Call For Papers (text version)
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Third International
Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks
Pfldnet2005
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Fast long-distance networks (i.e., networks
operating at 622 Mbit/s, 2.5 Gbit/s, or 10 Gbit/s and spanning several countries
or states) are now becoming commonplace. More and more researchers now routinely
transfer between 10 GB and multi-TB datasets over gigabit networks. Application
domains for such massive transfers include data-intensive Grids (e.g., in
Particle Physics, Earth Observation, Bio informatics, and Radio Astronomy),
database mirroring for Web sites (e.g., in e-commerce), and push-based Web
cache updates.
Although the network infrastructure is now
in place, or will soon be, the transport and application protocols available
to date perform rather poorly over such networks. Current versions of TCP,
for instance, recover very slowly from packet loss when the RTT and the link
capacity are large, thus requiring a large congestion window for high throughput.
A number of research teams have begun investigating these protocol issues.
The First International Workshop on Protocols for Fast
Long-Distance Networks and the Second
International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks were very successful in bringing together many researchers
from the U.S., Asia and Europe who are working on these problems. This workshop
will continue this tradition, and provide a perfect setting for researchers
in this area to exchange ideas and experience.
This single-track workshop
will provide researchers and technologists with a focused, highly interactive
opportunity to present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research,
development and future directions in high performance transport and application
protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, etc.) over fast long-distance networks.
This year, a particular emphasis
will be on End Systems Issues (hardware and software). Each day will start
with a plenary talk and end with a panel. In between, formal presentations
of papers will be followed by extensive and informal Q&A sessions. Authors are invited to
submit unpublished extended abstract for consideration.
In order to facilitate discussions, attendance
will be limited to 60 participants. Please register early to ensure your participation.
Depending on the number of people who register, we may need to restrict the
number of people from a given organization to allow for a broader representation
of the research community. Registration will open on October 1, 2004.
Call For Papers
Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-pages extended
abstract to the submission web page by October 15 (2004).
Authors whose abstracts are selected for presentation will have
the option to submit a full paper, to be published on the PFLDnet 2005 web
site and in the PFLDnet 2005 proceedings. We may try to collect the best papers
for a special edition of a journal, if the authors are interested.
Scope
The Pfldnet2005 workshop
will focus on research issues and challenges as well as lessons learned from
experience. Topics of interest include and are not limited to:
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Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks
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TCP enhancements and their comparison
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Novel data transport
protocols designed for new application services
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RDMA over WANs
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Effects of shaping on TCP and UDP traffic
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Effects of striping and multistreaming
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Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and
non-TCP based
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Data replication
and multicasting strategies and protocols
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Simulation-based results
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Experiments on real networks and actual measurements
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Experience with different types of hardware
(PCs, routers, switches, Gigabit Ethernet cards, etc.)
Important Dates
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: Oct 15
Reviews due: Nov 19
Acceptance Notification: Dec 5
Final paper submission: Jan 21
Workshop: 3-4 february
PFLDnet 2005 is sponsored by: |
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