From rem-conf Tue Jul 01 06:47:02 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 01 06:47:01 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wj39J-0000h5-00; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 06:39:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199707011345.GAA05366@vdo.net> From: "Stas Khirman" To: Cc: Subject: RE: RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:36:52 +0300 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hi! Recently posted draft "RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data" describe payloads of two or more audio frames into one single RTP packet. At chapter 4 it declare: "There is no padding or other delimiter between the data blocks, and they are typically not 32 bit aligned. Again, this choice was made to reduce bandwidth overheads, at the expense of additional decoding time." This definition could cause trouble to use fast double word arithmetic at data block decoding. It's demand using slow byte arithmetic or coping every data block to temporary storage before decoding. It's could be critical for "weak" CPU or for applications with big number of streams (RTP translators and mixers for example). Price for bandwidth reducing could be more than acceptable. Compromise solution is add padding bytes after every data block and store primary (final) block header AFTER data itself. It add no more then 3 bytes (average 1.5 bytes) for every data block. At this case example from draft will be look as : 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |V=2|P|X| CC=0 |M| PT | sequence number of primary | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | timestamp of primary encoding | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | synchronization source (SSRC) identifier | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |0| block PT=7 | timestamp offset | block length | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | | + + | | + LPC encoded redundant data (PT=7) + | (14 bytes) | + +---------------+---------------+ | | padding byte | padding byte | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | | + + | | + + | | + + | DVI4 encoded primary data (PT=5) | + (84 bytes, not to scale) + / / + + | | + + | | + + | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |0| block PT=5 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Stas Khirman stas@vdo.net From rem-conf Tue Jul 01 08:02:40 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 01 08:02:39 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wj4ER-0001a1-00; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:48:39 -0700 To: Stas Khirman cc: rem-conf Subject: Re: RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jul 1997 16:36:52 +0300." <199707011345.GAA05366@vdo.net> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 15:48:10 +0100 Message-ID: <3187.867768490@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Colin Perkins X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list --> Stas Khirman writes: >Recently posted draft "RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data" describe >payloads of two or more audio frames into one single RTP packet. At chapter >4 it declare: > > "There is no padding or other delimiter >between the data blocks, and they are typically not 32 bit aligned. Again, >this choice was made to reduce bandwidth overheads, at the expense of >additional decoding time." > >This definition could cause trouble to use fast double word arithmetic at >data block decoding. It's demand using slow byte arithmetic or coping every >data block to temporary storage before decoding. It's could be critical for >"weak" CPU or for applications with big number of streams (RTP translators >and mixers for example). Price for bandwidth reducing could be more than >acceptable. Our motivation when designing this payload format was to trade-off processing requirements at the decoder for bandwidth. Both the lack of padding, and the size of the block length and timestamp offset fields, were chosen for this reason. Our experience has been that the processing requirements for decoding compressed audio are such that the overhead of non-aligned data is not significant. -- Colin Perkins Email: c.perkins@cs.ucl.ac.uk Department of Computer Science Phone: (+44) 171 419 3666 University College London WWW : http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/c.perkins/ From rem-conf Tue Jul 01 17:11:10 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 01 17:11:09 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wjCoy-00069C-00; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:58:56 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:56:54 -0700 () From: Stephen Casner To: Colin Perkins cc: rem-conf@es.net, "Lerner, Michah, NCSNO" Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-redundancy-00.txt, .ps Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list The following messge was forwarded by the Internet-Drafts administator: From: "Lerner, Michah, NCSNO" To: "'Internet-Drafts@ietf.org'" Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-redundancy-00.txt, .ps Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:08:07 -0400 Please forward this comment to the responsible party for RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data. Thank you. What is the time unit for the redundant data timestamp? Can a number of timestamp values be reserved to specify forward redundancy? These might be good methods because redundancy is "only" a heuristic means to retain some of the audio quality, and therefore quantizing effect could be exploited to provide limit forward redundancy without undue impairment. From rem-conf Wed Jul 02 03:33:31 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 02 03:33:30 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wjMaX-0001Hu-00; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 03:24:41 -0700 To: Stephen Casner cc: rem-conf@es.net, "Lerner, Michah, NCSNO" Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-redundancy-00.txt, .ps In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jul 1997 16:56:54 PDT." Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:24:28 +0100 Message-ID: <1131.867839068@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Colin Perkins X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list --> Stephen Casner writes: >The following messge was forwarded by the Internet-Drafts >administator: > > What is the time unit for the redundant data timestamp? Can a number of > timestamp values be reserved to specify forward redundancy? These might > be good methods because redundancy is "only" a heuristic means to retain > some of the audio quality, and therefore quantizing effect could be > exploited to provide limit forward redundancy without undue impairment. The redundant data timestamp is in audio samples, relative to the primary. We thought about allowing for sending the redundancy before the primary, but couldn't think of a case where it would be useful. Do you have a use for this? Colin From rem-conf Wed Jul 02 07:22:38 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 02 07:22:38 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wjQCH-0002fE-00; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 07:15:53 -0700 From: "Christian Huitema" Message-Id: <970702101539.ZM25200@seawind.bellcore.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:15:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: Colin Perkins "Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-redundancy-00.txt, .ps" (Jul 2, 11:24am) References: <1131.867839068@cs.ucl.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0.1 13Jan97) To: Colin Perkins , Stephen Casner Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-redundancy-00.txt, .ps Cc: rem-conf@es.net, "Lerner, Michah, NCSNO" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list On Jul 2, 11:24am, Colin Perkins wrote: > Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-redundancy-00.txt, .ps > --> Stephen Casner writes: > >The following messge was forwarded by the Internet-Drafts > >administator: > > > > What is the time unit for the redundant data timestamp? Can a number of > > timestamp values be reserved to specify forward redundancy? These might > > be good methods because redundancy is "only" a heuristic means to retain > > some of the audio quality, and therefore quantizing effect could be > > exploited to provide limit forward redundancy without undue impairment. > > The redundant data timestamp is in audio samples, relative to the primary. > We thought about allowing for sending the redundancy before the primary, > but couldn't think of a case where it would be useful. Do you have a use > for this? Sending the redundancy before the primary is trivially achieved with the current format. You just need to encode what you call the "redundancy" in lieu of the primary payload, and then make sure that your receiver is smart enough to deal with this. When redondant transmission is enable, the receiver will receive several successive versions of the same segment. It can easily sort out which of these versions is "best", e.g. by ranking compression algorithms according to their precision. There is no need to assume that what came as a primary payload is always "better" than what arrives as redondancy. -- Christian Huitema From rem-conf Thu Jul 03 13:08:05 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 03 13:08:04 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wjrvf-0002Ud-00; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:52:35 -0700 To: rem-conf@es.net, rm@mash.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Resilient Multicast Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 15:51:51 -0400 From: Andrew Myers Message-Id: X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list I'd like to announce a new paper by Xu, Myers, Zhang, and Yavatkar about error recovery for continuous media multicast applications. This work appeared at NOSSDAV '97. It's currently available at: ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/hzhang/NOSSDAV97.ps.Z Abstract follows: Resilient Multicast Support for Continuous-Media Applications The IP multicast delivery mechanism provides a popular basis for delivery of continuous media to many participants in a conferencing application. However, the best-effort nature of multicast delivery results in poor playback quality in the presence of network congestion and packet loss. Contrary to widespread belief that the real-time nature of continuous media applications precludes the possibility of recovery of lost packets using retransmissions, we have found that these applications offer an interesting tradeoff between the desired playback quality and the desired degree of interactivity. In particular, we propose a new model of multicast delivery called resilient multicast in which each receiver in a multicast group can decide its own tradeoff between reliability and real-time requirements. To be effective, error recovery mechanisms in such a model need to be both fast (due to the real-time constraint) and have a low overhead (due to high volume of continuous media data). We have designed a resilient multicast protocol called STORM (STructure-Oriented Resilient Multicast) in which senders and receivers collaborate to recover from lost packets using two key ideas. First, group participants self-organize themselves into a distribution structure and use the structure to recover lost packets >from adjacent nodes. Second, the distribution structure is dynamic and a lightweight algorithm is used to adapt the structure to changing network traffic conditions and group membership. We have implemented STORM in both VAT and a packet level simulator. Experimental results using both the MBONE and a simulation model demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. From rem-conf Thu Jul 03 17:00:12 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 03 17:00:11 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wjviB-0003xn-00; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 16:54:55 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 16:52:55 -0700 () From: Stephen Casner To: Ted Brunner cc: rem-conf@es.net, tedb@auspex.vnd.tek.com Subject: Re: draft-ietf-mboned-admin-ip-space-03.txt question In-Reply-To: <199707010245.TAA22114@icebox.vnd.tek.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Ted, > I would like to check with the list that I understand the > distinction between two of the address ranges defined in > draft-ietf-mboned-admin-ip-space-03.txt, namely > the IPv4 organizational local scope (239.192.0.0/14) > and the IPv4 Local Scope (239.255.0.0/16). The organization local scope has no special properties; is only a suggestion for a range out of which organizations should begin allocating scopes. The Local scope is the only one with a special property, namely that it is defined to be the smallest enclosing scope (that is, except for link-level scope). > As I read it, the organizational local scope may be used > throughout an intranet, extending through administrative boundries > configured at routers, while the local scope cannot > extend through such boundries. Not really. Organization local scope extends exactly as far as you set up boundaries for it to go. If you are referring to some other kind of administrative boundaries not related to admin scoped multicast addresses, then yes, organization local scope might cross those boundaries. But packets with an address from the organization local scope range stop only where you install a boundary for that range (assuming it doesn't run out of TTL first). It may be appropriate to do that exactly at the boundary of your intranet. > So if an intranet needs and establishes > internal boundries, only the organizational local scope > could be configured to reach every portion of the intranet. No, you can configure a collection of scopes, perhaps all of which are subsets of the organizational local scope (239.192.0.0/14) range. Those scopes can cover any convex subsets of the organization for which you need a grouping. The scopes may intersect topologically, but if they do, their address ranges should not intersect. If two scope regions do not intersect topologically, then they can both use the same address range without conflict. I think it only makes sense to set up one scope that covers the entire intranet. > More practically, for a multicast audio/video stream, > intended for consumption within an Intranet; > assuming I want to be able to administratively limit streams if necessary, > but allow them the full scope of the Intranet if desired, > a (default) multicast address should be selected from > organizational local scope. Again, you might use just a portion of 239.192.0.0/14 for your intranet-wide admin scope. > On the other hand if I want them to always stay within > the smallest multicast boundry (eg. for bandwidth considerations) > the address should come from the Local Scope. Yes, but you need to set up those local scope boundaries, too. There aren't any boundaries established by default. -- Steve From rem-conf Fri Jul 04 00:47:00 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 04 00:46:59 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wk2xf-0005um-00; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 00:39:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199707040738.AAA24320@tikal.synopsys.com> To: baylisa@baylisa.org, rem-conf@es.net, sage-members@usenix.org Cc: bigmac@baylisa.org Subject: BayLISA July 17: Panel: Large scale file servers Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 00:38:27 -0700 From: Bryan McDonald X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list The BayLISA group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to systems and network administrators. The meetings are free and open to the public. Please feel free to redistribute this meeting announcement. BayLISA holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Cisco Building J in San Jose, on Tasman Drive near First street. See www.baylisa.org for more information. The meetings are also broadcast via MBONE. Schedule ======== July 17, 1997: Panel: Large scale file servers BayLISA is working to bring together a technology (rather then marketing) oriented discussion of large scale file servers on the market. More details as we finalize the roster. [Schedule subject to change] For further information on BayLISA, check out our web site: http://www.baylisa.org/ To get further information on the meeting location, you can also ftp it from ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA/location For any other information, please send email to: info@baylisa.org If you have any questions, please contact me or the info alias listed above. =============================================================================== Bryan McDonald bigmac@baylisa.org President president@baylisa.org BayLISA http://www.baylisa.org =============================================================================== ------- End of Forwarded Message From rem-conf Fri Jul 04 05:01:01 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 04 05:01:00 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wk6xv-00075B-00; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 04:55:55 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 04:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707041154.EAA26223@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: sixvideo@si.ehu.es Subject: XVI Summer School/IX Europena Courses X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: XVI Summer School/IX Europena Courses Date: Jul 14, 1997 Time: 09:00 GMT+2 5.5 hours Contact: sixvideo@si.ehu.es URL: http://www.sc.ehu.es/scrwwwsu/c2.htm Description: Aims: 1.