lhl@CS.WISC.EDU (L.H. Landweber) (01/23/89)
CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM SIGCOMM '89 SYMPOSIUM
Communications Architectures and Protocols
Austin, Texas
September 20-22, 1989
(Tutorials September 19th)
The symposium provides an international forum for the
presentation and discussion of communication network appli-
cations and technologies, as well as recent advances and
proposals on communication architectures, protocols, algo-
rithms, and performance models. Authors are invited to sub-
mit full papers concerned with both theory and practice.
The areas of interest for the symposium include, but are not
limited to the following: analysis and design of computer
network architectures and algorithms, innovative results in
local area networks, computer-supported collaborative work,
network interconnection and mixed-media networks, high-speed
networks, resource sharing in distributed systems, distri-
buted operating systems and databases, protocol specifica-
tion, verification, and analysis.
Papers should be about 20 double-spaced pages long and
should have an abstract of 100-150 words. All submitted
papers will be reviewed and will be judged with respect to
their quality and relevance. Authors of accepted papers
will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. The
Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium and pub-
lished as a special issue of SIGCOMM Computer Communication
Review. A few of the submitted papers will be selected for
publication in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.
Submit 5 copies of each paper to the program chairman: Dr.
Mohamed Gouda, Computer Sciences Department, University of
Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712, USA; Telephone: (512)
471-9532; EMAIL: gouda@cs.utexas.edu
For more information about the symposium, contact Dr. L.H.
Landweber, General Chair, Computer Sciences Dept., Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706;
Tel: (608) 262-1204; EMAIL: landweber@cs.wisc.edu.
STUDENT PAPER AWARD
Papers submitted by students will enter a student-paper
award contest. Among the accepted papers, a maximum of four
outstanding papers will be awarded (1) full conference
registration and (2) a travel grant of $500 US dollars.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: March 20, 1989
Notification of acceptance: May 19, 1989
Camera-ready manuscript due: June 19, 1989
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
General Chair: L.H. Landweber, University of Wisconsin, USA
Program Chair: M. Gouda, University of Texas, USA
Local Arrangements: M. Gouda, University of Texas, USACERF@A.ISI.EDU (01/30/89)
Larry, how would you feel about a special one-day workshop after the SIGCOMM 89. Dave Mills and I have been thinking about having such a workshop to focus on "Limits of the Internet" - to try to helpfocus attention on areas needing research. In theory, this would also be helpful to ISO since much of the ISO protocol base is patterned like the TCP/IP internet. We'd probably make it an invitational workshop - applicants to send in short statements of areas of interest or positions (2 pages) and limit to 75 or so. I need to check with Mohamed Gouda, too, of course, but I want to get your reaction first. Vint
hsw@TYCHO.NCSC.MIL (Howard Weiss) (04/19/89)
Does anyone have any pre-information regarding SIGCOMM '89 - I've got the dates and the place (Austin, 20-22 Sept) - does anyone have an idea what the costs will be and what tutorials will be given. I need this info for planning purposes - the conference comes out near the end of the govt fiscal year and money is many times in very short supply at that time of the year. Thanks, Howard Weiss -------
CERF@A.ISI.EDU (04/20/89)
Howard, I have some mailers - can I send you a few? What address? Vint
lhl@CS.WISC.EDU (L.H. Landweber) (09/01/89)
ADVANCE PROGRAM FOR ACM SIGCOMM '89 COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS AUSTIN, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 19 - 22, 1989 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVANCE REGISTRATION FORM Please send this form and a check or money order (in U.S. dollars, no purchase orders) payable to SIGCOMM '89, to: SIGCOMM '89 Department of Computer Sciences Taylor Hall 2.124 University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712-1188 (512) 471-7316 [] SYMPOSIUM (9/20 - 9/22) Before 9/5/89 After 9/5/89 Member [] $200 [] $250 Non-Member [] $250 [] $300 Student [] $100 [] $100 [] TUTORIAL 1 (9/19) (High-Speed WANs) [] TUTORIAL 2 (9/19) (FDDI) Before 9/5/89 After 9/5/89 Member [] $150 [] $200 Non-Member [] $200 [] $250 Student [] $100 [] $100 DIETARY RESTRICTIONS [] Kosher [] Vegetarian Special meals can be guaranteed only for those who register in advance. Name: Affiliation: Address: Phone#: EMAIL Address: ACM or SIGCOMM Member #: The symposium and tutorials will be conducted at the Austin Marriott at the Capitol. Registration fee includes Proceedings; reception on Tuesday; lunch on Wednesday and Thursday; and Thursday evening banquet. Student registration includes all but the Thursday evening banquet. The tutorial registration fee includes lunch on Tuesday. Requests for refunds will be honored until September 5, 1989. