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<p class="MsoNormal">Please consider submitting a paper to PFLDNet, the deadline is fast approaching (October 4 for abstracts, October 8 for position papers). As in previous years, it is co-located with ICCRG.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PFLDNeT 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The 8th International Workshop on Protocols for Future,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Large-Scale and Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">November 28-29, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Web page: http://pfld.net/2010<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Scope:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Internet continues to evolve along several dimensions, allowing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">more and more end systems to communicate in increasingly diverse ways.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At one end of the performance spectrum, the Internet protocols provide<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">communication facilities for extremely-high-speed special-use<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">networks. At the other end of the performance spectrum, the Internet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">contains very low-power and low-bandwidth networks that cater to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">infrequent, bursty communication. Enabling efficient and high-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">performance end-to-end communication across such a diverse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">internetwork is a difficult problem, which is not solved by current<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">transport layer protocols. The need to support an application base<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that grows more and more dissimilar adds additional challenges.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 8th International Workshop on Protocols for Future, Large-scale &<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT) brings together researchers and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">practitioners from all continents to exchange their ideas and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">experiences in the area of transport issues for modern communication<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">networks. The workshop provides theorists, experimentalists and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">technologists with a focused, highly interactive opportunity to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">development and future directions in transport and application<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">protocols for networks that are increasingly growing in size,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">heterogeneity and dynamicity of interaction.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PFLDNeT 2010 solicits papers that further the research on end-to-end<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">communication protocols for todays and tomorrows Internet in all its<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">diversity along the continuum from specialized grid networks, optical<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">transports, wireless connections, to lossy and low-power networks. A<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">specific focus of the workshop lies on transport protocols for the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">efficient end-to-end transfer of data for a diverse set of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">applications and application-layer protocols.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now approaching its eighth instantiation, the PFLDneT workshop has<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">broadened its focus over the years from protocols targeted at specific<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fast, long-distance networks (the original expansion of the PFLDneT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">acronym) into a venue where all kinds of new ideas relating to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">end-to-end transport protocols for diverse network scenarios are being<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">discussed first.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The previous International Workshops on Protocols for Fast, Long-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Distance Networks held at CERN (2003), Argonne (2004), Lyon (2005),<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nara (2006), Marina del Rey (2007), Manchester (2008), and Tokyo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(2009) were very successful in bringing together many researchers from<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">all over the world, including North America, Europe and Asia, who are<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">working on these problems. PFLDNeT 2010 will continue this tradition,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and provide a perfect forum for researchers in this area to exchange<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ideas and experience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As in previous years, a meeting of the IRTF Internet Congestion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Control Research Group (ICCRG) will be co-located with PFLDNeT, on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">November 29, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important Dates and Relevant Event Information:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract submission: October 4, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Position paper submission: October 8, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notification of acceptance: October 27, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Final camera ready submission: November 14, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop: November 28-29, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IRTF ICCRG meeting (co-located): November 29, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note: PFLDNeT 2010 will be immediately before CoNEXT 2010, and its venue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">is located only a short drive or train ride from Philadelphia, making it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">easy to attend both events in one trip.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Topics:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PFLDNeT 2010 covers all aspects related to transport protocols for the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">current and future Internet, including, but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Transport protocol development<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Enhancements to TCP and other transports<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Innovative congestion control mechanisms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Novel data transport protocols designed for new networks and applications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Transport services for data center networks and grids<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Transport services for wireless and sensor networks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Explicit signaling protocols: optimization criteria and deployment strategies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Pacing and shaping of traffic<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Parallel transfers and multi-streaming<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Performance evaluation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Modeling and simulation-based results<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Interaction of transport protocols and network equipment<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Experiments on real networks and live measurements<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Transport protocol benchmarking<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Transport over optical networks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Transport implementation and hardware issues<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- End system performance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Data replication and striping<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Applications with demanding or unusual network performance requirements<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Bulk-data transfer applications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Quality-of-service and scalability issues<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Multicast<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop Organizers:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Program Committee Chairs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bryan Ford, Yale University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steering Committee:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lachlan Andrew, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Richard Hughes-Jones, Univ. of Manchester, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Katsushi Kobayashi, AIST, Japan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Doug Leith, Hamilton Institute, Ireland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pascale Vicat-Blanc, INRIA, France<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Welzl, University of Oslo, Norway<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Technical Program Committee (preliminary):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mark Allman, ICIR, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Scott Brim, Cisco, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bob Briscoe, BT, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stuart Cheshire, Apple, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Larry Dunn, University of Minnesota, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ted Faber, USC/ISI, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research, India<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sangtae Ha, Princeton University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Janardhan Iyengar, Franklin & Marshall College, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Katsushi Kobayashi, AIST, Japan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Preethi Natarajan, Cisco, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Joerg Ott, TKK, Finland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Medy Sanadidi, UCLA, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pasi Sarolahti, Aalto University, Finland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Scharf, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hideyuki Shimonishi, NEC, Japan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Murari Sridharan, Microsoft, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Joe Touch, USC/ISI, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Welzl, University of Oslo, Norway<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Local Arrangements:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Janardhan Iyengar, Franklin & Marshall College, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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