craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge) (05/14/91)
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Advance Program
SIGCOMM '91
Conference
Communication Architectures and Protocols
September 3 - 6, 1991
Zurich, Switzerland
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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
Zurich , one of the larger cities of Switzerland, is easily reached from
all-over the world through its international airport. Participants
arriving at the Zurich airport will see a booth labeled SIGCOMM '91
where they can obtain initial directions on finding their way. People
arriving by train can get a first orientation from the hotel information
panel at the Zurich Main Station.
Public transportation is very reliable and efficient: the train takes
15 minutes from the airport to the center of the city from which hotels
and the ETH are within another 15 minutes reach. Each conference
participant will get a free ticket for an unlimited number of rides on
the Zurich Tram and Bus network, valid throughout the whole week.
Accommodation is provided by several hotels, all located within 1.5 km
(walking distance) from the conference site. Hotel reservations can be
made via the attached conference registration form.
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
The climate is mild with temperatures around 20 degree Celsius (68
degree F); rain cannot be ruled out.
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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SIGCOMM '91 Overall Schedule
Conference Sessions usually last for 90 minutes. They will take place
in a single, sufficiently large auditorium, well-equipped with
audio-visual facilities.
Breaks will last for 30 minutes, refreshments are served in the lobby in
front of the auditorium.
Lunches are served in the Restaurant of the ETH main building, which
implies a 10 minutes walk from the conference building. Participants
receive lunch by presenting their badges. Extra lunch tickets are
available at the registration desk.
Three Tutorials will be conducted in parallel on Tuesday.
The Conference Technical Program is scheduled in 10 sessions from
Wednesday to Friday.
The Opening Session on Wednesday morning will start at 08:45.
The SIGCOMM Business Session is scheduled on Wednesday, 17:40.
The Welcome Apero will be offered on Tuesday, at 18:00, in the Foyer of
the ETH main building.
A Social Event is scheduled for Thursday evening. During a boat trip on
the beautiful lake of Zurich, there will be a banquet. Musical
(folkloristic) entertainment will interleave with speeches by honorary
guests. Informal dress is recommended. The social event is included in
the conference registration fee except for student participants.
Additional tickets for students or accompanying persons can be
purchased at the registration desk.
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 Conference Committee
General Chair Eduard Mumprecht, IBM Research, Zurich
Program Chair and Tutorials Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich
Program Co-Chair Greg Wetzel, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Registration Mrs. Anne Schicker
Local Arrangements Hannes Lubich, ETH Zurich,
and Raymond Bandle, University of Zurich
Treasurer Peter Heinzmann, ITR Rapperswil
Publicity Craig Partridge, BBN, Cambridge, Mass.
Cooperating Institutions:
IEEE IEEE Switzerland Section
SI Schweizer Informatiker Gesellschaft
SWITCH Swiss Telematic Services for Education & Research
ITG Informationstechnische Gesellschaft des SEV
TIK Institut fur Technische Informatik und Kommunikationsnetze, ETH
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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.
This tutorial examines two emerging Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
technologies, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) and the
Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) MAN:
1. What is MAN Technology?
2. ANSI X3T9.5 Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
Overview of FDDI
Standards
Topologies and Station Types
Media Access Control Formats and Procedures (MAC)
Physical Layer and Media (PHY/PMD)
Station Management (SMT)
Applications
3. IEEE 802.6 Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB)
Overview of DQDB
Standards
Media Access Control Formats and Procedures
Management Control Protocol and Bandwidth Balancing
Physical Layer Convergence Procedures/Media (US/European)
Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS)
Applications
4. Comparing, Contrasting and Connecting FDDI, DQDB and SMDS
FDDI and SMDS are friends
Interconnecting FDDI with SMDS/DQDB
FDDI requirements
Dedicated line options
SMDS options
ETSI MAN options
Lawrence J. Lang is a member of the Broadband Data Services division at
Bellcore. He is Bellcore's representative to the SMDS Interest Group,
an industry forum, and ANSI X3T9.5, which develops FDDI standards. He
works on Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS), concentrating on
such issues as internetworking with FDDI, billing, and exchange access.
Since starting with Bellcore in 1986, he has worked on diverse new
services, including bill management, encryption, image communi- cations,
digital radio, and videotex gateways.
Larry received a BSE in electrical engineering from Duke University and
an MS in operations research from Stanford University.
David M. Piscitello is a member of the Broadband Data Services division
at Bellcore. Prior to joining Bellcore, he worked for Unisys (former
Burroughs) on proprietary data network architectures, TCP/IP, and OSI.
