Dear Colleagues,

our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies!

HSN 2003 provides a forum for presenting and discussing recent work in high-speed networking in a timely manner. Please find below the tentative program of the workshop.

The workshop takes place in San Francisco on 30 March 2003, in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM.

For more information about the workshop, please visit: http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/hsn2003/

Yours sincerely,

Georg Carle and Andrea Fumagalli

P.S. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested.

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Dr. Georg Carle Chair for Computer Networks and Internet Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science University of Tuebingen Tel. +49-7071-29-70505 Sand 13 Fax +49-7071-29-5091 D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany carle@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de at Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS: Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 Tel.:+49-30 3463 7149 D-10589 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49-30 3463 8149 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrea Fumagalli, PhD Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department Head, OpNeAR: Optical Networking Advanced Research Lab Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688 Voice: (972) 883-6853 Fax: (972) 883-2710 E-mail: andreaf@utdallas.edu http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Eandreaf http://opnear.utdallas.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------ High-Speed Networking Workshop - IEEE HSN 2003 30 March 2003, San Francisco, California in conjunction with INFOCOM 2003 Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking

Workshop site: http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/hsn2003/

Program (Tentative) -------------------

Welcome, Introduction, and Agenda (8:15 - 8:30 AM)

Keynote Speech (8:30 - 9:30 AM) Design of High Performance Network Services Platforms Jonathan S. Turner Washington University, St. Louis

Session: High Speed Applications Support (9:30 - 10.30 AM) High Bandwidth Mega-Mesh Sensor Networks Andrew Blanchard, Andrew Cilia, James Cai Clean Earth Technologies, LLC Infiniband Datatone (WAN) Extender J. Delva, S. Jayasundera, P. Hopkins, Y.G. Tirat-Gefen Naval Research Labs L. Mercer Applied Research Lab, Penn State University Memory Allocation for Hierarchical Content Distribution Systems Nikolaos Laoutaris, Vassilios Zissimopoulos, Ioannis Stavrakakis University of Athens, Greece

Break (10:30 - 11:00 AM)

Session: End-to-End and QoS (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM) Improving TCP Start-up Behavior in High-Speed Networks Ren Wang, Giovanni Pau, M.Y. Sanadidi, and Mario Gerla University of California Los Angeles Performance Analysis of HighSpeed TCP and its Improvement for High Throughput and Fairness against TCP Reno Connections Koichi Tokuda, Go Hasegawa and Masayuki Murata Osaka University, Japan Composite QoS Metrics and Sensible Policies Erol Gelenbe University of Central Florida Proportional Bandwidth Guaranteed Probabilistic Priority Scheduling for Assured Forwarding Chee-Wei Tan, Chen-Khong Tham National University of Singapore Radon Spectroscopy of Inter-Packet Delay Andre Broido, Ryan King, Evi Nemeth, kc claffy CAIDA, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego

Lunch (12:30 - 2:00 PM)

Session: High Speed Wireless (2:00 - 3:00 PM)

A multi-channel multi-hop architecture for cellular networks Antonis Panagakis, Elias Balafoutis and Ioannis Stavrakakis University of Athens, Greece Capacity Enhancement of Wireless Systems by using Soft-length Symbols Onyemelem Jegbefume, Mohammad Saquib The University of Texas at Dallas Moe Win, Massachusets Insitute of Technology Simultaneous MAC Packet Transmission (SMPT) for High-Speed Service in a Multi-Code CDMA Wireless System Martin Reisslein Arizona State University

Break (3:00- 3:25 PM)

Session: IP and Optical Networks (3:25 - 4:45 PM) On Coverage of Multi-Link Failures of Single-Link Path-Based Protection Schemes in Mesh-Restorable Optical Networks Arun K. Somani Iowa State University Provisioning and Protection of Various Granularity Connections with GMPLS: Challenges and Solutions Hui Zang Sprint Laboratories Inter-Domain Dynamic Routing in Translucent Optical Transport Networks Xi Yang and Byrav Ramamurthy University of Nebraska-Lincoln A Novel Segment Protection Approach for SRLG Networks Dahai Xu, Yizhi Xiong and Chunming Qiao State University of New York at Buffalo

Panel Session (4:45 - 5:45 AM) Panel organizer: James P.G. Sterbenz, BBN Technologies

TCGN Open Business Meeting (5:45 - 6:30 PM)

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Registration

Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM 2003 registration; information is available on the web at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2003 or via the HSN 2003 web site. The registration form and additional information on the workshop are available on the web at http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/hsn2003 .

Workshop Co-chairs: Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Technical Program Committee Members Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Jose Brustoloni, University of Pittsburgh Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany Joe Evans, University of Kansas - Lawrence. Yuguang Michael Fang, University of Florida - Gainesville Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas Bryan Lyles Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California - Davis Chunming Qiao, State University of New York - Buffalo Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dick Skillen, SE Communications Patricia Sagmeister, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies Heinrich Stuettgen, NEC Europe, Germany Richard Thompson, University of Pittsburgh Joe Touch, USC/ISI, USA Jonathan Turner, Washington University - St. Louis Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------