- To analyze multilingual acquisition from a psycholinguistic perspective in the context of bilingual and multilingual education. 2.- To analyze the sociolinguistic implications of acquiring languages of intra- European and international communication. 3.- To analyze the conditions and educational systems that favour multilingual education and the development of minority languages. 4.- To create links among European communities with minority languages. mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Sun Jul 06 14:39:24 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Sun Jul 06 14:39:23 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wkyiW-00078X-00; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 14:19:36 -0700 Message-Id: <33C08A0F.5DB4F030@radar.iet.unipi.it> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 23:17:58 -0700 From: video X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b4 [en] (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: University of PISA X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list subscribe From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 13:54:30 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 13:54:30 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm3W2-0007A4-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:39:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199707092042.NAA03307@isl.hrl.hac.com> To: tccc@cs.umass.edu, dbworld@cs.wisc.edu, f-troup@aurora.cis.upenn.edu, cost237-transport@comp.lancs.ac.uk, reres@laas.fr, xtp-relay@cs.concordia.ca, rem-conf@es.net, sigmedia@bellcore.com, cnom@maestro.bellcore.com, commsoft@cc.bellcore.com, hipparch@sophia.inria.fr, end2end-interest@isi.edu, udlr@sophia.inria.fr, tcp-over-satellite@achtung.sp.trw.com, dbj@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Reminder & New Deadline (satellite workshop at MobiCom'97) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 13:42:42 -0700 From: ygz@isl.hrl.hac.com (Yongguang Zhang) X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list I appologize if you have received this more than once ... This is a CFP reminder for the 2nd Int'l workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS), in connection with MobiCom'97. The deadline for extended abstracts or full papers has been extended to July 25. URL: http://www.wins.hrl.com/conferences/WOSBIS97/ =========================================================================== 2nd Int'l Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS'97) CALL FOR PAPERS October 1, 1997, Budapest, Hungary (In connection with ACM MobiCom'97) ----------------------------------- Sponsored by ACM Sigmobile (pending) and NASA Lewis Research Center Satellite communications will play an increasingly important role in our future information-based society. This trend is evidenced by the large number of systems planned or in operation (e.g. GPS, ACTS, DirecTV(TM), Iridium, DirecPC, SpaceWay, Teledesic). As its popular predecessor held in conjunction with MobiCom'96, the objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for exploratory research contributions on satellite applications and services. The services are characterized by direct or global broadcast capabilities of LEO, MEO, GEO satellites, low setup costs, high and possibly asymmetric bandwidth, and unconventional network routing. Applications of such services are often real-time, mobile, high bandwidth, and they include telemedicine, public information services, education, entertainment, Internet access, digital battlefield, emergency and disaster response. Topics of contributed papers will include, but are not limited to: * Applications using satellite services * Software and architectures for integration with terrestrial networks * Data management and file systems in satellite applications * Distributed computing using satellite communication * Software techniques for reducing latency in satellite applications * Satellite network protocols and routing * ATM over satellites and quality of services * TCP/IP for satellite communications * Internet applications, WWW access and cache through satellites * Direct broadcast and multicast applications * Asymmetric communication services * Security issues in satellite communications and applications * Reliability and scalability in satellite applications * Software for satellite switch control * Mobile computing and location tracking in satellite applications * Inter-satellite communication and network management * Mobile satellite services * Middleware for satellite-based information services development The setting of the workshop will be informal, and will encourage discussion and interaction. We solicit the submission of research papers, position papers, experience papers, and panel proposals. SUBMISSIONS We invite papers for presentation and discussion at the workshop. Send a postscript copy of the paper by email to the address below. The page limit on all submissions is 5-10 pages, double spaced, 10 pt minimum (approximately 1500-2500 words). Yongguang Zhang Hughes Research Labs, RL-96 Malibu, CA 90265 E-mail: ygz@isl.hrl.hac.com PROCEEDINGS: An informal proceedings will be published and distributed at the workshop. The format will be similiar to standard ACM proceedings: double column, single spaced and the page limit on each paper is 12. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to submit their final papers in HTML (in addition to Postscript). The HTML versions can be slightly different than the Postscript versions to add hyperlinks to relevant work, such as to executable demos available at their own sites. An electronic proceeding linking together the HTML versions will be made available to major Web search engines and mirrored at the sites of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES: * Papers Due: July 25, 1997 * Acceptance Notification: Aug. 15, 1997 * Final papers due: Sep. 15, 1997 * Workshop: Oct. 1, 1997 WEB SITE: http://www.wins.hrl.com/conferences/WOSBIS97/ GENERAL CHAIRS: Son K. Dao, Hughes Research Labs. Ouri Wolfson, EECS Dept, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: John S. Baras, University of Maryland Gary Minden, Univ. of Kansas. Yongguang Zhang, Hughes Research Labs. PUBLICITY: Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France Nghia Pham, Eutelsat TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Rafael Alonso, David Sarnoff Research Center John Baras, Univ. of Maryland Kul Bhasin, NASA Lewis Research Center Tzi-cker Chiueh, SUNY, Stony Brook Imrich Chlamtac, Boston Univ. Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France Son Dao, Hughes Research Labs. Raj Jain, Ohio State Univ. Randy Katz, UC Berkeley Henry Korth, Bell Labs Gary Minden, Univ. of Kansas Shawn Ostermann, Ohio Univ. Csaba Szabo, Technical University of Budapest Ouri Wolfson, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Yechiam Yemini, Columbia Univ. Yongguang Zhang, Hughes Research Labs. From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 14:29:06 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 14:29:06 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm4Ea-0007e0-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:25:12 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707092123.OAA28154@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: david@msri.org Subject: The Baleful Effect of Computer Languages and Benchmarks Upon Applied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: The Baleful Effect of Computer Languages and Benchmarks Upon Applied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Date: Jul 15, 1997 Time: 14:00 PST8PDT 1 hours Contact: david@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/kahan/ Description: The John von Neumann Lecture The Baleful Effect of Computer Languages and Benchmarks Upon Applied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry William Kahan, University of California, Berkeley Chair: John Guckenheimer, President, SIAM and Cornell University mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 15:12:37 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 15:12:36 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm4vC-0000Na-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:09:14 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707092208.PAA28195@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: mbone@msri.org Subject: Mathematics of Games and Sports by Joseph B. Keller X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: Mathematics of Games and Sports by Joseph B. Keller Date: Jul 15, 1997 Time: 18:00 PST8PDT 1.5 hours Contact: mbone@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/keller/ Description: The speaker will present a mathematician's perspective on some games and sports, and answer questions like these: How many shuffles to mix a deck? When is a team eliminated? What is the probability of heads? How should teams be ranked? What is the probability of a shutout? How do world records vary with time? How should a runner vary his speed in a race? Does it pay to exercise? mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 15:57:00 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 15:57:00 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm5dk-0000xQ-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:55:16 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707092254.PAA28271@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: mbone@msri.org Subject: High Performance Computer Architecture ___ John L. Hennessy , Stanford University X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: High Performance Computer Architecture ___ John L. Hennessy , Stanford University Date: Jul 16, 1997 Time: 09:00 PST8PDT 1.5 hours Contact: mbone@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/hennessy/ Description: MSRI MBone broadcasts of lectures from SIAM 45th Anniversary Meeting at Stanford University _______ "High Performance Computer Architecture" by John L. Hennessy _______ Recent directions in high performance computers for scientific computing have been driven by two key factors: the advantages of employing commodity technology as building blocks and the understanding of how to build scalable multiprocessors that efficiently support shared-memory programming. The first capability can lead to high performance computers that are cost competitive with workstations and servers, while the second capability allows high performance machines to be software compatible with small and mid-range computers that uniformly use shared-memory multiprocessing. While these trends may increase the usability and generality of high performance computing, other technology trends will require users to be more aware of issues such ! ! as locality of access and data distribution. The challenge in the future will be in creating hardware and software that helps the user to achieve high performance without undue programming effort. mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 16:02:35 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 16:02:35 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm5kX-0001IP-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:02:17 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707092301.QAA28307@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: mbone@msri.org Subject: 35 Years of (Linear) Probing, by Donald E. Knuth , Professor Emeritus, Stanford Universit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: 35 Years of (Linear) Probing, by Donald E. Knuth , Professor Emeritus, Stanford Universit Date: Jul 16, 1997 Time: 14:00 PST8PDT 1.5 hours Contact: mbone@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/knuth/ Description: 35 Years of (Linear) Probing Donald E. Knuth MSRI MBone broadcasts of lectures from SIAM 45th Anniversary Meeting Stanford University _____ "35 Years of (Linear) Probing, by Donald E. Knuth , Professor Emeritus, Stanford University _____ Many computer programs access large tables of data by using a classical variant of hashing called "linear probing," also known to children as the game of "musical chairs." When the author first studied the characteristics of this simple method in 1962, he came to understand that the mathematical analysis of algorithms was a rich subject suitable for a lifetime of study. This talk surveys the mathematical analysis of algorithms by focussing on advances that have been in the analysis of linear probing from 1962 to 1997, and by noting surprising relations between this algorithm and other important algorithms and combinatorial problems, including the study o! ! f random graphs. mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 16:54:37 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 16:54:36 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm6W5-000227-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:51:25 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707092350.QAA28353@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: mbone@msri.org Subject: Clusters and Massively Parallel Computers: Are the Architectures Converging? by Paul C. Messina, California Institute of Technology X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: Clusters and Massively Parallel Computers: Are the Architectures Converging? by Paul C. Messina, California Institute of Technology Date: Jul 17, 1997 Time: 08:30 PST8PDT 1 hours Contact: mbone@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/messina/ Description: MSRI Broadcast of Lectures from the 45th anniversary SIAM meeting at STANFORD University____ ____"Clusters and Massively Parallel Computers: Are the Architectures Converging?"