network	Qi Zhao, Georgia Tech Abhishek Kumar, Georgia Tech Jun Xu, Georgia Tech Jia Wang, AT&T Labs Zihui Ge, AT&T Labs	Georgia Tech
1:45	Toward Fully Automated Verification and Optimization of the RUBY System	Min Gyung Kang, CMU Jia Wang, AT&T Labs Zihui Ge, AT&T Labs	CMU
2:00	Use of Communication Graphs for Real-time Anomaly Detection	Rangarajan Vasudevan, U Michigan Z. Morley Mao, U Michigan Kobus van der Merwe, AT&T Labs Oliver Spatschek, AT&T Labs	U of Michigan
2:15	Anticipating Customer Behavior through Traffic Analysis	Manfred Georg, Washington University in St. Louis Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Nicholas G. Duffield, AT&T Labs	Washington U in St. Louis
2:30	Darkstar - Anomaly Detection	Juan Caballero, CMU Jennifer Yates, AT&T Labs Ajay Mahimkar, UT, Austin Zihui Ge, AT&T Labs Dawn Song, CMU Shobha Venkataraman, CMU Jia Wang, AT&T Labs	CMU UT, Austin
2:45	Wrap-up/Adjourn	Dave Belanger Mahmoud Daneshmand	AT&T Labs

Mahmoud Daneshmand
AT&T Labs Research
Director, University Collaborations
daneshmand@research.att.com
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