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call for participation
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 07:08:56 -0800
============================================================================= Call for Participation ============================================================================= FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITY NETWORKING INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA SERVICES TO THE HOME July 13-14, 1994 Westin Hotel, San Francisco Bay, California, USA Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society In collaboration with ACM SIGCOMM, the Internet Society, and Smart Valley Community networking concerns the network infrastructures that will bring integrated multimedia services to home users. Community networking differs in many ways from enterprise networking in its services, technologies, and economics. In contrast to enterprise networking applications, community networking services will not necessarily be work oriented and will range from entertainment to shopping to information services. At present, community networking technology is driven by the requirements of video-on-demand, most notably high bandwidth (compared to narrowband), bandwidth asymmetry, and the delay-jitter constraints imposed by today's limited-storage TV set-top devices. As various other services develop, community networking will evolve to include integrated multimedia communication and user-to-user applications. Community networking must also provide access to resources located outside the community, in an increasingly global repository of information of every conceivable type. Since very little has been published to date on the topic of community networking, this workshop will give researchers and professionals the chance to share their views and advance the state of the art in this field. RELEVANT AREAS: Contributions are encouraged in the four areas listed below with relevant topics: 1. APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS: types of applications; coding; set-top operating systems; QoS networking requirements (symmetric/asymmetric bandwidth, delay, and losses); security and privacy; service models; user interface and navigation facilities. 2. LOCAL DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY: topology; fiber/cable/UTP/wireless; modulation, bandwidth allocation; MAC (reverse channel); role of ATM; dependencies on equipment/network in the home (e.g., TV set-top). 3. ADDRESSING, SIGNALING, AND UPPER-LAYER PROTOCOLS: local vs. global addressing; the service provider view vs. the common carrier view: the video-dialtone gateway; role of B-ISDN protocols; network- and transport-layer protocols; network management; APIs. 4. INTERNETWORKING AND ARCHITECTURE: the gateway: accessing other networks (data, telephone); server placement and network optimization; the regional distribution centers; testbeds; network traffic models; network cost structure and its implications on service pricing; medium- and long-term network evolution; the impact of regulatory constraints. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: Please send via electronic mail a short abstract (up to 700 words in ASCII or PostScript) describing a position statement in one of the areas above to cn-workshop () opera hpl hp com Note that submissions longer than the limit above will not be reviewed. Only if electronic submission is impossible, a hardcopy version may be sent to: Riccardo Gusella Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Rd., MS 1U-17 Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Participation in the workshop will be by invitation only based on the Program Committee's review of position statements. Some of the authors will be asked to submit extended abstracts and to present their positions during the workshop. Workshop size limitation may preclude attendance of all authors of multi-author abstracts. DATES: Deadline for submitting abstracts . . . . . . . . April 15, 1994 Acceptance notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 12, 1994 Extended abstract due (limited to 2000 words) . . June 16, 1994 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Program Co-Chairs: Martin De Prycker Alcatel Bell Telephone, Antwerp, Belgium Riccardo Gusella Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California Committee Members: Joel Winthrop AT&T Bell Labs Alexander D. Gelman Bellcore Gordon Kerr BT Labs Jurgen Brommelhoff Digital Equipment Corporation Matt Miller General Instruments Jeff H. Derby IBM Corporation David Skellern Macquarie University, Sydney Andrew Lippman MIT, Media Lab Joydeep Bose National Computer Board, Singapore Tetsuya Miki NTT Transmission Systems Laboratories Andrew Laursen Oracle Corporation G. Keith Cambron Pacific Bell Albert J. Stienstra Philips Research H. Allen Ecker Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Mario P. Vecchi Time Warner Cable, Inc.
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