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:
- 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 - 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:
- How do all-optical subnets affect gigabit protocols?
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:
- How does the advent of commodity gigabit LANs affect gigabit protocols?
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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