Mr. Chun-Yi Tsai  from Computer Communication Lab, ERSO, Taiwan will give presentation on his work on NPVS, a virtual server implementation on Intel IXP1200 Network Processor, and give us an introduction on Tornado Programming Environment which is used to compile and simulate code to run on StrongArm processor.

11/5 9:30am-10:20am    Content rule scheme(http attribute, URL, cookie, etc.) and Content Switch Design on Linux, by Weihong Wang.
        10:30am-11:20am   Content switch connection problem, by Edward Chow
                                       (1) TCP sequence number problem when using Delay-Binding and
                                             Pass-Through technique (similar as Direct Routing) on content switch
                                       (2) Overhead and poor performance when using 2 independent
                                             connections to translate between client-to-LB and LB-to-RS.
        11:30am-12:30am    3DNS or Proxy-cache development possible? (based on their B-probe, C-probe technique)
                                        Load balancing based on Network Measurement and Accurate Apache Server Load Reporting, by Indira Semwal.
                                        Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing, by Patricia Ferraro
                                        Load Balancing Algorithms, by Jianhua Xie

Relate documents:
The design, implementation, performance of a content-based switch, http://cs.uccs.edu/~chow/pub/contentsw/paper/contentsw/apostolopoulosum.pdf
Advanced Load Balancing/Web Systems, http://cs.uccs.edu/~cs401/loadbalancing.ppt.
http://cs.uccs.edu/~chow/pub/contentsw  includes more information on related work.