CAIA News

CAIA Winter Internships begin

Alana Huebner and Marcus Wong have been selected as CAIA Interns for the winter of 2008. Alana will be working with Associate Professor Grenville Armitage and Lawrence Stewart on evaluation of next generation TCP algorithms. Marcus will be working with Dr Philip Branch and Associate Professor Grenville Armitage on the modelling and simulation of online multiplayer game traffic with the NS-2 network simulator package.

CAIA PhD student to speak at BSDCan 2008 in May

Applications for CAIA Winter internships now open

New staff member on Greynet project

New IBL student starts at CAIA for 2008

New staff member on SONATA project

CAIA Announces release of L3DGEWorld 2.3

Research Assistants leaving CAIA

Visitor from Innsbruck, Austria

Thuy Nguyen has a baby girl!

auDA Foundation Awards CAIA $19K Research Grant

H-TCP released for FreeBSD, and new TCP measurement tools

CAIA Internship begins

Joint ITS / CAIA Internship begins

Sebastian has a baby boy!

Cisco Systems USA Awards CAIA $94K USD Research Grant

CAIA Researcher wins Swinburne Researcher Development Grant for 2008

CAIA PhD student speaks at AusNOG 2007

CAIA hosts Netgames 2007 Workshop (in co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM)

CAIA announces summer 2007/2008 internship program

CAIA Announces release of L3DGEWorld 2.1

CAIA Director speaking at COIN-ACOFT 2007 Workshop

Three interns join CAIA for winter 2007

CAIA PhD student on 3 month Cisco Internship

CAIA PhD student Warren Harrop has been awarded a 3 month internship with Cisco Systems USA. As part of this internship he will spend a month with Cisco engineers in Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, North Carolina. His Cisco mentor during the entire period is Charles Smith, Senior Consulting Engineer, Cisco Research Center.

CAIA PhD student on 3 month visit to Cambridge University Computer Laboratory

CAIA PhD student Sebastian Zander leaves in late June to spend 3 months visiting the security research group at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University, UK. The security group is an informal group of people with similar interests: mainly security, cryptology, and distributed systems. Sebastian will perform collaborative work on temperature-based covert channels with Steven Murdoch and Dr. Markus Kuhn.

Cisco Systems USA Awards CAIA $72K USD Research Grant
The Cisco Collaborative Research Initiative (CCRI) has awarded a grant of $72K USD (approximately $86K AUD) to CAIA in support of a research proposal by Dr Jason But and Associate Professor Grenville Armitage entitled "FreeBSD Implementation of an SCTP friendly NAT". Randall Stewart was our 'Cisco Champion', and we will be working with Randall as the project progresses.

CAIA Announces first release of Stockade
Stockade is a network-layer spam-mitigation tool developed by CAIA with the support of a grant from the auDA Foundation. A unique feature of stockade is the auto-rehabilitation of IP addresses that have previously been declared to be spammers. More information can be found at http://caia.swin.edu.au/stockade

We are pleased to release version 0.2 of stockade under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and encourage the networking research community to explore its capabilities.

CAIA Announces first release of L3DGEWorld
 As part of our Cisco-supported L3DGE project we are pleased to announce the first release of L3DGEWorld - a system for real-time display of network activity using the Quake III Arena 3D game engine. L3DGEWorld also allows virtual interactions within a game environment to control actual network elements in the real world. More information can be found at http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/l3dge

CAIA is hosting Netgames 2007
In co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM, the 6th Annual Workshop on Network Support for Online Games - Netgames 2007 http://caia.swin.edu.au/netgames2007 will be hosted by CAIA here in Melbourne, Australia. CAIA Director, Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, is the Chair and overall organiser for Netgames 2007.

CAIA has left the Applied Science building
After 9+ months of discussions and partial-moves, CAIA has finally moved the last of its servers and lab equipment from AS327 to the EN building. 2007 should be an excellent year for experimental research in the new facilities of EN605 and the refurbish 6th-floor server/lab room.

