-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Call for Papers: High Speed Networking Workshop: The Terabits Challenge (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2006) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:32:29 -0500 From: 'Byrav Ramamurthy' byrav@cse.unl.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Call for Papers and Participation

HIGH SPEED NETWORKING WORKSHOP: THE TERABITS CHALLENGE

Sponsored By: IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking, US Department of Energy

In Conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2006 Barcelona, Spain, April 24, 2006

Website: http://www.ece.tntech.edu/nghani/infocom

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing recent advances in ultra high-speed and high-performance networks. With the continued technological advances, these new generation networks are expected to deliver unprecedented bandwidths, ranging from terabits/sec in the core to multiple gigabits/sec to the edge. This workshop will focus on various aspects of ultra high-speed network infrastructures including their role in enabling distributed large-scale science applications. In particular, the e-science applications have already demonstrated the need for agile networks operating well beyond 100 Gbps now, and will require sustained terabits/sec throughputs by the end of decade. Furthermore, the need for ultra high-speed networks is also emerging in a wide spectrum of application domains as diverse as entertainment, energy, banking, defense and medicine. In the past, there have been several attempts to address the bandwidth-intensive applications by deploying larger capacities in the core networks. However, experience indicates that simply scaling the core capacity does not necessarily result in a commensurate increase in end-to-end application throughputs. Indeed, the ability of existing network technologies, especially transport protocols, routing, traffic engineering and network provisioning to scale to the terabits/sec range remains a challenge. It is here that the emerging ultra high-speed networking technologies offer great opportunities along with unprecedented challenges. A key goal of this workshop is to explore approaches for meeting these challenges, particularly within the context of broader e-science applications.

These topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Group A: Ultra High-Speed Networks Innovative and agile terabits network architectures End-to-end performance issues Host systems issues including bus and OS Switching technologies including packet, burst and circuit switching Ultra high-speed transport protocols Ultra high-speed cyber security systems Dynamic provisioning in ultra high-speed optical networks Control and signaling plane technologies (GMPLS, UNI, NNI, etc.) High-performance network middleware Experimental deployment of high-capacity optical networks Traffic engineering for ultra high-speed networks Free-space high-capacity optical networks

Group B: Ultra High-Speed Applications Prototyping high-end applications for ultra high-speed environments Data transfers over long distances High-speed I/O and storage systems Remote visualizations and tele-instrumentations Distributed access to supercomputing facilities Remote computational monitoring and steering

SESSIONS ======== Presentations are planned to be grouped into the following topical sessions: Ultra high-speed transport protocols Terabits network provisioning Ultra high-speed traffic engineering/resource management Control and management planes Distributed high-end e-science applications Applications requiring terabit networks Cyber-security aspects of terabit networks

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== Authors are encouraged to submit a one-page abstract by February 17, 2006. Abstracts must be in PDF format and should be uploaded at the submissions website. All submissions will be quickly acknowledged, and if such notification is not received, please contact the program chairs. Notification of the final selected abstracts will be made by February 26, 2006.

Submission of electronic versions of the presentation slides is due on March 14, 2006. These slides will be included in the on-line proceedings of the workshop, which will be compiled in advance of the event.

Additionally, the selected authors are also encouraged to provide by extended versions of their abstract by March 14, 2006. These extended abstracts will be published in workshop proceedings. These submissions should follow the IEEE INFOCOM formatting guidelines, a sample template for which is available at: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/confpub/auxfiles/sample_manuscript.pd... .

IMPORTANT DATES =============== One page abstract due: February 17, 2006 Notification of acceptance: February 26, 2006 Slides and extended abstracts due: March 14, 2006 Workshop date: April 24, 2006

REGISTRATION ============ Workshop registration will be handled as part of the main INFOCOM 2005 registration. Further information on registration is available on the web at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006 . The workshop CFP and additional information is also available on the workshop website at http://www.ece.tntech.edu/nghani/infocom . Online proceedings of the workshop (including abstracts and presentations) will also be made available at this website at a later date.

WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR ====================== Thomas Ndousse Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Email: tndousse@er.doe.gov

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR ======================= Nasir Ghani ECE Department Tennessee Tech University Email: nghani@tntech.edu

WORKSHOP PANEL CHAIR ==================== Taieb Znati Computer Science Department University of Pittsburgh Email: znati@cs.pitt.edu

LOCAL CHAIR =========== Jordi Domingo-Pascual Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Email: jordi.domingo@ac.upe.edu

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Nasir Ghani ECE Department Tennessee Tech University

Thomas Ndousse Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Nageswara S. Rao Computer Science & Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Taieb Znati Computer Science Department University of Pittsburgh

Georg Carle Chair for Computer Networks & Internet University of Tuebingen

Andrea Fumagalli School of Engineering & Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas

Malathi Veeraraghavan ECE Department University of Virginia

Olufemi Komolafe Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (Tentative) =============================================== Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany Joe Evans, University of Kansas Lawrence Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida Gainesville Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas Bryan Lyles, Telecordia Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California Davis Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska Lincoln Heinrich Stuettgen, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany Joe Touch, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Jonathan Turner, Washington University St. Louis Don Petravick, Fermi National Lab John Blondin, North Caroline State University Admela Jukan, University of Illinois at Chicago

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