He is a former Vice-Chair of the ANSI committee responsible for OSI
Transport/Network Standards, a former member of several ISO OSI
Subcommittees, and a member of the IETF. Dave works with Larry on SMDS,
concentrating on SMDS feature refinements, Customer Network Management,
and operation of internetworking and routing protocols over SMDS.
Dave received a BS in Mathematics from Villanova University.
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SIGCOMM '91 Tutorial B: Network Security
by Dr. Stephen Kent,
BBN Communications, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA.
Introduction
course outline; context for network security; why network security;
network environment model; protocol layering
Attacks & Security Philosophy
passive & active wiretapping; example attacks; network security philosophy
Security Services
ISO 7498-2; what's missing?
Cryptographic Concepts
algorithms & keys; symmetric ciphers; asymmetric ciphers; cryptograhic
system integrity
Symmetric Cipher Modes (DES examples)
block mode; block chaining mode; output feedback mode; cipher feedback mode
Cryptography for Layer 2
"link" encipherment example; why use "link" cryptography?; synchronous
link cryptography; asynchronous link cryptography; LAN cryptography (802.10)
Cryptography for Layer 3/4
"end-to-end" encipherment example; why use "end-to-end" cryptography?;
SDNS SP3; SDNS SP4
Key Management
key management principles; key distribution center concept & example;
public-key certificates (X.509); key distribution using certificates the
certification hierarchy for Internet; Privacy Enhanced Mail ;
Cryptography for Layer 7
realtime vs. staged delivery applications; 1988 X.411 security facilities
Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail; X.500 directory system use of cryptography
User Authentication Technology
personal authentication criteria; problems with passwords;
challenge-response schemes; "Watchword" & "Secure-ID" systems;
a word about biometrics
Stephen Kent is the Chief Scientist of BBN Communications, a division of
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., where he has been enganged in network
security research and development activites for over a decade. His work
has included the design and developemnt of user authentication and
access control systems, end-to-end encryption and access control systems
for packet networks, performance analysis of security mechanisms, and
the design and implementation of secure transport layer and electronic
message protocols. He was a charter member of the board of directors of
the International Association for Cryptologic Research.
Dr. Kent received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Loyola
University of New Orleans, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in
computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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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
High speed networks are applied in computer communication for LAN
interconnection, fast file transfer or data retrieval and for broadband
telecommunications such as video, high resolution picture transfer, HiFi
audio and document transfer. Two main technologies are directing to
these applications: High Speed Local Area Networks (HSLAN) /
Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) and Wide Area Networks on the basis of
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). ATM is also the basis for future
Broadband-ISDN and the Integrated Broadband Communication Network (IBCN)
of the future.
The tutorial addresses mainly the ATM aspects and is structured in 4
parts. In the first part, services, grade of service parameters and
network requirements are introduced which lead to the integration of a
broad spectrum of different services. In the second part, the logical
structure of the B-ISDN is introduced, i.e. the Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM), the layered ATM protocol architecture, of the Physical Media
Dependent (PMD) part, the ATM and the ATM Adaption Layers (AAL), the
Protocol Data Unit Structures and the basic control algorithms. In the
third part, technological aspects are addressed such as ATM Terminals,
ATM Switching Networks and Signalling. The last part covers performance
modeling aspects as variable bitrate sources, source policing
algorithms, loss control, connection admission control end end-to-end
delay control. Generic models, their analysis methods and key results
will be given to demonstrate the potential of performance modelling for
the design of ATM networks.
Paul J. Kuehn received the Dipl.-Ing. and the Dr.-Ing. degrees in
electrical engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1967 and
1972, respectively, where he also was an Assistant Professor and head of
a research group for traffic research in computer and communication
systems. At the University Erlangen-Nuremberg he taught courses on
communications switching. In 1977 he joined Bell Laboratories, Holmdel,
NJ. In 1978 he was appointed Full Professor for Communications,
Switching and Transmission at the University of Siegen, Germany. Since
1982 he has been back at the University of Stuttgart to the chair of
Communications Switching and Data Technics. His areas of interest
include communication switching, computer and communication systems
performance evaluation.
Besides being member of the ACM and numerous German professional
societies, Prof. Kuehn's membership on an international level includes
the Communications Switching Committee of the NTG, the International
Advisory Council of the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), and
W.G. 7.3 of the IFIP. He was appointed Vice President of the ITC in
1985, and Governor of the ICCC in 1987. In 1989 Professor Kuehn has
been elected IEEE Fellow.
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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
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