craig@bbn.com (Craig Partridge) (08/21/90)
[This is a reminder that the advance registration deadline is 1 September.
Also, please note that the hotel has extended its registration deadline
for the SIGCOMM rate until August 30th].
SIGCOMM '90 - General Information
SIGCOMM is the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group
in Computer Communication. This year's conference will be held at
the University City Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
September 24-27th. This program contains the advance schedule for
the conference, registration information, and hotel information.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the SIGCOMM '90
conference committee, at 215-898-0016 or sigcomm90@cis.upenn.edu.
SIGCOMM Conference Committee
General Chair: Prof. David J. Farber (Univ. Pennsylvania)
Program Chair: Phil Karn (Bellcore)
Tutorial Chair: Prof. Magda El-Zarki (Univ. Pennsylvania)
Local Arrangements: Dan Finnigan (Univ. Pennsylvania)
Publicity Chair: Craig Partridge (Bolt Beranek and Newman)
Advisors: Prof. Larry Landweber (Univ. Wisconsin), Prof. Chris
Edmondson-Yurkanan (Univ. Texas),
Dr. Vint Cerf (CNRI)
SIGCOMM Program Committee
Phil Karn (Bellcore), Ernst Biersack (Bellcore), Vint Cerf (CNRI),
Doug Comer (Purdue), Jon Crowcroft (Univ. College London), Gary
Delp (IBM), John Demco (CDNnet), Magda El-Zarki (Univ. Pennsyl-
vania), Zygmunt Haas (AT&T), Raj Jain (DEC), Larry Landweber (Univ.
Wisconsin), Craig Partridge (BBN), Guru Parulkar (Washington Univ.
St. Louis), Larry L. Peterson (Univ. Arizona), Steve Pink (SICS),
Marshall T. Rose (PSI), Harry Rudin (IBM), Jonathan M. Smith (Univ.
Pennsylvania)
Tutorials: September 24th [9 AM to 5 PM]
Tutorial #1: Protocols for High-Speed Networks
Instructors: Harry Rudin and Van Jacobson
Part A: High-Performance, Transport-Level Protocols (Rudin)
Made possible by progress in fiber-optic and VLSI technologies,
networks offering increasing transmission capacity at decreasing
error rates are becoming available. New applications would benefit
from this bandwidth but software protocol processing rates have not
kept up with available raw transmission speed. The presentation is
a comparative survey of techniques used at the transport layer in
eight representative protocols, most of which were designed to
improve the protocol processing rate. The protocols are the
relevant portions of the APPN, Datakit, Delta-t, NETBLT, OSI/TP4,
TCP, VMTP, and XTP architectures. The main functions covered are:
connection management, acknowledgements, flow control, and error
handling.
Part B: Efficient TCP Implementation (Jacobson)
Network protocol processing time has long been viewed as THE deter-
miner of perceived network performance. For at least one well
known suite, the TCP and IP Internet protocols, recent measurement
has shown this view to be false: The protocol *implementation*
affects perceived performance, as does the way in which the network
interface hardware interacts with the entire software/hardware sys-
tem it is a part of. But there is no inherent performance limit
in the TCP/IP protocols themselves. In fact, a Unix TCP/IP imple-
mentation has been constructed that runs at a essentially the
information-theoretic minimum time for the the problem being
solved.
This tutorial will describe an efficient TCP/IP implementation in
agonizing detail. It will describe where time goes in a typical
implementation and what can be done in the protocol and system
software to reclaim that time. It will discuss how the network
interface hardware affects processing time and what hardware archi-
tectures lead to cheap, efficient processing.
Familiarity with the TCP and IP protocols will be assumed.
Although the implementation described will be based on a real, pro-
duction, Berkeley Unix TCP/IP, no Unix kernel expertise will be
assumed, only familiarity with operating system issues and imple-
mentations.
Harry Rudin received the B.E. and D.Eng. degrees from Yale Univer-
sity, where he also taught until 1964. He worked at Bell Telephone
Laboratories in the area of data communications until 1968. Since
then he has been doing research in computer communications systems
at the Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM Research Division, in
Rueschlikon, Switzerland. His interests are high-speed protocols
and the use of formal description techniques for protocol develop-
ment. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Chairman of IFIP WG6.1, gives a
graduate course on computer networks at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zurich, and is a senior editor of Computer Net-
works and ISDN Systems magazine.
