Wireless mesh networks are becoming popular alternatives to wireless LANs and for cost-effective use in varied application environments. There are several technical challenges that must be addressed for mesh networking to be as effective as any other form of broadband networking. Much of these challenges relate to multi-hop wireless communication and limited capacity. The goal of this informal presentation is to facilitate further discussions on these challenges.

The peer-to-peer paradigm shows the potential to provide the same functionality like client/server based systems, but with much lower costs.

One substantial limitation of p2p systems are missing guarantees on the quality of service, as the whole infrastructure is based on unreliable peers. In order to control the quality of peer-to-peer systems, monitoring and management mechanisms need to be applied. Both tasks are challenging in large-scale networks with autonomous, unreliable nodes.

The problem is interesting for two reasons. First, the cost function closely models the energy consumption of some network elements and network-wide optimization is a well-motivated but under-explored direction for energy minimization. Second, it brings light to a challenging combinatorial optimization problem. We will present positive and negative results for polynomial functions and polynomial functions with startup cost. For the latter, techniques to accomplish better-than-polynomial approximation ratios independent of demands and cost function remains a challenging problem.

Energy consumption in Computer Networks is an issue that is gaining increasing attention. In this talk we will review the issue of energy consumption in Computer Networks to then focus on Ethernet where a new standard is being developed to improve energy efficiency. We will discuss some of the alternatives that were considered during the Energy Efficient Ethernet standardization process and describe the solution adopted in the standard. Then we will present some results of an initial performance evaluation of the standard that shows the potential savings for different scenarios. We will conclude the talk by outlining the implications that Energy Efficient Ethernet will have on different aspects of the LANs.

According to most technology pundits, progress in wireless and sensor networks will lead us into a world of ubiquitous computing, in which myriads of tiny, untethered sensors and actuators will communicate with each other. Information technology will thus deliver its most encompassing and pervasive accomplishment to mankind, promptly taking care of the needs and wishes of everyone.

The steadily raising energy costs and the increasing number of evidences of climate changes induced by high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have brought the issue of a sustainable use of energy to the attention of governments and of people all over the world. The need for a more responsible use of energy has emerged in all sectors, together with the awareness that a decrease in carbon emissions is vital to ensuring a future to mankind. The ICT sector, which has brought deep transformations and a rapid increase in productivity in many domains in the last decades, is at the center of this transformation. In all fields of communications, researchers have started to investigate approaches to reduce energy consumption, both by designing new devices, and by exploring new network architectures. In particula r, dynamic network planning, which implies decreasing the power consumption of those network resources which are underutilized, is seen as one of the most promising techniques to improve the energy efficiency of networks.

In this talk I present a platform to extract models of security-relevant functionality from program binaries, enabling multiple security applications such as active botnet infiltration, finding deviations between implementations of the same functionality, vulnerability signature generation, and finding content-sniffing cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
In this talk, I present two applications: active botnet infiltration and finding content-sniffing XSS attacks.

His talk consists out of two parts. The first part will give an overview on the current research activities and achievements of the Distributed Multimedia Systems Research Group at the University of Oslo. This includes video streaming in MANETs and disruptive environments, publish subscribe for sparse MANETs, deviation detection with complex event processing for automated home care systems, and clean-slate Future Internet research work. The second part will focus on CacheCast, which is joint work with Lancaster University and has been initiated in the Content NoE. Due to the lack of multicast services in the Internet, applications based on single source multiple destinations transfers such as video conferencing, IP radio, IPTV must use unicast or application layer multicast. 

Nowadays it is possible to watch some TV channels in the Internet using P2P mechanisms. There are basically two ways to construct a P2P network to transmit streaming video: mesh-based and tree-based (there is also a mix of both called hybrid-based). No matter how we construct the overlay, a fundamental problem is: what is the best peer to connect with, in order to obtain the best performance? This question is even more important in the tree-based P2P networks where there is just one connection between a "parent" peer and each one of its children, so, the leaving of a parent forces all its children to reconnect to other parents. Our goal in this study is to minimize the number of orphan peers per minute, i.e. select a parent who minimizes the probability of leaving before a given peer. In order to do that, it is necessary to have other results like the distribution of the channel holding time per peer, the future lifetime of a peer given its elapsed time in a given channel and other stuff that will be described during the presentation.

The conference will be conducted in English