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM Please send this form to: Austin Marriott at The Capitol 701 East 11th Street Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 478-111 Reservations must be received by September 5, 1989 to guarantee the following rates: [] Single $55 + tax [] Double $62 + tax Name: Address: Phone#: Arrival date & time: Departure date: Sharing room with: All rooms will be held until 6 pm the day of arrival without deposit/guarantee. For arrivals later than 6 pm, please guarantee to a major credit card. Card Name & Number: Expiration date: Name on card: Signature: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The symposium provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of communication network applications and technologies, as well as recent advances and proposals on communication architectures, protocols, algorithms, and performance models. TUTORIALS Tuesday, September 19 9:00 am - 5:00 pm TUTORIAL 1 "High-Speed, Wide Area Networks," M. El Zarki, University of Pennsylvania, and N. F. Maxemchuk, AT&T Bell Laboratories. This course will be divided into two parts, routing and flow control on high speed networks, and congestion and error control in ATM networks. In the first part of the course, routing and flow control mechanisms that have been used in local, metropolitan, and wide-area networks will be surveyed, and a classification scheme will be described. The objective is to determine which of these techniques may be applicable to high-speed, wide area networks. The second part of the course focuses on ATM, the proposed technique for Broadband ISDN. The concepts of ATM transmission are first introduced and will include an overview of fast packet switching architectures. This is then followed by a discussion on the performance of error schemes and congestion control mechanisms. OUTLINE Introduction to high speed networks: characteristics and performance issues Overview of past and current routing schemes Overview of past and current flow control mechanisms Definition of a new classification scheme for routing and flow control algorithms Predictions for high speed networks Concepts of ATM transmission Overview of fast packet switching Performance of error control schemes in high speed networks Issues in congestion control for high speed networks Discussion of some recent proposals for error and congestion control BIOGRAPHIES Nick F. Maxemchuk is currently the head of the distributed systems research department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He received a B.S.E.E. from CCNY, and a masters and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked in the area of data networking since 1968. During that time he has been at RCA Labs, on the adjunct faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, editor of data communications for IEEE Transactions on Communications, on the editorial board of JSAC, and an advisor on data networking for the UN, RADC, ITRC, and other organizations. Magda El Zarki is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where she is doing research in telecommunications. She received a B.E.E. from Cairo University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. Her doctoral research focused on resource allocation mechanisms for high speed integrated local area networks. She has also worked as a communications network planner at Citibank in New York and in the Columbia University Computer Communications Research Laboratory designing and developing an integrated LAN testbed called MAGNET. 9:00 am - 5:00 pm TUTORIAL 2 "Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)," Raj Jain, Digital Equipment Corporation Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a 100 megabits per second fiber optic local area network (LAN) standard being developed by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI). The standard allows up to 500 stations to communicate via fiber optic cables using a timed token access protocol. Normal data traffic as well as time constrained traffic such as voice, video, and real time applications are supported. All major computer vendors, communications vendors, and telephone companies are planning to offer products supporting this standard. In this tutorial we will cover key aspects of FDDI such as the media access protocol, encoding schemes, fiber cables, optical components, and network management. The emphasis will be on explaining the concepts and the reasons behind various design decisions. We will compare various alternatives and discuss why a particular alternative