From owner-dma-list@NIC.SURFNET.NL Tue Jul 8 01:52:16 1997 Received: from CS.Stanford.EDU (CS.Stanford.EDU [171.64.64.64]) by robotics.Stanford.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01547; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 01:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl (hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl [192.87.5.133]) by CS.Stanford.EDU (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id BAA10167; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 01:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hearnnt (192.87.5.133) by hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.73A02A50@hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl>; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:48:21 +0200 Received: from NIC.SURFNET.NL by NIC.SURFNET.NL (LISTSERV release 1.8c) with NJE id 5054 for DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:52:19 +0200 Received: from HEARN (NJE origin SMTP@HEARN) by HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 8259; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:52:18 +0200 Received: from utmfu6.math.utwente.nl by HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Tue, 08 Jul 97 10:52:17 +0200 Received: from utmfu0.math.utwente.nl (utmou1.math.utwente.nl) by utmfu6.math.utwente.nl with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA284431909; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:51:49 +0200 Received: by utmfu0.math.utwente.nl ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/16.2) id AA283371906; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:51:46 +0200 Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1] Approved-By: DMANET Message-ID: <199707080851.AA283371906@utmfu0.math.utwente.nl> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:51:45 METDST Reply-To: owner-emailnets@iyar.rutgers.edu Sender: DMANET From: DMANET Subject: DIMACS Workshop on End-to-End Network Modeling and Simulations To: DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 6030 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | DIMACS: Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science | | A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIMACS Special Year on Networks Workshop on End-to-End Network Modeling and Simulations October 23-25, 1997 Princeton University , Princeton , NJ ORGANIZERS: Sandeep Bhatt, bhatt@bellcore.com Ashok Erramilli, ashok@qmetrix.com Andy T. Ogielski, ato@winlab.rutgers.edu Network traffic patterns reflect increasingly complex interactions among people, organizations, and machines. This global information flow is shaped by network capacity, topology, complex interactions among protocols, and network controls. The Internet and the large public, private and government networks reveal dynamic behaviors which differ radically from traditional telephony; furthermore, traffic patterns evolve rapidly in time as new distributed services are deployed, and new social groups of users are formed. Methods for traffic and performance management under such conditions are not well understood, and their development requires new comprehensive approaches to modeling and analysis of wireline and wireless networks. This workshop will focus on current developments in modeling, simulation, and algorithmic techniques which take into account the observed and measured behavior of networks. In order to obtain a reasonably complete picture of the state of the art, and to stimulate further research, the organizers have invited practitioners of industrial and defense network modeling together with researchers involved in the analysis and simulations of networks and protocols. We are particularly interested in identifying areas requiring further research, and in creating an informal forum for practitioners, researchers, and students to hear each other and to exchange ideas. The primary topics covered in the workshop are: * network modeling and simulation practices in industry and military * modeling and simulation of wireless networks * models of traffic sources and aggregated traffic * modeling and simulation of network protocols * parallel simulation techniques for large telecommunication systems * algorithmic analyses of network and protocol models While we anticipate an intense program of invited talks, we welcome participants who are interested in giving a presentation to email a one page abstract (PostScript or plain ASCII) to one of the workshop organizers (Bhatt, Erramilli, or Ogielski), preferably including the URL where more information is available to assist in reviewing the submission. Depending on the number of submissions, the organizers will organize a forum (extra session, poster session), or a virtual poster session on the World Wide Web, which would be preserved in workshop's proceedings (see below). Invited Speakers (as of 6/22/97) David Goodman (WINLAB) Mike O'Dell (UUNET) Deborah Estrin (USC) - TBC Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Tom Leighton (MIT) - TBC Serge Plotkin (Stanford) - TBC Frank Reichert (Ericsson) Don Towsley (UMass) - TBC Walter Willinger (AT&T Research) Roy Yates (Rutgers) (TBC = To Be Confirmed) Proceedings: A booklet of abstracts will be handed out at the workshop. Instead of printed Proceedings, we plan to create a permanent record of the workshop on World Wide Web, with viewgraphs, abstracts, papers, applets, and other material and links contributed by the presenters. The format should be viewable in standard browsers (e.g., html, postscript, text, GIF, Java applets, etc.) Registration: We invite the participation of researchers, practitioners and students in the areas of network modeling and simulation. Both speakers and non-speakers are welcome, however, due to space limitations, and in the interest of informal, working atmosphere, the attendance will be limited to about 100 participants. If you would like to attend the workshop, more information is available at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/EndToEnd. Travel Support: There may be a modest amount of support available for participants who do not have sufficient travel funds, with special intention to assist qualifying graduate students. Please inform Sandy Barbu at time of registration if you intend to apply. Other Information: We plan to have an informal reception on Thursday 10/23, and the conference dinner on Friday 10/24, both in the historic Faculty Club on Princeton campus. Information on accommodations and travel arrangements is available at: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/EndToEnd. See also: Princeton University , http://www.princeton.edu/index.shtml Travel and weather info : http://www.princeton.edu/Mains/WT.shtml --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Special Year program is made possible by long term funding from the National Science Foundation, the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology and DIMACS university and industry partners. DIMACS Center; Rutgers University; P.O. Box 1179; Piscataway, NJ 08855-1179 TEL: 732-445-5928 FAX: 732-445-5932 ** EMAIL:center@dimacs.rutgers.edu WWW: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu DIMACS is a partnership of Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Labs - Research, Bellcore, and Bell Laboratories. -- ****************************************************** Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to DMANET@math.utwente.nl Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. 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