ICCCN 2009 - 18th InternationalConference on Computer Communications and Networks

Panels

ICCCN 2009 features two panels:

Funding Panel

Panelists:

Sajal Das (University of Texas at Arlington / National Science Foundation, USA)
Krishna Kant (Intel Research / National Science Foundation, USA)
Byrav Ramamurthy (moderator) (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

P2P: Opportunities and Challenges

In both academia and industry, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have attracted great attentions. P2P applications such as Napster, Gnutella, FastTrack, BitTorrent, Skype, PPLive, PPStream, and UUSee, have witnessed tremendous success among the end users. Unlike a client-server based system, peers bring with them serving capacity. Therefore, as the demand of a P2P system grows, the capacity of the network grows, too. This enables a P2P application to be cheap to build and superb in scalability. The rise of P2P has put tremendous pressure on the Internet service providers (ISPs) to carry the traffic load.

In this panel, we invite panelists from system builder, P2P application builders, Internet service provider and academy to discuss the current research, development and deployment status of the P2P applications. We will also examine the impact of P2P traffic on the Internet and ISP infrastructure. We wish that through this high profile discussion, the academia, the P2P industries and the ISP will better understand each other's business. We also hope that the panel discussion will provide the audience guidance on the challenges and future research topics in P2P.

Panelists:

Eric Klinker is the Chief Executive Officer of BitTorrent, Inc. bringing close to two decades worth of networking experience as a technologist and innovator. Eric joins BitTorrent from his previous post as CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Internap, a leading provider of network optimization and content delivery solutions. Previously, Eric worked at netVmg, Excite@Home and the Naval Research Laboratory. Eric holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a master’s degree in EE from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Bernd Girod is Professor of Electrical Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science in the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California, since 1999. Previously, he was Professor of Telecommunications in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His current research interests are in the areas of video compression and networked media systems. He has published over 400 conference and journal papers, as well as 5 books, receiving the EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2002, the IEEE Multimedia Communication Best Paper Award in 2007, the EURASIP Image Communication Best Paper Award in 2008, as well as the the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2004. As an entrepreneur, Professor Girod has been involved with several startup ventures as founder, director, investor, or advisor, among them Polycom (Nasdaq:PLCM), Vivo Software, 8x8 (Nasdaq: EGHT), RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) and Dyyno Inc. He received an Engineering Doctorate from University of Hannover, Germany, and an M.S. Degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Girod is a Fellow of the IEEE, a EURASIP Fellow, and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).
William B. Norton recently retired as Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison for Equinix, Inc. where, for ten years, he facilitated the interactions between some of the largest Internet Operations companies in the world. As a side effect of this role, he was able to research and document the Internet Operations activities related to interconnection from both a technical and business perspective. As an engineer with an MBA, his primary research and writing has been focused on the undocumented Internet Operations practices, their working definitions, along with the strategic business and financial tradeoffs. (This primary research is based on thousands of hours of discussion with the International Internet Operations communities and is now freely available on the DrPeering.net site.)
Peer-to-peer shows up prominently in his landmark white paper "Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem" which documents the costs of video delivery using Peer-to-Peer, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), commodity Transit, and commodity Transit blended with Internet Peering for delivery.
Mr. Norton received his BA in Computer Science from Potsdam College, and his MBA from the Michigan Business School, and he serves on the Board of Directors for the YMCA Palo Alto, Social Terrain, and serves of the Technical Advisory Boards for TelX, Mahi, imeem, Oort, and a couple of companies still in stealth mode. He is also the working group chair for the Mediated Bandwidth working group of the InterStream Association.
Jin Li (moderator) is currently a Principal Researcher managing the Communication System group at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA). He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 1994. Before he joined Microsoft Research Redmond, he had served as a Research Associate at the University of Southern California (USC), as a Member of the Technical Staff at the Sharp Laboratories of America (SLA) (Camas, WA), as a Project Leader at Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China). From 2000, Dr. Li has also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China).
Dr. Li has 100+ referred conference and journal papers in a diversified research field, with publication on audio/image/ video/graphic compression, audio/video streaming, real-time audio/video conferencing, P2P streaming and VoD systems, and distributed storage systems. He is a key technical leader in Microsoft for media streaming, audio/video conferencing and P2P. He serves as the guest editor/co-chair/panelist/TPCs for many P2P journals/conferences organized by IEEE/ACM. He holds 20+ issued US patents, with many more pending. Dr. Li was the recipient of the 1994 Ph.D. thesis award from Tsinghua University, the 1998 Young Investigator Award from SPIE Visual Communication and Image Processing, and the best paper award from 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia (ICME’09).