From: giovanni@ctr.columbia.edu (Giovanni Pacifici)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: CONF: Columbia Workshop on Telecommunications -- Broadband
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:02:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug20.181800.10201
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu


Crossposted from news.announce.conferences



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                Columbia Workshop on Telecommunications
                        Broadband Networking:
                The State of the Art and Beyond

                September 21-22, 1992, New York, NY

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Significant research and development efforts are underway worldwide to
promote the evolution of telecommunications into broadband services
into the next decade. Many of these efforts are maturing to the point
that serious migration plans can be discussed. Such migration plans
imply an overall upgrade of the existing telecommunications
infrastructure worldwide and also a sweeping deployment of a new
generation of equipment covering both customer premises and the
network. We believe that our workshop will be a timely forum for a
discussion of this exciting technological evolution.

Location. The Workshop will take place in the auditorium of the new
Schapiro Research Building on the Morning- side Campus of Columbia
University at West 120th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and
Broadway. The auditorium offers approximately 200 seats.

Program.Invited contributions. Bound viewgraphs and/or position papers
will be distributed to all participants.  Keynote speaker: Alexander
Fraser, Executive Director, AT&T Bell Laboratories. A detailed program
is enclosed.

Organization. It is organized around eight sessions. Every session
will have at least one introductory speaker who will present the state
of the art and will set the stage for discussions to follow.

The topics of the first day (four sessions) are organized around
Hardware Technologies for Broadband Infrastructure: switching,
transmission, interfaces, hardware support for protocol processing,
SONET, system architectures, electro-optics, WDM networks, passive
lightwave architectures, components, photonic switching, etc.

The topics of the second day deal with Software Technologies for
Broadband Infrastructure: software architectures and protocols, QOS
control and management, protocols and multimedia applications, and
network management.

Program Committee:

Kai Eng                 AT&T Bell Labs (Co-Chair)
Nim Cheung              Bellcore
Richard Gitlin          AT&T Bell Labs
Inder Gopal             IBM T.J. Watson
Aurel A. Lazar          Columbia University (Co-Chair)
Peter O`Reilly          GTE Labs
Martin De Prycker       Alcatel
Howard Shimokura        SWB
Tatsuro Takahashi       NTT


Local Arrangements:

Paul V. Christianson    CTR
Laurence Crutcher       CTR
Giovanni Pacifici       CTR

Sponsors:

The workshop is sponsored by the Center for Telecommunications
Research at Columbia University and AT&T Bell Laboratories.



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Registration:

Please send this form and a $100 check payable to "Columbia
University" to:

Paul V. Christianson
Center for Telecommunications Research
801 Schapiro Research Building
530 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027-6699

Name:           __________________________________________
Affiliation:    __________________________________________
Address:        __________________________________________
Address:        __________________________________________
Phone:          __________________________________________
Email Address:  __________________________________________


Dinner is included. THERE WILL BE NO ON SITE REGISTRATION DURING THE
WORKSHOP. For information please send email to workshop@ctr.columbia.edu

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                                FIRST DAY PROGRAM
                NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEM EVOLUTION

8:15 am Coffee

8:45-8:55 am    Introduction and Greetings

8:55-9:00 am    Day 1: Network Technologies and System Evolution
                Kai Y. Eng, Workshop Co-Chair, AT&T Bell Laboratories

9:00-10:15 am   Session 1: Electronic and Photonic Technologies
                Chair: Nim Cheung, Bellcore

                1.1     State of the Art: SRAM, DRAM, EEPROM and Microprocessors
                        Kevin O'Connor, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

                1.2     Performance Trends in High End Processors
                        George Sai-Halasz, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

                1.3     Photonics for Next-Generation Networks
                        Rod Alferness, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

10:15-10:45 am  Coffee Break

10:45-12:00     Session 2: Transmission Network Technologies
                Chair: Kai Y. Eng, AT&T Bell Laboratories

