Toronto Networking Seminar Series 2009-2010

The Toronto Networking Seminar Series is jointly organized by Computer Science and ECE faculty with interest in all aspects of computer networking. Unless posted otherwise, the regular seminar time for Fall 2009 is at 2:10-3:00pm in BA1210 of the Bahen Center, 40 St. George Street, on the University of Toronto campus. 

For more information, please contact one of the organizers: Yashar Ganjali (yganjali@cs.toronto.edu), Baochun Li (bli@eecg.toronto.edu), Ben Liang (liang@comm.utoronto.ca), Jörg Liebeherr (jorg@comm.toronto.edu), Peter Marbach (marbach@cs.toronto.edu), Shahrokh Valaee (valaee@comm.utoronto.ca).
 
Fall 2009 

Date

Speaker

Title (click on link for abstract)

Host
August 18
(Tuesday, 2 pm) BA5256		 George Giakkoupis
Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique		 Navigation in Small-World Graphs with Power-Law Degrees Peter Marbach
September 1
(Tuesday, 10:30 am) BA5256		 Don Towsley
University of Massachusetts		 Connectivity Properties of Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Peter Marbach
September 2
(Wednesday, 2 pm) BA5256		 Stratis Ioannidis
Thomson Research Lab		 Distributing Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network Peter Marbach
September 18 Gabriel Scalosub
University of Toronto		 Buffer Management Algorithms for Streaming Data with Packet Dependencies Jörg Liebeherr
September 25 Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Northwestern University		 ISP-Enabled Behavioral Ad Targeting without User Consent (and Beyond) Jörg Liebeherr
October 2 Oliver Waldhorst
University Karlsruhe		 The SpoVNet Architecture and its Underlay Abstraction Layer  – Spontaneous Service Provisioning in Heterogeneous Networks Jörg Liebeherr
October 9
(3 pm)		 Mehdi Mani
Institut Telecom		 Reconciliation of Social Networking and P2P Technology Shahrokh Valaee
October 16 Nicolas Christin
Carnegie Mellon University		 Secure or Insure? A Game Theoretic Analysis of Information
Security Games		 Jörg Liebeherr
October 20
(Tuesday, 4 pm) BA1180		 Ali C. Begen
Cisco Research		 Video Transport, Distribution and Quality of Experience (Slides) Ashish Khisti
October 22
(Thursday, 4 pm) BA1210		 Yan Chen
Northwestern University		 NetShield: Matching with a Large Vulnerability Signature Ruleset
for High Performance Network Defense		 Hans-Arno Jacobsen
October 23 Rong Zheng
University of Houston		 Object Discovery and Localization in Active Sensing Networks: Theory and Algorithms Ben Liang
October 30
(3 pm)		 Matthew C. Valenti
West Virginia University		 Communication Theory in the Cloud
Joint event with Toronto Chapter of IEEE ComSoc		 Raviraj Adve
November 6 Sheng Zhong
State University of New York at Buffalo		 Incentive-Compatible Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Networks Ben Liang
November 13 Armand Makowski
University of Maryland at College Park		 Exploring Random Key Graphs! Peter Marbach
November 18
(Wednesday, 2 pm) BA5256		 Augustin Chaintreau
Thomson Technology Paris Laboratory		 The Age of Impatience: Optimal Replication Schemes for Opportunistic Networks Peter Marbach
November 20 Klara Nahrstedt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		 View-casting: View-based Multi-Source 3D Stream Dissemination and Control for Multi-Party Tele-immersive Environments Baochun Li
November 27 Sharon Goldberg
Microsoft Research		 Path-Quality Monitoring in the Presence of Adversaries Jörg Liebeherr

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