Program: 6th Maryland Workshop on Very High Speed Networks

[Account of Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research <mctr () cs umbc edu>]

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            6TH MARYLAND WORKSHOP ON VERY HIGH SPEED NETWORKS
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                          October 30-31, 1995
                     (Ballroom, University Center)

              Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research 
        Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
                 University of Maryland Baltimore County(UMBC)

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Participation with:

        University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
        IEEE Communication Society - Gigabit Networking Technical Committee
        IDA/Center for Computing Sciences
        Johns Hopkins University/Computer Science Department

Supported by:
        
        Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC
        IBM 
        IOS Press
        MCI
        Sprint
        SUN

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Monday, October 30, 1995
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8:00-8:45       Registration and Coffee

8:45-9:00       Introduction

                Dr. Deepinder Sidhu
                Director, Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research(MCTR)

                Dr. Joel Morris
                Chair, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, UMBC

                Dr. Freeman Hrabowski
                President, University of Maryland Baltimore County 

SESSION 1: --------------------------------------------------------------------

09:00-9:45      Inder Gopal: IBM Watson Research Center (Keynote Address)
                Electronic Commerce: Technical Issues and Challenges

9:45-10:15      Thomas vonDeak: NASA Lewis Research Center
                Status of the NASA Advanced Communications Technology
                Satellite (ACTS) Program and B-ISDN Development

10:15-10:45     Coffee Break

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10:45-11:15     Rick Wilder: MCI 
                The NSF's very-high-speed Backbone Network Service:
                Architecture and Project Plans  

11:15-11:45     Bob Collet: Sprint
                Overview of Sprint's SONET Infrastructure

11:45-12:15     J. H. Maestas: Sandia National Laboratories
                Experiences with SONET Transport Networks

12:15-1:30pm    Lunch

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1:30-2:00       Raj Jain: Ohio State University
                Traffic management in ATM Networks
                
2:00-2:30       Mani B. Srivastava, P. Agrawal, A. Asthana, M. Cravatts, 
                E. Hyden, P. Krzyzanowski, P. Mishra, B. Narendran,
                and J. Trotter: AT&T 
                SWAN: Testbed for Mobile Networked Computing

2:30-3:00       Vern Paxson: Lawrence Berkely Lab
                Endpoint Measurement of Network Conditions

3:00-3:30       Donald Smith: Bellcore
                Adaptive Congestion Controls in SS7 and Implications for
                Broadband Signaling

3:30-4:00       Coffee Break

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4:00-4:30       J. H. Naegle: Sandia National Laboratories
                Progress with ATM at Sandia National Laboratories       

4:30-5:00       Jonathan M. Smith: Univ of Pennsylvania
                TCP/IP performance of the Penn Afterburner ATM Link Adapter

5:00-5:30       Javad Boroumand: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
                NASA EOSDIS Project ATM Prototyping

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October 31, 1995
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8:45-9:15       Michael Levender: Stratacom
                Applications Support Over ATM: An Update 

9:15-9:45       Brad Makrucki: BellSouth Telecomm
                What's Wrong with Equivalent Bandwidth?

9:45-10:15      Roch Guerin: IBM Watson Research Center
                Traffic Shaping and Reshaping to Efficiently Provide End-to-End
                Guarantees.

10:15-10:45     Coffee Break

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10:45-11:15     Magda El Zarki: Univ. of Pennsylvania
                Video over ATM Quality Control

11:15-11:45     Guru Parulkar: Washington University
                Error Control for Continuous Media Applications

11:45-12:15     Anujan Varma: University of California
                FAST: A Hardware Simulation Testbed for ATM Network     

12:15-1:15      Lunch 

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1:15-1:45       Robert J. Aiken:  Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore Lab
                The ENERGY of HIgh Speed Networking

1:45-2:15       Ted Faber: USC/ISI
                Research in the ATOMIC-2 Project at ISI

2:15-2:45       Bernie Hudson: University of Ottawa
                High Speed Network Connecting Canada, Europe and North Africa


2:45-3:15       Jorg Liebeherr, I. F. Akyildiz and D. Sarkar: 
                Univ. of Virginia, Virginia
                An Explicit Rate Control Scheme for ABR Traffic with
                Heterogeneous Service Requirements

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