TCGN

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

• VPNs (NATs, etc.) at gigabit speeds
• Network layers over direct media (IP over SONET, etc.)
• Gigabit LANs - done deal, or work to be done?

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