New staff member for the newtcp project
James Healy will be taking time off studying to work full-time as a Research Assistant on the newtcp project for 2007. Newtcp is funded in part by a Cisco URP grant received for the project "Public implementation and interoperability testing of next generation TCP stack under FreeBSD"

CAIA Researchers win Swinburne Researcher Development Grants for 2007
CAIA congratulates Dr Hai Vu and Dr Jason But for being awarded funding under Swinburne's Researcher Development Scheme for 2007. http://www.swin.edu.au/research/swinonly/ResBulletin/2006/newsletter_88.htm
Jason will receive $27,490 for a project titled "Analysis of BitTorrent performance in a content caching context". Hai will receive $19,440 for a project titled "Replacing mobile communication with wireless VoIP."

Two summer interns join CAIA
Aaron Sims and Gerarde Kelly join CAIA as interns for the 2006/2007 summer break, under the supervision of Dr Hai Vu and Dr Jason But respectively.

New staff member for the L3DGE project
Lucas Parry will be taking time off studying to work full-time as a Research Assistant on the L3DGE project http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/l3dge for 2007. L3DGE is funded in part by a recent Cisco URP grant for the project "Anomalous traffic detection and collaborative network configuration using 3D multiplayer game engines".

New staff member for the Stockade project
Malcolm Robb will be joining CAIA as a Research Assistant for 4 days a week over summer 2006/2007 to develop 'Stockade'. Stockade is our network-layer spam-mitigation project recently awarded funding from the auDA Foundation.

CAIA wins auDA Foundation grant
CAIA has been awarded a $20K grant by the auDA Foundation in response to our proposal titled "Open source implementation of a TCP layer algorithm for Email Spam mitigation." The grant will help CAIA hire a research assistant between December 2006 and March 2007 who will develop an innovative network later spam-mitigation proxy under FreeBSD to sit between regular SMTP servers and the Internet. We expect to release this software to the community under an open source licence in early 2007.

CAIA PhD student receives ACM SIGCOMM Student Travel Grant
Thuy Nguyen has been awarded an ACM SIGCOMM Student Travel Grant to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2006, being held this year in Pisa, Italy. The grant includes free registration to SIGCOMM 2006 and $2000 USD to cover travel, food and lodging during the conference.

Cisco Systems USA Awards CAIA $65K USD Research Grant
The Cisco System University Research Program (URP) has awarded a grant of $65K USD (approximately $85K AUD) to CAIA in support of a research proposal by Associate Professor Grenville Armitage and Mr Warren Harrop entitled "Anomalous traffic detection and collaborative network configuration using 3D multiplayer game engines". The project will begin in September/October 2006. Fred Baker was our URP 'Cisco Champion', and we will be working with Fred as the project progresses. (The April 2006 URP round accepted only 25% of all reviewed submissions.)

Collaborative Research Agreement signed with Electronic Communication and Commerce Pty Ltd (ECC)
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage is happy to announce the signing of a collaborative research agreement between the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA) and Electronic Communication and Commerce Pty Ltd (ECC), an emerging IP Telephony company based in Melbourne, Australia. CAIA will provide technical insights, network architecture advice and performance analysis techniques to ECC in the areas of Voice over IP and wireless mobility. Worth at least $60K AUD over 24 months, this agreement is the culmination of discussions initiated in 2005 by Eryadi Masli (Simon), Lecturer of Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Enterprise.

SECURECon 2006
Andres Rojas, a PhD student at CAIA, has been invited to give a talk titled "Lawful Interception" at SECURECon 2006 , Feb 8th to 10th 2006.

An uptodate local copy of Andres' talk slides can be found here.

Visitor from Cisco
Dr Lloyd Wood, from Cisco Systems' space initiatives group, is visiting CAIA for two weeks this month. Dr Wood will give a CAIA Seminar on the Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit project (CLEO)

Summer Interns
CAIA welcomes four Swinburne undergraduate students - Shaun Burriss, Philip Jay, David Kennedy and Kenny Nguyen - as summmer interns for 2005/2006.

They will be working with CAIA Research Fellows, Dr Jason But , Dr Qiang Fu, Dr Irena Atov and Sebastian Zander.

