craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge) (05/17/91)
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Advance Program
SIGCOMM '91
Conference
Communication Architectures and Protocols
September 3 - 6, 1991
Zurich, Switzerland
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Main Features:
Three Tutorials will be conducted in parallel on Tuesday.
The Conference Technical Program is scheduled in 10 sessions from
Wednesday to Friday.
The SIGCOMM Business Session is scheduled on Wednesday, 17:40.
Please note ..... SIGCOMM '92 will be held at the Hyatt Regency in
Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Monday August 17 through Thursday August 20.
Mark your calendar now .
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SIGCOMM '91 General Information:
SIGCOMM is the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group in
Computer Communication. For the first time in its over 20 years,
SIGCOMM '91 will be held in Europe, namely in Zurich, Switzerland, at
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), September 3-6, 1991.
This advance program contains the tentative schedules of the conference
and the tutorials. For further informatiom, feel free to contact
the conference committee by
E-Mail sigcomm91@clients.switch.ch
FAX +41-1-938-1557
Telephone +41-1-937-2447
Surface SIGCOMM '91 Secretariat
Mail P.O. Box
CH-8340 Hinwil
Switzerland
Conference Location and Registration Desk
Address Gloriastrasse 35
Tram Stop Voltastrasse
(Tram numbers 5 or 6, direction Zoo)
Telephone (+41-1-) 261-0750
Open Monday 16:00-20:00, Tuesday-Friday 08:00-18:00
Special Airfare: For your convenience SIGCOMM '91 has arranged for
special conference airfares through Hoffman Travel and American
Airlines. To take advantage of discounted fares (for travel dates
between August 28 and September 15)
call Jody Katz, Hoffman Travel, +1-800-221-4674,
identify SIGCOMM '91.
Tickets must be issued before June 30, 1991.
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Tutorial Information:
SIGCOMM '91 Tutorial A:
Metropolitan Area Networks and High Speed Local Area Networks
by Lawrence J. Lang and David M. Piscitello,
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA.
SIGCOMM '91 Tutorial B: Network Security
by Dr. Stephen Kent,
BBN Communications, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA.
SIGCOMM '91 Tutorial C:
ATM Networks: Architecture, Technology and Performance Modeling
by Prof. Dr. Paul J. Kuehn,
Dipl.-Ing. H. Kroener and Dipl.-Ing. T. Theimer,
University of Stuttgart, Germany
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SIGCOMM '91 Wednesday, Sept. 4
OPENING
Presentation of the SIGCOMM Award
Presentation of the SIGCOMM '91 Student Paper Award
SESSION 1: New Approaches to Congestion and Flow Control
Chair: Stephen Pink (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
A Control-Theoretic Approach to Flow Control
Srinivasan Keshav (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Loss-Load Curves: Support for Rate-based Congestion Control
in High-speed Datagram Networks
Carey L. Williamson, David R. Cheriton (Stanford Univ.)
SESSION 2: Routing
Chair: Deborah Estrin (Univ. of Southern California)
Dynamics of Distributed Shortest-Path Routing Algorithms
William T. Zaumen, J. J. Garcia-Luna Aceves (SRI International)
Finding Disjoint Paths in Networks
Deepinder P. Sidhu, Raj Nair, Shukri Abdallah (Univ. of Maryland - BC)
Efficient and Robust Policy Routing Using Multiple Hierarchical Addresses
Paul F. Tsuchiya (Bell Communications Research)
SESSION 3: Modelling and Formal Methods
Chair: Deepinder Sidhu (Univ. of Maryland - BC)
GSPN Models of Random, Cyclic, and Optimal 1-Limited Multiserver Multiqueue Sys
Marco Ajmone Marsan (Politecnico di Torino),
S. Donatelli (Universita di Torino),
F. Neri, U. Rubino (Politecnico di Torino)
Queueing Analysis of A Statistical Multiplexer with Multiple Slow Terminals
Zhensheng Zhang (Columbia Univ.)
