[Nml-wg] CFP: PFLDNET2008 Protocols for very long distance high speed networks

[Pascale VICAT-BLANC]

CALL FOR PAPERS



Sixth International Workshop on
Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Networks
  5-7 March 2008
  The Schuster Building, The University of Manchester, UK

http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/PFLDnet2008/cfp.php




Important Dates

Initial Abstract submission:
Monday 10 December, 2007
Notification of acceptance:
Monday 14 January, 2008
Early (discounted) Registration:
Monday 4 February, 2008
Final paper submission:
Friday 22 February, 2008
Workshop:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
5 to 7 March, 2008

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With the emergence of hybrid network facilities, future networks will  
increasingly contain high bandwidth, high delay paths. Protocols for  
fast, long distance networks will have to expand from experimental  
testbeds and into the wider world. In that process, it is  
increasingly important for protocols which achieve high utilization  
on fast, long distance networks also to have the qualities required  
for widespread use, such as fairness and scalability to many users.

The goal of the International Protocols for Fast Long-Distance  
Networks workshop series is to bring together researchers and  
practitioners from all continents 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 over fast long-distance networks.

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 8 October 2008.

PFLDnet2008 solicits papers which will further research on protocols  
for tomorrow's high speed Internet, at all stages along the continuum  
from the requirements of today's Grid networks, through optical  
transports, throughbenchmarking of proposals, to the selection of the  
next generation of TCP and other transport protocols.

Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-page  
extended abstact to the submission site by Monday 10 December 2007.  
Final papers should be typically 4-5 pages, but no longer than 6 pages.

Scope: (choose at least one of the subject areas below - multiple  
selections are possible)

Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks:
Protocol development
Enhancements of TCP and its variants
Novel data transport protocols designed for new Networks and  
Application Services
Explicit signaling protocols: Optimization criteria and deployment  
strategies
Pacing and shaping of TCP and UDP traffic
Parallel transfers and multistreaming
Performance evaluation
Modeling and simulation-based results
Experiments on real networks and actual measurements
Protocol benchmarking
Hardware-specific issues
Transport over optical networks
Protocol implementation and hardware issues (PCs, NICs, TOEs,  
routers, switches, etc.)
End system performance
Data replications and striping
RDMA over WANs
Application focus
Requirements and experience from applications with demanding network  
performance requirements
Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based
Transport service for Grids
QoS and scalability issues
Multicast over fast long-distance networks
Fiber To The Home (FTTH)
Authors whose papers are selected for presentation will have the  
option to submit a revised paper, to be published on the PFLDnet 2008  
web site and in the PFLDnet 2008 proceedings. We propose to collect  
the best papers from PFLDnet 2008 and make a joint publication with  
those from PFLDnet 2007 in a special edition of a journal, if the  
authors are interested.


COMMITTEES

Co-Chairs:
Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK)
Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR)
Steering Committee:
Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA)
Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP)
Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT)
Technical Program Committee:
Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) (Co-chair)
Bill Allcock (Argonne - USA)
Eitan Altman (INRIA - FR)
Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA)
Chadi Barakat (INRIA - FR)
Richard Carlson (Internet2 - USA)
Jean-Laurent Costeux (Orange - FR)
Dirceu Cavendish (KIT - JP)
Les Cottrell (SLAC - USA)
Michel Diaz (LAAS - FR)
Larry Dunn (Cisco - USA)
Lars Eggert (NEC - DE)
Ted Faber (ISI - USA)
Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech - USA)
Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA)
Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam- NL)
Go Hasegawa (Osaka University - JP)
Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) (Co-chair)
Dina Katabi (MIT - USA)
Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP)
Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP)
Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam - NL)
Jason Leigh (EVL - USA)
Doug Leith (Hamilton Institute - IE) (Co-chair)
Steven Low (caltech - USA)
Saverio Mascolo (University of Bari - IT)
Masayuki Murata (Osaka University - JP)
Anders Persson (SUN - USA)
Balakrishna Prabhu (CWI -NL)
Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University - USA)
Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC - JP)
Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex - UK)
Martin Swany (Delaware - US)
Robin Tasker (Daresbury Lab - UK)
Brian Tierney (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories - USA)
Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) (Co-chair)
David X. Wei (Caltech - USA)
Eddy Wes (NASA -USA)
Local Arrangements:
Anne Morrow (Manchester - UK)
Stephen Kershaw (Manchester - UK)




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