was chosen. Known Performance and error characteristics will be presented. A comparison will be made with IEEE 802.5 token ring approach. We will also discuss FDDI-II which allows circuit switched (Isochronous) traffic on FDDI and will be used by telecommunication industry for interconnection to ISDN networks. OUTLINE Introduction: Protocol layers, Types of stations Media-Access Control (MAC): Timed token access method Physical Layer (PHY): Coding, Clock synchronization Physical Media Dependent (PMD): Optical components Station Management (SMT): Topology control Performance Analysis FDDI-II Comparison with IEEE 802.5 BIOGRAPHY Raj Jain received the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1978. For the last ten years, he has been with Digital Equipment Corporation where he has been involved in performance modeling and analysis of a number of computer systems and networks including VAX clusters, DECnet, and Ethernet. Currently, he is responsible for analyzing various design alternatives for the FDDI architecture. He was a visiting scholar at MIT in 1983-84, and since then has taught a graduate course at MIT on performance analysis techniques. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EVENING RECEPTION SYMPOSIUM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 8:30 am - 9:30 am SESSION 1: Keynote Session General Chair: L. Landweber, University of Wisconsin Program Chair: M. Gouda, University of Texas 10:00 am - 12:00 pm SESSION 2: Network Control Chair: D. Comer, Purdue University "Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm," Alan Demers, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Srinivasan Keshav, University of California at Berkeley, and Scott Shenker, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. "Connection Caching of Traffic Adaptive Dynamic Virtual Circuits," Per Jomer, Ericsson Programatic Sweden. "A Hierarchical Solution for Application Level Store-and-Forward Deadlock Prevention," Barry J. Brachman and Samuel T. Chanson, University of British Columbia. "Specification and Verification of Network Managers for Large Internets," David L. Cohrs and Barton P. Miller, University of Wisconsin at Madison. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm SESSION 3: Routing and Naming in Large Networks Chair: C. Edmondson-Yurkanan, University of Texas "The Revised ARPANET Routing Metric," Atul Khanna and John Zinky, BBN Communication Corporation. "A Routing Architecture for Very Large Networks Undergoing Rapid Reconfiguration," Joel M. Snyder, The University of Arizona. "Descriptive Names in X.500," Gerald W. Neufeld, The University of British Columbia. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm SESSION 4: Local Area Networks Chair: S. S. Lam, University of Texas "X-NET: A Dual Bus Fiber-Optic LAN using Active Switches," A. E. Kamal and B. W. Abeysundara, University of Alberta. "AMp: A Highly Parallel Atomic Multicast Protocol," Paulo Verissimo, Luis Rodrigues, and Mario Baptista, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores. "Traffic Placement Policies for a Multi-Band Network," K. J. Maly, E. C. Foudriat, D. Game, R. Mukkamala, C. M. Overstreet, Old Dominion University. "REXDC -- A Remote Execution Mechanism," Chi-ching Chang, Unisys Corporation. 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm SIGCOMM Business Meeting Chair: Vinton Cerf, Corp. for National Research Initiative. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 8:30 am - 10:00 am SESSION 5: Algorithm & Protocol Design Chair: A. U. Shankar, University of Maryland "The Original Unity of Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Algorithms," Susan M. Merrit, Pace University. "Block Acknowledgement: Redesigning the Window Protocol," G. M. Brown, Cornell University, M. G. Gouda, The University of Texas at Austin, and R. E. Miller, Georgia Institute of Technology. "New Results on Deriving Protocol Specifications from Service Specifications," Ferhat Khendek, Gregor von Bochmann, Universite de Montreal, and Christian Kant, Univ. de Moncton. 10:30 am - 12:00 pm SESSION 6: High Speed Networks Chair: V. Cerf, Corp. for National Research Initiative "A High Speed Transport Protocol for Datagram/Virtual Circuit Networks," Krishan K. Sabnani and Arun N. Netravali, AT&T Bell Laboratories. "Sirpent: A High-Performance Internetworking Approach," David R. Cheriton, Stanford University. "Group Communication in Multichannel Networks with Staircase Interconnection Topologies," Philip K. McKinley and Jane W. S. Liu, University of Illinois. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm SESSION 7: ISDN Chair: C. Partridge, BBN "A Testbed for Wide Area ATM Research," David L. Tennenhouse, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ian M. Leslie, University of Cambridge. "Flexible Aggregation of Channel Bandwidth in Primary Rate ISDN," John W. Burren, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. "Dynamic Bandwidth Management of Primary Rate ISDN to Support ATM Access," Bhaskar R. Harita and Ian M. Leslie, University of Cambridge. