IEEE ComSoc TCGN

Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN99 - Advance Program

21 March 1999 - New York, NY

Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking
in conjunction with INFOCOM'99

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

Program Co-Chairs
Prof. Joseph B. Evans  Joe Touch
Info. & Telecom. Tech. Center USC/ISI
2291 Irving Hill Road Suite 1001
University of Kansas 4676 Admiralty Way
Lawrence, KS 66045 USA Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA
+1 785 864 4830 +1 310 822 1511 x151
evans@ittc.ukans.edu touch@isi.edu
http://www.ittc.ukans.edu/~evans http://www.isi.edu/touch
Program Committee
Christophe Diot, Sprint Labs
Aloke Guha, StorageTek (STK)
Bryan Lyles, Sprint Labs
Gerald Neufeld, University of British Columbia
Dick Skillen, SE Communications
James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies, GTE
Richard Thompson, University of Pittsburgh


The following presentations will appear (tentatively):

Program (TENTATIVE)

8:00 - 8:30 AM Registration
8:00 - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 AM Welcome, Introduction, and Agenda
9:00 - 10:15 AM Deployment Issues
  • POP Interconnection Fabrics (abstract)
  • Martin Schulman
    Juniper Networks
  • Gigabit Internet to the Home (abstract)
  • Bill St. Arnaud
    CANARIE 
  • Gigabit Communications over Storage Area Networks (abstract)
  • Aloke Guha
    Storage Technology Corporation 
    10:15 - 10:30 AM Break
    10:30 - 12:00 noon Optical Networks
  • Supporting QoS in the Next Generation Optical Internet using Optical Burst Switching (OBS) (abstract)
  • Myungsik Yoo, Chunming Qiao
    SUNY Buffalo
  • How Many Wavelengths Do We Really Need in an Optical Backbone Network? (abstract)
  • Joe Bannister, Joe Touch, Allan Willner, University of Southern California
    Stephen Suryaputra, Nortel Bay Networks
  • PANEL DISCUSSION - Optical Nets Directions
  • 12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch
    1:30 - 2:45 PM Implementation Issues
  • Performance of TCP over Wide Area High Speed Networks (abstract)
  • Brian Tierney
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Signaled Receiver Processing (abstract)
  • Jose' Carlos Brustoloni
    Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  • LLPA: A Protocol for High Speed Packet Authentication (abstract)
  • Geoffrey G. Xie, Cynthia Irvine, Cary Colwell
    Department of Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School
    2:45 - 3:00 PM Break
    3:00 - 4:30 PM New Topics
  • Bio-Networking Architecture Project (abstract)
  • Michael Wang, Tatsuya Suda
    University of California, Irvine
  • VPN Performance Issues on Gigabit Routers (abstract)
  • Steven G. Pennington, Kelly Stump, Joseph B. Evans
    Information & Telecommunications Technology Center, University of Kansas
  • PANEL DISCUSSION - New Topics
  • 4:30 - 5:00 PM Break
    5:00 - 6:00 PM TCGN Open Business Meeting
  • Workshop wrap-up
  • TCGN business and issues
  • What is Gigabit networking, and what should our role be?
  • 7:00  PM - ?? Dinner, BOFs (informal)
  • Continued discussions over dinner - meet in the lobby at 7:00 PM
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