____ Paul Messina_____ Abstract: Clusters of powerful workstations or PCs connected by various network technologies have become a popular, inexpensive computing resource. Massively parallel computers are still considered to be the right tool for the biggest scientific and engineering computations. However, from an application standpoint, the difference between the two architectural options seem to be getting less and less obvious. The cluster approach can scale to very large configurations effectively, although perhaps not to equal the level of the very biggest MPPs. Perhaps the most important issues have to do with how the system is managed (as one powerful system or as many workstations), and on the entire system environment, including the type of job scheduling, system software, and ! ! software tools, and the availability of mass storage and archival file systems. mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 17:01:10 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 17:01:09 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm6ep-0002Qx-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:00:27 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707092359.QAA28392@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: mbone@msri.org Subject: Impact of the Internet on Scientific Computing by Eric Grosse, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: Impact of the Internet on Scientific Computing by Eric Grosse, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Date: Jul 17, 1997 Time: 09:00 PST8PDT 10 hours Contact: mbone@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/grosse/ Description: MSRI Broadcast of Lectures from the 45th anniversary SIAM meeting at STANFORD University____ ___"Impact of the Internet on Scientific Computing," _____ Eric Grosse, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies _____The scientific computing community has long used the Internet for communication of email, software, and papers. SIAM's online journal server this year is a welcome further step. But, with the notable early exception of the Macsyma server at MIT in the 70s, there has been little use of the Internet for actual computation. In the past few years, we have again started to see experimental computational servers appearing. What are their prospects for success? What is needed at the client end? What languages protocols should be used for maximum interoperability and efficiency? How can we structure our applications to allow flexible adaptation to clients and channels of different strengths? mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 17:13:27 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 17:13:27 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm6qS-0002qG-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:12:28 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707100011.RAA28425@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: mbone@msri.org Subject: The Pursuit of Optimality: From the Big Picture to the Gory Details by Margaret H. Wright, Bell Laboratories X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: The Pursuit of Optimality: From the Big Picture to the Gory Details by Margaret H. Wright, Bell Laboratories Date: Jul 17, 1997 Time: 14:00 PST8PDT 1 hours Contact: mbone@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/wright/ Description: MSRI Broadcast of Lectures from the 45th anniversary SIAM meeting at STANFORD University____ ___"The Pursuit of Optimality: From the Big Picture to the Gory Details_____ Margaret H. Wright, Bell Laboratories____Abstract: A desire to optimize---to do the best thing---is ubiquitous throughout mathematics, computing, science, and engineering (not to mention everyday life). Research in optimization comes in forms ranging from mathematical theory to practical rules of thumb, from general-purpose methods to application-specific heuristics. This talk will be a melange of topics involving recent work in non-derivative optimization and interior methods, chosen by the speaker to convey an overview of selected themes in optimization today. The punch line will be the joy of seeking, and finding, underlying commonalities and substantive distinctions. mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 09 18:26:59 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 09 18:26:58 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wm7xu-0003mN-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:24:14 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970709182429.00998210@pophost.precept.com> X-Sender: valerie@pophost.precept.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 18:24:31 -0700 To: rem-conf@es.net, mboned@network-services.uoregon.edu From: Valerie Lasker Subject: MBONE programs using admin. scoped addresses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list This week I received announcements for 2 different MBONE programs that are being multicast using addresses in the admin. scoped range, 239.x.y.z. One >from Sandia Labs (Diesel Combustion Collaboratory) and one from ICAST. In both cases the ttl was set to 127. If these programs were intended for world-wide viewing, then they should be using global scoped addresses, 224.2.x.y. If they were meant to stay within an admin. scoped boundary, then the boundary has a leak. Also, per the SAP Protocol, admin. scoped programs should be announced to an address within their admin. scope, normally the highest address in the range. These programs are being announced to 224.2.127.254. Do others agree that something is wrong here? -- Valerie (email: valerie@precept.com) From rem-conf Fri Jul 11 06:47:40 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 11 06:47:39 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wmfpT-000738-00; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 06:33:47 -0700 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 Organisation: MultiMedia Support and Comms Centre, University College London,Uk Phone: +44 171 636 8333 ext 3056 (Hang on in there...) X-url: http://www.avc.ucl.ac.uk To: mbone@netlab.ohio-state.edu cc: P.OHanlon@cs.ucl.ac.uk, mbone@isi.edu, rem-conf@es.net Subject: Anyone recorded Jain's lectures? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:33:17 +0100 Message-ID: <2010.868627997@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Piers O'Hanlon X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hi, I wondered if anyone had recorded any of Prof Raj Jain's lectures - I was particularly interested in the one on the 8 July - as I managed to miss it. I could download(ftp,http) some mbone vcr files (or other format) if you have them available. Thanks alot, Piers O'Hanlon ______________ MultiMedia Support and Comms Centre University College London. From rem-conf Fri Jul 11 09:32:38 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 11 09:32:37 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wmiOv-0000em-00; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:18:33 -0700 Message-Id: <199707111618.JAA02692@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Sport Event Broacast , tonite around 8:00 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:18:13 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hi, I will be using the FreeBSD Channel to broadcast the following event. Cheers, Amancio L I V E F E M A L E K I C K B O X I N G @ I N T E R N E T a l f r e d o This Friday (July 11), 8pm @ INTERNET alfredo (where else?) 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Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list To the Audio/Video Transport working group: Should we hold a meeting at IETF in Munich? At the Memphis IETF meeting, I proposed that AVT not meet in Munich since we are working toward wrapping up the AVT work. I was expecting/hoping that we'd get all our pending documents published and that it a meeting might not be required while people were working to test the RTCP scaling mechanisms we had discussed at the previous meetings. Several of the documents are in the approval/publication pipeline, including H.263 payload format, redundant audio payload format and MPEG payload format revision, but the RTP spec and profile updates are not yet. I have received a request from Joerg Ott to present work on a separate follow-on payload format specification for H.263+, which is the path we agreed on in previous meetings. Are there other topics that people would want to present or discuss if we hold a meeting? I have asked for a slot to be tentatively scheduled. -- Steve From rem-conf Sun Jul 13 05:24:27 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Sun Jul 13 05:24:26 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wnNWU-0003fS-00; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 05:13:06 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:12:48 +0200 From: csmr98@aguirre.ing.UNIFI.IT Subject: CFPs:Euromicro Work.Conf.on Soft.Maint.&Reeng. in Florence To: rem-conf@es.net Message-id: <9707131212.AA16697@ozon180.cs.dsi> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear colleague: Here is the call for papers for the 2nd EUROMICRO WORKING CONFERENCE on SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REENGINEERING which will be help in Florence, Italy, in March 1998. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call. Please post forward to all your interested colleagues. Thank you, -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 2nd EUROMICRO WORKING CONFERENCE on SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REENGINEERING Florence, Italy -- March 9-11, 1998 The purpose of the working conference is to promote discussion and interaction about a series of topics which are yet underrepresented. We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business and industrial community. Researcher, practitioners, technology transition experts, project managers, developers and users of tools, are all welcome. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: Maintenance and Reengineering Tools (CARE-Tools), Reverse Engineering Tools, Support of Reengineering Tasks by CASE-Tools, Software Reusability, Tele-Maintenance (Concepts, Experiences, Use of New Technologies), Maintainability of Programming Languages (eg., OOPLs), Models and Methods for Error Prediction, Measurement of Software Quality, Maintenance Metrics, Formal Methods, Maintenance and Reengineering of KBS, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering Concepts, Experiences from Redesign and Reengineering Projects, Millennium Problem (Year 2000), Euro Problem, Organizational Framework and Models for "RE"-Projects, Software Evolution, Migration and Maintenance Strategies, Design for Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Personnel Aspects of Maintenance (Motivation, Team building), Third Party Maintenance, Empirical Results about the Maintenance Situation in Businesses, Version and Configuration Management, Legal Aspects and Jurisdiction, Organization and Management of Large Maintenance Projects, Software Offloading, Related Areas such as Software Documentation. *Submission of papers* There are two types of papers: full length papers (not exceeding 4000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract) and short papers (not exceeding 2000 words in length and including a 75-100 word abstract). Authors are strongly encouraged to send a PostScript version of their paper by anonymous ftp to ftp.dsi.unifi.it and put this file into the directory pub/CSMR98/incoming (in order to avoid overwritings, the PostScript file should be named: .ps). In addition, they should send by e-mail to CSMR98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it the title of the paper, full names, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses of all authors, fax and telephone numbers. Alternatively, the paper can be sent by postal mail. In that case, five copies of all the above items should be sent to a program chairman. For more information please contact the organization at the addresses: csmr98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it http://www.isst.fhg.de/csmr http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/csmr98 The following signed information should be included in the submission: All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the author(s) prepare the camera-ready manuscript in time for inclusion in the proceedings, and will personally present the paper at the working conference. The proceeding will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Full papers exceeding 8 pages (short papers 4 pages) will be charged for pages in excess. Important dates The deadline for submissions is Sept. 15, 1997. Authors will be notified of acceptance by Nov.25, 1997. The camera ready version of the paper will be required by Dec. 25, 1997. Special sessions Sessions of special interest proposed by delegates will be welcome. Please send suggestions to the program chairman before the closing date of submissions. Program Chair: Paolo Nesi Dip. Sistemi e Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4796523 Fax: +39-55-4796363 email: nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it Program co-Chair Franz Lehner Institute for Business Informatics, University of Regensburg Universitatsstr, 31, D-93040 REGENSBURG, Germany Tel.: +49-941-943-2734 Fax: +49-941-943-4986 email:Franz.Lehner@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de Organizing Chair Alessandro Fantechi Dip. di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4796265 Fax: +39-55-4796363 email: fantechi@dsi.dsi.unifi.it Local Chair Maurizio Campanai CESVIT (High-Tech Agency), Fortezza da Basso Viale F. Strozzi 1, 50129 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4619154 Fax: +39-55-485345 email: campanai@ats.it Program Committee V.S. Alagar, USA; V. Ambriola, I; G. Bakker, NL; K. Bennett, UK; A. Bertolino, I; F. Brito e Abreu, P; G. Bucci, I; M. Campanai, I; A. Cimitile, I; I. Classen, D; L. da F. Costa, BR; J.A. de La Puente, S; A. Fantechi, I; J.-L. Hainaut, B; J. Harauz, CA; B. Henderson-Sellers, AU; M. Hinchey, USA; E.-A. Karlsson, S; T.M. Khoshgoftaar, USA; P. Laplante, USA; S. Liu, J; M. Loewe, D; M. Marchesi, I; T.J. Marlowe, USA; J.-M. Morel, F; D. Natale, I; E. Miller, USA; S. Nocentini, I; M. Pezze`, I; P.T. Poon, USA; L. Richter, CH; D. Rombach, D; G. Sechi, I; I. Sommerville, UK; A. Stoyen, USA; J. Taramaa, SF; H. Toetenel, NL; G. Tsai, USA; C. Verhofer, NL; Y. Yamaguchi, J; General information The conference will take place at Palazzo degli Affari, in the center of Florence. Enquiries about the working conference arrangements should be directed to the organizing chairman or to the local chairman. Preregistration is suggested for the authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------; From rem-conf Sun Jul 13 15:55:51 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Sun Jul 13 15:55:50 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wnXR4-0005fZ-00; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:48:10 -0700 Message-Id: <9707132248.AA10280@hoccson.ho.att.com> From: "Bhagavath,Vijay" To: "'tccc@cs.umass.edu'" , "'dbworld@cs.wisc.edu'" , "'end2end-interest@isi.edu'" , "'f-troup@aurora.cis.upenn.edu'" , "'cost237-transport@comp.lancs.ac.uk'" , "'reres@laas.fr'" , "'hipparch@sophia.inria.fr'" , "'xtp-relay@cs.concordia.ca'" , "'rem-conf@es.net'" , "'sigmedia@bellcore.com'" , "'mobile-ip@Tadpole.Com'" , "'cellular@comnets.rwth-aachen.de'" , "'badri@cs.rutgers.edu'" , "'ieeetcpc@ccvm.sunysb.edu'" , "'cnom@maestro.bellcore.com'" , "'ommsoft@cc.bellcore.com'" , "'comswtc@gmu.edu'" , "'sigmobile-exec@acm.org'" , "'li.jianxin@smtpgateway.centigram.com'" , "'golshani@asu.edu'" , "'santanu@watson.ibm.com'" , "'Braudyb@aol.com'" Cc: "Bhagavath,Vijay" Subject: IEEE + Networld-Interop98 Engineers Conference: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:47:54 -0400 X-Priority: 3 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Folks around the world, I am just doing this as voluntary service and also as member of the technical program cmte. Please do not flame me if you: 1. Didn't wish to receive this CFP or 2. If you rcvd multiple copies via email. We are looking for original high-quality submissions to this conference. Thanks, Vijay K. Bhagavath AT&T Laboratories, Rm. 1L-333 101 Crawfords Corner Road Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA Phone: (908) 949-2837 Fax: (908) 949-4852 email: bhagavath@att.com URL: http://www.arch4.ho.att.com/~vkb > ______________________________________________ > NetWorld+Interop 98 > Engineer Conference on Broadband Internet Access: Technologies, > Systems and > Services > > at NetWorld+Interop 98 > May 6-7, 1998 > Las Vegas Convention Center > Las Vegas, Nevada, USA > > Abstract > > General Technical Sessions > > The goal of the Engineers Conference is to provide a unique > forum in > the setting of NetWorld+Interop '98 for industries, universities, > service > providers, and end users to report on the latest advances in > leading-edge > broadband internet access and switching technologies, and their impact > on > emerging enterprise and consumer mass markets. The theme of this > conference > is Broadband Internet Access: Technologies, Systems and Services. > Papers are > solicited on IP access, routing and switching, traffic > characterization, IP > over SONET, Label switching, and its alternatives. Packet-based > telephony is > becoming an important topic. Papers in this area are also solicited. > This > 2-day, 5-session conference will bring together state-of-the-art and > original > results in these exciting areas. The Engineers Conference is jointly > sponsored > by NetWorld+Interop '98 and IEEE Communications Society. > > Paper Submission Guidelines: > > Paper Submission Guidelines: Each paper must be in English and should > not > exceed 20 double-spaced, single-sided pages (12 pt. font, 26 lines per > page), > excluding figures. The title page of your submission must include: -- > The > name, affiliation, complete return address, email, telephone and fax > numbers > of the author to whom all correspondence will be sent; -- A 75-200 > word > abstract. All other pages of the paper should contain the title of the > paper, > the name of the first author, and the page number. Five (5) copies of > the > paper should be forwarded to one of the submission addresses below. > Electronic > submission of papers (in postscript) is encouraged. > > Technical Subject Categories > > The topics of interest are listed by category into 5 topics. Within > each > topic area are suggestions for possible contributions. > > * Internet Networking and Switching > - Internet protocol networking and switching > - IP Routing and switching > - Virtual LAN technologies and implementations > - Bandwidth-on-demand solutions in heterogeneous environments > - Routing and network resource management methods > - Packet-based telephony > - Internet Security > > * Progress in Multimedia Services > - Schemes for picture encoding > - Multimedia integration > - Methods for accommodating variable latency > - Improvements in bandwidth utilization > - Standards progress > > * Advances in Wireless and Wireline Access Technologies > ..