Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[Larry Dunn <>]

Colleagues,
I forgot to mention this on or phone call today.
PFLDNet 2009 is coming up, and they are still soliciting papers.
It's in Tokyo May 21-22.

Submission deadline March 6.

Details here:
http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009/Top.html

There's also an adjacent IRTF ICCRG meeting (May 20).

If you've been doing work in transport, and thinking about
publishing and/or interacting with peers,
it's worth checking out the CFP.

Best regards (more details below...)
Larry
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> *** Submission deadline: March 6th
> *** Submit at: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7308
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> PFLDNet 2009
>
> The 7th International Workshop on Protocols for Future,
> Large-Scale and Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT)
>
> Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan
> May 21-22, 2009
> Web page: http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009
>
> Co-located:
> IRTF Congestion Control Research Group Meeting, May 20, 2009
>
>
> Scope
>
> The Internet continues to evolve along several dimensions, allowing
> more and more end systems to communicate in increasingly diverse
> ways. At one end of the performance spectrum, the Internet protocols
> provide communication facilities for extremely-high-speed special-use
> networks. At the other end of the performance spectrum, the Internet
> contains very low-power and low-bandwidth networks that cater to
> infrequent, bursty communication. Enabling efficient and high-
> performance end-to-end communication across such a diverse  
> internetwork
> is a difficult problem, which is not solved by current transport
> layer protocols.  The need to support an application base that grows
> more and more dissimilar adds additional challenges.
>
> The 7th International Workshop on Protocols for Future, Large-Scale
> & Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT)brings together researchers
> and practitioners from all continents to exchange their ideas and
> experiences in the area of transport layer issues for modern
> communication networks. The workshop provides theorists,  
> experimentalists
> and technologists with a focused, highly interactive opportunity
> to present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research,
> development and future directions in transport and application
> protocols for networks that are increasingly growing in size,
> heterogeneity and dynamicity of interaction.
>
> PFLDNeT 2009 solicits papers that further the research on end-to-end
> communication protocols for todays and tomorrows Internet in all
> its diversity along the continuum from specialized grid networks,
> optical transports, wireless connections, to lossy and low-power
> networks.  A specific focus of the workshop lies on transport
> protocols for the efficient end-to-end transfer of data for a diverse
> set of applications and application-layer protocols.
>
> Now approaching its seventh instantiation, the PFLDneT workshop has
> broadened its focus over the years from protocols targeted at
> specific fast, long-distance networks (the original expansion of
> the PFLDneT acronym) into a venue where all kinds of new ideas
> relating to end-to-end transport protocols for diverse network
> scenarios are being discussed first.
>
> The previous International Workshops on Protocols for Fast, Long-
> Distance Networks held at CERN (2003), Argonne (2004), Lyon (2005),
> Nara (2006), Marina del Rey (2007) and Manchester (2008) were very
> successful in bringing together many researchers from all over the
> world including North America, Europe and Asia who are working on
> these problems.  PFLDNeT 2009 will continue this tradition, and
> provide a perfect forum for researchers in this area to exchange
> ideas and experience.
>
>
> Important Dates and Relevant Event Information
>
> Position Paper or extended abstract submission: March 6th
> Notification of Acceptance: April 6th
> Final camera ready submission: May 1st
> Conference: May 21st and 22nd
> IRTF ICCRG meeting: May 20th
>
> Workshop web site
> The latest information of the workshop is updated in
> http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009
>
> Topics
>
> PFLDNeT 2009 covers all aspects related to transport protocols for the
> current and future Internet, including, but not limited to:
>
> - Protocol development
> - Enhancements of TCP
> - Innovative congestion control mechanisms
> - Novel data transport protocols designed for new networks and
> - applications
> - Explicit signaling protocols: optimization criteria and deployment
> - strategies
> - Pacing and shaping of traffic
> - Parallel transfers and multi-streaming
> - Performance evaluation
> - Modeling and simulation-based results
> - Interaction of transport protocols and network equipment
> - Experiments on real networks and live measurements
> - Protocol benchmarking
> - Transport over optical networks
> - Protocol implementation and hardware issues
> - End system performance
> - Data replication and striping
> - Applications with demanding or unusual network performance
> - requirements
> - Bulk-data transfer applications
> - Transport service for Grids
> - Quality-of-service and scalability issues
> - Multicast
>
> Workshop Organizers
>
> Program Committee Chairs:
> Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, FI
> Kei Hiraki, The University of Tokyo, JP
>
> Steering Committee:
> Lachlan Andrew, Swinburne University of Technology, AU
> Richard Hughes-Jones, Univ. of Manchester, UK
> Katsushi Kobayashi, AIST, JP
> Doug Leith, Hamilton Institute, IE
> Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University, US
> Pascale Vicat-Blanc, INRIA, FR
> Michael Welzl, Univ. of Innsbruck, AT
>
> Program Committee:
> Dirceu Cavendish ,KIT, JP
> Larry Dunn, Univ. of Minnesota, US
> Tomohiro Kudoh , AIST, JP
> Venkatram Vishwanath, EVL, USA
> Steven Low, Caltech, US
> Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT
> Hideyuki Shimonishi, NEC, JP
> David X. Wei, Facebook, US
> Yoshifumi Nishida, Sony CSL, JP
> Joerg Ott, TKK, FI
> Joe Touch, USC/ISI, US
> Mark Handley, UCL, UK
> Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, US

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