[datatransport-rg] PFLDNET05: Call for participation

[Pascale.Primet]

            Registrations are now open for pfldnet2005
!!!!!!! Attendance will be limited to 60 participants !!!!!!

Third International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks
				Pfldnet2005
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		http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/pfldnet2005
			pfldnet2005 at ens-lyon.fr
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   Fast long-distance networks (i.e., networks operating at 622 Mbit/s,
2.5 Gbit/s, or 10
Gbit/s and spanning several countries or states) are now becoming
commonplace. More and
more researchers now routinely transfer between 10 GB and multi-TB
datasets over gigabit
networks. Application domains for such massive transfers include
data-intensive Grids
(e.g., in Particle Physics, Earth Observation, Bio informatics, and
Radio Astronomy),
database mirroring for Web sites (e.g., in e-commerce), and push-based
Web cache updates.

   Although the network infrastructure is now in place, or will soon be,
the transport and
application protocols available to date perform rather poorly over such
networks. Current
versions of TCP, for instance, recover very slowly from packet loss when
the RTT and the
link capacity are large, thus requiring a large congestion window for
high throughput. A
number of research teams have begun investigating these protocol issues.

   The First International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance
Networks
(http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/pfldnet2003/) and the Second
International Workshop on
Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks
(http://www-didc.lbl.gov/PFLDnet2004/) were very
successful in bringing together many researchers from the U.S., Asia and
Europe who are
working on these problems. This workshop will continue this tradition,
and provide a perfect
setting for researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experience.

   This single-track workshop will provide researchers and technologists
with a focused, highly
interactive opportunity to present, discuss and exchange experience on
leading research,
development and future directions in high performance transport and
application protocols
(TCP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, etc.) over fast long-distance networks.

   This year, a particular emphasis will be on End Systems Issues
(hardware and software). Each
day will start with a plenary talk and end with a panel. In between,
formal presentations of
papers will be followed by extensive and informal Q&A sessions. Authors
are invited to submit
unpublished extended abstract for consideration.

   In order to facilitate discussions, attendance will be limited to 60
participants. Please
register early to ensure your participation. Depending on the number of
people who register,
we may need to restrict the number of people from a given organization
to allow for a broader
representation of the research community. Registration will open on
October 1, 2004.

   Call For Papers
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     Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-pages
extended
   abstract to http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/Soumission by October 15
(2004).
   Authors whose abstracts are selected for presentation
will have the option to submit a full paper, to be published on the
PFLDnet 2005 web site and in
the PFLDnet 2005 proceedings. We may try to collect the best papers for
a special edition of a
journal, if the authors are interested.

   Scope
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    The Pfldnet2005 workshop will focus on research issues and challenges
as well as lessons learned
   from experience. Topics of interest include and are not limited to:

     · Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks

     · TCP enhancements and their comparison

     · Novel data transport protocols designed for new application services

     · RDMA over WANs

     · Effects of shaping on TCP and UDP traffic

     · Effects of striping and multistreaming

     · Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based

     · Data replication and multicasting strategies and protocols

     · Simulation-based results

     · Experiments on real networks and actual measurements

     · Experience with different types of hardware (PCs, routers,
switches, Gigabit Ethernet cards, etc.)

   Important Dates
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     Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: Oct 15
     Reviews due: Nov 19
     Acceptance Notification: Dec 5
     Final paper submission: Jan 21
     Workshop: 3-4 february

   Committees
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     Co-Chairs:
     Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, INRIA ENS Lyon - FR
     Richard Hughes-Jones, Univ Manchester - UK
     Cheng Jin, Caltech - USA

     Steering Committee:
     Brian L Tierney, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - USA
     Linda Winkler, Argonne National Lab, USA
     R. Les Cottrell , Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - USA

     Technical Program Committee:
     Bill Allcock (ANL - USA)
     Eitan Altman (INRIA France)
     Richard Carlson (Internet 2 - USA)
     Andrew Chien (UCSD - USA)
     Peter Clarke (UCL - UK)
     Les Cottrell (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (USA)
     Cees De Laat (UvA - NL)
     Michel Diaz (LAAS -CNRS - FR)
     Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA)
     Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST JP)
     Douglas Leith (Hamilton Institute- IR)
     Steven Low (California Institute of Technology, USA)
     Jason Leigh (UIC - USA)
     Olivier Martin (CERN- CH)
     Medy Sanadidi (UCLA - USA)
     Robin Tasker (CCLRC - UK)
     Brian L Tierney (LBNL - USA)
     Gab Montenegro (SUN Microsystems - US)

     Local Organization Committee:
     Olivier Gluck (LIP - ENS Lyon)
     Brice Goglin (LIP - ENS Lyon)
     Jean-Christophe Mignot (LIP - ENS Lyon)
     Sylvie Boyer (LIP - ENS Lyon)

   Sponsors:
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     Industrials:
     Foundry Networks, IBM, Juniper Networks

     Academics:
     ENS Lyon, CNRS, INRIA, LIP, RESO, UCBL