OPENSIG 2001 Workshop 
Next Generation Network Programming 

http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/Events/opensig-2001/ 

Imperial College, London, UK 
24, 25 September 2001 

The next generation network will offer a seamless convergence of 
communications, content and media. This can only be achieved by integrating 
programmability into the network, integrating network awareness into the 
applications, and creating a flexible programmable management architecture 
that meets the concerns of all three domains simultaneously. In other words 
the next generation network is not the Internet as we currently understand 
it, and delivering it will require new approaches to network and system 
building. 

The OPENSIG agenda has long promoted the development of new and distinct 
architectures and services through open network programmability. The 
OPENSIG community offers a forum for the communication of experimental and 
theoretical results aimed at a better understanding of the overall 
networking architecture and the evolution of existing networking 
infrastructure. This year, the theme for the OPENSIG 2001 workshop will be 
"next generation network programming". The aim is to highlight the range of 
evolution options emerging from research, that may form the basis of an 
integrated next generation network. We hope to include sessions on a wide 
range of topics including: 

     * Flexible management 
     * Active network architectures 
     * Programming the network 
     * Languages for network programming 
     * Programmable network hardware 
     * Intelligence and network agents 

       Panel: Programmable network applications 

As in the past the workshop will contain a number of invited talks, 
however, additional speakers are invited to submit a one page abstract of 
their proposed talk, on one of the topics mentioned or other topics related 
to the theme to the workshop organisers. 

The workshop is being organised by the British Telecom funded 
Alpine Project 
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/alpine/ 

Paper Submission 

     Submissions should be 2-3 pages of A4 or US letter in pdf, 
     postscript or word formats and should be emailed to 
     Ian Marshall by 31 July 2001 
     Email: ian.w.marshall@bt.com 

Dates 
       Paper Submission 30 June 2001 
       Notification of Acceptance 31 July 2001 
       Workshop 24,25 September 2001 

Organising Committee 
   Jon Crowcroft, University College, London 
   Mike Fry, University of Technology Sydney 
   David Hutchison, University of Lancaster 
   Ian Marshall, BTexCT 
   Morris Sloman, Imperial College, London 
   Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex 

For further Information please contact: 
   David Hutchison 
   University of Lancaster 
   Phone: +44 1524 593 798 
   Email: dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk 

Conference Location 

     Room 308, Huxley Building 
     Department of Computing 
     Imperial College 
     180 Queen's Gate 
     London SW7 2AZ 

Accommodation 

     Please see the Imperial College Accommodation Link for list of 
     hotels and for bookings 
     www.ad.ic.ac.uk/conferences 

     Imperial College Conference Office 
     Prince's Gardens, South Kensington, 
     London SW7 1LU 
     Phone: +44 20 7594 9507 
     Fax: +44 20 7594 9504/5 
     Email: reservations@ic.ac.uk 

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Professor Morris Sloman 
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine 
Department of Computing 
180 Queen's Gate 
London SW7 2BZ, U.K. 
Phone: +44 20 7594 8279 Fax: +44 20 7594 8282 
Email: m.sloman@doc.ic.ac.uk 
WWW: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mss