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm SESSION 8: Panel Chair: L. Peterson, University of Arizona "Building a Global Directory Service: Alternate Designs" The panel will discuss the merits of several naming systems that might be used to provide a global directory service. The services include X.500, the Domain Naming System, DEC's Naming Architecture, and the Profile/UNP Naming Service. 6:00 pm EVENING BANQUET (Cocktails, Dinner, Speaker, Awards) Dinner Address: "Very High-Speed Networks," Robert Kahn, Corp. for National Research Initiative. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 8:30 am - 10:00 am SESSION 9: Routing Algorithms Chair: G. Brown, Cornell University "A Unified Approach to Loop-Free Routing using Distance Vectors or Link States," J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, SRI International. "A Loop-Free Extended Bellman-Ford Routing Protocol Without Bouncing Effect," Chunsiang Cheng, Ralph Riley, and Srikanta P. R. Kumar, Northwestern University. "A New Responsive Distributed Shortest-Path Routing Algorithm," Balasubramanian Rajagopalan and Michael Faiman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 10:30 am - 12:00 pm SESSION 10: Internetworking and Protocol Conversion Chair: P. Green, IBM "Deriving a Protocol Converter: a Top-Down Method," Kenneth L. Calvert and Simon S. Lam, The University of Texas at Austin. "A Protocol Conversion Toolkit," Joshua Auerbach, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. "Internet Routing," Thomas Narten, Purdue University. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm SESSION 11: Protocol Testing and Validation Chair: K. Sabnani, AT&T Bell Laboratories "An Improved Protocol Test Generation Procedure Based on UIOS," Wendy Y. L. Chan, Son T. Vuong, and M. Robert Ito, The University of British Columbia. "Probabilistic Testing of Protocols," Deepinder P. Sidhu, University of Maryland, and Chun-Shi Chang, Iowa State University. "Protocol Validation in Complex Systems," Colin H. West, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. CONFERENCE LOCATION The symposium and tutorials will be conducted at the conference hotel, the Austin Marriott at the Capitol, 701 East 11th Street, Austin, Texas, 78701, (512) 478-1111. All scheduled activities will be held in the Capitol Ballroom, located on the main entrance level, 3rd floor. The Austin Marriott at the Caiptol is located in the heart of downtown Austin, 4 blocks from the Capitol, and just a stroll or trolly ride from the entertainment district. The hotel will also provide complimentary use of recreational and health club facilities. TRANSPORTATION The Austin Marriott is located 10 minutes from the airport. The hotel shuttle arrives at the airport every 30 minutes during the day or can be called with the courtesy phone in the airport lobby. Additionally, taxi fare to the hotel is $5-8. For conference participants driving to the Austin Marriott, take IH35 south, then exit at the Capitol exit for 11-12th Streets. The hotel is at the corner of East 11th and IH35 and has a complimentary parking garage. CLIMATE Normal daily temperatures in Austin in September range from 68o to 89oF. Measurable rain, usually in the form of thundershowers, can be expected on one day in four. Although Fall will officially arrive during the conference period, expect Austin to still feel like summer and the predominant color will be green. INFORMATION For further information about the symposium, contact: Dr. L. H. Landweber, General Chair, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, 1210 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706. Telephone: (608) 262-1204, EMAIL: landweber@cs.wisc.edu CONFERENCE CHAIRS General: Lawrence Landweber, University of Wisconsin Program: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin Treasurer: Ken Calvert, University of Texas at Austin Publications: K. F. Carbone, University of Texas at Austin Local Arrangements: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, University of Texas at Austin Registration: James H. Anderson, University of Texas at Austin PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, Chairman Geoffrey Brown, Cornell University Vinton Cerf, Corp. for National Research Initiative Douglas Comer, Purdue University David Farber, University of Pennsylvania Paul Green, IBM Raj Jain, Digital Equipment Corporation Leonard Kleinrock, University of California Simon Lam, University of Texas Lawrence Landweber, University of Wisconsin Nick Maxemchuk, AT&T Bell Laboratories Craig Partridge, BBN Systems & Technologies Corp. Larry Peterson, University of Arizona Krishan Sabnani, AT&T Bell Laboratories A. Udaya Shankar, University of Maryland Fouad Tobagi, Stanford University