Efficient Gateway Synthesis from Formal Specifications
D. M. Kristol, D. Lee, A. N. Netravali, K. Sabnani (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
SESSION 4: Traffic Characterization
Chair: Gregory Wetzel (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Characteristics of Wide-Area TCP/IP Conversations
Ramon Caceres (Univ. of California, Berkeley),
Peter B. Danzig, Sugih Jamin,
Danny J. Mitzel (Univ. of Southern California)
Comparison of Rate-Based Service Disciplines
Hui Zhang, Srinivasan Keshav (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
A Study of Priority Pricing in Multiple Service Class Networks
Ron Cocchi, Deborah Estrin (Univ. of Southern California),
Scott Shenker, Lixia Zhang (XEROX Palo Alto Research Center)
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SIGCOMM '91 Thursday, Sept. 5
SESSION 5: Analysis of Congestion and Flow Control Protocols
Chair: Craig Partridge (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Observations on the Dynamics of a Congestion Control Algorithm:
The Effects of Two-Way Traffic
Lixia Zhang, Scott Shenker (XEROX Palo Alto Research Center),
David D. Clark (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science)
Performance Analysis of a Feedback Congestion Control Policy
Under Non-negligible Propagation Delay
Y. T. Wang (AT&T Bell Laboratories), B. Sengupta (NEC Research Institute)
Analysis of Dynamic Congestion Control Protocols
- A Fokker-Plank Approximation
Amarnath Mukherjee (Univ. of Pennsylvania),
John C. Strikwerda (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
SESSION 6: Communication Architectures
Chair: Gerald W. Neufeld (Univ. of British Columbia)
Design of an ATM-FDDI Gateway
Sanjay Kapoor, Gurudatta M. Parulkar (Washington Univ.)
Nomenclator Descriptive Query Optimization for Large X.500 Environments
Joann J. Ordille, Barton P. Miller (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
Flexible Protocol Stacks
Christian Tschudin (Universite de Geneve, Switzerland)
SESSION 7: Designing for Mobility
Chair: Jonathan M. Smith (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
A Network Architecture Providing Host Migration Transparency
Fumio Teraoka, Yasuhiko Yokote,
Mario Tokoro (Sony Computer Science Laboratory)
Concurrent Online Tracking of Mobile Users
Baruch Awerbuch (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science),
David Peleg (The Weizmann Institute)
IP-based Protocols for Mobile Internetworking
John Ioannidis, Dan Duchamp, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. (Columbia Univ.)
SESSION 8: Protocol Design and Analysis
Chair: Vinton G. Cerf (Corp. for National Research Initiatives)
The LAMS-DLC ARQ Protocol
Christopher Ward, Cheong Choi (Auburn Univ.)
Hardware Flooding
Ajei Gopal (Cornell Univ.),
Inder Gopal, Shay Kutten (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
SOCIAL EVENT
Do not miss boat trip on the lake of Zurich.
There will be a rich banquet and good entertainment.
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SIGCOMM '91 Friday, Sept. 6
SESSION 9: Load Scheduling
Chair: Harry Rudin (IBM Research, CH)
Network Locality at the Scale of Processes
Jeffrey Mogul (Digital Equipment Corp.)
MARS: The Magnet II Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm
Jay M. Hyman, Aurel A. Lazar, Giovanni Pacifici (Columbia Univ.)
About Maximum Transfer Rates for Fast Packet Switching Networks
Jean-Yves Le Boudec (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland)
SESSION 10: Architectures for High Speed Networking
Chair: Gary Delp (IBM Research, USA)
A Host-Network Interface Architecture for ATM
Bruce S. Davie (Bell Communications Research)
A High Performance Host Interface for ATM Networks
C. Brendan, S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Fairisle: An ATM Network for the Local Area
Derek R. McAuley (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
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SIGCOMM '91 Program Committee
Vinton G. Cerf, USA Gerald W. Neufeld, Canada
A. Lyman Chapin, USA Craig Partridge, USA
Gary Delp, USA Stephen Pink, Sweden
Maria Dimou, Switzerland Bernhard R. Plattner, Switzerland
Deborah Estrin, USA Marshall T. Rose, USA
Jose Garcia-Luna, USA Harry Rudin, Switzerland
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Switzerland Pietro Schicker, Switzerland
Lawrence H. Landweber, USA Deepinder Sidhu, USA
Stewart Lee, Canada Jonathan Smith, USA
Hannes Lubich, Switzerland Douglas B. Terry, USA
Derek R. McAuley, UK Paul von Binst, Belgium
Manel Medina, Spain Gregory Wetzel, USA
David Mills, USA