Van Jacobson received a MS in Physics and a BS in Mathematics from
the University of Arizona in 1972. Since then he has been a Staff
Scientist in the Real Time Systems Group of Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory, developing high performance, distributed, data acquisi-
tion and control systems. Since 1984 his research has concentrated
on network protocols and the dynamics of large-scale networks.
Since 1985 he has served as an adjunct lecturer in Computer Science
at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.
Tutorial #2: Object-Oriented Network Management and Control
Instructors: Aurel Lazar and Mark W. Sylor
The objective of this tutorial is to present a structured approach
to problems arising in network management and control. Object-
oriented modeling of communication networks. Knowledge representa-
tion, entity/relationship models for data representation. Models
of network management and control. Managed and managing objects.
Performance management. Computational models for data abstraction.
The OSI Information Model and the Management Information Base.
Knowledge based monitoring and control. Modeling examples of real
networks. DECnet - EMA Entities, TCP/IP - MIB definitions. Exam-
ples will also be drawn from AT&T's UNMA and IBM's Netview. Sup-
porting capabilities and architectures: testing, down/line loading,
event logging, time service and naming.
Aurel A. Lazar is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Direc-
tor of the Telecommunication Networks Laboratory at Columbia
University. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in communications
engineering (Nachrichtentechnik) from the Technische Hochschule
Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany, in 1976, and the
Ph.D. degree in information sciences and systems from Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, in 1980. During the 80's he was
involved in the design and implementation of integrated networks
supporting video, voice and data services. Most recently, he was
the chief architect of MAGNET II a metropolitan area network based
on Asynchronous Time Sharing. Currently he is leading the design
and implementation of a real-time traffic control architecture for
integrated networks.
Mark W. Sylor is a member of the Enterprise Management Architecture
group at Digital Equipment Corperation in Littleton, MA, where he
works on the EMA Entity Model, and the Phase V DECnet Network
Management Specification. He has been a member of the ISO and ANSI
committees working on OSI System Management, and was formerly the
ANSI T5.4 ad-hoc group leader on the Structure of Management Infor-
mation (SMI). Mark has been involved with the design and implemen-
tation of many of Digital's Network Management systems, in particu-
lar the NMCC/DECnet Monitor, where he was the principle designer
and development supervisor. Mark earned a B.A. degreee at S.U.N.Y.
at Geneseo in 1971 and an M.S. degree at the University of Notre
Dame in 1975, both in Mathematics.
Technical Program: September 25-27th
MONDAY, September 24th
RECEPTION [7 PM to 9 PM]
TUESDAY, September 25th
Keynote Address: SIGCOMM AWARD Winner [9:00 - 9:30]
Session #1: Congestion Control [10:00 - 12:00] Chair: Jon Smith
Random Drop Congestion Control, A. Mankin (Mitre)
A Stop-and-Go Queueing Framework for Congestion Management, S.J.
Golestani (Bellcore)
Virtual Clock: a new traffic control algorithm for packet switch-
ing networks, L. Zhang (Xerox PARC)
Dynamic Adaptive Windows for High Speed Data Networks: Theory and
Simulations, D. Mitra (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Lunch [12:00 - 1:30]
Session #2: Applications and Distributed Systems [1:30 - 3:00]
Chair: Larry Peterson
Efficient At-Most-Once Messages Based on Synchronized Clocks, L.
Shrira, J. Wroclawski, B. Liskov (MIT)
Uniform Access to Internet Directory Services, D. Comer (Purdue
Univ.) and R.E. Droms (Bucknell Univ.)
A Data Processing Performance Model for the OSI Application Layer
Protocols, T. Shiroshita (NTT)
Session #3: MANs and WANs [3:30 - 5:00] Chair: Jon Crowcroft
A Simple Multiple Access Protocol for Metropolitan Area Networks,
J.O. Limb (Hewlett-Packard)
The BBN Dual Bus Protocol: Performance in a Wide Area Network, W.
