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The Traffic Monitoring and Analysis workshop (TMA) is a highly selective venue for the presentation of early-stage research and controversial works on all the aspects of network measurements. The focus is on improving the practice or application of measurements, across the entire network stack up to the application layer, with an emphasis on new areas of network communication such as Software-Defined Networks, Cloud services, Content Distribution Networks, social networks, mobile applications and data centers, but also including more traditional measurement topics, such as traffic classification, anomaly detection, network performance evaluation and traffic analysis.
TMA 2016 is sponsored by the IFIP, Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6).
Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library, with open access.
The TMA workshop will be held in Belgium, in the beautiful city of Louvain La Neuve from the 7th to the 8th of April 2016. Don't miss it!
We have awarded the best paper this year, sponsored by IFIP, see the award section for details.
The PhD School will feature a very interesting program.
Students will have the chance to attend the lectures, to participate to the interactive sessions, and to follow the TMA workshop.
Students are also encouraged to submit their work to the TMA workshop for publication.
The TMA Workshop series was initiated in 2009 under the umbrella of the COST Action IC0703 “Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA): theory, techniques, tools and applications for the future networks” (www.tma-portal.eu). In 2012 a Steering Committee was established with the charter of continuing the TMA Workshop series beyond the TMA Action.
TMA 2015 (Barcelona, Spain, 23-24 April 2015)
TMA 2014 (London, UK, 14 April 2014)
TMA 2013 (Turin, Italy, April 19, 2013)
TMA 2012 (Vienna, Austria, March 12-14, 2012)
TMA 2011 (Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2011)
TMA 2016 will be held in the city of Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. The city is an entirely pedestrian university campus.
Detailed information on how to get to Louvain-la-Neuve can be found here.
Be sure to travel to Louvain-la-Neuve and not Louvain (or Leuven in Dutch), which is a different city.
If you plan to travel by plane, please also take care not to confuse Brussels National Airport (Zaventem) and Brussels South Charerloi Airport when you book your tickets.
The workshop and the PhD school will take place in room "Salle Jean-Baptiste Carnoy" in the building "Croix Du Sud 4".
An interactive map showing the location of the building, the train station, and the Ibis hotel can be found here.
Please check the workshop program for more information on the various events (workshop, welcome reception, etc.).
We have blocked several rooms in the Ibis hotel in Louvain-la-Neuve for participants of the workshop.
To book a room, please use this form and follow the instructions on it.
Please note that students receiving travel grants MUST NOT book a room in the hotel. The organisers will book rooms for the students with travel grants.
Hotel Ibis Styles (15-minute walk from the center of Louvain-la-Neuve)
Boulevard de Lauzelle, 61
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel : 32 10 45 07 51
Fax : 32 10 48 09 11
Please register here.
January 11, 2016
February 26, 2016
March 16, 2016
April 7-8, 2016
Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library.
Extended versions of the two best papers on machine learning, data mining and Big Data for network monitoring and analysis will be fast-tracked for publication in a Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Networks, subject to further revision:
Papers describing experiments with users or user data (e.g., passwords, social network information), should follow the basic principles of ethical research, e.g., beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing harm to the individual), minimal risk (appropriateness of the risk versus benefit ratio), voluntary consent, respect for privacy, and limited deception.
When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a subsection describing these issues, and the review process may examine the ethical soundness of the paper just as it would examine the technical aspects.
Authors unsure about topical fit or ethical issues are welcome to contact the program committee co-chairs at tma2016-chairs@googlegroups.com.
Authors should only submit original work that has not been published before and is not under submission to any other venue.
Submissions must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE 2-column style. A template is available at the following address:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Submissions that do not comply with these requirements will be rejected without review.
19:30 | Welcome reception |
La Fleur de Sel (university restaurant) Correction! Address is: Place Rabelais 49, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Here is a map showing its location (close to the train station). |
The workshop takes place in the Carnoy building, room Jean-Baptiste Carnoy (b.059), Place Croix du Sud 4-5, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
Here is a map showing the location of the Carnoy building, the Ibis hotel, and the train station.