CAIA members received IEEE LCN 2005 Best Paper Award
CAIA research fellow Dr Jason But, along with David Kennedy, Urs Keller and Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, received the Best Paper award to the IEEE's 30th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2005).

The paper is: J.But, U.Keller, D.Kennedy, G.Armitage, "Passive TCP Stream Estimation of RTT and Jitter Parameters"

This year LCN was held in Sydney, Australia, between 15 - 17 November.

CAIA Director chairing session at Australian IPv6 Summit
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage has been invited to chair the session on "Transition and Security" at the First Australian IPv6 Summit, Canberra ACT Australia, Mon 31 October - Tue 1 November 2005.

Formation of Women-in-Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group
CAIA research fellow Dr Irena Atov initiated the formation of an IEEE Victorian section full-member Women-in-Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group and acted as its convenor during the process of its establishment. On July 22nd 2005 the IEEE Victorian Section WIE Affinity Group was officially formed to become the very first WIE group in Australia or New Zealand. Dr Atov currently acts as the Affinity Group Chair

CAIA PhD student receives ACM SIGCOMM Student Travel Grant
Minh Tran has been awarded an ACM SIGCOMM Student Travel Grant to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2005, being held this year in Philadelphia, USA. The grant includes free registration to SIGCOMM 2005 and $1250 USD to cover travel, food and lodging during the conference. Ms Tran was one of 36 award recipients from 84 strong applications.

Cisco Systems USA Awards CAIA $88K USD Research Grant
The Cisco System University Research Program (URP) has awarded a grant of $88K USD (approximately $115K AUD) to CAIA in support of a research proposal by Associate Professor Grenville Armitage entitled "Public implementation and interoperability testing of next generation TCP stack under FreeBSD". The project will begin in August 2005. Fred Baker was our URP 'Cisco Champion', and we will be working with Fred as the project progresses. This was one of only 15 projects funded out of 85 applications in the April 2005 round.

Associate Professor in the USA
A/Prof Grenville Armitage will be representing CAIA at NOSSDAV 2005, in Washington state, USA, June 12th to 14th. From June 15th to 17th he will visit industry and academic sites in the Silicon Valley area.

CAIA Research in Europe
Between June 12th and June 17th Dr Jason But will be representing CAIA at ACM SIGCHI 2005 in Valencia, Spain, and at Cambridge Computer Labs, Cambridge University, UK.

2005 Optimization Days
CAIA research fellow Dr Irena Atov traveled to Montreal, Canada to attend "2005 Optimization Days" conference and an International Colloquium which was organized for the 25th anniversary of GERAD (Group for Research in Decision Analysis), University of Montreal - a leading research centre in the world in Operations Research created in 1979. She presented a book chapter which appears in "Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet", a book that was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and was officially launched during the conference as part of the celebrations of GERAD's 25th anniversary. The book contribution is titled: "Design of IP Networks with End-to-End Performance Guarantees" and is co-authored by Prof. R.J. Harris from Massey University, New Zealand.

CAIA joins Smart Internet Technologies CRC
In April 2005 CAIA launched a new research program titled "Automated Network Re-engineering Techniques and Planning Tools to Support Highly Interactive, Latency-Constrained Applications". Although Swinburne itself was a founding member of the Smart Internet Technologies (SIT) CRC, it is only this year that CAIA has joined the University of Wollongong researchers in the SIT CRC's Smart Networks program. Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, Dr Philip Branch, Sebastian Zander and Tony Cricenti will contribute to this project. The project also includes funding to hire a new Research Fellow.

CAIA director to serve on US National Science Foundation review panel
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage has been invited to serve on a panel reviewing funding applications to the US National Science Foundation's Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program.

Sebastian Zander presents short paper at PAM 2005
CAIA research fellow Sebastian Zander travelled to Boston, MA at the end of March to present a short paper during the poster session of the 2005 Passive and Active Measurement workshop (PAM 2005). The paper is titled "Self-learning IP Traffic Classification based on Statistical Flow Characteristics" and was co-authored by CAIA PhD student Thuy Nguyen and A/Prof Grenville Armitage.

