NGC 2000 Program

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
8-10 November 2000

Wednesday, November 8



8:30am

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12:00pm

Tutorial 1 by Bill Fenner:
The History and Deployment of IP Multicast Routing in the Internet
 

1:00pm

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4:30pm

Tutorial 2 by Brian Whetten:
Transport and Application Level Multicast
 

6:00pm

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?:??

Social Activity

     
  • Bus to social (6:00pm)
  • Opening notes, welcome session (6:30pm)
  • Social activity (details to follow)


    • Thursday, November 9

    9:00am

    -

    10:00am

    Opening Keynote by David Cheriton (Stanford)

    10:30am

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    12:30pm

    Session 1: Reliability (Session Chair: Jon Crowcroft (UCL))
         
  • "Buffer Requirements and Replacement Policies for Multicast Repair Service", Sneha K. Kasera (Lucent Bell Laboratories), Jim Kurose (UMass-Amherst) Don Towsley (UMass-Amherst) [abstract] [paper]

  • "A Bandwidth Analysis of Reliable Multicast Transport Protocols", Christian Maihofer (University of Stuttgart) [abstract] [paper]

  • "Hierarchical Reliable Multicast: performance analysis and placement of proxies", Athina Markopoulou, Fouad Tobagi (Stanford University) [abstract] [paper]

  • "Incremental deployment of a router-assisted reliable multicast scheme", Christos Papadopoulos (USC/ISI), Manos Laliotis (USC) [abstract] [paper]

    • 1:30pm

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    2:30pm

    Session 2: Mobility (Session Chair: Colin Perkins (ISI))
         
  • "A Multicast-based Protocol for IP Mobility Support", Ahmed Helmy (USC) [abstract] [paper]

  • "A Geocast Architecture for Mobile Cellular Networks", Beongku An, Symeon Papavassiliou, Ali N. Akansu (NJIT) [abstract] [paper]

    • 2:30pm

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    3:15pm

    Student Poster Session

    3:15pm

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    5:30pm

    Session 3: Congestion Control (Session Chair: Serge Fdida (U. Pierre et Marie Curie))
         
  • Invited Talk: "Multicast Congestion Control", Luigi Rizzo (U. di Pisa)

  • "FLID-DL: Congestion Control for Layered Multicast", John Byers (Boston University), Michael Frumin (Stanford), Gavin Horn (Digital Fountain, Inc.), Michael Luby (Digital Fountain, Inc.), Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard), Alex Roetter (Stanford) [abstract] [paper]

  • "Pruning Algorithms for Multicast Flow Control", Dah Ming Chiu, Miriam Kadansky, Joe Provino, Joseph Wesley, Haifeng Zhu (Sun Microsystems) [abstract] [paper]

  • "On the Use of On-Demand Layer Addition (ODL) with Multi-Layer Multicast Transmission Techniques", Vincent Roca (INRIA Rhone-Alpes) [abstract] [paper]

    • 6:00pm

    -

    ?:??

    Social Activity
         
  • Bus to social (6:00pm)
  • Biscuit & Blues (7:00pm) [details to follow]


    • Friday, November 10

    9:00am

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    10:15am

    Session 4: Monitoring (Session Chair: Supratik Bhattacharyya (Sprint ATL))
         
  • Invited Talk: "Network Tomography Using End-to-End Multicast Measurements", Don Towsley (UMass-Amherst)

  • "A Hierarchical Multicast Monitoring Scheme", Joerg Walz, Brian Levine (UMass-Amherst) [abstract] [paper]

    • 10:45am

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    12:15pm

    Session 5: Group Control and ATM (Session Chair: Mark Handley (ACIRI)
         
  • "Policies for using Replica Groups and their effectiveness over the Internet", Graham Morgan, Paul Ezhilchelvan (University of Newcastle) [abstract] [paper]

  • "Router Level Filtering for Receiver Interest Delivery", Manuel Oliveira (UCL), Jon Crowcroft (UCL), Christophe Diot (Sprintlabs) [abstract] [paper]

  • "The Use of Hop-Limits to Provide Survivable ATM Group Communications", William Yurcik (Illinois State), David Tipper (Univ of Pittsburg), Deepankar Medhi (Univ of Missouri-Kansas City) [abstract] [paper]

    • 1:15pm

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    3:00pm

    Session 6: Deployment Barriers/Solutions
         
  • Invited Talk: "Some Thoughts on the Role of IP Multicast in an Application Multicast World", Paul Francis (Inktomi)

  • "Panel: Multicast Pricing"
    • Moderator: Kevin Almeroth (UCSB -- almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu)
    • Bill Fenner (AT&T Research -- fenner@research.att.com)
    • Sneha Kumar Kasera (Bell Labs -- kasera@dnrc.bell-labs.com)
    • James Milne (Sprint -- jmilne@sprint.net)
    • Jon Crowcroft (UCL -- J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk)
    • Paul Francis (Inktomi -- paul@francis.com)

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    3:30pm

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    4:30pm

    Closing Keynote by Jon Crowcroft (UCL)

    The History and Deployment of IP Multicast Routing in the Internet
    by
    Bill Fenner

    Tutorial 1: Wednesday, November 8th, 8:30am - 12:00pm

    Abstract

    This tutorial will give an overview of IP Multicast, starting with what IP multicast is and can be used for, its history and development. We will cover the protocols in use in the Internet today, some of their limitations, and some future directions. Debugging tools and techniques will also be discussed.

    Biography

    Bill Fenner is a Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T Labs - Research. He has been working on IP Multicast since 1993, in roles from developing multicast routing code to developing diagnostic tools to engineering the IP Multicast Backbone. Bill chairs two IETF working groups related to multicast, and actively participates in several others.

    Transport and Application Level Multicast
    by
    Brian Whetten

    Tutorial 2: Wednesday, November 8th, 1:00pm - 4:30pm

    Abstract

    This workshop will provide a taxonomy for, and description of, the leading protocols and research in layer four and layer seven multicast. This will include a summary of the current state of transport level protocols and IETF standards in the areas of: It will also include a discussion of the current trend towards application level multicast, existing architectures for doing so, and the interplay between transport and application level multicast.

    Biography

    Brian Whetten is the Chief Scientist for Talarian Corporation. Previously, he was the principal founder and CTO of GlobalCast Communications. He is one of the foremost experts on reliable multicast protocols and communication, and a leading author in the IETF Reliable Multicast Transport working group. Whetten is responsible for designing and implementing the first version of the Reliable Multicast Protocol (RMP), designing the RMTP-II protocol, and architecting GlobalCast's extensive product line. Mr. Whetten has written several articles for industry publications, and is a frequent speaker and conference and seminars worldwide. He holds Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a candidate for a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.