PFLDnet 2003
First International Workshop on Protocols
for Fast Long-Distance Networks
February 3-4, 2003
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/pfldnet2003/
Fast long-distance networks (i.e., networks operating at 622 Mbit/s,
2.5 Gbit/s, or 10 Gbit/s and spanning several countries or states)
were confined to network operators and ISPs until recently. They are
now becoming a mainstream market. More and more researchers now
routinely transfer between 10 GB and 1 TB of data over gigabit
networks (e.g., users remotely involved in the BaBar experiment at
SLAC or the LHC experiment at CERN). Application domains for such
massive transfers include data-intensive Grids (e.g., in Particle
Physics, Earth Observation, Bioinformatics, and Radio Astronomy),
database mirroring for Web sites (e.g., in e-commerce), and push-based
Web cache updates.
Although the network infrastructure is now in place, or will soon be,
the transport and application protocols available to date perform
rather poorly over such networks. Current versions of TCP, for
instance, recover very slowly from packet loss when the RTT, the
congestion window, and the link capacity are large. A number of
research teams have begun investigating these protocol issues. Some
work on simulations, others use real networks. But there is currently
little cross-pollination between them, especially between the U.S. and
Europe.
This workshop will be an opportunity for researchers around the world
to discuss and exchange experience on the performance of transport and
application protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, etc.) over fast
long-distance networks. This year, a particular emphasis will be on
TCP congestion control. Each day will start with a plenary talk and
end with a panel. In between, formal presentations of papers will be
followed by extensive and informal Q&A sessions.
In order to facilitate discussions, attendance will be limited to 60
participants and papers will be available online.
The topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to, the
following:
* protocol issues in fast long-distance networks
* experiments on real networks and actual measurements
* simulation-based results
* TCP enhancements and their comparison
* fairness
* effects of shaping on TCP and UDP traffic
* effects of striping and multistreaming
* experience with different types of hardware (PCs, routers,
switches, Gigabit Ethernet cards, etc.)
Technical Program
Monday, February 3, 2003
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Time | Authors | Title |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Plenary Session |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 9.00am | Sally Floyd, ICIR, USA | HighSpeed TCP and |
| | | Quick-Start for Fast |
| | | Long-Distance Networks |
| | | [abstract] |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 10:00am | Coffee Break |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Session 1: New TCPs |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 10:30am | Dina Katabi, MIT, USA | Congestion Control for |
| | | High Bandwidth-Delay |
| | | Product Networks [extended |
| | | abstract] |
|---------+------------------------+----------------------------|
| 11:00am | Tom Kelly, University | Scalable TCP: Improving |
| | of Cambridge, UK | Performance in Highspeed |
| | | Wide Area Networks [full |
| | | paper] |
|---------+------------------------+----------------------------|
| 11:30am | Cheng Jin, David Wei, | FAST Kernel: Background |
| | Steven Low, J. Bunn, | Theory and Experimental |
| | D.H. Choe, J.C. Doyle, | Results [extended |
| | H. Newman, S. Ravot, | abstract] |
| | S. Singh, Caltech, | |
| | USA, | |
| | G. Buhrmaster and | |
| | R.L.A. Cottrell, | |
| | Stanford University, | |
| | USA, | |
| | and F. Paganini, UCLA, | |
| | USA | |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Session 2: Measurements |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 1:30pm | Linda Winkler, Argonne | Experiences Building and |
| | National Lab, USA | Utilizing High Performance |
| | | Network Infrastructure |
| | | [abstract] |
|---------+------------------------+----------------------------|
| 2:00pm | Antony Antony, NIKHEF, | Characterization of TCP |
| | The Netherlands, Johan | Flows over Large-Fat |
| | Blom, Cees de Laat, | Networks [abstract] |
| | Jason Lee and Wim | |
| | Sjouw, University of | |
| | Amsterdam, The | |
| | Netherlands | |
|---------+------------------------+----------------------------|
| 2:30pm | Sylvain Ravot, | GridDT [abstract] |
| | Caltech, USA | |
|---------+------------------------+----------------------------|
| 3:00pm | Sven Ubik and Pavel | Debugging End-to-End |
| | Cimbal, Cesnet, Czech | Performance in Commodity |
| | Republic | Operating Systems |
| | | [extended abstract] |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 3:30pm | Coffee Break |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Session 3: Life Without TCP |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 4:00pm | Bill St. Arnaud, Wade | High speed data file |
| | Hong, Corrie Kost and | transfer over dedicated |
| | Bryan Caron, Canarie, | lightpaths [abstract] |
| | Canada | |
|---------+------------------------+----------------------------|
| | Steven Wallace, | |
| 4:30pm | Indiana University, | Tsunami [abstract] |
| | USA | |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 5:00pm | Panel |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 6:45pm | Bus |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 7:00pm | Social Event |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 11:00pm | Bus |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Time | Authors | Title |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Plenary Session |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 9.00am | John Doyle, Caltech, | What Would a Theory of |
