ACM SIGCOMM '96 Conference Program
Monday, August 26th
Registration: 8 AM - 5 PM (Location to be Announced)
Tutorial MON1: 9 AM - 5 PM
Dr. Stephen Deering, IPv6: The Next-Generation Internet Protocol
Tutorial MON2: 9 AM - 5 PM
Dr. George Varghese, Algorithmic Techniques for Efficient
Protocol Implementations
Tuesday, August 27th
Registration: 8 AM - 5 PM (Location to be Announced) 6 - 7:30 PM
(at Conference Reception)
Tutorial TUE1: 9 AM - 5 PM
Dr. David B. Johnson, Wireless and Mobile Networking
Tutorial TUE2: 9 AM - 5 PM
Vern Paxson, An Introduction to Internet Measurement and
Modeling
Conference Reception: 6 PM - 7:30 PM (by Kresge Auditorium). Winetasting
and hors d'oeurves. Wine graciously donated by Dan
Lynch (founder of Interop, co-founder of Cybercash and one-time TCP/IP
programmer).
Wednesday, August 28th
Registration: 8 AM - 5 PM (Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University)
All conference sessions will be in Kresge Auditorium on the Stanford University
campus.
Session 1: [9AM-10AM]
ACM SIGCOMM Award Address by Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Senior Vice
President, MCI, and winner of the 1996 ACM SIGCOMM Award.
Session 2: [10:30AM-Noon] Measurement and Modeling. Chair:
Jim Kurose
The Importance of Long-Range Dependence
of VBR Video Traffic in ATM Traffic Engineering: Myths and Realities,
B.K. Ryu (Columbia Univ.)
and A. Elwalid (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
On the Relevance of Long-Range Dependence
in Network Traffic, M.
Grossglauser and J-C.
Bolot (INRIA)
End-to-end Routing Behavior in the Internet,
V. Paxson (Univ. of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory)
Lunch: A catered lunch will be provided.
Session 3: [1PM-2:30PM] Code generation and execution. Chair:
Jeff Mogul
ASHs: Application-Specific Handlers
for High-Performance Messaging, D.A.
Wallach, D. Engler,
and M.F. Kaashoek (MIT)
DPF: Fast, Flexible Message Demultiplexing
using Dynamic Code Generation, D.
Engler and M.F. Kaashoek
(MIT)
Generating Efficient Protocol Code
from an Abstract Specification, C. Castelluccia and W. Dabbous (INRIA)
and S. O'Malley (Univ.
of Arizona)
Session 4: [3PM-4:30PM] Protocol Performance Enhancement.
Chair: Karen Sollins
Analysis of Techniques to
Improve Protocol Latency, D.
Mosberger, L.L. Peterson,
P.G. Bridges, S.
O'Malley (Univ. of Arizona)
Speeding up Protocols for Small Messages,
T. Blackwell (Harvard Univ.)
Masking the Overhead of Protocol Layering,
R. van Renesse (Cornell
Univ.)
SIGCOMM Business Meeting: [4:30PM-5:30PM]
Social Event: [6:30PM-10PM] Dinner at Thomas Fogarty Winery.
(There will be dinners at the winery both Wednesday and Thursday.
Half the attendees will be there each night. Busses depart from Stanford
Campus starting at 6 PM).
Thursday, August 29th
Session 5: [9AM-10:30AM] Realtime. Chair: Hui Zhang
Efficient Support of Delay
and Rate Guarantees in an Internet, L. Georgiadis (Aristotle Univ.
of Thessaloniki) and R. Guerin, V. Peris, and R. Rajan (IBM, Watson Research
Center)
Receiver-driven Layered Multicast,
S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, and M. Vetterli, (Univ. of California, Berkeley
and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
A Reliable and Scalable Striping Protocol,
H. Adiseshu, G.
Parulkar, and G. Varghese
(Washington Univ., St. Louis)
Session 6: [11AM-12:30AM] Packet scheduling. Chair: Bruce
Davie
Hierarchical Packet Fair Queueing
Algorithms, J.C.R. Bennett and H. Zhang (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Start-time Fair Queuing: A Scheduling Algorithm
for Integrated Services Packet Switching Networks, P.
Goyal, H.M. Vin, and
H. Chen (Univ. of Texas,
Austin)
Phantom: A Simple and Effective Flow Control
Scheme, Y. Afek,
Y. Mansour and Z.
Ostfeld (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Lunch: a catered lunch will be provided.
Session 7: [1:30PM-3PM] Routing. Chair: Jon Crowcroft
Multicasting Protocols for High-Speed,
Wormhole-Routing Local Area Networks, M. Gerla, P. Palnati, S. Walton
(UCLA)
Simulation Study of the Capacity Effects
of Dispersity Routing for Fault Tolerant Realtime Channels, A. Banerjea
(Philips Research)
Routing High-Bandwidth Traffic in Max-min Fair
Share Networks, Q. Ma, P.
Steenkiste, and H. Zhang (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Session 8: [3:30PM-5PM] Wireless and Mobility. Chair: Martha
Steenstrup
A Channel Access Scheme for
Large Dense Packet Radio Networks, T.J. Shepard (BBN Systems and
Technologies)
Adaptive Resource Management Algorithms for Indoor
Mobile Computing Environments, S. Lu and V. Bharghavanan (Univ.
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Measurement and Analysis of the Error
Characteristics of an In Building Wireless Network, D.
Eckhardt and P. Steenkiste
(Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Social Event: [6:30PM-10PM] Dinner at Thomas Fogarty Winery.
(See notes from Wednesday).
Friday, August 30th
Session 9: [9AM-10:30AM] TCP. Chair: K.K. Ramakrishnan
A Comparison of Mechanisms
for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless
Links, H. Balakrishnan,
V.N. Padmanabhan, S.
Seshan, and R.H. Katz
(Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Improving the Start-up Behavior of a Congestion
Control Scheme for TCP, J.C. Hoe (MIT)
Forward Acknowledgement: Refining TCP Congestion
Control, M. Mathis and J. Mahdavi (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
Session 10: [11:AM-12:30PM] Evaluation of Network Services.
Chair: Paul Francis
Removal Policies in Network Caches for World-Wide Web Documents,
S. Williams, M. Abrams, C.R. Standridge, G. Abdulla, and E.A. Fox (Virginia
Tech)
Measuring the Performance of Communication
Middleware on High-Speed Networks, A.
Gokhale and D.C. Schmidt
(Washington Univ., St. Louis)
Internet Mobility 4x4 , S.
Cheshire and M. Baker (Stanford Univ.)