Committees


Third International Workshop
on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks

February 3,4 2005
Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme

Ecole Normale Supérieure - LYON - FRANCE


3rd PFLDnet Workshop - Technical Program
 

AGENDA

Thursday, February 3, 2005

8:30 - 9:15
BREAKFAST & SETUP
9:15 - 9:30
OPENING/INTRODUCTION
Plenary session 1: Introduction (session chair: Pascale Vicat-Blanc/Primet)
  Author(s) Title
9:30  - 10:20

Medy Sanadidi (UCLA)

Evolution of Transport schemes [slides]
10:20  - 10:40 
DISCUSSION
10:40 - 11:00 BREAK
Session 1: Experimental evaluation of protocols for LFNets  (session chair: Rich Carlson)
  Author(s) Title
11:00 - 11:20 Kazumi Kumazoe, Katsushi Kouyama, Yoshiaki Hori, Masato Tsuru, Yuji Oie Transport Protocol for Fast Long-Distance Networks : Evaluation of Their Penetration and Robustness on JGNII [slides] [paper]
11:20 - 11:40 Ruchi Gupta, Saad Ansari, R. Les Cottrell, Richard Hughes-Jones Characterization and Evaluation of TCP and UDP-based Transport on Real Networks [slides] [paper]
11:40 - 12:00 Saverio Mascolo, G Racanelli Testing TCP Westwood+ over Transatlantic Links at 10 Gigabit/Second rate [slides] [paper]
12:00 - 12:20 Robert Braden, Aaron Falk, Ted Faber, Aman Kapoor, Yuri Pryadkin Studies of  XCP  Deployment Issues [slides]
12:20 - 14:00 LUNCH
Session 2: Protocol Performance and New Ideas  (session chair: Tomohiro Kudoh)
  Author(s) Title
14:00 - 14:30 Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu CUBIC: A New TCP-Friendly High-Speed TCP Variant [slides] [paper]
14:30 - 14:50 Sumitha Bhandarkar, Saurabh Jain, A. L. Narasimha Reddy Improving TCP Performance in High Bandwidth High RTT Links Using Layered Congestion Control [slides] [paper]
14:50 - 15:10 Michael Welzl Scalable Router Aided Congestion Avoidance for Bulk Data Transfer in high Speed Networks [slides] [paper]
15:10 - 15:30 Ryan King, Rudolf Riedi, Richard Baraniuk Evaluating and Improving TCP-Africa: an Adaptive and Fair Rapid Increase Rule for Scalable TCP
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
Session 3: Protocol modeling and analysis  (session chair: Cheng Jin)
  Author(s) Title
16:00 - 16:30 E. Altman, K. Avrachenkov, A. A. Kherani, B.J. Prabhu Analysis of Scalable TCP in the presence of Markovian Losses [slides] [paper]
16:30 - 17:00 David X. Wei, Sanjay Hegdesan, Steven H. Low A burstiness control for TCP [slides] [paper]
Panel 1 : Benchmarking (panel leader: Doug Leith)
17:00 - 17:45 Dough Leith (Hamilton Institute), Brian Tierney (LBNL), Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST), Toby Rodwell (Dante), Dohy Hong (N2Nsoft) Presentations - Benchmarking & how to get performance [slides]
17:45 - 18:30 DISCUSSION
 
  DINNER RECEPTION

 

Friday, February 4, 2005

8:30 - 9:00 BREAKFAST
Plenary session 2: Invited talks (session chair: Richard Hughes-Jones)
  Author(s) Title
9:00 - 9:40

Dennis Ferguson (Juniper)

Transport protocol Impact on routers [slides]
9:40  - 9:50 DISCUSSION
9:50  - 10:20 Dohy Hong (N2Nsoft) High Speed Transport Protocol and Simulation :
10:20 - 10:40  
DISCUSSION
10:40 - 11:00 BREAK
Session 4: Pacing, hardware assist, and Optical solutions (session chair: Brian Tierney)
  Author(s) Title
11:00 - 11:30 Ryousei Takano, Tomohiro Kudoh, Yuetsu Kodama, Motohiko Matsuda, Hiroshi Tezuka, Yutaka Ishikawa Design and Evaluation of Precise Software Pacing Mechanisms for Fast Long-Distance Networks [slides] [paper]
11:30 - 12:00 Makoto Nakamura, Ryutaro Kurusu, Felix Marti, Masakazu Sakamoto, Yukichi Ikuta, Junji Tamatsukuri, Yutaka Sugawara, Nao Aoshima, Mary Inaba, Kei Hiraki Experimental Results of inter-layer cooperative hardware for TRC-TCP  on 10Gbps Ethernet WANPHY 18,500km Network [paper]
12:00 - 12:20  Qishi Wu, Nageswara S. V. Rao Protocol for High-Speed Data Transport Over Dedicated Channels [slides] [paper]
12:20 - 12:40 Chaoyue Xiong, Jason Leigh, Eric He, Venkatram Vishwanath, Tadao Murata, Luc Renambot, Thomas A. DeFanti LambdaStream – a Data Transport Protocol for Network-Intensive Streaming Applications over Photonic Networks [slides] [paper]
12:40 - 14:00 LUNCH
Session 5: End Systems and Applications (session chair: Bill Allcock)
  Author(s) Title
14:00 - 14:30 Yunhong Gu, Robert L. Grossman Optimizing UDP-based Protocol Implementations [slides] [paper]
14:30 - 14:50 R. Hughes-Jones, S. Dallison Investigation of the interaction between  high-performance networking and disk subsystems [paper]
14:50 - 15:10

Kiyohide Nakauchi,  Katsushi Kobayashi

Studying Congestion Control with Explicit Router Feedback Using Hardware-based Network Emulator [slides] [paper]

15:10 - 15:30 Pascale Vicat-Blanc/Primet, Jingdi Zeng An Overlay Infrastructure for Bulk Data Transfer in Grids [paper]
15:30 - 16:00 Amitabha Banerjee, Wu-chun Feng, Biswanath Mukherjee, Dipak Ghosal Routing and Scheduling Large File Transfers over Lambda Grids [slides] [paper]

16:00  - 16:20

BREAK
Panel 2 : Key issues for the futur (panel leader: Les Cottrell)
16:20  - 17:00 Les Cottrell (SLAC), Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex), Dennis Ferguson (Juniper), Aaron Falk (UCS-ISI) Key issues for the futur: Application needs, Standardisation, Optical-Hybrid Nets, System hardware [slides]
17:00 - 17:30 DISCUSSION

 

 
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