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S Jafarpour FPO
by Melissa M. Lawson 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

Sina Jafarpour will present his FPO on Friday September 2 at 2PM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Rob Calderbank (ELE/MAT), advisor; Rob Schapire and Ingrid Daubechies (MAT), readers; Bernard Chazelle and Amit Singer (MAT), nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Deterministic Compressed Sensing", is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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I Mukherjee FPO
by Melissa M. Lawson 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Indraneel Mukherjee will present his FPO on Monday August 29 at 2PM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Rob Schapire, advisor; David Blei and Yoav Freund (UCSD), readers; Moses Charikar and Philippe Rigollet (ORF), nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Game Theory and Optimization in Boosting", is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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Y Zhu FPO
by Melissa Lawson 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Yaping Zhu will present her FPO on Thursday August 25 at 1PM in Room 402. The members of her committee are: Jennifer Rexford, advisor; Vivek Pai and Aman Shaikh (AT&T), readers; Michael Freedman and Andrea LaPaugh, nonreaders. A copy of her thesis, "Minimizing Wide-Area Performance Disruptions in Inter-Domain Routing", is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend her talk.

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S Ihm FPO
by Melissa Lawson 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Sunghwan Ihm will present his FPO on Wednesday August 24 at 2PM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Vivek Pai, advisor; Jennifer Rexford and Larry Peterson, readers; Michael Freedman and Andrea LaPaugh, nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Understanding and Improving Modern Web-Traffic Caching", is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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J Jiang preFPO
by Melissa M. Lawson 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Joe Wenjie Jiang will present his preFPO on Friday August 5 at 10:30AM in Room 318B (networking lab). Note location. His committee is: Jennifer Rexford, advisor; Andrea LaPaugh and Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia), readers; Mike Freedman and Mung Chiang (ELE), nonreaders. Everyone is invited to attend his talk. His abstract follows below. ---------------------- Title: Wide-Area Traffic Management for Cloud Services Abstract: Cloud services need an effective way to distribute contents across wide area networks. Providing large-scale, geographically-replicated online services presents new opportunities for coordination between server selection (to match subscribers with servers), traffic engineering (to select efficient paths for the traffic) and adaptive content caching (to place contents sources close to users). Traditional designs isolate these problems, which degrades performance, scalability, reliability and responsiveness. We leverage the theory of distributed optimization, collaborative game theory and randomized algorithms to provide solutions that jointly optimizes over different degrees of design freedom. This dissertation proposes a sets of solutions to wide-area and data center traffic management, which consists of the following three thrusts: (i) Cooperative content distribution and traffic engineering in an ISP network. We develop cooperation models with an increasing amount of information exchange between ISPs and content providers. We show that the lack of communication leads to sub-optimal performance, and even when extra information is used inappropriately. We propose a joint design solution to reduce such efficiency loss. (ii) Traffic management in Nano data centers, which represents the trend of decentralizing content delivery by placing contents close to the last mile of end user connectivity and utilizing their upload capability. We solve a joint content caching and request routing problem for minimizing cross-traffic and propose a distributed implementation. (iii) Cost-efficient data center traffic engineering with joint server placement and route selection, by exploiting multipath capability and virtual machine migrations. Our systems can be easily implemented with incremental modifications to today's architecture such as content-selection mechanisms, and infrastructure such as switches and end hosts. The effectiveness of our schemes is demonstrated by our evaluation with real-life traffic traces.

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M Yu FPO
by Nicole E. Wagenblast 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Minlan Yu will present her FPO on Friday August 5 at 3PM in Room 402. The members of her committee are: Jennifer Rexford, advisor; Michael Freedman and Albert Greenberg (MSR), readers; Vivek Pai and Ed Felten, nonreaders. A copy of her thesis, "Scalable Management of Enterprise and Data Center Networks", is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend her talk.

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Z Khan FPO
by Melissa Lawson 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Zia Khan will present his FPO on Tuesday August 2 at 2PM in Carl Icahn Labs Room 101 (note location!). The members of his committee are: Mona Singh, advisor; Leonid Kruglyak and Benjamin Garcia, readers; Hilary Coller and Saeed Tavazoie, nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Efficient Algorithms for Liquid Chromatography Coupled Mass Spectrometry Based Protein Quantification", is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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11am Mon Jul 11 talk by Robin Kravets (UIUC) on mobility and disconnected networks in CS 402
by Jennifer Rexford 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Speaker: Professor Robin Kravets, UIUC Title: Connecting the Disconnected Date/time: 11am-12pm on Monday July 11 Location: room 402 in the Computer Science building Abstract: Mobility, in all of its forms, results in networks with varying degrees of connectivity. Providing communication services in such networks relies on solutions that treat these disconnections as an expected part of the system, instead of as an exception to be handled out of band. However, handling disconnectivity breaks most architectures for more stable and connected networks. Instead of a standard layered approach to communication services, communication in such intermittently connected networks depends on three key components: contacts, or knowing who we meet, context, knowing what is in our neighborhood, and content, knowing how to find and deliver data. In this talk, I will present some of our current research on support for communication in intermittently connected networks, vehicular networks and mobile social networks, as well as the target applications and deployment testbeds. Bio: Robin Kravets is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the head of the Mobius group at UIUC, which researches communication issues in all types of networks that are challenged by mobility, including wireless LANs, ad hoc networks, sensor network, delay and disruption tolerant networks, vehicular networks, mobile social networks and personal area networks. Her research focuses on solutions that enable effective power management, connectivity management, data transport, congestion management, location management, routing and security. For more information, visit http://mobius.cs.illinois.edu.

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MohammadHossein Bateni FPO
by Nicole E. Wagenblast 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

MohammadHossein Bateni will present his FPO on Thursday June 9 at 1PM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Moses Charikar, advisor; Sanjeev Arora and MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi (Maryland), readers; Bernard Chazelle and Rob Schapire, nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "A Primal-Dual Clustering Technique with Applications in Network Design" is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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Martin Suchara FPO
by Nicole E. Wagenblast 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Martin Suchara will present his FPO on Wednesday June 15 at 1PM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Jennifer Rexford, advisor; Mung Chiang (ELE) and Gordon Wilfong (Bell Labs), readers; Michael Freedman and Ed Felten, nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Reliable Internet Routing" is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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