Submissions sought for workshop on long-distance networks

released September 13, 2005

The fourth International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDnet2006) will take place Feb. 2-3, 2006, in Nara, Japan. Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-page extended abstract to http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2006/ by Oct.14.

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.

The notification of acceptance of a proposed paper will be Dec. 2 and the final submission deadline is Jan. 20.

Topics of interest include, but 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

For more information, go to http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2006/.

 

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