9:20 | - | 9:30 | Opening |
9:30 | - | 10:30 | Keynote by Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide |
Lies, Damn Lies, and Internet Measurements: Statistics and Network Measurements
Prof. Matthew Roughan is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide, in South Australia and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). His research interests range from stochastic modelling to measurement and management of networks like the Internet. He has worked with network operators such as AT&T in the United States, and equipment vendors such as Ericsson. | |||
10:30 | - | 10:45 | Coffee break |
10:45 | - | 12:00 | Session 1: Content Delivery Measurements (Session chair: Ricardo Schmidt, University of Twente) |
● A First Characterization of Anycast Traffic from Passive Traces | |||
Danilo Giordano (Politecnico di Torino), Danilo Cicalese (TELECOM ParisTech), Alessandro Finamore (Telefonica), Marco Mellia and Maurizio Munafò (Politecnico di Torino), Diana Zeaiter Joumblatt (Telefonica), and Dario Rossi (TELECOM ParisTech) | |||
● Inferring Live Streaming Delays in the Wild | |||
Megumi Ninomiya and Kenjiro Cho (IIJ Research Lab) | |||
● DBit: Assessing Statistically Significant Differences in CDN Performance | |||
Zahaib Akhtar (University of Southern California), Alefiya Hussain (USC/Information Sciences Institute), and Ethan Katz-Bassett and Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California) | |||
12:10 | - | 13:00 | Session 2: Internet Discovery (Session chair: Fabio Ricciato, University of Ljubljana) |
● TreeNET: Discovering and Connecting Subnets | |||
Jean-François Grailet (Université de Liège), Fabien Tarissan (Université Paris-Saclay), and Benoit Donnet (Université de Liège) | |||
● Unveiling the MPLS Structure on Internet Topology | |||
Gabriel Dávila Revelo and Mauricio Anderson Ricci (University of Buenos Aires), Benoit Donnet (Université de Liège), and J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin (University of Buenos Aires) | |||
13:00 | - | 14:30 | Lunch break |
University restaurant Le Sablon Rue du Sablon, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Map) | |||
14:30 | - | 15:45 | Session 3: Mobile Networks (Session chair: Ramin Sadre, Université catholique de Louvain) |
● Machine-Learning Based Approaches for Anomaly Detection and Classification in Cellular Networks | |||
Pedro Casas (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology), Pierdomenico Fiadino (Eurecat Technology Centre of Catalonia), and Alessandro D'Alconzo (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology) | |||
● Profiling Mobile Broadband Coverage | |||
Andra Lutu, Yuba Raj Siwakoti, Özgü Alay, Džiugas Baltrūnas, and Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory) | |||
● Passive Wi-Fi Link Capacity Estimation on Commodity Access Points | |||
Diego Neves da Hora (Technicolor, INRIA), Renata Teixeira (INRIA), Karel van Doorselaer and Koen van Oost (Technicolor), and Christophe Diot (SAFRAN) | |||
15:45 | - | 15:55 | Coffee break |
15:55 | - | 16:45 | Session 4: Measurement Quality and Reproducibility (Session chair: Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University) |
● Assessing the Quality of Flow Measurements from OpenFlow Devices | |||
Luuk Hendriks and Ricardo de O. Schmidt (University of Twente), Ramin Sadre (Université Catholique de Louvain), Jeronimo Bezerra (Florida International University), and Aiko Pras (University of Twente) | |||
● Reproducing Network Experiments in a Time-controlled Emulation Environment | |||
Diana Andreea Popescu and Andrew W. Moore (University of Cambridge) | |||
17:00 | Social event | ||
Musée Hergé Rue du Labrador 26, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Map) | |||
19:00 | Conference Dinner | ||
Loungeatude Place Polyvalente, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Map) |
The workshop takes place in the Carnoy building, room Jean-Baptiste Carnoy (b.059), Place Croix du Sud 4-5, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
Here is a map showing the location of the Carnoy building, the Ibis hotel, and the train station.
9:45 | - | 11:00 | Session 5: Internet Measurements (Session chair: Aiko Pras, University of Twente) |
● The Leap Second Behaviour of NTP Servers | |||
David Malone (Hamilton Institute and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Maynooth University, Ireland) | |||
● Scanning the IPv6 Internet: Towards a Comprehensive Hitlist | |||
Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Sebastian Gebhard, and Georg Carle (Technische Universität München) | |||
● Is the Internet Ready for DNSSEC: Evaluating Pitfalls in the Naming Infrastructure | |||
Haya Shulman and Michael Waidner (Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology) | |||
11:00 | - | 11:10 | Coffee break |
11:10 | - | 12:25 | Session 6: Of Bots and Other Threads (Session chair: Olivier Festor, TELECOM Nancy) |
● Identifying Coordination of Network Scans Using Probed Address Structure | |||
Johan Mazel (NII/JFLI), Romain Fontugne (IIJ), and Kensuke Fukuda (NII/Sokendai) | |||
● Digging for Dark IPMI Devices: Advancing BMC Detection and Evaluating Operational Security | |||
Oliver Gasser, Felix Emmert, and Georg Carle (Technische Universität München) | |||
● BotDigger: Detecting DGA Bots in a Single Network | |||
Han Zhang, Manaf Gharaibeh, Spiros Thanasoulas, and Christos Papadopoulos (Colorado State University) | |||
12:25 | - | 12:40 | BPA and Closing |
13:00 | Lunch |
The Best Paper Award, sponsored by IFIP, has been given to the following paper:
Profiling Mobile Broadband Coverage, by Andra Lutu, Yuba Raj Siwakoti, Özgü Alay, Džiugas Baltrūnas, and Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory)
In this work the authors have started to mine a complex and intriguing dataset collected by mobile test devices mounted on operational trains. The collected data points are geo-tagged and include information on space, time and several radio parameters relevant to different mobile technologies. Based on that, the authors attempt to profile the actual coverage of each mobile technology for different operators across space and time, a task that is complicated by several potential sources of noise, bias and uncontrollable external factors affecting the data collection phase.
The methodology presented in this paper is based on a composition of Data Mining tools and concepts. The work is probably not conclusive, but this is fully okay for a workshop like TMA, that is meant to foster exchange of ideas at the early stage and dissemination of early results. Furthermore, the authors have made their dataset publicly available, allowing for independent (in)validation of their work. Generally speaking, papers dealing with reproduction and verification of previous papers are strongly welcome to TMA, therefore we may well see next year in the program of TMA 2017 one or more work that (in)validate papers presented to previous TMA editions, including possibly this one.
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