Subject: [IMRG] Mark Allman: bandwidth estimation workshop

From: Mark Allman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:52:07 -0400

Hello!

I just wanted to fire out a reminder to everyone about the upcoming
deadline (next Wed, 10/15) for submission of 1-2 page abstracts for
the BEst workshop (see announcement below).  

One thing that is not terribly clear from this announcement (and, is
completely my fault) is that this is intended to be a closed
workshop.  The 'price of admission' to the workshop is to give a
talk on your work or thoughts in this area (i.e., submit an
abstract).  We are operating this in a closed fashion to facilitate
good conversation / interaction on the topics at hand.  A
distillation of the workshop will be provided to the broader
community (as well as the abstract and slides).

We look forward to seeing lots of interesting abstracts.

allman

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Folks-

I am happy to announce that we're organizing a workshop to bring
together researchers interested in bandwidth estimation under the
auspices of the IMRG (and, with a bunch of help from CAIDA and DOE).
The announcement is attached -- and I hope to see a good response
for the first 'formal' IMRG activity.  Specific queries about the
workshop should go to Constantinos Dovrolis
([email-masked]).

Thanks,

allman

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	 		       BEst 2003
		  First Bandwidth Estimation Workshop	

		          December 9-10, 2003
		             San Diego CA 	

  	Supported by CAIDA, IMRG, and the DOE Office of Science 

There has been a significant interest recently in active and passive 
measurement techniques for the "bandwidth" characteristics of network 
paths and links. A number of measurement tools and estimation methodologies 
have become available, and several research papers have been published
on this topic. Additionally, it is expected that such bandwidth estimation 
techniques can be useful in diverse applications, such as congestion 
control, streaming applications, overlay network routing, and others.  

The Bandwidth Estimation (BEst) workshop aims to bring together the most active 
researchers in this research area. The main objectives of the workshop 
will be to discuss recent advancements in this field, resolve arguments 
(e.g., regarding the terminology and definition of bandwidth metrics, 
acceptable degree of intrusiveness in active measurements, evaluation
of existing measurement tools), and to identify open problems that require 
further research.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  - New estimation techniques for capacity, available bandwidth, BTC 
  - Evaluation and comparison of bandwidth estimation tools 
  - Intrusiveness vs accuracy trade-off 
  - Bandwidth estimation in TCP and congestion control 
  - Applications of bandwidth estimation 
  - Measurement challenges in high-speed paths
  - Fallacies and pitfalls in bandwidth estimation 

We invite interested researchers to submit a 1-2 page abstract or position
statement. Abstracts  will be chosen based on their relevance to the area of 
bandwidth estimation, and on the diversity of the covered topics. There will 
be no full-paper submissions or proceedings. Authors of accepted abstracts 
however should plan to give a 25-minute presentation that will be posted at 
the workshop's web page (TBA). A significant part of the workshop will be 
given to round-table discussions and interaction among participants. 

Submission instructions
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Submissions must be in electronic form, as plain-text or PDF (if graphs are 
included) documents, and they should be submitted by e-mail to:
[email-masked]. Authors of submitted abstracts should commit
that they will attend the workshop if their abstract is accepted. 

Dates
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  - October 15, 2003: Submission of 1-2 pages abstract 
  - October 30, 2003: Notification 
  - December 9-10, 2003: Workshop held at CAIDA in San Diego, CA 

Organizing and program committee
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  - Mark Allman (ICIR-ICSI, [email-masked])
  - K Claffy (CAIDA, [email-masked])
  - Constantinos Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, [email-masked]) 
  - Matt Mathis (PSC, [email-masked]) 
  - Brian Tierney (LBNL, [email-masked])

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