| | USA | the Internet Look Like? |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 10:00am | Coffee Break |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Session 4: Theoretical Aspects |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 10:30am | U. Ayesta, K.E. | Multilevel Approach for |
| | Avratchenkov, E. | Modeling TCP/IP |
| | Altman, C. Barakat, | [full paper] |
| | INRIA, France and P. | |
| | Dube, IBM T.J. Watson | |
| | Research Center, USA | |
|---------+-------------------------+---------------------------|
| 11:00am | Vishal Misra, Columbia | Achieving High Throughput |
| | University, USA and Don | in Low Multiplexed, High |
| | Towsley, UMass, USA | Bandwidth, High Delay |
| | | Environments [abstract] |
|---------+-------------------------+---------------------------|
| 11:30am | Malathi Veeraraghavan, | File transfers across |
| | H. Lee and X. Zheng, | optical circuit-switched |
| | Polytechnic University, | networks [full paper] |
| | USA | |
|---------+-------------------------+---------------------------|
| 12:00pm | Milan Vojnovic and | A Note on the Stochastic |
| | Jean-Yves Le Boudec, | Bias of Some |
| | EPFL, Switzerland, Don | Increase-Decrease |
| | Towsley, UMass, USA and | Congestion Controls: |
| | Vishal Misra, Columbia | HighSpeed TCP Case Study |
| | University, USA | [full paper] |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 12:30pm | Lunch |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Session 5: Monitoring |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 2.00pm | R. Les Cottrell and | Experiences and Results |
| | Connie Logg, Stanford | from a New High |
| | University, USA | Performance Network and |
| | | Application Monitoring |
| | | Toolkit [full paper] |
|---------+-------------------------+---------------------------|
| 2:30pm | Brian Tierney, Lawrence | Using NetLogger and |
| | Berkeley National Lab, | Web100 for TCP Analysis |
| | USA | [extended abstract] |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 3:00pm | Coffee Break |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| | Session 6: Close to Hardware |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 3.30pm | Richard Hughes-Jones, | Performance Measurements |
| | S. Dallison and G. | on Gigabit Ethernet NICs |
| | Fairey, University of | and Server Quality |
| | Manchester, UK, P. | Motherboards [full paper] |
| | Clarke and I. Bridge, | |
| | UCL, UK | |
|---------+-------------------------+---------------------------|
| 4:00pm | Allyn Romanow, Cisco | An Overview of RDMA over |
| | Systems, USA and | IP [full paper] |
| | Stephen Bailey, | |
| | Sandburst Corp., USA | |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 4:30pm | Panel |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 5:30pm | Closing Speech |
|---------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| 6:00pm | TPC Meeting |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Committees
Co-Chairs:
* J.P. Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland
* Steven Low, California Institute of Technology, USA
Steering Committee:
* Guy Almes, Internet2, USA
* Olivier Martin, CERN, Switzerland
* Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology, USA
Technical Program Committee:
* Mark Allman, NASA, USA
* Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
* Saleem Bhatti, UCL, UK
* Les Cottrell, SLAC, USA
* Sally Floyd, ICIR, USA
* Richard Hughes-Jones, University of Manchester, UK
* Frank Kelly, University of Cambridge, UK
* Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Allison Mankin, ISI, USA
* Matt Mathis, PSC, USA
* Bill St. Arnaud, Canarie, Canada
* Brian Tierney, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
* Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
* Steven Wallace, Indiana University, USA
Local Arrangements:
* Elise Guyot, CERN, Switzerland
Submission Instructions
All papers are invited. Authors may submit either a full paper of up
to 12 pages or an extended abstract of up to 6 pages to
<jp.martin-flatin@cern.ch> or <slow@caltech.edu>. Only electronic
submissions in PDF or Postscript formats will be accepted.
There will not be formal proceedings. Slides, abstracts, and final
versions of papers or extended abstracts will be posted on the Web.
Original contributions will be considered for a special issue of a
journal guest-edited by the two co-chairs as a follow-up to this
workshop.
Registration
Please fill in the registration form (doc or pdf) and fax it to the
PFLDnet 2003 secretariat. Registrations are limited to 60 people and
will be handled on a first come, first served basis. Please contact
Elise Guyot if you need any help or if you have special food needs.
Registration fees:
* Ph.D. students and postdocs: CHF 100
* Others: CHF 250
Hotels
We have pre-reserved 60 rooms at the CERN hostel at a very reasonable
price (CHF 53 per night). This low three-star hotel is located on the
CERN site, next to the building where the workshop takes place and at
walking distance of the cafeteria. You should be able to connect to
CERN's wireless network from your room. Please specify on the
registration form whether you would like one of these rooms to be
firmly reserved for you.
If you prefer to stay in the center of Geneva, the Tourist Office of
Geneva maintains a list of hotels ranging from one star to five stars.
It usually takes 15-20 minutes to go from the old city of Geneva to
CERN by taxi.
On the way back from the social event, the bus will stop at CERN and
Hotel Les Armures, which is located in the old city of Geneva.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: November 29, 2002
Feedback deadline: January 10, 2003 extended
Camera-ready copy due: January 24, 2003 extended
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