OPENSIG Fall'96 Workshop

Open Signalling for ATM, Internet and Mobile Networks

Monday and Tuesday, October 14-15, 1996, Columbia University, New York, NY

Organizing Committee: Andrew T. Campbell, Chair (Columbia University), Aurel A. Lazar (Columbia University), Rolf Stadler (Columbia University)

Program Committee: Chuck Kalmanek (AT&T Research), Aurel A. Lazar, Chair (Columbia University), Ian Leslie (University of Cambridge)

Location: The workshop will take place in the auditorium of the Schapiro Research Building on the Morning-side Campus of Columbia University at 530 West 120th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway. The workshops attendance is limited to 100 participants.

Sponsors: The workshop is sponsored by the Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University.

For a copy of the registration form for the symposium click here

Here is a pointer to some good hotels in the area.

Program: First Day

8:15 am
Coffee

8:50-9:00 am
Welcoming Remarks
Zvi Galil, Dean of the SEAS, Columbia University
Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

9:00-10:00 am
Network Computer Architectures
Keynote Speaker: Andy Hopper, Olivetti-Oracle Research Lab and University of Cambridge

Open Signalling for the Internet

Organizer: Jon Crowcroft, University College London

Chair: Christian Huitema, Bellcore

10:00-10:30 am
Signaling for Internet Telephony Services
Speaker: Henning G. Schulzrinne, Columbia University

10:30-11:00 am
Break

11:00-11:30 am
RSVP (and IP) over ATM Networks
Speaker: Steven Berson, ISI

11:30-12:00 am
LLRMP: a Signaling Protocol for Reserving Resources in Bridged Networks
Speaker: Peter Kim, HP Labs

12:00-12:30 am
Mapping IP Integrated Services over Link Level Technologies
Speaker: Raj Yavatkar, Intel

12:30-2:00 pm
Lunch Break

Open Signalling for Mobile Networks

Organizer and Chair: Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University

2:00-2:30 pm
Part I: Wireless ATM Standardisation in the ATM Forum
Part II: A Simple ATM Multiple Access Method (SAMA)
Speaker: Lou Dellaverson, Chairman of the ATM Forum Wireless ATM WG, Motorola

2:30-3:00 pm
Mobility Support in IPv6
Speaker: Charlie Perkins, Document Editor of the IETF Mobile IP WG, IBM

3:00-3:30 pm
Adaptive Resource Management Algorithms for Indoor Mobile Computing Environments
Speaker: V. Bharghavan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

3:30-4:00 pm
Break

4:00-4:30 pm
QoS Measures for Mobile Computing
Speaker: Suresh Singh, University of South Carolina, Columbia

4:30-5:00 pm
Simple Routing for Mobiles in Rooted Tree Topologies
Speaker: Hakan Mitts, VTT Information Technology, Finland

Reception and Demos

5:00-8:00 pm

Engineering the BIB

Organizer: Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

Chair: Andrew Thomas, HP Labs

6:00-6:30 pm
An xbind Architecture for Interfacing to ATM Real-Time Operating Systems
Speaker: Dan Ionescu, University of Ottawa

6:30-7:00 pm
Guideliness for Building a BIB: What works and what doesn't
Speaker: Koon-Seng Lim, Columbia University

7:00-7:30 pm
Designing and Implementing Multiple Network Algorithms over the BIB
Speaker: Ivan Tam, Institute of Systems Science

7:30-8:00 pm
The Network is a Computer? So how do I program it?
Speaker: Andrew Thomas, HP Labs

Program: Second Day

Open Signalling for ATM

Organizer and Chair: Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Research

9:00-9:45 am
PNNI: An Overview of ATM Routing
Speaker: Joel Halpern, Newbridge

9:45-10:15 am
A General and Flexible Connection Set-up Mechanism for ATM Networks
Speaker: Raphi Rom, Sun Microsystems

10:15-10:45 am
Break

10:45-11:15 pm
SEAM: A Scheme for Simple and Efficient ATM Multicast
Speaker: K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Research

11:15-11:40 am
VC Management for QOS Multicast over ATM
Speaker: Marty Borden, Bay Networks

11:40-12:05 pm
Distributed Control of ATM Networks
Speaker: Andrew Herbert, ANSA

12:05-12:30 pm
A Service Specific Control Architecture for ATM: Scalable, High Quality Videoconferencing
Speaker: Kobus van der Merwe, University of Cambridge

12:30-2:00 pm
Lunch Break

12:30-2:00 pm
The OPENSIG Initiative at Columbia
Speaker: Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

Architectures and Performance of Open Signalling

Organizer and Chair: Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

2:00-2:30 pm
TINA-C Network Architecture: Status, Advances, Experiments
Speaker: Emmanuel Darmois, TINA-C

2:30-3:00 pm
Building Open Programmable Multimedia Networks
Speaker: Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

3:00-3:30 pm
Distributed Resource Management: Including the End System
Speaker: David Hutchison, Lancaster University

3:30-4:00 pm
Break

4:00-4:30 pm
Towards a Reference Model for Firewall Technology
Speaker: Christoph L. Schuba, Purdue University

4:30-5:00 pm
Performance Benchmarking of ATM Signalling Architectures
Speaker: Arvind Kaushal, Sprint Corporation and University of Kansas

5:00-5:30 pm
Signalling System Performance in ATM Nerworks
Speaker: Nikos G. Anerousis, AT&T Research

For further information please send email to workshop@ctr.columbia.edu