Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN 2001 - Call for Participation 
                     22 April 2001 - Anchorage, Alaska 
Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking 
                    in conjunction with INFOCOM 2001 

Purpose and Format 
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and 
discussing very recent work in gigabit networking and to raise relevant 
issues to the general networking community in a timely manner. It will 
take place from 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM with lunch provided. There will be 
an open business meeting of the Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking 
following the workshop at 5:00 PM. 

The workshop will consist of a number of short informal presentations and 
discussion on current research and implementation, hot topics, position 
statements, and controversial opinions. All issues relating to high 
bandwidth networking are relevant, including link layer protocols for 
optical and wireless networks, transport and higher layer protocols, 
host and network interface architecture, operating systems, emerging 
services and applications, testbeds and deployment, network control 
and management, economic and regulatory issues, security and privacy, 
and other societal impacts. We are particularly interested in issues 
related to networks that can be scaled to a high (number of users) x 
(throughput per user) product. 

Discussion Sessions 
There will be sessions reserved for interactive discussion. Suggestions 
for particular topics are welcome (email tcgn@ieee.org and cc: to the 
program chairs); controversial topics and outrageous viewpoints are 
encouraged. Presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the 
workshop, under URL http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/gbn2001. 

Submission 
Submission of a one page abstract is due 23 February 2001, and must 
be in plain text by email to the program chair at qiao@computer.org. 
Please include the text "GBN 2001 Submission" in the Subject: field. 
All submissions will be quickly acknowledged (otherwise contact the 
program chair to confirm receipt). Notification will be made by 
19 March 2001. Annotated electronic versions of the presentation foils 
are due 9 April 2001, to be included in the online proceedings prior to 
the workshop. 

Registration 
Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of 
INFOCOM 2001 registration; information is available on the 
web at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2001. This GBN 2001 CFP and 
additional information on the workshop are available on the web at 
http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn, or by email to the program chairs. 

Program Chairs 
Prof. Chunming Qiao Prof. Joseph B. Evans 
Computer Science & Engineering Information & Telecom. Tech. Center 
SUNY Buffalo University of Kansas 
Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 USA Lawrence, KS 66045-7612 USA 
qiao@computer.org evans@ittc.ukans.edu 
+1 716 645-3180 ext. 140 +1 785 864-4830 
+1 716 645-3464 (fax) +1 785 864-7789 (fax)