Second International Workshop on
Networked Group Communication
(NGC 2000)

Organized by Sprint and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

The NGC Conference is Being Transmitted in Real-Time via Source Specific Multicast
For information on joining, see: The University of Oregon Videolab Session Page

(Thanks to Cisco, Sprint, Univ of Oregon, UC-Santa Barbara, and Stanford)

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Submissions

Program

Registration

Travel/Hotels/Local Info

Participants

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
8-10 November 2000

NEWS

FINAL PROGRAM: All poster abstracts, papers, and slides for tutorials, keynotes and invited talks are now available.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The aim of the Workshop is to allow researchers and practioners to present the design and implementation techniques for networked group communication. The focus of the Workshop is strictly on multicast and networked group communication. This Workshop is the second and only international event in this area (first workshop was in Pisa, Italy, in November 1999).

The workshop will start with two half day tutorials on the 8th. The technical program will include two keynotes and invited talks on the 9th and the 10th of November 2000.

Authors are invited to submit papers on any issue related to networked group communication, including but not limited to:

multicast congestion control
multicast routing, naming, address allocation
scalability in multicast services
reliable and semi-reliable multicast protocols
novel multicast architectures
multicast security
multicast deployment related issues
multicast over heterogeneous media
multipeer applications (distributed interactive applications, games, DIS)
QoS issues with multicast
Pricing and economic model for multicast traffic
group management techniques
network engineering for multicast services

The Workshop Proceedings will be published by ACM and papers will be available on-line prior to the workshop.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS (FOR PAPERS)

Papers must be less than 20 double-spaced pages long, have an abstract of 100-150 words, and be original material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. Authors must submit papers electronically at:

http://www.sprintlabs.com/ngc2000/
(NOTE: Expect this link to be inactive after the submission date closes.)

Authors not able to comply with these instructions should contact the Workshop Co-Chairs. Papers submitted after the deadline will not be considered without an ahead-of-time extension from the Program Co-Chairs.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS (FOR POSTERS)

In addition to the regular paper submission process we will also be soliciting poster submissions. Posters should be authored and presented by a student. Authors of accepted papers cannot submit a poster for the work included in their paper. Details on the poster submission include:

Deadline for poster submission: October 2, 2000.
The submission is to be a 500 word summary explaining what research is to be covered on the poster, and a proposed layout for the poster.
Send submissions to: ngc2000@sprintlabs.com

A subset of the PC will select the best and most interesting posters by October 13th and the authors will be informed.

Posters will be displayed in a room during the two extended afternoon breaks. A prize will be given by Cisco Systems, Inc. to the best poster. Additional details on the size of the poster and will be made available at a later date.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS (FOR CAMERA READY COPIES OF PAPERS)

Submissions will be done via email using the instructions at:

http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission:	June 5, 2000
Notification:	August 28, 2000
Camera Ready:	September 8, 2000
Poster Proposals:	September 23, 2000

PROGRAM CHAIRS Christophe Diot, Sprint ATL (cdiot@sprintlabs.com) Kevin C. Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara (almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Hugh Holbrook, Cisco Systems (holbrook@cisco.com)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech Ernst Biersack, EURECOM Kenneth Birman, Cornell Bob Briscoe, British Telecom Jon Crowcroft, UCL Walid Dabbous, INRIA Jordi Domingo-Pascual, UPC Wolfgang Effelsberg, U. of Mannheim Serge Fdida, LIP6 JJ Garcia-Luna, UC Santa Cruz Per Gunningberg, U. of Uppsala Mark Handley, ACIRI Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs Hugh Holbrook, Stanford/Cisco David Hutchison, Lancaster U. Roger Kermode, Motorola Peter Key, Microsoft Research	Jim Kurose, UMass Guy Leduc, U. de Liege Helmut Leopold, Telekom Austria AT Brian Levine, UMass Jorg Liebeherr, U. of Virginia Huw Oliver, Hewlett Packard Sanjoy Paul, Bell Labs Colin Perkins, UCL Radia Perlman, SUN Luigi Rizzo, U. di Pisa Tony Speakman, Cisco Ralf Steinmetz, U. of Darmstad Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich Don Towsley, UMass Lorenzo Vicisano, Cisco Brian Whetten, Talarian Corp Hui Zhang, CMU
ORGANIZING ASSISTANCE Supratik Battacharyya, Sprint ATL

Second International Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC 2000)

Organized by Sprint and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

The NGC Conference is Being Transmitted in Real-Time via Source Specific Multicast For information on joining, see: The University of Oregon Videolab Session Page