[e2e] NGC 2001 - Call for participation

[Tristan Henderson]

(apologies for multiple copies)

Early discounted registration ends this Friday, 19th October - see 
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ngc2001/register.html for details.

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        C A L L   F O R    P A R T I C I P A T I O N

                 3rd International Workshop on
            Networked Group Communication (NGC 2001)
                      7-9 November 2001
                       UCL, London, UK

             http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ngc2001

  Organised by UCL and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

The aim of the Workshop is to allow researchers and practitioners 
to present the design and implementation techniques for networked 
group communication. The focus of the Workshop is on multicast and
networked group communication, ranging from link layer, through
routing, and reliability and traffic control, right up to session
and application level control mechanisms, and includes performance
analysis and evaluation. This Workshop is the third of this
international event in this area.

                             PROGRAMME

**Wednesday, 7 November 2001**

08:00-09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30-12:30 TUTORIAL: Source-Specific Multicast Deployment and Development 
Status
Supratik Bhattacharya (Sprint ATL)

12:30-13:30 LUNCH

13:30-16:30 TUTORIAL: Secure Group Communications
Lakshminath Dondeti (Nortel Networks)

**Thursday, 8 November 2001**

08:00-09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30-10:00 KEYNOTE: Content Networks
Paul Evans (Venation)

10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30-12:15 SESSION 1: Application-level (Chair: Laurent Mathy (Lancaster 
University))

"Latency and user behaviour on a multiplayer game server"
Tristan Henderson (University College London)

"Application-level Multicast using Content-Addressable Networks"
Sylvia Ratnasamy (University of California, Berkeley and ACIRI), Mark Handley 
(ACIRI), Richard Karp (University of California, Berkeley and ACIRI), Scott 
Shenker (ACIRI)

"Scribe: The design of a large-scale event notification infrastructure"
Antony Rowstron (Microsoft Research), Anne-Marie Kermarrec (Microsoft 
Research), Peter Druschel (Rice University), Miguel Castro (Microsoft Research)

12:15-13:45 LUNCH

13:45-15:15 POSTER SESSION (Chair: Saleem Bhatti (University College London))

14:45-15:15 COFFEE BREAK

15:15-17:00 SESSION 2: Group Management (Chair: Mark Handley (ACIRI))

"SCAMP: Peer-to-peer lightweight membership service for large-scale group 
communication"
Ayalvadi J. Ganesh (Microsoft Research), Anne-Marie Kermarrec (Microsoft 
Research), Laurent Massoulie (Microsoft Research)

"Extremum Feedback for Very Large Multicast Groups"
Joerg Widmer (University of Mannheim), Thomas Fuhrmann (Boston Consulting 
Group)

"An Overlay Tree Building Control Protocol"
Laurent Mathy (Lancaster University), Roberto Canonico (University Federico 
II, Napoli), David Hutchison (Lancaster University)

18:30-??? SOCIAL EVENT: London Eye/T.S. Queen Mary

**Friday, 9 November 2001**

08:00-09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30-10:00 INVITED PAPERS (Chair: Huw Oliver (Hewlett-Packard))

10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30-12:15 SESSION 3: Performance (Chair: Ernst Biersack (Institut Eurécom))

"The Multicast Bandwidth Advantage in Serving a Web Site"
Yossi Azar (Tel Aviv University), Meir Feder (Bandwiz and Tel Aviv 
University), Eyal Lubetzky (Bandwiz), Doron Rajwan (Bandwiz), Nadav Shulman 
(Bandwiz)

STAIR: Practical AIMD Multirate Multicast Congestion Control
John W. Byers (Boston University), Gu-In Kwon (Boston University)

"Impact of tree structure on retransmission efficiency for TRACK"
Anthony Busson (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), Jean-Louis 
Rougier (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), Daniel Kofman 
(Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)

12:15-13:45 LUNCH

13:45-15:30 SESSION 4: Security (Chair: Bob Briscoe (BT))

"Framework for Authentication and Access Control of Client-Server Group 
Communication Systems"
Yair Amir (John Hopkins University), Cristina Nita-Rotaru (John Hopkins 
University), Jonathan R. Stanton (John Hopkins University)

"Scalable IP Multicast Sender Access Control for Bi-directional Trees"
Ning Wang (University of Surrey), George Pavlou (University of Surrey)

"EHBT: An efficient protocol for group key management"
Sandro Rafaeli (Lancaster University), Laurent Mathy (Lancaster University), 
David Hutchison (Lancaster University)

15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00-17:15 SESSION 5: Topology (Chair: Radia Perlman (Sun Microsystems))

"Aggregated Multicast with Inter-Group Tree Sharing"
Aiguo Fei (University of California, Los Angeles), Junhong Cui (University of 
California, Los Angeles), Michalis Faloutsos (University of California, 
Riverside)

"Tree Layout for Internal Network Characterizations in Multicast Networks"
Micah Adler (University of Massachusetts), Tian Bu (University of 
Massachusetts), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts), Don Towsley 
(University of Massachusetts)

17:15-17:30 CLOSING REMARKS