Technical Program of : NGC 2002, International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 23-25, 2002

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

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     Fourth International Workshop on Networked Group Communication

			 October 23-25, 2002
		      Boston, Massachusetts, USA
		    Organized in cooperation with
		       ACM SIGCOMM and COST 264

		  http://signl.cs.umass.edu/ngc2002


NGC will be held at Holiday Inn, Brookline in Boston, MA. It will start
with a full-day tutorial on Overlay and P2P systems on October 23, 2002.
An opening key note will be presented by Frans Kaashoek of MIT. The aim of
NGC is to allow researchers and practitioners to present the design and
implementation techniques for networked group communication. The focus of
the workshop is on peer-to-peer, multicast, and networked group
communication, ranging from the link layer, through routing, and
reliability and traffic control, right up to session and application level
control mechanisms. This workshop is the fourth of this international
event.

Then entire program is presented below. Registration details can be found
on the NGC website. Special group rates for the hotel are available until
September 20. The early workshop registration discount ends on October 10,
2002.  For more information, registration fees, hotel, etc., please visit
our website.


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Wednesday October 23, 2002
9am -- 5pm

Tutorial: Overlay and P2P Systems: Protocols, Applications, and
Analysis.

Bobby Bhattacharjee (Univ. Maryland) and Dan Rubenstein (Columbia
Univ.)


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Thursday October 24, 2002
9am -- 9:15am

Welcoming Session

9:15am -- 10:15
Keynote: PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING: WHAT ARE THE RESEARCH PROBLEMS?
Frans Kaashoek
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:15am -- 10:45 am Break

10:45am - Noon  SECURITY

* "Offering a multicast delivery service in a programmable secure IP
VPN environment", Lina Alchaal, Vincent Roca, and Michel Habert

* "Performance comparison of stateful and stateless group rekeying
algorithms", Weifeng Chen and Lakshminath R. Dondeti


* "Multicast Congestion Control with Distrusted Receivers", Sergey
Gorinsky, Sugat Jain, and Harrick Vin


Noon-1:30 LUNCH

2:00pm -- 2:50pm MULTIMEDIA

* "Cost-optimal Dimensioning of a Large Scale Video on
Demand Systeme" David Choi, Ernst W. Biersack, and Guillaume
Urvoy-Keller

* "A Buffer-and-Relay Approach to Streaming Media Delivery for
Asynchronous Clients", Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros

2:50 -- 3:20pm Break

3:20pm -- 5pm APPLICATION-LEVEL TOPICS

* "Universal IP Multicast Delivery", Beichuan Zhang, Sugih Jamin,
and Lixia Zhang

* "An Evaluation of Topology-sensitive Subgroup Communication
mechanism in Large-scale multicast applications", Jangwon Lee and
Gustavo de Veciana

* "Counting the Number of Members in Multicast Communication", Fethi
Filali, Hitoshi Asaeda and Walid Dabbous

* "Rendezvous Points-Based Scalable Content Discovery with Load
Balancing", Jun Gao and Peter Steenkiste

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Friday October 25, 2002
8:30am -- 9:20am  ROUTING

* "A Name-Based Architecture for Source-Specific Multicast Service",
Vincent P. Laviano and David R. Cheriton

* "A Scalable and fault-Tolerant Architecture for Internet
Multicasting Using Meshes", JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Saravanan
Balasubramaniyan, and Ramesh Balakrishnan

9:20am -- 10:10  MOBILITY

* "Scalable Team Multicast in Wireless Ad hoc Networks Exploiting
Coordinated Motion", Yunjung Yi, Xiaoyan Hong, and Mario Gerla

* "M-HBH - Efficient Mobility Management in Multicast", Rolland Vida,
Luis H M K Costa, and Serge Fdida

10:10am -- 10:40am BREAK

10:40am -- Noon
PANEL: Peer-to-Peer: Answering Fundamental Research or Benefiting 
Illegal Activities?


Noon-1:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm -- 2:45pm FAIRNESS AND QOS

* "On Max-min Intra-session Fairness in Replicated
Multicast Services", Zongming Fei and Mengkun Yang

* "Quality of Service Multipath Multicast Protocol", Pierpaolo
Baccichet, Elena Pagani, and Gian Paolo Rossi

* "Core Stateless Fair Bandwidth Allocation for Unicast and Multicast
Flows", Albert Banchs, Frederic Raspall, David Anguera, and Sebastia
Sallent

2:45--3:15pm Break

3:15 -- 4:30  PEER-TO-PEER

* "A Multicast Congestion Control Model for Overlay Networks and its
Performance", Guillaume Urvoy-Keller and Ernst W. Biersack


* "Peer-to-Peer Networking for Discovering Programmable Resources",
Paul Smith, Steven Simpson, and David Hutchison


* "Overlay Optimizations for End-host Multicast" Wenjie Wang, Sugih
Jamin, and Lixia Zhang

4:30pm -- 5:00pm Closing Session

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New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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