GIGABIT NETWORKING WORKSHOP GBN`94 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 12 June 1994 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking in conjunction with INFOCOM'94 FORMAT The workshop will take place from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM with lunch provided. The morning will consist of short presentations and discussion; the afternoon by the presentation of full papers describing applications which will drive the deployment of Gigabit networks. There will be an open business meeting of the Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking following the workshop from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. SHORT PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION The first part of the workshop will consist of a number of short informal presentations and discussion on current research and implementation, hot topics, position statements, and controversial issues relating to high bandwidth networking. End-to-end issues including transport and higher layer protocols, host and network interface architecture, operating systems, applications, economic and regulatory issues, and other societal impacts will be of particular interest. A one page abstract of the presentation is due on 1 April 1994; all reasonable proposals will be accepted (and possibly some outrageous ones). The length of the presentations will be 5 - 15 min. each depending on the number of accepted submissions, and it is expected that this part of the workshop will be highly interactive and informative. FOCUS PAPERS: APPLICATIONS ENABLING THE LARGE SCALE DEPLOYMENT OF GIGABIT NETWORKS The second part will consist of full paper presentations. We seek papers on a broad range of applications driving the wide scale deployment of Gigabit networks covering the consumer, business, and industry markets from application designers, system vendors, and network infrastructure providers. Current Gigabit applications will likely not be numerous enough to force the provision of a new infrastructure, and we are looking for new applications which must meet a set of criteria for using and enabling Gigabit network technology: o Realistic consumer or business application (current or future) o Minimum bandwidth per user of many Mbps o Minimum potential base of 1000s of simultaneous users o Number of users x application bandwidth product in excess of 1 Tbps o Consumer video applications must be more sophisticated than broadcast or simple video-on-demand multicast Papers must include justification in terms of specific network requirements and/or system architecture that allows the delivery of the required bandwidth to the application. A two page extended abstract of the proposed paper is due 1 April 1994, with the full text (20 double spaced pages, excluding figures) of accepted papers due 12 June 1994 at the workshop. After open email discussion by the general membership of the Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking as well as further review of the full paper text, selected papers along with the summary of the discussion generated will be published in a forthcoming issue of IEEE JSAC. SUBMISSION The submission deadline for both the 1 page presentation abstracts and the 2 page paper extended abstract is 1 April 1994. Submission by email to the program chair at jpgs@acm.org is encouraged; please include the text "GBN'94 Submission" in the Subject: field. Submission of eight copies by surface mail is also acceptable, to the program chair at the address below. All submissions will be quickly acknowledged; the lack of an acknowledgment indicates that the author should contact the program chair to confirm the receipt of the proposal. Notification of accepted presentations and papers will be made by 1 May 1994, and all accepted presenters are expected to register in advance for the workshop. REGISTRATION Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM'94 registration; to receive the INFOCOM'94 advance program, request by email to infocom@ee.upenn.edu, or by fax to Mark J. Karol at +1 908 949 9118. PROGRAM CHAIR James P. G. Sterbenz IBM Research H3-D27 30 Saw Mill River Rd. Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA +1 914 784 6489 jpgs@acm.org jpgs@watson.ibm.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nim Cheung, Bellcore Bryan Lyles, Xerox PARC Dick Skillen, Northern Telecom Richard A. Thompson, University of Pittsburgh Victor Vinogradov, American Express Shukri Wakid, NIST