TCGN
Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN'97 - Call for Participation
7 April 1997 - Kobe, Japan
Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking
in conjunction with INFOCOM'97
Purpose and Format
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and
discussing very recent work in gigabit networking and to raise
relevant issues to the general networking community in a timely
manner. It will take place from 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM with lunch
provided. There will be an open business meeting of the Technical
Committee on Gigabit Networking following the workshop at 5:00 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. The focus is on 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. We are particularly
interested on the theme of high performance distributed information
access designed to scale to gigabit giganode networks with a high
(number of users) x (throughput per user) product, including:
- high-performance authentication and security (hardware and
software solutions, and their trade-off)
- low latency name resolution (e.g. URL and URC) and name service
(e.g. URL and DNS)
- high-performance distributed IPC, shared memory, and file systems
- high-performance information access and interactive service support
- high-performance low latency transactions, session control, and
network signalling
Special Focus Topic - High Performance Web.
Distributed interactive objects are emerging as a distinct and
dominant transport class. The current web is a simple example of these
objects. In addition to the issues listed above, GBN `97 is seeking
abstracts specifically addressing:
- how the Web changes GBNs: are there new transport classes to be
considered?
- how GBNs change the Web: what should a high bandwidth Web look like?
There will be significant blocks of time reserved for interactive
discussion sessions. Suggestions for additional topics are welcome
(email to giga@tele.pitt.edu
and Cc: to the program
co-chairs);
controversial topics and outrageous viewpoints are
encouraged. Presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the
workshop, under URL
http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn97.
Submission
Submission of a one page abstract is due 30 Jan 1997, and must be in
plain text by email to the program co-chairs at
jpgs@ieee.org and
touch@isi.edu.
Please include the text "GBN'97 Submission" in the
Subject: field; all submissions will be quickly acknowledged
(otherwise contact the program chair to confirm receipt). Notification
will be made by 15 February 1997. At the time of the workshop, an
electronic annotated version of the presentation foils will be due for
inclusion in the online proceedings. Submission in HTML and/or
postscript 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'97
registration; information is available on the WWW at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom.
Additional copies of the GBN'97 CFP
and additional information on the workshop are available on the WWW at
http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn,
or by email to one of the program
co-chairs.
| Program Co-chairs |
| James P. G. Sterbenz | Joe Touch |
| GTE Laboratories | USC/ISI |
| 40 Sylvan Road MS-47, | Suite 1001 4676 Admiralty Way |
| Waltham, MA 02254 USA | Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA |
+1 617 466 2786 | +1 310 822 1511 x151 | |
| jpgs@ieee.org | touch@isi.edu |
| http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~jpgs | http://www.isi.edu/~touch |
| Program Committee |
| Christophe Diot, INRIA |
| Joseph Evans, University of Kansas |
| Aloke Guha, NSG StorageTek |
| Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University |
| Bryan Lyles, Xerox PARC |
| Dick Skillen, Nortel |
| Masahiro Taka, UNCL |
| Richard Thompson, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
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James P.G. Sterbenz
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