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29 March 1998 San Francisco, CA
Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, CA USA
Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN `98
Call for Participation
Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking in conjunction with INFOCOM'98
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) x (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
- how do all-optical subnets affect gigabit protocols?
Special Focus Topic - Impact of Commodity Gigabit LANs. Gigabit LANs, including gigabit ethernet, are beginning to become a commercial commodity. In addition to the issues listed above, GBN '98 is seeking abstract specifically addressing:
- how does the advent of commodity gigabit LANs affect gigabit protocols?
There will be sessions reserved for interactive discussion. Suggestions for additional topics are welcome (email giga@tele.pitt.edu and Cc: to the program chair); controversial topics and outrageous viewpoints are encouraged. Presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the workshop, under URL
http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn98.
Submission
Submission of a one page abstract is due 6 Feb 1998, and must be in plain text by email to the program co-chairs at jpgs@ieee.org and touch@isi.edu. Please include the text "GBN'98 Submission" in the Subject: field; all submissions will be quickly acknowledged (otherwise contact the program chair to confirm receipt). Notification will be made by 20 February 1998. Annotated electronic versions of the presentation foils are due 23 March 1997, to be included in the on-line proceedings prior to the workshop.
Registration
Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM'98 registration; information is available on the WWW at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/infocom/98/. This GBN'98 CFP and additional information on the workshop are available on the WWW at http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn, or by email to the program chair.
IEEE Member | Non-IEEE Member | |
| Before 10 March 98 | $140 | $180 |
| After 10 March 98 | $170 | $215 |
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Prepared by Ramesh Nagarajan