prabha@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Balakrishnan Prabhakaran) (11/11/89)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
INDOLAN '90
PARK SHERATON, MADRAS, INDIA
JANUARY 29-31, 1990.
DETAILED TECHNICAL PROGRAMME
JANUARY 29, 1990
TUTORIAL I
TITLE : Resource Allocation in Local Area Networks
Duration : 0930 - 1230
Faculty : Professor Satish K. Tripathi, University of
Maryland, USA.
Venue : Arcot Hall
TUTORIAL II
TITLE : Protocol Software Engineering
Duration : 0930 - 1230
Faculty : Professor S.V.Raghavan, Indian Institute
of Technology, Madras
Venue : Mowbrays Hall
Scope : With the widespread acceptance very significant
efforts in Open Systems Interconnection of ISO,
the Software Engineering of Protocols is assuming
tremendous importance. This tutorial addresses
the issues in selection of a fundamental standard
of OSI for LANs and discusses issues in actual
implementation in different operating environments.
A real-life example of such an implementation,
OSINET of IIT Madras will be present as a case study.
TUTORIAL III
TITLE : Manufacturing Automation Program and
Technical Office Protocol (MAP & TOP)
Duration : 1400 - 1700
Faculty : Professor Birendra N. Jain, Indian Institute
of Technology, Delhi
Venue : Arcot Hall
TUTORIAL IV
TITLE : Fiber Optic LANs
Duration : 1400 - 1700
Faculty : Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute
of Technology, Madras.
Venue : Mowbrays Hall
JANUARY 30, 1990
0830 : Registration
0930 : Inauguration
Venue : Mowbrays Hall
0930 - 0932 : Invocation
0932 - 0935 : Welcome Address
Mr.S.Mahalingam
Vice Chairman,
CSI Madras Chapter
0935 - 0945 : Presidential Address
Mr.H.S.Sonawala
President, CSI
0945 - 0955 : IFIP & CSI
Major Gen. Balasubramanyam
Managing Trustee, IFIP
0955 - 1005 : Programme Highlights
Dr.S.V.Raghavan
Chairman,
Programme Committee
1005 - 1015 : Conference Highlights
Mr.K.V.Seshasayee
Chairman,
Organising Committee
1015 - 1030 : Inaugural address
Dr.R.Rajamani
Secretary, DOE, GOI
Vote of Thanks
Mr.G.Ramachandran
Honorary Secretary, CSI
1030 - 1100 : TEA
SESSION I : LAN Technology & Architecture Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1100 - 1240)
Chairman : Dr.S.Ramani, NCST
1100 - 1120 : Invited paper : LAN Technology & Architecture
Guy Pujolle, IFIP
1120 - 1140 : Efficient Management of Replicated Data in
CSMA/CD Networks.
By Pankaj Jalote
Dept. of Computer Science & Inst. of Advanced
Computer Studies, University of Maryland, USA.
1140 - 1200 : DDLAN : The design of Double-loop Local
Area Network.
By K.C.Reddy, N.Saravanan, P.G.Reddy
School of Mathematics/Information Sciences
University of Hyderabad, A.P., India.
1200 - 1220 : Extended Multicast Address Recognition for
Ethernet Controllers.
By Larry Hughes, Abdullatif Bakbak
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1220 - 1240 : Netdrive : A device driver implementation
for Mass Storage sharing on IBM PC
Compatibles over Local and Wide Area Networks.
By Avijit Ghosh, S.L.Maskara
Dept. of E & ECE, Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
SESSION II : LANs in India Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1240 - 1300)
Chairman : Prof. D.K.Subramanyam, IISc, Bangalore.
Invited Paper: LANs in India - Technology and Applications
Prof. T.Viswanathan, INSDOC, CSIR, Delhi.
1300 - 1400 : Lunch
SESSION III : High Speed LANs Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1400 - 1500)
Chairman : Prof. K.R.Shrivatsan, IIT Kanpur
1400 - 1420 : Invited Paper : NIU design for High
Speed LANs
1420 - 1440 : Priority Mechanism of Resolvable-Contention-
Ring on High-Speed Multi-Media Communication.
By Suvepon Saekol, Hiromi Okada,
Sadao Maekawa, Yoshikazu Tezuka
Dept. of Communication Engineering,
Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
1440 - 1500 : High Performance Multi-Drop Parallel
Flexible Cable Bus Net (Flexibus) for
Bus-based Parallel Processing Systems.
