TCGN

Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN'98 - Advance Program

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

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

Program

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. The workshop consists 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

Registration --- 8:00 - 8:30

Continental Breakfast --- 8:00 - 9:00

Welcome, Introduction, and Agenda --- 8:30 - 9:00

Fast Routers, and how they affect GBNs --- 9:00-10:00

Terabit Routers and Switches: (abstract)
Craig Partridge
BBN Technologies
The Pluris Massively Parallel Router (MPR): (abstract)
Vadim Antonov, David Bernstein, Sam Halabi
Pluris Inc.
Routers with Input Queueing, Crossbars and QoS (invited): (abstract)
Shang-Tse Chuang, Ashish Goel, Nick McKeown and Balaji Prabhakar
Stanford University
Fast IP address lookups (invited): (abstract) Jon Turner
Washington University in St. Louis

PANEL Session --- 10:30 - 11:30

Performance of Active Nets

Moderator: James Sterbenz
Panel:

Samrat Bhattacharjee, Georgia Tech.
Craig Partridge, BBN
Scott Alexander, Univ. Pennsylvania

Break --- 10:00 - 10:30

Systems Issues --- 11:30 - 12:30

Host-based Routing Using Peer DMA: (abstract)
Joe Touch, Anne Hutton, and Simon Walton
USC/ISI
Testing TCP/IP Performance Optimizations Using NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite Gigabit Satellite Network: (abstract)
David R. Beering, Infinite Global Infrastructures, LLC
Under contract to Sterling Software, NASA Lewis Research Center
Copy avoidance in networked file systems: (abstract)
Jose' Carlos Brustoloni
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Work performed while at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Open discussion on ongoing systems issues in high-performance networking

Lunch --- 12:30 - 1:30

Optical Networks: Architectural Issues --- 1:30 - 2:00

An Architecture for Broadband Internet Services over a WDM-based Optical Access Network: (abstract)
Eytan Modiano, Eric Swanson
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Service Independent Access Points (SIAP) to Optical Wide Area Networks: (abstract)
Joseph B. Evans, Victor S. Frost, Gary J. Minden
Information & Telecommunications Technology Center
University of Kansas

Optical Networks: Switching Issues --- 2:00 - 3:00

Virtual Circuit Provisioning in WDM Networks: (abstrct)
Bo Li, Yang Qin
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Optical Burst Switching - A Novel Paradigm for Gigabit WDM Optical Networks: (abstract)
Chunming Qiao, Moungsik Yoo, Xijun Zhang
Department of ECE, SUNY at Buffalo
Smart WDM IP Flow Technology (SWIFT): (abstract)
Joe Touch, Joe Bannister, Alan Willner
USC/ISI
Terabit Burst Switching (invited): (abstract)
Jon Turner
Washington University in St. Louis

Break --- 3:00 - 3:30

Optical Networks: Regional efforts ---3:30 - 4:30

Packet Optical Networks for High Speed TCP-IP Backbone: (abstract)
F. Callegati, M. Casoni
DEIS University of Bologna
WDM Optical Packet Networking: (abstract)
C. Guillemot and F. Clerot
France Telecom CNET/DTD/RTO
CA*net 3 - Canada's National Optical Internet: (abstract)
Bill St. Arnaud
Director Network Projects
CANARIE
Open discussion on regional optical networking

Open Discussion --- 4:30 - 5:00

TCGN Open Business Meeting --- 5:00 - 6:00

Workshop wrap-up
TCGN business and issues
What is Gigabit networking, and what should our role be?

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Dinner, BOFs (informal) --- 7:00 -

Continued discussions over dinner - meet in the lobby at 7:00 pm.

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