Edmond, K. Seo, M. Leib, C. Topolcic (BBN)
Machnet: A Simple Access Protocol for High Speed or Long Haul Com-
munications, P. Jacquet, P. Muhlethaler (INRIA)
SIGCOMM Business Meeting [5:15 - 6:00]
WEDNESDAY, September 26th
Session #4: Multimedia Protocols and Protocol Testing [9:00 -
10:30] Chair: Guru Parulkar
Mechanisms for Integrated Voice and Data Conferencing, C. Ziegler,
G. Weiss (Brooklyn College)
Link Access Blocking in Very Large Multi-Media Networks, J.-F.
Labourdette, G. Hart (Columbia Univ.)
Protocol Conformance Test Generation Using Multiple UIO Sequences
with Overlapping, B. Yang, H. Ural (University of Ottawa)
Session #5: High-Speed Switching [11:00 - 12:30] Chair: Zygmunt
Haas
Gauss: a simple high performance switch architecture for ATM,
R.J.F. de Vries (PTT Research, Netherlands)
Protocol Implementation on the Nectar Communication Processor,
E.C. Cooper, P.A. Steenkiste, R.D. Sansom, B.D. Zill (Carnegie
Mellon Univ.)
Pulsar: Non-blocking Packet Switching with Shift-Register Rings,
G.J. Murakami, R.H. Campbell, M. Faiman (Univ. of Illinois)
Lunch [12:30 - 2:00]
Session #6: Routing and Flow Control [2:00 - 3:30] Chair: Raj Jain
A Theoretical Analysis of Feedback Flow Control, S. Shenker (Xerox
PARC)
Shortest Path First with Emergency Exits, Z. Wang, J. Crowcroft
(University College London)
Shortest Paths and Loop-Free Routing in Dynamic Networks, B. Awer-
buch (MIT)
Session #7: Gigabit Protocols [4:00 - 5:30] Chair: Craig Partridge
Transport Protocol Processing at GBPS rates, N. Jain, M. Schwartz
(Columbia University)
Architectural Considerations for a New Generation of Protocols,
D.D. Clark, D.L. Tennenhouse (MIT)
Multiplexing Issues in Transport Protocol Design, D.C. Feldmeier
(Bellcore)
Banquet [6:30 - 8:00]
THURSDAY, September 27th
Session #8: Routing [9:00 - 10:30] Chair: Steve Pink
Avoiding Name Resolution Loops and Duplications in Group Communi-
cations, L. Liang, G.W. Neufeld, S.T. Chanson (Univ. of British
Columbia)
Design of Inter-Administrative Domain Routing Protocols L.
Breslau, D. Estrin (USC)
Topology Distribution Cost vs. Efficient Routing In Large Net-
works, A. Bar-Noy, M. Gopal (IBM Watson)
Session #9: LAN Issues [11:00 - 12:30] Chair: John Demco
Efficient Use of Workstations for Passive Monitoring of Local Area
Networks, J. Mogul (DEC)
Performance Analysis of FDDI Token Ring Networks: Effect of Param-
eters and Guidelines for Setting TTRT, R. Jain (DEC)
Frame Content Independent Stripping for Token Rings, H. Yang, K.
K. Ramakrishnan (DEC)
Lunch [12:30 - 2:00]
Session #10: Protocol Design [2:00 - 3:30] Chair: Ernst Biersack
Fast Connection Establishment in High Speed Networks, I. Cidon, I.
Gopal, A. Segall (IBM Watson and Technion)
Reliable Broadband Communications Using a Burst Erasure Correcting
Code, A.J. McAuley (Bellcore)
An Inclusive Session Protocol for Distributed Applications, V.S.
Sunderam (Emory Univ.)
SIGCOMM '90 wishes to thank our host site, the University of
Pennsylvania for its considerable support in putting on this
conference.
SIGCOMM '90 would also like to acknowledge the generous support of
the following corporations: Advance Computer Communications,
Bellcore, FTP Software, Digital Equipment Corporation's Network
Systems Lab, and Interop Inc.
Mark your calendars for SIGCOMM '91, September 3-6, 1991 at ETH Zurich,
in Zurich, Switzerland.
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