IEEE ComSoc TCGN

Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN'98 - Call for Participation

29 March 1998 - San Francisco, CA

Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking
in conjunction with INFOCOM'98

GBN is held on the first day of Infocom; for more information and registration, see the Infocom web site

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) × (throughput per user) product, including:

Special Focus Topic - Protocols for Multi-Gigabit Optical Networks. Optical WDM networks are emerging as a base for internet backbones. In addition to the issues listed above, GBN `98 is seeking abstracts specifically addressing: Special Focus Topic - Impact of Commodity Gigabit LANs. Gigabit LANs, including gigabit ethernet, are beginning to become a commercial commodity. In addition to the issues listed above, GBN `98 is seeking abstracts specifically addressing: There will be sessions reserved for interactive discussion. Suggestions for additional topics are welcome (email giga@tele.pitt.edu and Cc: to the program chair); controversial topics and outrageous viewpoints are encouraged. Presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the workshop, under URL preliminary program here (temporarily).

Submission

Submission of a one page abstract is due 6 Feb. 1998, and must be in plain text by email to the program chair at touch@isi.edu. Please include the text "GBN'98 Submission" in the Subject: field; all submissions will be quickly acknowledged (otherwise contact the program chair to confirm receipt). Notification will be made by 20 February 1998. At the time of the workshop, an electronic annotated version of the presentation foils will be due 23 March 1998, to be included in the on-line proceedings prior to the workshop.

Registration

Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM'98 registration; information is available on the WWW at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/infocom/98/ . Additional copies of the GBN'98 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 the program chair.

Program Chair
Joe Touch
USC/ISI
Suite 1001 4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA
+1 310 822 1511 x151
touch@isi.edu
http://www.isi.edu/~touch
Program Committee
Christophe Diot, INRIA
Joseph Evans, University of Kansas
Aloke Guha, StorageTek
Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University
Bryan Lyles, Sprint Labs
Dick Skillen, Interlog
James Sterbenz, GTE Labs
Masahiro Taka, UNCL
Richard Thompson, Univ. of Pittsburgh


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