Cisco Systems USA Awards CAIA $42455 USD Research Grant
The Cisco System University Research Program (URP) has awarded a grant of $42,455 USD (approximately $55K AUD) to CAIA in support of a research proposal by Associate Professor Grenville Armitage and Sebastian Zander entitled "Dynamic Self-learning Traffic Classification based on Flow Characteristics." The project will run full-time in 2005. Fred Baker was our URP 'Cisco Champion', and we will be working with Fred as the project progresses. CAIA was one of only 18 projects funded out of 65 applications in the August 2004 round. (In the previous round held during April 2004, only 12 of 89 were funded.)

CAIA presents 11 papers at ATNAC 2004
A large contingent of CAIA staff and students attended the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2004) in Sydney, December 8th to 10th, 2004. We presented eight long papers and three short papers - the largest contribution from a single research group at this conference.

CAIA presents 2 papers at WITSP 2004
Two members of CAIA, Thuy Nguyen and Lawrence Stewart, will attend the 3rd Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP) to present two papers. WITSP 2004 is being held in Adelaide from December 20th to 22nd, 2004.

CAIA director in Sydney
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage is co-chairing the "First Australian Workshop on Network Support for Interactive Multimedia and Games (NSIM'04)" which will be held in Sydney, December 10th, 2004 as part of the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2004)

CAIA PhD candidate takes part in Globecomm
CAIA PhD student, Thuy Nguyen, will be presenting her paper "Experimentally derived interactions between TCP traffic and service quality over DOCSIS cable links" at the Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecomm 2004, Texas, USA (November 29th to December 3rd, 2004)

Dr Atov presents internationally
CAIA Research Fellow, Dr Irena Atov, will be presenting her paper "Capacity Planning Tool for Multiservice IP Networks" at the IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON2004), in Singapore. (November 16-19, 2004)

CAIA director invited to forum
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage will be giving an invited talk on "Communications technology and what it can deliver" at the Regional Healthcare Technologies Forum, being held as part of EPSM2004 in Geelong, Vic, November 14th to 18th, 2004

CAIA Research makes its way to ICCCN2004
CAIA Research Fellow, Dr Fei Peng, will be presenting her paper "Dynamic Congestion Control to Improve Performance of TCP Split-Connections over Satellite Links", at the 13th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN2004) which is being held in Chicago, IL (USA) from October 11th to 13th.

New intern joins CAIA from EPFL for 6 months
Mr Urs Keller, a Masters student from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, joins CAIA this month to work with us for 6 months on the ICE3 project.

Grenville presents in NetGames2004
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage will be presenting a paper "Some Thoughts on Emulating Jitter for User Experience Trials" at the NetGames2004 Workshop being held in Portland, Oregon (USA). NetGames2004 is part of the ACM SIGCOMM2004 conference, August 30th to September 3rd.

High praise for CAIA workshop
CAIA Research Fellow, Dr Irena Atov, and CAIA Alumni, Ms Ana Pavlicic, were given high praise on July 22nd 2004 for their contribution to Swinburne's "Girls In Technology" day targetted at Years 10 & 11 female secondary students. Irena and Ana ran an entertaining workshop for three groups of girls, providing insights into how the Internet functions and the role it plays in connecting people through multimedia conferencing and online games.

Dr Branch attends international conference
Dr Philip Branch, Senior Lecturer in telecommunications engineering at Swinburne, recently attended the Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE2004) conference at the National University of Singapore. Philip presented two papers on teletraffic generated by on-line games and chaired a session where presenters discussed their experiences in implementing novel games. The conference was well attended with most delegates coming from the USA and the United Kingdom.

CAIA continues to grow
CAIA welcomes the following new staff members:

• Dr Fei Peng
  Research Fellow

• Sebastian Zander
  Research Fellow, Network Performance and Security

• Dr Irena Atov
  Research Fellow, Network Modelling and Performance Evaluation

• Kris Mitchell
  R&D Engineer (RULE project)

Dr Jason But joins the CAIA team
On Monday 22 March the CAIA welcomed Jason But as a Research Fellow, Network Performance and Resilience. Jason has recently submitted his PhD thesis at Monash University in the area of Copyright Protection of Streaming Networked Video via encryption. He also holds a double degree in electrical engineering and computer science from The University of Melbourne. Jason has previously held research and teaching positions at Monash University in the telecommunications (IP and general networking) area. Welcome Jason!

