Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN'95 - Call for Participation

2 April 1995 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking in conjunction with INFOCOM'95


Purpose and Format

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing very recent work in gigabit networking and publishing it in a timely manner. The workshop will consist of short presentations and discussions of current work in high bandwidth networking, as well as longer discussion sessions. The workshop will take place from 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM with lunch provided. There will be an open business meeting of the Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking following the workshop at 3:00 PM.

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, emerging applications, deployment and management of large networks, economic and regulatory issues, security and privacy, and other societal impacts will be of particular interest. A one-page abstract of the presentation is due on 1 March 1995; all reasonable proposals will be considered (and possibly some controversial ones). The length of the presentations will be limited to 10 or 15 minutes each, with the number of presentation foils strictly limited.

Presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the workshop, under URL http://info.gte.com/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn95 or by FTP from ftp://ftp.gte.com/pub/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn95. Selected abstracts of the presentations will appear in IEEE Network Magazine (tentatively May 1995), and presenters may be invited to submit papers to a special issue of the Journal of High Speed Networks (JHSN). There will blocks of time reserved for interactive discussion sessions. Suggestions for topics will be taken in advance (email to giga@tele.pitt.edu and Cc: to jpgs@ieee.org), but will also be welcome at the workshop. Controversial topics and outrageous viewpoints are encouraged. A summary of the workshop discussions will appear in IEEE Network Magazine.

SUBMISSION

The submission deadline for the one-page abstract is 1 March 1995. Submission should be in plain text by email to the program chair at jpgs@ieee.org; please include the text "GBN'95 Submission" in the Subject: field. 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 will be made by 10 March 1995, and all accepted presenters are expected to register in advance for the workshop. At the time of the workshop, an electronic version of the presentation foils will be due for inclusion in the online proceedings. Submission in postscript and/or HTML is encouraged; if these formats are not possible, plain text will be accepted.

Registration

Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM'95 registration; information is available
on the WWW using http://www.research.att.com/~hgs/infocom95/program.html,
by anonymous FTP at ftp://gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/hgschulz/infocom95/progam.{ps.gz|txt}
or email request to infocom95@fokus.gmd.de

Additional copies of the GBN'95 CFP are available
on the WWW using http://info.gte.com/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn95/cfp.html
by anonymous FTP at ftp.gte.com/pub/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn95/cfp.{ps|txt}
or email request to jpgs@ieee.org.

The home page for the TCGN is URL http://info.gte.com/ieee-tcgn, and has additional information.


Program Chair

James P. G. Sterbenz
GTE Telecommunications Research Laboratory
40 Sylvan Road MS-61
Waltham, MA 02254 USA
+1 617 466 2786
jpgs@ieee.org
http://info.gte.com/jpgs

Program Committee

Nim Cheung, Bellcore
Dave Feldmeier, Bellcore
Bryan Lyles, Xerox PARC
Ira Richer, MITRE
Dick Skillen, Northern Telecom
Richard A. Thompson, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Shukri Wakid, NIST