Fourth International Workshop on Networked Group Communication
				   
			 October 23-25, 2002
		      Boston, Massachusetts, USA
		    Organized in cooperation with
		  ACM SIGCOMM (pending) and COST 264

		  http://signl.cs.umass.edu/ngc2002
				   
   The aim of NGC is to allow researchers and practitioners to present
   the design and implementation techniques for networked group
   communication. The focus of the workshop is on peer-to-peer,
   multicast, and networked group communication, ranging from the link
   layer, through routing, and reliability and traffic control, right
   up to session and application level control mechanisms. This
   workshop is the fourth of this international event. The first
   workshop was in Pisa, Italy, in November 1999; the second was in
   Stanford, USA, in November 2000; the third was in London, UK,
   in November 2001.
   
   We wish to distinguish NGC as a forum for novel and creative
   research projects and discussions on the future of networked group
   communication in academia and industry. To this end, NGC invites
   you to submit five-page extended abstracts. Authors of accepted
   papers will be invited to present at the workshop and publish
   full-length versions of their papers in the workshop
   proceedings. The extended abstract abstract should represent the
   paper in "short form."  Authors should include full references,
   figures and significant results when available. The submissions
   will be judged on significance, originality, clarity, relevance,
   and correctness.
   
   The conference will be held at Holiday Inn, Brookline in Boston,
   MA.  It will start with two half-day tutorials on October 23,
   2002. The technical program will include a keynote and invited
   talks on October 24-25, 2002. Depending on interest level, and
   suitable proposed topics, there may also be a panel discussion as
   well as a poster session. Authors are invited to submit papers on
   any issue related to networked group communication, including:

     * peer-to-peer applications
     * applications and services enabled through multicast
     * wireless and mobile communication
     * multiplayer games
     * measurement studies
     * content distribution
     * network security
     * application layer multicast
     * economic models
     * novel group communication architectures
     * routing, naming, address allocation
     * group and session management techniques
     * QoS and network engineering
     * scalability: overheads, stability, analysis, experiments
     * adaption and congestion control for group communication
     * heterogeneous group communication
     * reliable and semi-reliable protocols
       
Important Dates:

   Paper Registration and Submission: May 17, 2002
   Notification: July 24, 2002
   Camera Ready copy: August 15, 2002
   Conference Dates: October 23-25, 2002
   
Committee:

   Technical Co-Chairs:
   Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Tech)
   Brian Neil Levine (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
   
   General Chair:
   John Byers (Boston University)