- High-speed wireless modems and radio technologies > - Mobility and QoS management for broadband wireless access > - Demand and mobility characterizations > - Adaptive wireless access and multi-tier services > - Security in wireless access services > - xDSL and cable access technologies and services delivery issues > - Wireless and wireline network integration > - Signaling and control for mobile broadband systems > > * Traffic Performance and Engineering of IP Networks > - Teletraffic engineering and modeling techniques > - Management of multi-user, multi-service provider access > - Network operations and management for multi-technology systems > - Analysis of IP layer switching techniques > - Analysis of IP over SONET, IP over ATM techniques > - Mobility and TCP / IP network > - Billing, regulatory, and economics > - Access control, traffic shaping and enforcement > - Traffic congestion and management > > * Satellite and Mobile Wireless Access Technologies > - Wireless ATM Protocols and Experiments > - Broadband CDMA > - Emerging LEO/MEO/GEO Satellite Systems for Global Access > - Digital MMDS/LMDS/LMCS Wireless Terrestrial Systems and Devices > - Backchannel Protocols to support asymmetric communications > > Paper Submission Deadlines > > 1 August 1997 Abstract Due for contributed paper submission > 31 October 1997 Deadline for contributed paper submission > 15 December 1997 Notification of paper acceptance to authors > 15 February 1998 Camera-ready papers due (to NetWorld+Interop) > > Submission Addresses > > Dr. William E. Stephens > Technical Program Chair > Sarnoff Corporation > CN5300 > Princeton, NJ 08540-5300 > Tel: 609 734-3020 > Fax: 609 734-2049 > email: wstephens@sarnoff.com > > Dr. Curtis Siller, Jr. > Technical Program Vice Chair > Lucent Technologies > 1600 Osgood Street > North Andover, MA 01845 > tel: 508 960-1313 > fax 508 960-1477 > email: csiller@bell-labs.com > > > Program Committee > > William E. Stephens, Sarnoff Corporation, Technical Program Chair > Curtis Siller, Jr., Lucent Technologies, Technical Program Vice-Chair > Wai Chen, Bellcore, Technical Program Vice-Chair > Joseph Bannister, USC-Information Sciences Institute > Vijay K. Bhagavath, AT&T Laboratories > Nim Cheung, Bellcore > Tomas L. Byrnes, American Digital Network > Ashok Rudrapatna, AT&T Laboratories > > 6/23/97 > ___________________________________________ > Technical Program Committee > > Networld+Interop 98 Engineer Conference > > Dr. William E. Stephens > Head, Wireless and ATM Communciations > Sarnoff Corporation > CN5300 > Princeton, NJ 08540-5300 > tel: 609 734-3020 > email: wstephens@sarnoff.com > > Dr. Curtis Siller, Jr. > Lucent Technologies > 1600 Osgood Street > North Andover, MA 01845 > tel: 508 960 1313 > email: csiller@bell-labs.com > > Joseph Bannister > Associate Director > Computer Sciences Division > USC-Information Sciences Institute > 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001 > Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 > tel: 310 822 1511 ext. 717 > Fax: 310-823-6714 > email: joseph@isi.edu > > Vijay K. Bhagavath > AT&T Laboratories, Rm. 1L-333 > 101 Crawfords Corner Road > Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA > Phone: (908) 949-2837 > Fax: (908) 949-4852 > email: bhagavath@att.com > URL: http://www.arch4.ho.att.com/~vkb > > Wai Chen > Bellcore, MCC-1C121B > 445 South Street > Morristown, NJ 07960 > Tel: 201-829-4363 > Fax: 201-829-5886 > email: wchen@bellcore.com > > Nim Cheung > Bellcore > 445 South Street > Morristown, NJ 07690 > tel: 201 829 4078 > email: nkc@bellcore.com > > Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer > American Digital Network, Network Integration Group > email: Tom.Byrnes@integration.adnc.com > > Ashok N (Ashok) Rudrapatna > AT&T > District Manager > loc NJ0117 room 15H222 > 67 Whippany Rd, P O Box 903, > Whippany, NJ 07981-0903 US > tel=+1 201 386 7730 > fax=+1 201 386 2610 > email = rudrapatna@att.com > > > > > From rem-conf Tue Jul 15 06:37:39 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 15 06:37:38 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wo7Wc-0006jV-00; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 06:20:18 -0700 Sender: mmahone1@execpc.com Message-ID: <33CB770B.301D@mailx.norlight.net> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 08:11:39 -0500 From: "mmahone1@SPARCSystem" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4c) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list rem-conf-request@es.net From rem-conf Tue Jul 15 06:51:20 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 15 06:51:19 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wo7yI-0007Cv-00; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 06:48:54 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary="NextPart" To: IETF-Announce@ietf.org cc: rem-conf@es.net From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:44:02 -0400 Sender: cclark@ietf.org Message-ID: <9707150944.aa08422@ietf.org> X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list --NextPart A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Audio/Video Transport Working Group of the IETF. Title : Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links Author(s) : S. Casner, V. Jacobson Filename : draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt Pages : 21 Date : 07/14/1997 This document describes a method for compressing the headers of IP/UDP/RTP datagrams to reduce overhead on low-speed serial links. In many cases, all three headers can be compressed to 2-4 bytes. Comments are solicited and should be addressed to the working group mailing list rem-conf@es.net and/or the author(s). Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa: ftp.is.co.za o Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au o US East Coast: ds.internic.net o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. --NextPart Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess" --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; access-type="mail-server"; server="mailserv@ds.internic.net" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19970714174134.I-D@ietf.org> ENCODING mime FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; name="draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt"; site="ds.internic.net"; access-type="anon-ftp"; directory="internet-drafts" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19970714174134.I-D@ietf.org> --OtherAccess-- --NextPart-- From rem-conf Tue Jul 15 14:38:00 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 15 14:37:58 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0woFCo-00022w-00; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:32:22 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:30:28 -0700 () From: Stephen Casner To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: AVT meeting in Munich In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list To the Audio/Video Transport working group: In response to my query, I've received four requests for presentation time in Munich. So, we will hold an AVT meeting in Munich. I have requested that a session slot be scheduled. In case any of you planned not to attend IETF in Munich because AVT was not meeting and would now be upset at this late notice, let me say that my sense of the purpose for each of the requested presentations is to gather feedback on a proposed idea. There are no decisions pending about going to "Last Call" on any drafts, for example. Even though not all of desired listeners will be there, it's useful to take advantage of the congregation of knowledgeable parties at IETF. I have requested that the session be multicast if possible, so you may be able to tune in remotely. Also, I believe it is the intention of each of these authors to have an Internet-Draft posted before the meeting. The requested topics are: - H.263+ payload format [Joerg Ott, Stephan Wenger, Carsten Bormann] - MPEG4 payload format [Gerard Fernando] - BT-656 video payload format [Dermot Tynan] - Second version of RTP MIB [Mark Baugher] In addition, I'd like to talk more about how we might facilitate large-scale tests of the RTCP scaling mechanisms discussed at previous meetings. As I mentioned, that't the activity that I'd hoped we be into the thick of by now. It is important that we test these mechanisms before they go into the draft, and difficult to do those tests. I encourage contributions on this topic and discussion on the list before the meeting, too. -- Steve From rem-conf Wed Jul 16 08:09:58 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 16 08:09:57 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0woVSM-0005ic-00; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 07:53:30 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 07:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707161452.HAA01424@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: david@msri.org Subject: Mathematics of Games and Sports (rebroadcast) X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: Mathematics of Games and Sports (rebroadcast) Date: Jul 16, 1997 Time: 12:00 PST8PDT 2 hours Contact: david@msri.org URL: http://www.msri.org/lecturenotes/97/SIAM/keller/ Description: The speaker will present a mathematician's perspective on some games and sports, and answer questions like these: How many shuffles to mix a deck? When is a team eliminated? What is the probability of heads? How should teams be ranked? What is the probability of a shutout? How do world records vary with time? How should a runner vary his speed in a race? Does it pay to exercise? mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Wed Jul 16 19:30:01 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 16 19:29:58 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wogFH-0002DW-00; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:24:43 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:22:53 -0700 () From: Stephen Casner To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt In-Reply-To: <9707150944.aa08422@ietf.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list To the Audio/Video Transport working group: You may have noticed the posting of the following revised Internet-Draft: > Title : Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for > Low-Speed Serial Links > Author(s) : S. Casner, V. Jacobson > Filename : draft-ietf-avt-crtp-03.txt > Pages : 21 > Date : 07/14/1997 The only functional change in this draft relative to the -02 version >from March 1997 was to correct the mistake I made in that version showing the "RANDOM" fields going before the UDP checksum rather than after as they should be. In addition, I made several wording in response to comments received about points that weren't clear enough. I have requested that this draft go to Last Call for publication as a Proposed Standard as we agreed in the Memphis meeting. -- Steve From rem-conf Thu Jul 17 07:39:00 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 17 07:38:58 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0worZs-0004w8-00; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:30:44 -0700 Sender: rubi@ieo.saic.com Message-ID: <33CE2B02.520F@tieo.saic.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:24:02 -0400 From: Rubi Felix Organization: SAIC -ISTG X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Windows 95/NT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hello Does anyone know if Windows 95 and/or NT (server and/or workstation) support multicasting or have multicast capabilities ? Does the kernel have to be changed in any way to be able to run VIC/VAT/WB/SDR ? An explanation would be greatly appreciated, Rubi From rem-conf Thu Jul 17 07:50:43 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 17 07:50:43 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0worqL-0005NE-00; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:47:45 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:47:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Dixon To: Rubi Felix cc: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: Windows 95/NT In-Reply-To: <33CE2B02.520F@tieo.saic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list The Precept company has an excellent software package for W95 that supports MBone multicast. Bob Dixon Ohio State University On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Rubi Felix wrote: > Hello > > Does anyone know if Windows 95 and/or NT (server and/or workstation) > support multicasting or have multicast capabilities ? > > Does the kernel have to be changed in any way to be able to run > VIC/VAT/WB/SDR ? > > An explanation would be greatly appreciated, > > Rubi > From rem-conf Thu Jul 17 08:23:26 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 17 08:23:26 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wosIg-000648-00; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:17:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:17:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Electronic Commerce Message-Id: <199707171517.RAA16492@vsys1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Subject: ec98: Electronic Commerce Working Conference in Hamburg June 4-5 '98 Content-Type: text Bcc: To: rem-conf@es.net X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list International IFIP Working Conference on ELECTRONIC COMMERCE 98 in Hamburg, Germany This is the first announcement of the International IFIP Working Conference on Distributed Systems for Electronic Commerce to be held in Hamburg,Germany, June 4-5th, 1998. As we found your name and email address in some way related to distributed systems or electronic commerce we assume you may be interested in this event. We apologize if this assumption is not true or if you receive this announcement several times through different channels - even though this list was carefully assembled and checked. For more detailed information in this event please follow this link: http://vsys-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ec98/ For the program committee, W. Lamersdorf and M. Merz +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | International IFIP Working Conference on | | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE | | Hamburg, Germany, June 4-5, 1998 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Electronic Commerce is currently one of the fastest growing and most practically relevant application areas of distributed systems technologies. It is based on the economic aspects of commercial trading patterns combined with distributed computing systems technology. It is a market environment that is characterized by low transaction costs, a large number of market participants, and facile online access to services and goods offered. It also implies a set of rules and policies for the successful organization of business transactions. Accordingly, open computer networks supporting commercial transactions show respective characteristics such as - a systems infrastructure that provides easy access to any kind of services (for both service providers as well as consumers), - a reasonable level of standardization for software components and communication protocols, - appropriate supporting functions such as locating services, accounting, security, and notarization, etc. Technically, these mechanisms support, e.g., distributed open and secure multimedia environments, service trading and brokerage functions, mobile and distributed software concepts, component-based development tools, etc. Consequently, Electronic Commerce is an area where distributed systems technologies have to meet the requirements of advanced applications that span locational as well as organizational boundaries. Therefore, potential Electronic Commerce service providers and users as well as researchers and implementers of emerging Electronic Commerce systems or components are invited to contribute with their individual experiences and research results in order to exchange their respective views with colleagues from both research and industry at the conference. CONFERENCE TOPICS ----------------- Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: - Economic Market Models and Foundations - Architectures for Electronic Marketplaces - Business Transaction Support - EDI vs. Internet - Workflow Management for Electronic Markets - System Support for Distributed Applications - Platforms: WWW, CORBA, Java, and beyond - Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Computing and Mobile Agent Systems - Trading and Information Brokerage - Service Specification, Quality of Service - Security & Payment Functions - Multimedia Shopping Malls and Kiosk Systems - Distributed Digital Library Applications IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES ----------------------------- Paper Submissions until : December 8, 1997 Acceptance notification : February 1, 1998 Camera-ready paper due : March 15, 1998 Early bird registration until : April 17, 1998 CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- W. Lamersdorf, M. Merz, Hamburg University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- N. Adam, Rutgers University, USA G. Blair, University of Lancaster, UK F. Caneschi, Finsiel, Italy W. Cellary, University of Economics at Poznan, Poland K. Crowston, Syracuse University, NY, USA J. Cunningham, Imperial College London, UK K. Geihs, University of Frankfurt, Germany L. Huguet, University of the Baleares, Spain G. Karjoth, IBM Rueschlikon, Switzerland C. Linnhoff-Popien, RWTH Aachen, Germany H. de Meer, Hamburg University, Germany Z. Milosevic, DSTC, Australia M. Muehlhäuser, University of Linz, Austria J. Posegga, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany A. Puder, ICSI/Berkeley, USA K. Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany A. Schill, Techn. University of Dresden, Germany B. Schmid, University St. Gallen, Switzerland G. Schuermann, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany J. Slonim, University of Toronto, Canada R. Soley, OMG, USA O. Spaniol, RWTH Aachen, Germany D. O'Sullivan, IONA, Ireland A. Vogel, Visigenic, USA Y. Yesha, NASA, USA +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Further Information may be obtained from the EC98 Web Site: | | http://vsys-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ec98 | | Contact and further information: merz@informatik.uni-hamburg.de| +----------------------------------------------------------------+ From rem-conf Thu Jul 17 08:26:38 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 17 08:26:38 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wosRd-0006dw-00; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:26:17 -0700 Message-ID: <33CE3949.491F@ise1.saic.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:24:57 -0700 From: Robin Rowe Reply-To: Robin.S.Rowe@cpmx.saic.com Organization: SAIC San Diego Pt. Loma Research Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rubi Felix CC: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: Windows 95/NT References: <33CE2B02.520F@tieo.saic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Rubi Felix wrote: > Does the kernel have to be changed in any way to be able to run > VIC/VAT/WB/SDR ? Except for wb, I installed that software here for DEC Alpha, SGI, and Win 95 as per instructions from www.mbone.com. I didn't find a copy of sdr for Windows. I installed sd instead. Because of lack of support in sd, I couldn't use the latest video protocols. Also, the picture color wasn't as good on the Win95 box. Robin -- =============================================================== Robin.S.Rowe@cpmx.saic.com, PM 619-225-3107 San Diego Pt. Loma R&D in Internet video and speech recognition using Java and C++ From rem-conf Thu Jul 17 09:31:38 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 17 09:31:38 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wotM4-0007dQ-00; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:24:36 -0700 From: lindeman@cob.ohio-state.edu (Kurtis A. Lindemann) Message-Id: <199707171624.MAA10325@quest.> Subject: Re: Windows 95/NT To: rubi@tieo.saic.com (Rubi Felix) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:24:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: rem-conf@es.net In-Reply-To: <33CE2B02.520F@tieo.saic.com> from "Rubi Felix" at Jul 17, 97 10:24:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list > Does anyone know if Windows 95 and/or NT (server and/or workstation) > support multicasting or have multicast capabilities ? Windows 95 requires no modification to support multicast applications. > Does the kernel have to be changed in any way to be able to run > VIC/VAT/WB/SDR ? nope.. In addition to Precept's client- which costs $$$, you can also get free versions of sd, vic, and vat.. A good place to start is www.mbone.com. I got my copies of sd, vic, and vat at: ftp://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/pub/mbone/mirror The benefit to using the free versions of sd, vic, and vat is that they behave exactly like the unix versions (if you already use those), the down side to using them, is that they're not exactly the most stable programs. Precept's client is nice if you want to give mbone access to a large amount of 'end users'. It's pretty straight forward. Also- Precept's IP/TV server is extremely easy to use (at least from my experience about 6 months ago with it). -kurtis ______________________________________________________________ Kurtis A. Lindemann | Network Specialist lindeman@cob.ohio-state.edu | Computing Services (614) 292-9754 phone | College of Business (614) 292-2346 fax | THE Ohio State University ______________________________________________________________ http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~lindeman ______________________________________________________________ From rem-conf Thu Jul 17 09:39:48 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 17 09:39:47 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wotYu-0000Gw-00; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:37:52 -0700 From: lindeman@cob.ohio-state.edu (Kurtis A. Lindemann) Message-Id: <199707171637.MAA10392@quest.> Subject: Re: Windows 95/NT To: Robin.S.Rowe@cpmx.saic.com Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:37:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: rem-conf@es.net In-Reply-To: <33CE3949.491F@ise1.saic.com> from "Robin Rowe" at Jul 17, 97 08:24:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list > > Does the kernel have to be changed in any way to be able to run > > VIC/VAT/WB/SDR ? > > Except for wb, I installed that software here for DEC Alpha, SGI, and Speaking of wb- I haven't been able to find a win-95 version of this anywhere- Does anyone know where this might be found? > Win 95 as per instructions from www.mbone.com. I didn't find a copy of > sdr for Windows. I installed sd instead. Because of lack of support in you can get sdr for win95 at: ftp://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/pub/mbone/mirror/session-dir/sdr/winsdr22.zip have fun. -kurtis college of business the ohio state university From rem-conf Fri Jul 18 07:14:34 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 18 07:14:33 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wpDgx-0005Pm-00; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 07:07:31 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:57:30 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199707181357.PAA23015@maillol.inria.fr> From: Tie Liao To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: New Version of WebCanal available Reply-to: Tie.Liao@inria.fr X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list We are pleased to announce that a new version of WebCanal is now available in beta-version. WebCanal, developed by INRIA in Java, contains a set of networking packages and applications mainly for information distribution using IP Multicast. This new version includes a multicast push application - an information publisher and an information receiver. The publisher allows content providers to create push channels and broadcast information on these channels, while the receiver allows users to subscribe to multiple channels and receive the information of interest. These applications are built on top of a new version of LRMP (light-weight reliable multicast protocol). In addition, channel information is also multicast so that it is easier to find new channels. WebCanal networking packages include a Java implementation of RTP (real time transport protocol), LRMP, SAP/SDP (session announcement protocol) and more. They are all reusable for other applications. To download the package, please go to: ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Actions/webcanal For more information, please refer to: http://webcanal.inria.fr/ Suggestions and questions could be sent to webcanal-info@webcanal.inria.fr. Announced by Tie.Liao@inria.fr. Date: July 18 1997 From rem-conf Fri Jul 18 11:24:15 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 18 11:24:15 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wpHVp-0006ku-00; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:12:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:10:29 -0700 () From: Stephen Casner To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: 39th IETF: AVT (fwd) Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list The AVT session at the Munich IETF meeting has been scheduled for the following slot: Thursday, August 13 at 0900-1130 (opposite mhtml, urn, ipcdn rps, mobileip, pkix) I mentioned four agenda items in a previous message; a few more are trickling in. I'll send an agenda shortly. -- Steve From rem-conf Sun Jul 20 21:01:42 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Sun Jul 20 21:01:42 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wq9Ff-0004Lc-00; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:35:11 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 23:39:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Li He To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Software for NT Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hello: Could you please tell me if any software applications (text, audio and video conference) for Windows NT are available? If yes, where I can get them? Thanks a lot Li HE Computer Engineering Florida Atlantic University From rem-conf Sun Jul 20 22:44:20 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Sun Jul 20 22:44:19 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqB8g-0005DX-00; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:36:06 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 01:00:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199707210500.BAA11019@monarch.cs.cmu.edu> From: Dave Johnson To: tccc@ieee.org, giga@tele.pitt.edu, comswtc@gmu.edu, multicomm@cc.bellcore.com, commsoft@cc.bellcore.com, apc@ee.nthu.edu.tw, apc_members@hornbill.ee.nus.sg, ieeetcpc@ccvm.sunysb.edu, ieee_rtc_list@cs.tamu.edu, enternet@BBN.COM, comsoc.tac@tab.ieee.org, comsoc-gicb@ieee.org, sb.all@ieee.org, comsoc-chapters@ieee.org, itc@fokus.gmd.de, rem-conf@es.net, sc6wg4@ntd.comsat.com, cabernet-general@newcastle.ac.uk, performance@haven.epm.ornl.gov, cellular@comnets.rwth-aachen.de, hipparch@sophia.inria.fr, f-troup@CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU, g-troup@ccrc.wustl.edu, ccrc@dworkin.wustl.edu, osimcast@BBN.COM, xtp-relay@cs.concordia.ca, reres@laas.fr, cost237-transport@comp.lancs.ac.uk, isadsoc@fokus.gmd.de, ctc-members@REDBANK.tinac.com, cnom@maestro.bellcore.com, sigmedia@bellcore.com, modern-heuristics@uk.ac.mailbase, fokus-user@fokus.gmd.de, alg@comm.toronto.edu, dbworld@cs.wisc.edu Subject: ACM/IEEE MobiCom'97 Advance Program X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MobiCom'97 Advance Program and Call for Participation THE THIRD ANNUAL ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING The Palace of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary Tutorials and Conference: September 26-30, 1997 Workshops: October 1, 1997 The wireless communication revolution is bringing fundamental changes to telecommunication and computing. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile computing and communications, thus bringing an end to the tyranny of geography. Furthermore, services for the mobile user are maturing and are poised to change the nature and scope of communication. This conference, the third of an annual series, serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. The MobiCom'97 technical program features the presentation of 26 excellent papers, selected after detailed review from over 100 submissions received this year. In addition, the program will include 4 panel discussion sessions and 2 invited keynote speakers, plus 5 tutorials before the conference and 2 workshops after the conference. All together, MobiCom'97 offers an outstanding technical program and promises to be an exciting conference on the cutting edge of mobile computing and networking. We invite you to join us for MobiCom'97 and hope to see you in beautiful and historic Budapest! Important Dates --------------- Hotel Reservation Deadline: August 15, 1997 Early Registration Deadline: August 29, 1997 For more information, please contact either of the Program Co-Chairs: David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University, dbj@cs.cmu.edu, Telephone: +1 412 268 7399, Fax: +1 412 268 5576; or Christopher Rose, Rutgers University, crose@ece.rutgers.edu, Telephone: +1 908 445 5250, Fax: +1 908 445 2820. For complete details and all the latest MobiCom'97 information, visit the MobiCom'97 Home Page on the World Wide Web at: http://www.monarch.cs.cmu.edu/~mobicom97/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The location for MobiCom'97 is the Palace of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Academy is the most prestigious scientific institution in Hungary, and the Palace, the central building of the Academy, is one of the most beautiful buildings in Budapest. It is located on the Pest side of Budapest, east of the Danube River, near the Chain Bridge. The Palace overlooks the northern end of Roosevelt Square, along the embankment of the Danube River. Built between 1861 and 1865, this neo-Renaissance building is decorated, both inside and outside, with sculptures and wall-paintings by the most outstanding Hungarian artists of the age. The conference hotels are all located nearby, and many of the sights and shops of Budapest are within easy walking distance. Budapest is easily reached by air, rail, road, or river. Budapest's airport is served by a number of major world airlines, with nonstop flights from many foreign cities. For transportation from the airport to your hotel, we suggest the LRI MINIBUS Service. The information desk for this shuttle service is located in the center of the airport arrival lobby. You can order this service inside the baggage claim area as well. The price of the shuttle is 1200 Hungarian Forint (HUF) per person (approximately US $7-8) one way. Citizens of some countries may require entry visas to visit Hungary. No visa is needed for citizens of the USA, Canada, or any of the European countries, except Albania, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. A visa is needed for citizens of Japan and Australia. If in doubt, please check this with the Hungarian Embassy in your country. They will help you to complete the necessary entry formalities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 -------------------- 8:30am - 5:00pm Tutorial 1 (Full-Day) * Wireless ATM: Standards, Architectures, Protocols & Implementation, Lou Dellaverson (Motorola, USA), C.