From 405553c1a040c7b6efbd9c062ce01c332fa29af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cameron Dale Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:08:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Final version of SigCom travel grant application. --- docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt b/docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt index 646c7a1..9691501 100644 --- a/docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt +++ b/docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Burnaby, BC, Canada camerond@cs.sfu.ca http://www.camrdale.org -Senior Supervisor: Dr. Jiangchuan Liu +Senior Supervisor: Dr. Jiangchuan Liu (jcliu@cs.sfu.ca) I am not eligible for US- or Euro-NF partner-based program or other travel funding. @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ network, which suggests that videos are strongly correlated with each other. This feature can be used to develop interesting caching or peer-to-peer distribution strategies for videos. +The above works have been published in IEEE Globecom and IWQoS. + ### Accomplishments ### Degrees: @@ -55,6 +57,10 @@ $17,500 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship M, 2007 Publications: +C. Dale and J. Liu, "Leveraging Altruistic Peers to Reduce the +Bandwidth Costs of Free Content Downloads" (poster), ACM SIGCOMM'08, +Seattle, WA, August 17-22, 2008. + C. Dale, J. Liu, J. Peters, B. Li, "Evolution and Enhancement of BitTorrent Network Topologies", IEEE IWQoS, University of Twente, Netherlands, June 2-4, 2008. @@ -79,20 +85,25 @@ applications", Journal of Crystal Growth, 221, 59 (2000). Using my previous work on BitTorrent as a foundation, I am currently working on a new peer-to-peer download system for distributors of free -content (mostly software packages) over the web. The system uses a -Distributed Hash Table to support downloading the individual content -files from peers, which reduces the strain on the network of mirrors -that is usually required to support the downloads. This work includes -implementing a new download client for software packages of Debian-based -systems called apt-p2p. - -My plans are to complete the work on the design of the system, and the -implementation and deployment of the client. I will then be analyzing -and improving both, to determine their effectiveness at solving this -problem and to make them suitable for any free content distributors to -use. - -Finally, I will be preparing and defending my thesis. +content over the web (mostly software packages, which have different +characteristics as compared to other files downloaded by BitTorrent). +The system uses a Distributed Hash Table to support downloading the +individual content files from peers, which reduces the strain on the +network of mirrors that is usually required to support the downloads. +This work includes implementing a new download client for software +packages of Debian-based systems called apt-p2p. + +The first version of this software was released last month, and has +since attracted over 100 users. For more info, see: + + http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p.html + + http://packages.debian.org/sid/apt-p2p + +A poster about the design of this new system has been accepted by +SIGCOMM'08, and I plan to attend it to present my work, and more +importantly, to get feedback from the audience of this top +networking conference. ### Courses ### -- 2.39.2