garcia%sri-azteca@sri-tsc (J. Joaquin Garcia-Luna) (06/25/86)
The following information may be of interest to you all. JJ ---------- ACM SIGCOMM '86 SYMPOSIUM. Stowe, Vermont; April 5, 6 & 7. The symposium features 45 papers chosen from over 120 submissions. Bob Kahn is the keynote speaker (Developing an Advanced Communications Infrastructure). Carl Sunshine (network interconnection and gateways) and Najah Naffah (distributed message systems) are the two tutorial speakers. The topics of the paper sessions include: local area networks, voice/data integration, protocol engineering, network algorithms, performance analysis, security and access control, and design and analysis of transport-level protocols including TCP. Of particular interest to the tcp-ip list may be the sessions "Modeling of Transport Protocols" (chair: Mike Ferguson) and "Protocols for Interprocess Communication" (chair: Bob Braden). One of the two winners of ACM SIGCOMM 86's student paper award contest is L. Zhang for her paper "Why TCP Timers Don't Work Well." For more information about symposium and tutorials, and preferred registration, contact Jose Garcia-Luna before July 20, 1986. Postal address: SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025; Tel: (415) 859-5647 or (415)859-6366; Telex: 334486; ARPANET: garcia@sri-tsc. Else, contact Prof. Frank Vanecek, SIGCOMM '86, Norwich University, Dewey Hall, Northfield, Vermont 05663, USA; Tel: (802)485-5011.