-K. Toh (Hughes Research Laboratories, USA), and Arup Acharya (NEC, USA) 8:30am - 5:00pm Tutorial 2 (Full-Day) * Mobile IP: Adding Mobility to the Internet, Charles E. Perkins (Sun Microsystems, USA) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 ---------------------- 8:30am - 5:00pm Tutorial 3 (Full-Day) * Simulation of Large Mobile Wireless Networks, Rajive Bagrodia and Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) 8:30am - 12:00pm Tutorial 4 (Half-Day, Morning) * Cellular Wireless Networks: Principles and Operation, Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) 1:30pm - 5:00pm Tutorial 5 (Half-Day, Afternoon) * Disconnected and Weakly Connected Access to the World Wide Web: Issues and Techniques, Murray S. Mazer (Open Group Research Institute, USA) 7:00pm - 9:00pm Welcome Reception SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 -------------------- 1:00pm - 2:00pm Registration 2:00pm - 3:30pm Opening Session * Welcome and opening remarks * Awards presentation * Opening Keynote Speaker 3:30pm - 4:00pm Break 4:00pm - 5:30pm Session 1: Reconfiguration and Adaptation * Composable Ad-hoc Mobile Services for Universal Interaction, Todd Hodes, Randy H. Katz, Edouard Servan-Schreiber, and Lawrence Rowe (University of California at Berkeley, USA): BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD * Dynamic Network Configuration Support for Mobile Computers, Jon Inouye (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA) * Location-Aware Mobile Applications based on Directory Services, Henning Maass (Philips Research Laboratories Aachen, Germany) Evening Conference Dinner Banquet MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 -------------------- 8:30am - 10:00am Session 2: Wireless Network Architectures * Reliable Broadcast in Mobile Multihop Networks, Elena Pagani and Gian Paolo Rossi (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy) * Route Optimization in Mobile ATM Networks, Gopal Dommety (Ohio State University, USA), Malathi Veeraraghavan (Bell Laboratories, USA), and Mukesh Singhal (Ohio State University, USA) * Wireless Andrew: Experience Building a High Speed, Campus-Wide Wireless Data Network, Bernard J. Bennington and Charles R. Bartel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 10:00am - 10:30am Break 10:30am - 12:00pm Concurrent Sessions Session 3A: Mobile and Wireless Data Delivery * Geographic Addressing and Routing, Julio C. Navas and Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers, USA) * The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance over Wide-Area Wireless Networks, Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Randy H. Katz (University of California at Berkeley, USA) * Log-time Algorithms for Scheduling Single and Multiple Channel Data Broadcast, Sohail Hameed and Nitin H. Vaidya (Texas A&M University, USA) Session 3B: PANEL 1 * Building and Managing Large Wireless LANs: Real-World Experiences, Moderator: Victor Bahl (Microsoft, USA) 12:00pm - 2:00pm Conference Lunch * Luncheon Keynote Speaker 2:00pm - 3:30pm Concurrent Sessions Session 4A: Multimedia and QoS Issues * Multimedia Communication in Cellular PACS Network, Yukio Hashimoto and Behcet Sarikaya (University of Aizu, Japan); and Mehmet Ulema (DaeWoo Telecom, USA) * Delivering Diverse Delay/Dropping QoS Requirements in a TDMA Environment, Jeffrey M. Capone and Ioannis Stavrakakis (Northeastern University, USA) * Uplink CDMA Systems with Diverse QoS Guarantees for Heterogeneous Traffic, Sunghyun Choi and Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA) Session 4B: PANEL 2 * Commercial Applications of Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Are We Kidding Ourselves?, Moderator: M. Scott Corson (University of Maryland, USA) 3:30pm - 4:00pm Break 4:00pm - 5:00pm Session 5: Wireless Error Control * An Adaptive Hybrid ARQ Scheme with Concatenated FEC Codes for Wireless ATM, Inwhee Joe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) * Low Power Error Control for Wireless Links, Paul Lettieri, Christina Fragouli, and Mani B. Srivastava (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Evening Dinner Cruise (optional) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 --------------------- 8:30am - 10:00am Session 6: Mobile IP * Mobile Multicast (MoM) Protocol: Multicast Support for Mobile Hosts, Tim Harrison, Carey L. Williamson, Wayne Mackrell, and Richard B. Bunt (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) * A New Multicasting-based Architecture for Internet Host Mobility, Jayanth P. Mysore and Vaduvur Bharghavan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) * A Public-Key Based Secure Mobile IP, John Zao, Stephen Kent, Joshua Gahm, Gregory Troxel, Matt Condell, Pam Helinek, Nina Yuan, and Isidro Castineyra (BBN, USA) 10:00am - 10:30am Break 10:30am - 12:00pm Concurrent Sessions Session 7A: Location Management and Handover * A New Location Update Strategy for Cellular Networks and its Implementation using a Genetic Algorithm, Sajal K. Das and Sanjoy K. Sen (University of North Texas, USA) * A Dynamic Paging Scheme for Wireless Communication Systems, Guang Wan and Eric C. Lin (Southern Methodist University, USA) * A Connection Handover Protocol for LEO Satellite ATM Networks, Huseyin Uzunalioglu, Wei Yen, and Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Session 7B: PANEL 3 * Integration of Wireless and Wired Networks: Visions and Reality, Moderator: Mooi Choo Chuah (Lucent, USA) 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm - 3:00pm Concurrent Sessions Session 8A: Protection in Mobile Computing * A Protection Scheme for Mobile Agents on Java, Daniel Hagimont and Leila Ismail (INRIA, France) * Ticket Based Service Access for the Mobile User, Bhrat Patel and Jon Crowcroft (University College London, UK) * Dealing with Server Corruption in Weakly Consistent, Replicated Data Systems, Mike Spreitzer, Marvin Theimer, and Karin Petersen (Xerox PARC, USA); Alan Demers (Oracle Corporation, USA); and Doug Terry (Xerox PARC, USA) Session 8B: PANEL 4 * QoS in the Next Generation Mobile Internet: What is Feasible?, Moderator: Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University, USA) 3:00pm - 3:30pm Break 3:30pm - 5:00pm Session 9: Proxy-Based Architectures * Support for Mobile Pen-Based Applications, Wayne Citrin, Paul Hamill, Mark D. Gross, and Adrienne Warmack (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) * A General Purpose Proxy Filtering Mechanism Applied to the Mobile Environment, Bruce Zenel (Columbia University, USA) and Dan Duchamp (AT&T Labs - Research, USA) * Web Browsing in a Wireless Environment: Disconnected and Asynchronous Operation in ARTour Web Express, Henry Chang, Carl Tait, Norman Cohen, Moshe Shapiro, and Steve Mastrianni (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA); and Rick Floyd, Barron Housel, and David Lindquist (IBM, USA) 5:00pm Conference Adjourns WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 -------------------- All day Workshops * The Second International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS'97). For more information, visit the WOSBIS'97 homepage at http://www.wins.hrl.com/conferences/WOSBIS97/. * The First International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications (DIAL-M). Visit the DIAL-M homepage at http://www.polytechnique.fr/poly/~derepas/dialm/ for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIAL 1 ---------- Wireless ATM: Standards, Architectures, Protocols & Implementation Dr. Lou Dellaverson (Motorola, USA), Dr. C.-K. Toh (Hughes Research Laboratories, USA), and Dr. Arup Acharya (NEC, USA) Friday, September 26 8:30am - 5:00pm ATM is currently viewed as the next high speed integrated network paradigm, supporting different classes of traffic and providing quality of service. Mobile communications have evolved and created a significant impact on the way we work and communicate. The convergence of mobile communications, computing, and ATM gives rise to Wireles ATM networks. While ATM helps to bring multimedia to the desktop, Wireless ATM provides similar services to mobile computers and devices. In addition, Wireless ATM networks provide seamless integration with ATM-based B-ISDN networks. This tutorial will cover system-level architectures for mobile/wireless ATM with necessary radio protocols for wireless ATM access and networking protocols to support mobility management. Standardization activity within the ATM Forum's WATM group will be presented along with implementation experience from research prototypes of mobile and wireless ATM. This tutorial will not only benefit researchers, professors, students, but also consultants, network engineers and managers who wish to acquire the knowledge and practical know-how on Wireless ATM. TUTORIAL 2 ---------- Mobile IP: Adding Mobility to the Internet Charles E. Perkins (Sun Microsystems, USA) Friday, September 26 8:30am - 5:00pm The Internet is growing by leaps and bounds, and likewise mobile computers are becoming more and more popular. When mobile computers move and attach themselves to new networks within the Internet, they can use Mobile IP as a means to achieve seamless roaming transparently to application software. In this situation, transparent means that the applications work just as before and don't need to be recompiled or reconfigured. Seamless means that roaming from one place to another occurs without inconvenience to the user. As long as a physical communication path exists, the user might not even be aware when movement has happened. The objective of this tutorial is to lay out all the necessary protocol technology to allow mobile computers to use Mobile IP, and to describe the relevant operation of other protocols which can be used to aid mobility, such as DHCP and Service Location Protocol. Topics that will be covered include Agent Advertisements, registration procedures, tunneling mechanisms, the role of security, and home agents and foreign agents. We will also cover how to set up a home network, getting care-of addresses via DHCP, Route Optimization, smooth handoffs, IPv6 mobility support, and the Service Location Protocol. In addition, we will look at an architectural model for supporting nomadic users under development within the Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT) in the "Nomadicity" group. TUTORIAL 3 ---------- Simulation of Large Mobile Wireless Networks Prof. Rajive Bagrodia and Prof. Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Saturday, September 27 8:30am - 5:00pm Protocols for wireless networks are complex to design, evaluate and implement. Their performance depends on a combination of factors that include multimedia traffic patterns, mobility models, application objectives, processor characteristics, and radio characteristics. Evaluation of a protocol as a function of these diverse parameters is analytically intractable. Given the complexity of the radio environment, sequential simulation of networks with thousands of nodes requires several days, and perhaps, even weeks. To make the design more interactive, it is imperative to reduce the turnaround time for the models. The goal of this tutorial is to describe efficient simulation techniques for very large mobile wireless networks and to present some representative case studies. The environment has been built using the Maisie simulation language at UCLA. A number of approaches to reducing the simulation time for such models will be presented including parallel simulation, hierarchical modeling, and multi-paradigm models. The tutorial will begin with an overview of existing simulators, including OPNET, Bones, and other commercial products. The primary emphasis of the tutorial is on presenting the use of Maisie for parallel simulation of network models and their subsequent porting into physical implementation. The sources of overhead in the parallel execution of network models will be discussed together with methods to reduce their impact. Common pitfalls encountered in the design of parallel simulation models will be discussed. We will also describe techniques to port simulation models to protocol implementations. Finally, a number of case studies will be presented to highlight the lessons that have been learned in the design, simulation, and implementation of wireless network protocols. TUTORIAL 4 ---------- Cellular Wireless Networks: Principles and Operation Prof. Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) Saturday, September 27 8:30am - 12:00pm This tutorial addresses the basic networking concepts of mobile cellular and wireless networks, exposing both the theoretical and practical aspects of mobile communication. As an introduction, basic enabling technology will be presented, such as the cellular principle and multiple access technologies (e.g., CDMA). Following this introduction to mobile radio, we will investigate the underlying techniques used in design and operation of cellular networks, including handoff schemes, channel assignment and power control algorithms, common-air protocols (e.g., IS-54/136, IS-95, GSM, etc.), and microcellular architectures. Some more advanced concepts, such as macrodiversity and multi-tier wireless networks, will be briefly discussed. Next, we will address the subject of user mobility support in the wireless environment. In particular, call processing functions, which include roaming, routing, and registration, will be explained. The differences between mobility management in data networks and in voice networks will be clarified. As an example, a comparison of the Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) and Internet mobility support through Mobile IP will be presented. The tutorial will be augmented with abundance of examples from existing and proposed future wireless networks. The tutorial is targeted towards broad audience, both from the academic and the industrial environments. TUTORIAL 5 ---------- Disconnected and Weakly Connected Access to the World Wide Web: Issues and Techniques Dr. Murray S. Mazer (Open Group Research Institute, USA) Saturday, September 27 1:30pm - 5:00pm This tutorial addresses the concepts, issues, and techniques involved in supporting weakly connected and disconnected access to Web-based information resources. ``Access'' includes both reading and writing - in addition to continuing to browse under diminished bandwidth conditions, the user may wish to create or change content, having it integrated back into the Web when the connectivity is sufficient. As background, we will review techniques used for disconnected and weakly connected access to network-based file systems. We will compare and contrast file systems and the World Wide Web, pointing out numerous ways in which the two types of information systems differ (and how those differences affect the adaptation of techniques from the file system space to the Web space). The tutorial will include a review of systems for "off-line browsing" (a.k.a. disconnected reading) and for filtering requests and responses to adapt to changing bandwidth conditions. We will address issues, techniques, and limitations regarding architectural choices, meta-data requirements, data management, "weblet" management, consistency, pre-fetching policies, change staging and integration, content transformation, security, user expectations, and other relevant topics. We will also discuss the impact of HTTP1.1 and other topical standards. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MobiCom'97 Registration Form ---------------------------- Last Name (Surname): _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________ [ ] Prof. [ ] Dr. [ ] Mr. [ ] Ms. First Name: ______________________________________________________________ Title/Position: __________________________________________________________ Company/Organization: ____________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________ Fax: ____________________________ E-mail Address: __________________________________________________________ WWW Homepage URL: ________________________________________________________ Name on Badge: ___________________________________________________________ [ ] ACM or [ ] IEEE Membership #: ________________________________________ Special needs (please describe): _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Vegetarian Meals: [ ] Yes [ ] No TUTORIAL SELECTIONS: Please select the tutorials you would like to attend: Friday, September 26: [ ] T1 (Full-Day) Wireless ATM: Standards, Architectures, Protocols & Implementation, Lou Dellaverson (Motorola, USA), C.-K. Toh (Hughes Research Laboratories, USA), and Arup Acharya (NEC, USA) [ ] T2 (Full-Day) Mobile IP: Adding Mobility to the Internet, Charles E. Perkins (Sun Microsystems, USA) Saturday, September 27: [ ] T3 (Full-Day) Simulation of Large Mobile Wireless Networks, Rajive Bagrodia and Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) [ ] T4 (Half-Day, Cellular Wireless Networks: Principles and Morning) Operation, Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) [ ] T5 (Half-Day, Disconnected and Weakly Connected Access to the Afternoon) World Wide Web: Issues and Techniques, Murray S. Mazer (Open Group Research Institute, USA) WORKSHOP SELECTION: If you would like to attend one of the two workshops, please make your selection below (both workshops will be held on October 1, immediately following the conference technical program): [ ] WOSBIS The Second International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services [ ] DIAL-M The First International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications REGISTRATION FEES: Early Registration Late Registration (Through August 29) (After August 29) Fee for each half-day tutorial: ACM/IEEE Members: [ ] $150 [ ] $200 Non-members: [ ] $200 [ ] $250 Full-time Students: [ ] $50 [ ] $70 Fee for each full-day tutorial: ACM/IEEE Members: [ ] $200 [ ] $250 Non-members: [ ] $250 [ ] $300 Full-time Students: [ ] $75 [ ] $95 Conference registration fee: ACM/IEEE Members: [ ] $400 [ ] $450 Non-members: [ ] $450 [ ] $500 Full-time Students: [ ] $100 [ ] $120 Workshop registration fee: ACM/IEEE Members: [ ] $100 [ ] $150 Non-members: [ ] $120 [ ] $170 Full-time Students: [ ] $50 [ ] $70 Total registration fees: Half-day Tutorials (____ half-day tutorials * $______) $_______ Full-day Tutorials (____ full-day tutorials * $______) $_______ Conference Registration $_______ Workshop Registration $_______ Optional Monday Dinner Cruise (____ tickets * $45) $_______ Total $_______ PAYMENT INFORMATION: [ ] I have enclosed a check or money order in USD payable to MobiCom'97 Please charge the Total above to my: [ ] VISA [ ] MasterCard [ ] American Express Credit Card #: _____________________________ Expiration Date: _________ Name as it appears on card: ___________________________________________ Signature: ____________________________________________________________ SEND PAYMENT TO: To register for MobiCom'97, print this form, fill it out, and mail or fax it to: ACM/IEEE MobiCom'97 c/o Ms. Nadine Hunley Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Room 3K-331 101 Crawfords Corner Rd. Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA Telephone: +1 732 949-0819 Fax: +1 732 834-5906 E-mail: nhunley@lucent.com You may also register by e-mail by completing and returning this plain text copy of the registration form. Please note that your credit card number is not secure when transmitted through e-mail. Payment by check, money order, or credit card must accompany your registration form. Purchase orders cannot be accepted. All fax and e-mail registrations must be paid by credit card. All registration fees above are in U.S. Dollars (USD) and must be paid in U.S. Dollars. A credit card signature will be required at the conference for e-mail registrations. Note: Written requests for refunds must be postmarked no later than September 12, 1997. Refunds are subject to a US $50 service charge. Participants with confirmed registration who fail to attend or notify MobiCom registration of cancellation before the refund date are subject to the full fee. Substitutions are allowed at any time. Registrations received after September 12, 1997 will be processed on-site only. All conference registrations include attendance at conference sessions, a copy of the conference proceedings, the Welcome Reception on September 27, the Conference Lunch and Conference Dinner Banquet on September 28, and coffee breaks. Breakfast is included in all hotels offered for the conference. Additional tickets to the Conference Dinner Banquet and additional copies of the conference proceedings will be available for additional cost. Please inquire when you register if you are interested in additional banquet tickets. Tutorial registration includes attendance at the tutorial, tutorial notes, and coffee breaks; full-day tutorials also include lunch. Workshop registration includes attendance at the workshop, workshop proceedings, lunch, and coffee breaks. An optional dinner cruise on the Danube River is being arranged for Monday evening, September 29. The price for this cruise is $45 per person and is not included in your conference registration fee. If you would like to join us for this dinner cruise, please mark the number of tickets desired on your registration form and add the appropriate amount to your total registration. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MobiCom'97 Hotel Reservation Form --------------------------------- Please return to CONTOURS by August 15, 1997 Last Name (Surname): _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________ [ ] Prof. [ ] Dr. [ ] Mr. [ ] Ms. First Name: ______________________________________________________________ Company/Organization: ____________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________ Fax: ____________________________ E-mail address: __________________________________________________________ Arrival Date: ______________________ Departure Date: _____________________ Sharing room with: _______________________________________________________ Special needs (please describe): _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Vegetarian Meals: [ ] Yes [ ] No HOTEL SELECTION: Please select the hotel and type of room you would like to reserve: Single Room Double Room Hotel ATRIUM HYATT: Room with Danube-view: USD 277 USD 294 Room without Danube-view: USD 230 USD 246 Hotel TAVERNA: USD 98 USD 127 Hotel GELLERT: USD 89 USD 150 City Panzio MATYAS: USD 66 USD 84 City Panzio PILVAX: USD 66 USD 84 Hotel VENTURA: USD 51 USD 60 All hotel rates are per night and include breakfast and VAT. All prices are in U.S. Dollars (USD). For more information on the available hotels, see the complete Advance Program or visit the MobiCom'97 Home Page at http://www.monarch.cs.cmu.edu/~mobicom97/. RESERVATION DEPOSIT: Deposit equal to one night in the chosen hotel: USD ______ Bank commission and handling fee: USD ___ 12 Total: USD ______ DEPOSIT PAYMENT INFORMATION: [ ] Bank cheque or money order in U.S. Dollars payable to CONTOURS. Private cheques cannot be accepted. [ ] Eurocheque in Hungarian Forint (HUF) payable to CONTOURS. The limit of one cheque is HUF 30000. [ ] Bank transfer to account number 10200885-32613003-00000000 to Hungarian Credit Bank (H-1539 Budapest 114, P.O. Box 624), made out to the order of CONTOURS. Your bank transfer must indicate your name and "MobiCom'97". [ ] VISA [ ] Eurocard/MasterCard [ ] American Express [ ] Diners Credit Card #: _____________________________ Expiration Date: _________ Name as it appears on card: ___________________________________________ Billing address: ______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________________________________________________ Signature: ____________________________________________________________ SEND RESERVATION TO: Please print this form, fill it out, and return a copy not later than August 15, 1997 to: CONTOURS Congress Bureau Alkotas u. 47 H-1123 Budapest Hungary Telephone: +36-1-2122239 or 2122240 Telephone/Fax: +36-1-1566712 E-mail: contours@contours.ind.eunet.hu WWW: http://contours.aux.net/index2.htm Your reservation form should be accompanied by a deposit equal to one night at the chosen hotel. CONTOURS can confirm your reservation only once the deposit arrives. All payments should be directed to CONTOURS Congress Bureau at the address above. An additional USD 12 should be sent with your payment to cover the bank commission and the handling fee. A limited number of rooms has been reserved at each hotel. Hotel reservation will be made on a first-come first-served basis. If the hotel requested is fully booked, CONTOURS will suggest another hotel. All requests, changes, or cancellations in hotel reservations should be directed to CONTOURS. A confirmation will be sent by CONTOURS showing your request and the money received, and including detailed information on the hotel reserved. The deposit will be deducted from the whole amount of the accommodation. The balance must be paid upon arrival at the CONTOURS Registration Desk at the conference (not to the hotel). At the CONTOURS Registration Desk, you can arrange the rest of your payment by credit card, traveler's cheque, or cash. Only extras are paid directly to the hotel. Note: Cancellations of hotel reservation must be sent in writing to CONTOURS. If your cancellation is received before September 1, 1997 the deposit minus USD 20 will be refunded. Cancellations received after this date are not entitled to any refund. All refunds will be made after the close of the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rem-conf Mon Jul 21 06:26:43 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 21 06:26:43 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqIJs-0007kT-00; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 06:16:08 -0700 Sender: eric@mars.dgrc.doc.ca Message-Id: <33D36112.6925@mars.dgrc.doc.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:16:02 -0400 From: "Eric Vaagen (Student)" Organization: Communications Research Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4c) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: subscribing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Please add me to this mailing list. Thanks, Eric. From rem-conf Mon Jul 21 13:27:13 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 21 13:27:13 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqOwr-00035B-00; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:20:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199707212020.RAA12661@bicudo.remav.telebrasilia.gov.br> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 From: "Ildeu R. Borges J=?iso-8859-1?Q?=FA?=nior" To: Subject: Multicast over firewalls Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:22:56 -0300 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list What is the best method to allow a network with a firewall to receive Multicast transmissions ? ________________________________________________________________________ \\\\\\\\//////// ////////\\\\\\\\ Telebrasilia Unidade de Negocio - Telecomunicacoes Avancadas Ildeu R. Borges Junior tel: +55-61-323-2411 fax: +55-61-322-2992 From rem-conf Mon Jul 21 13:29:13 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 21 13:29:12 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqP44-0003FQ-00; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:28:16 -0700 Message-Id: From: gumbee@ctd.comsat.com To: rem-conf@es.net Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:28:13 -0400 Subject: Unidentified subject! X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list hi, does anyone know where i might be able to get the software for the RTP/RTCP protocol? anyone know how much it might cost or is there a free shareware version out there perhaps? thanks, grant From rem-conf Mon Jul 21 13:52:36 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 21 13:52:36 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqPQP-000449-00; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:51:21 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970721135938.0070a734@mailhost> X-Sender: li@mailhost X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:59:39 -0700 To: rem-conf@es.net From: Li Liu Subject: H.245 questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hi: I wonder if anyone knows H.245 (Control standard for Video conferencing over LAN and POTS) ? I have questions regarding to switch capability during call process, 1. if terminal A wants to change encoding rule from G.711 to G.723, does it use mode request message to do it ? Or just retransmit the capability table ? 2. for the old logical channel which carries G.711 data, should it be closed first then be opened again, or just change the logical channel's tag from G.711 to G.723 ? Thanks a lot for your attention. --Li ------------------------------------------- Li Liu Philips Multimedia Center 1070 Arastradero Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 Phone: (415)-846-4373 Fax: (415)-846-4455 ------------------------------------------- From rem-conf Mon Jul 21 21:05:25 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 21 21:05:24 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqVzx-0007U8-00; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 20:52:29 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 11:28:56 +0900 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970722113026.3247da08@noya.bupt.edu.cn> X-Sender: zyx@noya.bupt.edu.cn X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: tomonori@exa.onlab.ntt.jp, enternet@BBN.COM, commsoft@cc.bellcore.com, comsoc-chapters@ieee.org, comsoc.tac@tab.ieee.org, comswtc@gmu.edu, rem-conf@es.net, giga@tele.pitt.edu, itc@fokus.gmd.de, multicomm@cc.bellcore.com, tct-members@REDBANK.tinac.com, chsd@bupt.edu.cn, tccc@ieee.org, itc@public3.bta.net.cn, owing@i.e.cuhk.edu.hk, dpwu@acts.poly.edu From: "Y.X. Zhong, BUPT, Beijing, China" Subject: CFP: ICII'98 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear Colleagues: Herewith I am sending to you below the CALL FOR PAPERS of ICII'98, the Second International Conference and Exhibition on Information Inrastructure. Welcome to submit papers, as well as organize papers or sessions, to the conference. Thank you in advance and look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Y. X. Zhong, Chair of program Committee, ICII'98 ------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement and Call for Papers Second International Conference and Exhibition on Information Infrastructure ( Information Super Highway) ICII'98-Beijing April 26-29, Beijing, CHINA Endorsed and Approved by State Council, China Sponsored by Ministry of Electronics Industry, China Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Technical Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Supported by Secretariat of State Council Steering Committee of National Information Infrastructure, P. R. China Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), The Institute of Electrical and Electrinics Engineers (IEEE) The Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Organized by Chinese Institue of Electronics (CIE) Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT) IEEE