The deadline for NGC 2002 has been extended by one week to May 24th! Please register papers by May 17, 2002. More details are below or at the conference web site: http://signl.cs.umass.edu/ngc2002
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Fourth International Workshop on Networked Group Communication
October 23-25, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Organized in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM 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 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: May 17, 2002 Submission: May 24, 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)
Technical Committee:
Kevin Almeroth UC Santa Barbara Elizabeth Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara Samrat Bhattacharjee Univ. Maryland Supratik Bhattacharyya Sprint Advanced Technology Labs Ernst Biersack Institut Eurecom John Byers Boston University Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Christophe Diot Sprint Advanced Technology Labs Constantinos Dovrolis University of Delaware Jordi Domingo-Pascual Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Derek Eager University of Saskatchewan Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim Serge Fdida Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS Lixin Gao University of Massachusetts J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz Mark Handley ICSI Center for Internet Research Markus Hoffman Lucent Technologies David Hutchison Lancaster University Sugih Jamin University of Michigan Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Guy Leduc universite de Liege Jorg Liebeherr University of Virginia Laurent Mathy Lancaster University Peter Parnes Lulea University of Technology Sanjoy Paul Lucent Technologies Christos Papadopoulos Univerity of Southern California Colin Perkins Information Sciences Institute Luigi Rizzo ICSI Center for Internet Research Dan Rubenstein Columbia University Clay Shields Georgetown University Burkhard Stiller ETH Zuerich Thierry Turletti INRIA-Sophia Antipolis Giorgio Ventre Universita di Napoli Federico II
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