Community Networking Call For Participation

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                        Call for Participation
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              SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITY NETWORKING

                   INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA SERVICES TO THE HOME

                                June 20-22, 1995
                           Princeton, New Jersey, USA

                  Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
   		  In collaboration with ACM SIGCOMM*

Community networking concerns the network infrastructures that will
bring integrated multimedia services to home users.  Community networking
differs in many ways from enterprise networking in its services,
technologies, and economics.  In contrast to enterprise networking
applications, community networking services will not necessarily be work
oriented and will range from entertainment to shopping to information
services.  At present, community networking technology is driven by the
requirements of video-on-demand, most notably high bandwidth (compared
to narrowband), bandwidth asymmetry, and the delay-jitter constraints
imposed by today's limited-storage TV set-top devices.  As various other
services develop, community networking will evolve to include integrated
multimedia communication and user-to-user applications.  Community
networking must also provide access to resources located outside the
community, in an increasingly global repository of information of every
conceivable type.

This workshop will give researchers and professionals the
chance to share their views and advance the state of the art in this
field.

RELEVANT AREAS: Contributions are encouraged in the five areas listed
below with relevant topics:

    1. APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS: types of applications; coding;
    set-top operating systems; QoS networking requirements
    (symmetric/asymmetric bandwidth, delay, and losses); security
    and privacy; service models; user interface and navigation
    facilities.

    2. LOCAL DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY: topology; fiber/cable/UTP/wireless;
    modulation, bandwidth allocation; MAC (reverse channel); role
    of ATM; dependencies on equipment/network in the home (e.g.,
    TV set-top).

    3. ADDRESSING, SIGNALING, AND UPPER-LAYER PROTOCOLS:  local
    vs.  global addressing; the service provider view vs. the common
    carrier view: the video-dialtone gateway; role of B-ISDN
    protocols; network- and transport-layer protocols; network
    management; APIs.

    4. INTERNETWORKING AND ARCHITECTURE: the gateway: accessing
    other networks (data, telephone); server placement and network
    optimization; the regional distribution centers; testbeds;
    network traffic models; network cost structure and its implications
    on service pricing; medium- and long-term network evolution;
    the impact of regulatory constraints.
 
    5. COMMUNITY ASPECTS, OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH: the success of
    community networking depends of the degree to which it meets community
    needs and invites the full participation of community members; community
    needs, desires and aspirations; networking approaches that have worked
    well in the past and others that have not; obstacles to success that
    need to be overcome. 


INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS:  Please send via electronic
mail a detailed abstract (up to 3 pages in ASCII or PostScript)
describing a position statement in one of the areas above to

                [e-mail]

Note that submissions longer than the limit above will not be reviewed.
Only if electronic submission is impossible, a hardcopy version may be
sent to:
                Joel Winthrop
                AT&T Bell Laboratories
                101 Crawfords Corner Rd., RM 1K-306
                Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA

Participation in the workshop will be by invitation only based on
the Program Committee's review of position statements.  Some of the
authors will be asked to submit papers and to present them during the
workshop.  Workshop size limitation may preclude attendance of all
authors of multi-author abstracts.

DATES:
    Deadline for submitting abstracts . . . . . . . . March 17, 1995
    Acceptance notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 17, 1995
    Papers due (limited to 8 pages) . . May 19, 1995

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Program Chair:
    Joel Winthrop         AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey
 
Publication Chair:
    Vince Lesch           AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey

Committee Members:
    Joydeep Bose          National Computer Board, Singapore
    Jurgen Brommelhoff    Digital Equipment Corporation
    G. Keith Cambron      Pacific Bell
    Andrew Davidson       Phillips Interactive Media of America
    Jeff H. Derby         IBM Corporation
    Alexander D. Gelman   Bellcore
    Riccardo Gusella      Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California
    Gordon Kerr           BT Labs
    Andrew Laursen        Oracle Corporation
    Andrew Lippman        MIT, Media Lab
    Tetsuya Miki          NTT Transmission Systems Laboratories
    Mario Morino          Morino Foundation  
    Martin De Prycker     Alcatel Bell Telephone, Antwerp, Belgium
    David Skellern        Macquarie University, Sydney
    Albert J. Stienstra   Philips Research
    Mario P. Vecchi       Time Warner Cable, Inc.
    William E. Wall       Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.


* Approval Pending