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Gateway to the 21st Century
3-4 April1998 Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, CA USA



OPENARCH logo

First IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming

http://comet.columbia.edu/openarch



Program: 3 April 1998


Welcome Address 9:00am - 9:05am

Speakers:
    Aurel A. Lazar, Program Chair, Columbia University
    Steve Weinstein, Organizing Chair, NEC USA


Keynote Address 9:05am - 10:05am


Speaker: Mike Nelson, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.


10:05am - 10:30am Coffee Break

Session 2 - Architectures and Performance 10:30am - 12:00noon


Chair: Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Labs - Research

A Distributed Object Architecture for QOS-Sensitive Networking
S. Rao, J.-P. Redlich, M. Suzuki and S. Weinstein, C&C Research Labs, NEC USA.

A Comparative Study of Connection Setup on a Concurent Connection Management Platform
Ivan M.-C. Tam and Weiguo Wang, Institute of Systems Science, and Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

AsyMOS - An Asymetric Multi-processor Operating System
Steve Muir and Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia


12:00noon - 2:00pm Lunch Break

PANEL
Active Networks and/or Broadband Kernels? 2:00pm - 3:30pm


Chair: Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

Panel Members:

    Mun Choon Chan, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies
    Alden W. Jackson, BBN Technologies
    Weiguo Wang, Institute of Systems Science
    Raj Yavatkar, Intel


3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break

Session 4 - Open Signalling 4:00pm - 5:00pm


Chair: Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Signalling in a Component Based World
Ian Wakeman, Andy Ormsby and Malcolm McIlhagga, University of Sussex

TINA Service Session Control Supporting Complex Negotiation Patricia Lago, Nicola Reale and Giuseppe Avola, Politecnico di Torino


Invited Session 5:00pm - 6:00pm


Research Frontiers in OPEN Architectures
Speaker: Louis-Francois Pau, Ericsson Utvecklings
Reception 6:00pm - 8:00pm




Program: 4 April 1998


Keynote Address 9:00am - 10:00am


Title:Emerging Network Technologies for 2001
Speaker: Bill Edwards, MCI Worldcom


Session 7 - Open Service Management 10:00am - 11:00am


Chair: Amit Gupta, Sun Microsystems

Opening Network Services for Management
Cristina Aurrecoechea, Aurel A. Lazar and Rolf Stadler, Columbia, University

Open Mobility Management Platform for Directory-Based Architecture and Signalling Platform
Henning Maass, Philips Research Laboratories


11:00am - 11:30am Coffee Break

Session 8 - Protocols 11:30am - 12:30pm


Chair: Andrew Thomas, HP Labs

Protocol Organs: Modularity Should Reflect Function not Timing
Tim Moors, Defense Science and Technology Organization, Australia

A Reactive Implementation of the Tau Protocol Composition Mechanism
R. Clayton and K. Calvert, Georgia Institute of Technology


12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break

Session 9 - Work in Progress 2:00pm - 3:30pm


Chair: Tom Laporta, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies

The field of Open Architectures and Network Programming is rapidly evolving. Short (10 minutes) up to date contributions are requested by March 1, 1998 for possible presentation at the conference. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their contributions by March 15, 1998. More details regarding this session are available under URL http://comet.columbia.edu/openarch.


3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break

Session 10 - Active Networks 4:00pm - 4:00pm


Chair: Raj Yavatkar, Intel

ANTS: A Toolkit for Building and Dynamically Deploying Network Protocols
David J. Wetherall, John V. Guttag and David L. Tennenhouse, MIT

Implementation of a Prototype Active Network
A.B. Kulkarni, G.J. Minden, R. Hill, Y. Wijata, A. Gopinath, S.Sheth, F. Wahhab, H. Pindi and A. Nagarajan, University of Kansas


Invited Session 5:00pm - 6:00pm


Research Frontiers in Network Programming
Speaker:David L. Tennenhouse, DARPA and MIT


Registration:


OpenArch Conference Alone

IEEE Member

Non-IEEE Member

Student
Before 10 March 98

$275

$325

$150
After 10 March 98

$325

$375

$200



OpenArch Conference fee
in addition to Infocom Registration

IEEE Member

Non-IEEE Member

Student
Before 10 March 98

$250

$300

$150
After 10 March 98

$300

$350

$200
The registration fee includes proceedings, two lunches, a cocktail party, and coffee break.




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Prepared by Ramesh Nagarajan