2006

Publications and White Papers (Most recent first)

• Bridging the Digital Divide, R. Les Cottrell and Harvey Newman, American Institute of Physics Forum on International Physics Newsletter.
• Scientific Measure of Africa's Connectivity, M Zennaro, E. Canessa, k. R. Sreenivassan, A. A. Rehmatullah, R. L. Cottrell, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Information Technologies and International Development Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 2006, 55–64
• Evaluation of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms on the Windows Vista Platform, by Yee-Ting Li, May 2006
• Evaluation of Techniques to Detect Significant Network Performance Problems using End-to-end Active Network Measurements, R. L. Cottrell, M. Chhaparia, F. Haro, F. Nazir, M. Sandford, NOMS 2006, April 2006
• Quantifying the Digital Divide: A Scientific Overview of the Connectivity of South Asian and African Countries, A. Rehmatullah, R. L. Cottrell, J. Williams, A. Ali, CHEP06.
• Terapaths: A QOS-Enabled Collaborative Data Sharing Infrastructure for Peta-Scale Computing Research, S. Bradley, F. Burstein, B. Gibbard, D. Katramatos, R. Popescu, D. Stampf, D. Yu, R. L. Cottrell, Y. Li, S. McKee, CHEP06.
• January 2006 Report of the ICFA-SCIC Monitoring Working Group, edited by Les Cottrell for the ICFA SCIC Monitoring Working Group.

Talks (Most recent first)

• Sub-Saharan Africa is a dark zone for World Internet: Sounding an Alarm, prepared by Les Cottrell, presented by Warren Matthews at the Internet2 Fall 2006 Members Meeting, Chicago Dec 2006
• Sub-Saharan Africa is a dark zone for World Internet: Sounding an Alarm, presented by Les Cottrell at the Sharing Knowledge Across the Mediterranean conference at ICTP Trieste Nov 6-8, 2006.
• Terapaths Monitoring DWMI: Distributed Wide Area Monitoring Infrastructure, presented by Les Cottrell at the US-LHC End-to-End Networking Meeting, FNAL October 25, 2006
• Quantifying the Digital Divide from an Internet Point of View, R. Les Cottrell, Aziz Rehmatullah, Jerrod williams and Akbar Mehdi, Presented at the Reuters Digital Vision Program Stanford October 17, 2006.
• Performance Network monitoring for the LHC Grid, R. Les Cottrell, presented at the "International ICFA Workshop on Grid Activities within Large Scale International Collaborations", Sinaia, Romania October 13-18, 2006.
• Internet Monitoring and Results for the Digital Divide, R. Les Cottrell, Aziz Rehmatullah, Jerrod williams and Akbar Mehdi, presented at the "International ICFA Workshop on Grid Cativities within Large Scale International Collaborations", Sinaia, Romania October 13-18, 2006.
• Navigating PingER, R. Les Cottrell, presented at ICTP "Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks" workshop
• Diagnostic Steps, R. Les Cottrell, presented at ICTP "Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks" workshop
• Quantifying the Digital Divide from an Internet Point of View, R. Les Cottrell, Aziz Rehmatullah, Jerrod williams and Akbar Mehdi, presented at ICTP "Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks" workshop Trieste October 2006.
• SLAC and PerfSONAR, Yee-Ting Li, presented at the PerfSONAR Workshop, Montpellier, France, October 10, 2006.
• Bandwidth Challenges and Internet World Records, R. Les Cottrell and Yee-Ting Li, presented at ICTP "Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks" workshop Trieste October 2006.
• Contributions of HEP to China Internet (mainly in Chinese), Rongsheng Xu, Aug 25, 2006
• Steps Towards Automated Event Diagnosis [ppt] (amended), presented by Yee-Ting Li at the ESnet Meeting, 20th July 2006
• Steps Towards Automated Event Diagnosis [ppt], presented by Yee-Ting Li at the Internet2 Measurements SIG, 18th July 2006
• High Performance Network Monitoring Challenges for Grids, presented by Les Cottrell at the International Symposium on Grid Computing 2006, Taiwan, May 2006.
• PingER: An Effort to Quantify the Digital Divide, presented by Aziz Rehmatullah, May 2006.
• Evaluation of Techniques to Detect Significant Performance Problems using End-to-end Active Network Measurements, presented by M. Chhaparia at the 2006 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium, April 2006.
• IEPM-BW Deployment Experiences, Presented by Connie Logg to the Joint Techs Workshop February 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• IEPM-BW: Bandwidth Change Detection and Traceroute Analysis and Visualization, Presented by Connie Logg to the Joint Techs Workshop February 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Stanford University, SLAC, NIIT, the Digital Divide and Bandwidth Challenge, Presented by Les Cottrell to the NUST/NIIT Faculty,Islamabad, Feb 2006.
• Using Netflow for Forecasting, Presented by Les Cottrell at CHEP06.
• Quantifying the Digital Divide: A scientific overview of the connectivity of South Asian and African Countries, presented by Les Cottrell at CHEP06.
• SC05 Presentation to ESnet (pdf) presented by Yee-Ting Li at the ESCC Meeting, University of New Mexico 02/09/06.

Photos

• Visit to NIIT, Rawalpindi, Feb 2006
• CHEP06 Mumbai