CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Workshop on Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Networks 5-7 March 2008 The Schuster Building, The University of Manchester, UK http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/PFLDnet2008/cfp.php Important Dates Initial Abstract submission: Monday 10 December, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Monday 14 January, 2008 Early (discounted) Registration: Monday 4 February, 2008 Final paper submission: Friday 22 February, 2008 Workshop: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 5 to 7 March, 2008 ------------------------------------------- With the emergence of hybrid network facilities, future networks will increasingly contain high bandwidth, high delay paths. Protocols for fast, long distance networks will have to expand from experimental testbeds and into the wider world. In that process, it is increasingly important for protocols which achieve high utilization on fast, long distance networks also to have the qualities required for widespread use, such as fairness and scalability to many users. The goal of the International Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks workshop series is to bring together researchers and practitioners from all continents 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 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 on 8 October 2008. PFLDnet2008 solicits papers which will further research on protocols for tomorrow's high speed Internet, at all stages along the continuum from the requirements of today's Grid networks, through optical transports, throughbenchmarking of proposals, to the selection of the next generation of TCP and other transport protocols. Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-page extended abstact to the submission site by Monday 10 December 2007. Final papers should be typically 4-5 pages, but no longer than 6 pages. Scope: (choose at least one of the subject areas below - multiple selections are possible) Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks: Protocol development Enhancements of TCP and its variants Novel data transport protocols designed for new Networks and Application Services Explicit signaling protocols: Optimization criteria and deployment strategies Pacing and shaping of TCP and UDP traffic Parallel transfers and multistreaming Performance evaluation Modeling and simulation-based results Experiments on real networks and actual measurements Protocol benchmarking Hardware-specific issues Transport over optical networks Protocol implementation and hardware issues (PCs, NICs, TOEs, routers, switches, etc.) End system performance Data replications and striping RDMA over WANs Application focus Requirements and experience from applications with demanding network performance requirements Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based Transport service for Grids QoS and scalability issues Multicast over fast long-distance networks Fiber To The Home (FTTH) Authors whose papers are selected for presentation will have the option to submit a revised paper, to be published on the PFLDnet 2008 web site and in the PFLDnet 2008 proceedings. We propose to collect the best papers from PFLDnet 2008 and make a joint publication with those from PFLDnet 2007 in a special edition of a journal, if the authors are interested. COMMITTEES Co-Chairs: Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) Steering Committee: Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) Technical Program Committee: Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) (Co-chair) Bill Allcock (Argonne - USA) Eitan Altman (INRIA - FR) Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) Chadi Barakat (INRIA - FR) Richard Carlson (Internet2 - USA) Jean-Laurent Costeux (Orange - FR) Dirceu Cavendish (KIT - JP) Les Cottrell (SLAC - USA) Michel Diaz (LAAS - FR) Larry Dunn (Cisco - USA) Lars Eggert (NEC - DE) Ted Faber (ISI - USA) Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech - USA) Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA) Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam- NL) Go Hasegawa (Osaka University - JP) Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) (Co-chair) Dina Katabi (MIT - USA) Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam - NL) Jason Leigh (EVL - USA) Doug Leith (Hamilton Institute - IE) (Co-chair) Steven Low (caltech - USA) Saverio Mascolo (University of Bari - IT) Masayuki Murata (Osaka University - JP) Anders Persson (SUN - USA) Balakrishna Prabhu (CWI -NL) Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University - USA) Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC - JP) Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex - UK) Martin Swany (Delaware - US) Robin Tasker (Daresbury Lab - UK) Brian Tierney (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories - USA) Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) (Co-chair) David X. Wei (Caltech - USA) Eddy Wes (NASA -USA) Local Arrangements: Anne Morrow (Manchester - UK) Stephen Kershaw (Manchester - UK)