                2.1     State-of-the-Art Transmission Technologies
                        Kinichiro Ogawa, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

                2.2     Technologies for Gigabit Networking
                        Nim Cheung, Bell Communications Research, USA

                2.3     "All Optical" High-Speed Networks
                        Adel Saleh, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

12:00-2:00 pm   Lunch Break

2:00-3:15 pm    Session 3: Switching System Technologies
                Chair: Tatsuro Takahashi, NTT

                3.1     High-Performance Architectures for Gigabit ATM Switching
                        Mark Karol, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

                3.2     ATOM: High-Performance ATM Switching Architectures and I
mplementations
                        Towards Gbps Networks
                        Hiroshi Suzuki, NEC, Japan

                3.3     Broadband Network Restoration
                        Ender Ayanoglu, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

3:15-3:45 pm    Coffee Break

3:45-5:00 pm    Session 4: Broadband Network Evolution
                Chair: Rich Gitlin, AT&T Bell Laboratories

                4.1     Migration Strategies to B-ISDN: NTT's Transmission Netwo
rk
                        Ikuo Tokizawa, NTT, Japan

                4.2     Migration Strategies to B-ISDN: NTT's Switching Network
                        Tatsuro Takahashi, NTT, Japan

                4.3     SMDS Evolution to B-ISDN
                        Elysia Tan, Bell Communications Research, USA

5:00-5:10 pm    Day 1 Concluding Remarks
                Kai Y. Eng, AT&T Bell Laboratories

5:15-6:15 pm    Guided tour of the CTR Laboratories

7:00 pm         Dinner
                Keynote Address: ATM and High Speed Switching
                Alexander Fraser, AT&T Bell Laboratories

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                        SECOND DAY PROGRAM
                SOFTWARE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS

8:15 am Coffee

8:55-9:00 am    Day 2: Software for Telecommunications
                Aurel A. Lazar, Workshop Co-Chair, Columbia University

9am-10:15 am    Session 1: Software Architectures, Protocols and Applications
                Chair: Inder Gopal, IBM

                1.1     Software Infrastructure for Multimedia Applications
                        Gary Herman (Bellcore)

                1.2     Orbit Fastpath - System Software Structure for High Thro
ughput from(to)
                        Application to(from) Network Adapter
                        Mark Kaplan (IBM)

                1.3     B-ISDN: Applications and Introduction Scenario
                        Willem Verbiest, Alcatel Bell Telephone, Belgium

10:15-10:45 am  Coffee Break

10:45-12:00     Session 2: QOS Control and Management
                Chair: Peter O'Reilly, GTE Laboratories

                2.1     To be announced
                        Barath Doshi, AT&T Bell Laboratories

                2.2     Congestion Control in ATM LANs
                        Allyn Romanow, SUN Microsystems

                2.3     Highly-Bursty Heterogeneous Sources and Their Admission
                        Control in High-Speed Networks
                        Khosrow Sohraby, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

12:00-2:00 pm   Lunch

2:00-3:15 pm    Session 3: Protocols and Multimedia Applications
                Chair: Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

                3.1     Improving Communications at the Desktop
                        Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge Computer Lab and Ol
ivetti Research

                3.2     Software and Hardware Architecture of an ATM Interface
                        for Workstation Hosts
                        Jonathan M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

                3.3     To be announced
                        David Tennenhouse, MIT

3:15-3:45 pm    Coffee Break

3:45-4:35 pm    Session 4: Network Management
                Chair: Howard Shimokura, SBC

                4.1     Implementation of Network Management Software in XUnet
                        Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Bell Laboratories

                4.2     Management of Emerging Multi-Service Telecommunication N
etworks: Issues
                        and Approaches
                        Shaygan Kheradpir, GTE Laboratories

4:35-5:10 pm    Workshop Closing Remarks: Broadband Networking, a New Paradigm
                for Communications
                Pat White, Bellcore