OPENSIG Spring'96 Workshop

Open Signalling for Middleware and Service Creation

Monday and Tuesday, April 29-30, 1996, Columbia University, New York, NY

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

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

Program: First Day

Modeling and Architectures

8:15 am

Coffee

8:50-9:00 am

Welcoming Remarks

Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

9:00-9:45 am

Redefining the Local Exchange

Keynote Speaker: Sandy Fraser, AT&T Research, Murray Hill

9:45-10:30 am

Architecture and Implementation of a General Multipoint Call Model

Speaker: John DeHart, Washington University, Saint Louis

10:30-11:00 am

Break

11:00-11:45 pm

Standardization of Service Interoperability: Open Issues and Problems

Speaker: Roch Guerin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne

11:45-12:30 am

Observations on Protecting Dumb Devices

Speaker: Derek McAuley, Glasgow University, Glasgow

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00-2:45 pm

General Switch Management Protocol

Speaker: Peter Newman, Ipsilon, Palo Alto

2:45-3:30 pm

Applications Interoperability by Signalling Translation

Speaker: Nachum Schacham, SRI, Menlo Park

3:30-4:00 pm

Break

4:00-5:00pm

Panel Discussion: The Open Switch Control Interface

Organizer: Ian Leslie, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Chair: Simon Crosby, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Panelists: Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University; Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Research; Kobus van der Merwe, Cambridge University; Peter Newman, Ipsilon; David L. Tennenhouse, MIT;

5:00-6:00pm

Interoperability Demonstrations

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Program: Second Day

APIs Everywhere

9:00-10:30 am

APIs for Signalling and Control

Organizer and Chair: Tom F. La Porta, Bell Labs Research, Holmdel

Overview: Signaling Protocols and APIs,
T.F. La Porta, Bell Labs Research;

Intelligent Networking Using Corba,
S. Mazumdar, Bell Labs Research;

Implementing RSVP on ATM Switches Using xbind,
L.H. Ngoh, Institute of Systems Science;

Programmable ATM Switches for Mobility Support,
P.P. Mishra, AT&T Research and M.B. Srivastava, Bell Labs Research;

Requirements upon APIs for Auditing ATM Networks,
S. Narain, Bellcore;

10:30-11:00 am

Break

11:00-12:30 pm

APIs for Service Creation

Organizer and Chair: Max Ott, NEC C&C Labs, Princeton

Michel Greenberg, NEC Systems Laboratories


Koon-Seng Lim, Columbia University


Borje Ohlman, Ericsson Telecom


Weiguo Wang, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 pm

APIs for Service Management

Organizer and Chair: Nikos Anerousis, AT&T Research, Murray Hill

Introduction to Service Management,
Nikos Anerousis, AT&T Research

Light-Weight Call Setup Protocol,
Gisli Hjalmtysson, AT&T Research

Interoperability between Management in CORBA CMIP and OSI,
Subrata Mazumdar, Bell Labs

Managing Multimedia Network Services,
Rolf Stadler, Columbia University

ATM Multicast Service Management, Security Management,
Shaw Chuang, Cambridge University

Specifying Managament APIs for Services,
Cristina Aurrecoechea, Columbia University

Monitoring of ATM Applications Using APIs and CORBA,
R. Radhakrishna Pillai, Institute of Systems Science

3:30-4:00 pm

Break

4:00-5:30pm

APIs for Transport

Organizer and Chair: S. Keshav, AT&T Research, Murray Hill

Enhancing X/Open's APIs for ATM and RSVP,
Roger Turner, IBM;

An Experimental Transport API,
Glenford Mapp, Olivetti Research;

Designing a Basic Programming Model for a High-performance Network Interface,
Werner Vogels, Cornell University;

Transport API for End-to-End QOS Guarantees,
Jean-Francois Huard, Columbia University;

Simple Calls for Flexible Constructs Using the Traditional File APIs,
Sandeep Gupta, University of Maryland;

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