ATNAC 2003
Between 8-10th December 2003, several researchers from CAIA will be presenting their papers at the Australian Telecommunications, Networks and Application Conference (ATNAC2003), held in Southbank, Melbourne.

CAIA director part of planning committee for international conference
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, Director of CAIA, has been invited to be on the Technical Program Committee for the 12th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON2004), to be held in Singapore from 16 - 19 November, 2004.

Connecting the Future
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage will be giving an invited talk at 'Connecting the Future', a one day forum being held in Sydney, on 2 October. The forum is organised by the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU), the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3), and the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre (SIT CRC). Grenville's talk is entitled "Making The Internet Go Away", and will focus on the technical challenges involved in making the Internet become a trusted, reliable, and essentially invisible part of our modern lives.

CAIA Welcomes Two Students from Switzerland
Wendy Vanhonacker and Claudio Favi arrived the week of Monday 8 September and have begun settling in to CAIA. Wendy and Claudio are at the end of their Masters degrees at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). They will be here for six months as Research Assistants, working with Clancy Malcom and Grenville Armitage under the ICE^3 project.

CAIA LIFE project news
A consultation agreement was signed between the School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and the company, Independent Business Analysis Pty Limited (IBAP). Tony Scully and David Terry from IBAP have engaged the services of Dr Philip Branch, a Senior Lecturer in telecommunications engineering at Swinburne to help IBAP in their lawful interception work with Australian telecommunications companies and Australian law enforcement agencies. Philip joined Swinburne earlier this year after working with Ericsson AsiaPacific Laboratories as Development Manager in lawful interception solutions, and prior to this, was a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University.

Telecommunications Conference chaired by Associate Professor
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage chaired a day-long workshop at the prestigious international telecommunications conference, SIGCOMM2003, in Karlsruhe, Germany. The workshop, entitled "Revisiting IP Quality of Service: Why do we care, what have we learned? (RIPQOS)" brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss the history of IP QoS research and development, review what could have been done better, and develop a new focus going forward. RIPQOS is the result of eight months organisation by Grenville and a program committee drawn from the US and Europe.

Demand for Director
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, Director of CAIA, was invited to be on two conference committees this month:

• the Technical Program Committee for Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium 2004, to be held in conjunction with Globecom 2004 in Dallas Texas, 29 November through to 3 December, 2004

• the Program Committee for ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE2004), to be held 3rd - 5th June 2004, in Singapore

Two Swinburne IBL students successful
Ana Pavlicic and Lawrence Stewart, from the Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunications and Internet Technologies)/Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering) double degree course at Swinburne, were the successful candidates of CAIA's IBL intake. They will undertake a 12 month Industry-Based Learning (IBL) placement in the Centre working on current and developing research projects, beginning this month.

CAIA hosts Masters Interns from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Towards the end of their studies, Masters students of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have the opportunity to do internships at companies all over the world. Two students will be joining the research team at CAIA from September 2003. Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, is excited to be supporting these students and adding additional research linkages between the University and key European institutions. Grenville said "we have just concluded a delightful and productive six month visit by Sebastian Zander from Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in Berlin, and we are looking forward to continuing this momentum with EPFL."

Director of Research Centre Invited to Attend European Conference
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, has been invited to join a small delegation of eight Australians attending the European 'Information Society Technologies (IST 2002) Exhibition and Networking Conference' in Copenhagen, between 3 November and 6 November, 2002. The delegation is subsidised by Department of Education Science and Training (DEST), and is being organised by Redcentre in conjunction with STRATINNOVA.

Conference Program Committee Invitations
The Director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Associate Professor Grenville Armitage, has been invited to serve on the Program Committees for:

• ICON2003, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking to be held in Sydney in September 2003

• NetGames2003, the 2nd International Workshop on Network-Based Multiplayer Gaming to be held in Redwood City, California, USA in May 2003