By A.Pedar, Vijayalaxmi Shankar
Systems Engineering Division,
National Aeronautical Laboratory,
Bangalore, India.
SESSION IV : Distributed Systems & LANs Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1500 - 1540)
Chairman : Prof.L.M.Patnaik, IISc, Bangalore
1500 - 1520 : Distributed Systems are Indecisive.
By Nandit Soparkar, Abraham Silberschatz
Dept. of Computer Sciences,
University of Texas, Austin, USA.
1520 - 1540 : Design Principles and Strategies for Deakin
Distributed System.
By Swami Kutti, Brian Garner
Computing and Mathematics Dept.,
Deakin University,
Geelong, Australia.
1540 - 1600 : Tea
SESSION V : LANs and Open Systems Interconnection Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1600 - 1730)
Chairman : Prof.R.K.Subramanyam, Anna University, Madras.
1600 - 1630 : Invited paper - Dr. B.N. Jain
1630 - 1650 : A Software based Hybrid Media Access
Mechanism in LAN.
By S.Mitra, S.Bhattacharya, G.Bhattacharya,
K.Datta, T.K.Ghoshal
Control Systems Laboratory,
Jadavpur University,
Calcutta, India.
1650 - 1710 : A Comparison between Data Link Functionalities
in Field Bus Networks.
By A.Di Stefano, O.Mirabella
Instituto di Informatica e Telecommunicazioni
Universita di Catania, Catania, Italy.
1710 - 1730 : Simulation of Formal Protocol Specifications.
By Wanderley Lopes de Souza,
Jose Neuman de Souza
GRC/DSC/CCT/Universidade Federal da Paraiba,
Av.Aprigio Veloso, Campina Grande (Pb),
Brazil.
JANUARY 31, 1990
SESSION VI : LAN Performance Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(0900 - 1100)
Chairman : Dr.Anurag Kumar, IISc, Bangalore.
0930 - 0950 : Invited paper : End-User Performance of LANs
Dr.Satish K.Tripathi
University of Maryland, USA.
0950 - 1010 : Performance Analysis of a Linked Local
Area Network.
By M.H.Siddiqui, D.J.Parish
Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept.
University of Technology, Loughborough, U.K.
1010 - 1030 : Study and Evaluation of Local Area Network Architectures
for Video Image Transmission.
By Bernard Cousin, Botfi Kamoun
ENSERB-Universite de Bordeaux 1,
351 Cours de la Liberation, Cedex, France.
1030 - 1100 : TEA
SESSION VI : LAN Performance (Contd.) Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1100 - 1140)
1100 - 1120 : A Simulation study of ARBNET : A Flood
Routing Local Area Network.
By H.K.Pung, Michael Lim
Dept. of Information Systems and
Computer Science, National University
of Singapore, Singapore.
1120 - 1140 : Study and Evaluation of Deakin Ring LAN
By Swamy Kutti, Brian Garner
Computing Mathematics Department,
Deakin University,
Geelong, Australia.
SESSION VII : LANs in India (Contd.) Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1140 - 1200)
Chairman : Prof. M.N.Farooqui, IIT, Kharagpur.
Invited Paper : LAN R & D in India - Project ERNET
Mr.S.Ramakrishnan
Department of Electronics,
Government of India.
SESSION VIII : Work-in-Progress Session Venue : Mowbrays Hall
(1200 - 1300)
Chairman : Prof.S.L.Mehnidiratta, IIT, Bombay.
1300 - 1400 : Lunch
SESSION IX : Panel Discussion on LAN Policy, Technology and Perspective
(1400 - 1600) Venue : Mowbrays Hall
Chairman : Prof.T.Viswanathan, INSDOC, CSIR, Delhi.
Panelists : Mr.Dipak Basu, CSI/IFIP
Mr.Ramakrishnan, DoE
Dr.Guy Pujolle, IFIP
Mr.Kishore Oka, CSI/MBT
Mr.C.Rangarajan, RBI
Mr.K.V.Seshasayee, DIGICON
CLOSING CEREMONY
(1600 - 1700)
Chairman : Mr.Ratan Dutta
Vice-Chairman, CSI.
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