http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2006/PFLDnet2006-cfp.pdf =============== Call For Papers =============== Fourth International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks PFLDnet2006 February 2-3, 2006 Nara, Japan - An ancient capital city older than Kyoto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2006/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fast long-distance networks (i.e., networks operating at 622 Mbit/s, 2.5 Gbit/s, or 10 Gbit/s, soon will be 40 Gbit/s, and spanning several countries or states) are now becoming commonplace. Increasing numbers of 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 connectivity infrastructure is now in place, or will soon be, the transport and application protocols available to date are proving inadequate for fast transfer of large volumes of data over such networks. Current versions of TCP cannot fully exploit the network capacity. For instance, recovery time from a congestion event grows at a super-linear rate, and can easily exceed 10 minutes in very high bandwidth-delay product networks. It also requires a large congestion window for high throughput, consuming valuable system resources. A number of research teams have begun investigating advanced protocols for domain-specific and general applications. The International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks in CERN (http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/pfldnet2003/), in Argonne (http://www-didc.lbl.gov/PFLDnet2004/), and in Lyon (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/pfldnet2005/) were very successful in bringing together many researchers from all over the world including North America, Europe and Asia 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. 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 late 2005. Call For Papers --------------- Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four- pages extended abstract to http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2006/ by October 14 2005. Authors whose abstracts are selected for presentation will have the option to submit a full paper, to be published on the PFLDnet 2006 web site and in the PFLDnet 2006 proceedings. Scope ----- The PFLDnet2006 workshop will focus on research issues and challenges as well as lessons learned from experience. Topics of interest include and are not limited to: - Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks - Enhancements of TCP and its variants - Novel data transport protocols designed for new application services - Transport over optical networks - RDMA over WANs - Shaping on TCP and UDP traffic - QoS and scalability issues - Parallel transfers and multistreaming - Multicast over fast long-distance networks - Modeling and simulation-based results - Experiments on real networks and actual measurements - Protocol benchmarking - Protocol implementation and hardware issues (PCs, NICs, TOEs, routers, switches, etc.) - Data replications and striping - Requirements and experience from bandwidth demanding applications - Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based - Transport service for Grids Important Dates --------------- Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: October 14 Acceptance Notification: December 2 Final Paper Submission: January 20 Workshop: February 2-3 Committees ---------- Co-Chairs: Richard Hughes-Jones (Univ. Manchester - UK) Kei Hiraki (Univ. of Tokyo - JP) Jason Leigh (UIC - USA) Steering Committee: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP) Technical Program Committee : Brian L Tierney (LBL - USA) R. Les Cottrell (SLAC - USA) Bill Allcock (ANL - USA) Eitan Altman (INRIA - FR) Richard Carlson (Internet 2 - USA) Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA) Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) Douglas Leith (Hamilton Institute - IR) Steven Low (CALTECH - USA) Medy Sanadidi (UCLA - USA) Robin Tasker (CCLRC - UK) Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC - JP) Kenjiro Cho (IIJ - JP) Injong Rhee (NCSU - USA) Andrew Chien (UCSD - USA) Aaron Falk (ISI - USA) Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP) Local Organization Committee: Noritoshi Demizu (NICT - JP) Sponsors: --------- NICT, JAPAN TBD. Contact: ikob@koganei.wide.ad.jp