[Iccrg] [Fwd: CFP: PFLDNET2008 Protocols for very long distance high speed networks]

[Michael Welzl]

FYI
Note that this is co-located with the next ICCRG meeting (on
3-4 March 2008 at the same place).

Cheers,
Michael


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>                            CALL FOR PAPERS 
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>                              PFLDNET2008
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>                    Sixth International Workshop on
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>               Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Networks
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>                             5-7 March 2008
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>         The Schuster Building, The University of Manchester, UK
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>              http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/PFLDnet2008/cfp.php
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> Important Dates
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> Initial Abstract submission:
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> Monday 10 December, 2007
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> Notification of acceptance:
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> Monday 14 January, 2008
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> Early (discounted) Registration:
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> Monday 4 February, 2008
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> Final paper submission:
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> Friday 22 February, 2008
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> Workshop:
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> Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Scope: (choose at least one of the subject areas below - multiple
> selections are possible)
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> Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks:
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> Protocol development
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> Enhancements of TCP and its variants
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> Novel data transport protocols designed for new Networks and
> Application Services
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> Explicit signaling protocols: Optimization criteria and deployment
> strategies
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> Pacing and shaping of TCP and UDP traffic
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> Parallel transfers and multistreaming
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> Performance evaluation
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> Modeling and simulation-based results
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> Experiments on real networks and actual measurements
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> Protocol benchmarking
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> Hardware-specific issues
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> Transport over optical networks
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> Protocol implementation and hardware issues (PCs, NICs, TOEs, routers,
> switches, etc.)
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> End system performance
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> Data replications and striping
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> RDMA over WANs
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> Application focus
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> Requirements and experience from applications with demanding network
> performance requirements 
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> Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based
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> Transport service for Grids
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> QoS and scalability issues
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> Multicast over fast long-distance networks
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> Fiber To The Home (FTTH)
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> 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.
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> COMMITTEES
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> Co-Chairs:
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> Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) 
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> Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR)
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> Steering Committee:
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> Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA)
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> Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) 
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> Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT)
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> Technical Program Committee:
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> Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) (Co-chair)
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> Bill Allcock (Argonne - USA) 
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> Eitan Altman (INRIA - FR)
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> Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA)
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> Chadi Barakat (INRIA - FR) 
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> Richard Carlson (Internet2 - USA)
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> Jean-Laurent Costeux (Orange - FR)
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> Dirceu Cavendish (KIT - JP)
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> Les Cottrell (SLAC - USA) 
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> Michel Diaz (LAAS - FR)
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> Larry Dunn (Cisco - USA) 
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> Lars Eggert (NEC - DE)
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> Ted Faber (ISI - USA)
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> Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech - USA)
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> Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA)
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> Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam- NL)
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> Go Hasegawa (Osaka University - JP)
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> Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) (Co-chair)
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> Dina Katabi (MIT - USA) 
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> Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP)
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> Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP)
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> Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam - NL)
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> Jason Leigh (EVL - USA) 
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> Doug Leith (Hamilton Institute - IE) (Co-chair)
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> Steven Low (caltech - USA) 
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> Saverio Mascolo (University of Bari - IT)
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> Masayuki Murata (Osaka University - JP)
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> Anders Persson (SUN - USA) 
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> Balakrishna Prabhu (CWI -NL) 
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> Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University - USA) 
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> Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC - JP)
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> Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex - UK) 
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> Martin Swany (Delaware - US) 
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> Robin Tasker (Daresbury Lab - UK)
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> Brian Tierney (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories - USA)
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> Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) (Co-chair)
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> David X. Wei (Caltech - USA)
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> Wesley Eddy (NASA -USA) 
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> Local Arrangements:
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> Anne Morrow (Manchester - UK)
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> Stephen Kershaw (Manchester - UK)
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