WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
A one-day workshop entitled "Protocols for Long-Delay Broadband
Networks"
will be held at Globecom '98 on Thursday, November 12th, 1998*, at the
Darling Harbour Convention and Exhibition Centre in Sydney, Australia.
The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Comunications Society Technical
Committee on Gigabit Networking and by the NASA ACTS Gigabit Satellite
Program.
CALL FOR PAPERS
High-speed optical and satellite networks are now in use, but full
capacity is often not available to applications utilizing these
networks.
Although transport-layer issues have been previously explored, and
solutions to transport-layer bottlenecks have been demonstrated, these
solutions have typically been host and network-unique. Recent
experiments
and analyses have examined both the individual and synergistic effects
of
operating system and protocol changes interacting with the computing and
the network environment.
This workshop will examine the state of the art in deliverable network
application and performance in modern high speed networks, identify and
quantify performance limiters, and investigate possible solutions. Work
toward a unified approach to optimization is of particular interest.
Papers on the wide range of application and protocol performance
implications are of interest but papers investigating generalized
solutions to the transport problem are especially sought. In
particular,
papers dealing with the following are solicited.
*TCP Optimization, working toward a common implementation insensitive
to
network delay
*Protocol considerations for localized, distributed processing
*On-board sattelite processing (routing and switching)
*Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
*Emerging approaches (ie: IP over SONET)
*Applications which can capitalize on the capacity of high-speed
networks
Experimental results observed on high-speed optical testbeds and
satellite
systems are of interest, along with prototyping results of integrated
systems. Focus should be on current research and implementation issues
pertaining to data transmission over high bandwidth-latency paths.
Workshop Chair:
Doug Hoder
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Lewis Research Center
ms 54-6
21000 Brookpark Road,
Cleveland, OH 44135 USA
216-433-3438 (voice)
216-433-8705 (fax)
[email protected]
Program Chairs:
Patrick Dowd
Department of Defense
9800 Savage Road,
MS R53
Ft. Meade, MD 20755 USA
301-688-0347 (voice)
301-688-0588 (fax)
[email protected]
David R. Beering
Infinite Global Infrastructures, LLC
618 Maplewood Dr
Wheaton, IL 60187 USA
630-665-1396 (voice)
630-665-1297 (fax)
[email protected]
Workshop Secretary:
Gregory W. Romaniak
Sterling Software
NASA Lewis Research Center
ms 142-1
21000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44135 USA
216-433-8289 (voice)
216-433-8000 (fax)
[email protected]
Technical Committee:
Roy Axford, US Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, USA
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University,, USA
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Serge Fdida, Laboratoire MASI, France
Victor Frost, University of Kansas, USA
Gary Minden,University of Kansas, USA
Ira Richer, CNRI, USA
David Sims, Schlumberger, USA
Joe Touch, ISI, USA
Satchandi N. Verma, Motorola Satellite Communications Division, USA
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: July 30, 1998*
Notification of Acceptance: August 21, 1998
"Camera Ready" Final Electronic Copy: September 21, 1998
*Papers will be accepted for submission until August 14, but although
every attempt will be made to properly review these submissions,
no guarantees can be provided.
Submission Policy: To speed the reviewing process, an electronic
version
of the paper should be submitted by email to <[email protected]>.
The preferred formats for electronic submission are:
Adobe Acrobat
Postscript
If an electronic version cannot be generated then four copies should be
mailed to the workshop secretary. The submission of double-spaced full
papers is preferred, but extended abstracts up to four pages will be
considered by the technical committee as well. The length of
double-spaced papers should not exceed 20 pages, including figures and
references.
Publication Policy: All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least
three members of the technical committee.
For more information, see <http://mrpink.lerc.nasa.gov/gcomws98.html> ,
or contact the program secretary <[email protected]>.
*--the final date is TBD
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