Beijing Section IEE Beijing Centre The world is now entering into the information age. To explore better approaches more feasible to the building up of the social infrastructure for the new age and the creating of a more satisfactory life for people all over the world, the second International Conference on Information Infrastructure, ICII'98, will be held from April 26 (Sunday) to 29 (Wednesday), 1998, in Beijing. As the first and successful conference in 1996, ICII'96, the objective of this conference is to provide forums for disseminating, sharing and exchanging the latest progress and experiences in information infrastructure planning, research, development, implementation, and applications among countries. The working language of the conference is English. Perspective authors or delegates are encouraged to submit papers to the conference. Government's representatives and industry authorities from all countries are invited to present their plans and activities toward information infrastructure, either national or regional. In the mean time, discussions on variety of hot points, both in theoretical research and in practical experiments related to the themes of information infrastructure will also be organized, attempting to lay common mutual understanding bases, channels and criteria for future practice and cooperation. The topics will be focused on, but not limited to, the following: FORUM A: Planning, Policy, and Cooperation This forum is provided mainly for goverments, organizations and scientists to exchange opinions and experiences on planning, policy and cooperation in implementations of information infrastructure. Session A-1: Planning 1. National or Regional Plan for Information Infrastructure 2. Enterprises' Plan for High-speed Information Network Session A-2: Policies 1. The Impact of Information Infrastructure to Societies 2. National and International Information Security 3. Information Sharing and Privacy Protections 4. Regulations Governing Telecommunication, Broadcasting, and Computer Networks Session A-3: Cooperation 1. Principles for Cooperation Leading to the Reducction of the Gap between Developed and Developing Countries 2. International Coordinations: Channels and Mechanisms FORUM B: Problems, Advances and Trends in Technology This forum is designed for scientists and engineers to analyse and discuss the problems faced, progress made, and future trends of the technical development in information infrastructure. Session B-1: Architectures and Standards 1. Conceptual Model of Information Infrastructure 2. Technical Architecture of Information Networks 3. Technical Standards for High-speed Information Networks 4. Standards for Integration of Voice, Data, and Video Networks 5. High-speed Information Networks Test-Beds Progress Session B-2: Problems, Progress and Trends in Communications Technology 1. SDH Lightwave Systems and Mobile Satellite Communications 2. ATM Switching and IP Swithing 3. CDMA and GSM 4. CATV, INTERNET and B-ISDN 5. Multimedia Communications 6. Intelligent Network and Intelligent Services 7. Access Networks Technologies Session B-3: Problems, Progress, and trends in Network Computing 1. Mobile Computing and Network Computing 2. Internet, Internet-II, and Intranet 3. Indexing, search, and Browsing in computer network 4. Common Network Language and Machine Translation 5. Intelligent Man-Machine Interfaces 6. LANs/MANs/WANs Interworking and Interoperability Session B-4 Problems, Progress, and Trends in Basic Technologies 1. Information Security Technology 2. Information Network Management 3. Software Engineering and Information Systems Integration 4. TCP/IP and OSI 5. New Technologies in Signal and Information Processing 6. Information Resources and Informatio Bases Forum C: Applications and Applicabilities This forum is aimed at exhibiting and examing, from every possible angle of views, the variety of applications as well as the applicabilities provided by information infrastructure to the society. Session C-1: Applicational Projects from GIIC and from other Big Companies over the world Session C-2: Progress of Test-Beds from Developed Countries and from Developing Countries Session C-3: Experimental Applications from Major Universities and from various Institutions Important Dates: * Deadline for paper submiting December 31, 1997 * Notification for paper acceptance February 15, 1998 * Early registration Before March 25, 1998 Authors are requested to submit 4 copies, at least one of which should be camera-ready copy, to the Program Commitee Chairman: Prof Yi X. ZHONG, President Office, Beijing Univ of Posts & Telecom (BUPT), Beijing 100088, CHINA. Tel: (8610) 6228-2023, Fax: (8610)6228-5008, e-mail: zyx@bupt.edu.cn Papers submitted to the conference should in first page contain the following information: title, author's name, author's organization, correspondence address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, and abstract, followed by an introduction and then the content, ended by conclusion and references. Papers should be printed clearly (by using laser printer) on one side of A4 white sheets with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margin on each of the four edges. The length of each paper is limited to 4 pages and the extra page(s) will cause an extra charge. Papers either not meeting the formal requirements or with low quality in content will immediately be rejected. For further information, please contact the secretariate : Mr. Jian GENG Secretariate of ICII'98, President Office, Beijing Univ of Posts & Telecom (BUPT), Beijing 100088, CHINA Tel: (8610)6228-2023, 6228-2659, Fax: (8610)6228-5008, e-mail:zyx@bupt.edu.cn The key persons in organizing ICII'98 are Organizing Committee Chair Mr. Lu Xinkui, Secretary General Secretaiat of State Council Steering Committee of National Information Infrastructure, P. R. China Vice Chairs Mr. Zhang Ze Executive Secretary General, CAST Prof Wei Xuexing Secretary General, CIE Conference Co-Chair Professor and Academician Peida YE Honorary President of BUPT Honorable Diana Lady Dougan CSIS Program Committee Co-Chair Profesor Yi X. ZHONG Vice-President of BUPT Mr. Russel Pipe Deputy Director, GIIC Secretariat International Committee Chair Professor and Academician SUN junren President of CIE ===================================== prof.and vice president Yixin ZHONG (Y. X. Zhong) President Office Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomm. Beijing 100088, China Tel: +86-10-62282023 (O) Fax: +86-10-62285008 Email: zyx@bupt.edu.cn ===================================== From rem-conf Mon Jul 21 23:50:25 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 21 23:50:24 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqYgY-0000ix-00; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:44:38 -0700 Message-Id: <9707220617.AA26124@perdana.fsktm.um.edu.my> From: "Ling Teck Chaw" To: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , "Y.X. Zhong, BUPT, Beijing, China" Subject: MJCS call4paper Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:26:28 +0800 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hi This is the call4paper of Malaysian Journal of Computer Science Dec 97 Ling ******************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS Special MJCS Issue on the Multimedia Super Corridor Malaysian Journal of Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia ------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES To promote exchange of information and knowledge in research work, new inventions/ developments and on the use of Information Technology (IT) towards the structuring of an information-rich society. To assist the staff from local and foreign universities, business and industrial sectors, government departments and academic institutions on publishing research results and studies in computer science and information technology through a scholarly publication. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Special MJCS Issue on the Multimedia Super Corridor The Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (MJCS) is currently in its 12th year of publication. Since its inception, this biannual publication has been devoted to promoting the exchange of information and knowledge in research and development in the fast-changing field of information technology (IT). The majority of the papers published concerned topics of current interest and new developments in IT. In Malaysia, presently no other topic has generated so much interest and discussion as the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), which was officially launched by our Prime Minister in early 1997. The MSC is a national project with far-reaching implications on the socio-economic development and is the sort of enabling technology that will propel the country into the 21st century and help it realise the goals of its Vision 2020. The concept of the MSC is new to the vast majority of Malaysians, and hence at the initial stage, it must be widely publicised and openly discussed to ensure that it garners support and understanding from all those who are directly or indirectly involved in this important national project. The Prime Minister himself has gone on the air and in public to explain the MSC to the general Malaysian population. The MSC can certainly achieve its objectives, with more publicity, discussion and information at the more technical level. In this context, the MJCS is planning to publish a special issue in December 1997 devoted entirely to the MSC and related IT concepts and technologies that fall within its scope. It will provide an opportunity for those directly involved in the IT industry, as well as in research and development to put forward their own perspectives of the MSC. Thus, the MJCS welcomes contribution of papers containing discussion on the blueprint of the MSC as a whole, its concepts, and other aspects relating to the technical planning and implementation. It is hoped that this small effort will help to complement various on-going efforts to publicise the MSC and provide more information on it, and thus ensure its eventual success. IMPORTANT NOTES AND DEADLINES The followings are important notes and dates for authors who wish to submit papers for the December 1997 issue. September 15, 1997 Submission of full paper Submit four copies (including one original; Double spacing, single column, font size 12). December 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance/rejection of full paper. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The full papers should be addressed to: Prof. Mashkuri Hj. Yaacob Chief Editor Malaysian Journal of Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TARGET PARTICIPANTS IT Users in various industries: Engineers, Researchers, Scientists, Decision Makers, Administrators, Technologist, Educationists, Academicians and Students. IT Professionals/Practitioners. Others interested in Computer Science and IT. For enquiries please contact: Mr. Phang Keat Keong Executive Editor Malaysian Journal of Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel. No.: 603-7593169 Fax No. : 603-7579249 URL : http://mjcs.fsktm.um.edu.my ------------------------------------------------------------------- APPRECIATION A complimentary copy will be distributed to each author whose paper(s) is/are published in this journal. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From rem-conf Tue Jul 22 01:05:50 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 22 01:05:49 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqZqq-0001MC-00; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:59:20 -0700 From: Phil Scott Message-Id: <199707220759.RAA13205@hakea.cs.ntu.edu.au> Subject: Fulbright Symposium on Indigenous Culture... on mbone To: rem-conf@es.net Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:29:09 +0930 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone broadcast announcement ---------------------------- With your indulgence, we would like to mbone broadcast (at least) some of the 1997 Fulbright Symposium on Indigenous Culture in an Interconnected World (http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/fulbright/index.html). Announcements will also be made at http://cyclone.ntu.edu.au This symposium will take place in Darwin, Australia, from the evening (localtime) of 23rd July until Sunday 27th July. Local time zone is CST (9.30 ahead of GMT). I am sorry I cannot be more specific at this time, and the symposium is not far off (like, tomorrow) but we're still trying to pull equipment together (workstations, ISDN-capable router, etc), and we (the technical bodies involved) don't know what sessions are likely to be of interest and when they are scheduled. It's all been organised in a bit of a rush. Coordination (?): Phil Scott, pscott@it.ntu.edu.au PLEASE contact me if there's any problem with this. Regards, Phil -- Phil Scott, temporarily at the School of Information Technology, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia: pscott@it.ntu.edu.au From rem-conf Tue Jul 22 06:51:15 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 22 06:51:14 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqfDN-0002zp-00; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 06:42:57 -0700 To: IETF-Announce: ; cc: rem-conf@es.net From: The IESG Subject: Last Call: Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links to Proposed Standard Reply-to: iesg@ietf.org Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:37:46 -0400 Sender: scoya@ietf.org Message-ID: <9707220937.aa06461@ietf.org> X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list The IESG has received a request from the Audio/Video Transport Working Group to consider "Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links" for the status of Proposed Standard. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send any comments to the iesg@ietf.org or ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by August 5, 1997 Files can be obtained via ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/ From rem-conf Tue Jul 22 06:51:17 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 22 06:51:16 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqfEZ-00030H-00; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 06:44:11 -0700 From: stas@vdo.net Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:39:59 +0300 Message-Id: <199707221239.PAA23344@uranus.vdo.net> Apparently-To: Bcc: To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Unidentified subject! X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list From rem-conf Tue Jul 22 07:19:47 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 22 07:19:45 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqflZ-0003oW-00; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 07:18:17 -0700 Message-ID: <33D4C1E1.19B0@darmstadt.gmd.de> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:21:21 +0200 From: Peter Hoermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Li Liu CC: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: H.245 questions References: <3.0.32.19970721135938.0070a734@mailhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hi Li, > I have questions regarding to switch capability during call process, > > 1. if terminal A wants to change encoding rule from G.711 to G.723, does it > use mode request message to do it ? Or just retransmit the capability table ? > 2. for the old logical channel which carries G.711 data, should it be > closed first then be opened again, or just change the logical channel's tag > from G.711 to G.723 ? As far as I understood the draft for H.323, appendix A, the preceeding for two terminals in an H.323 connection switching modes is the following: a) The terminal wanting to change the modes should send a CloseLogicalChannel for including the channel number to be closed and subsequently an OpenLogicalChannel including the old channel number, the new data type, the (old) session id and the mediaControlChannel transport adress used (waiting for the ACK before sending the OpenLogicalChannel is not required). b) Thus the other terminal shall - receiving the CloseLogicalChannel - not free the resources at once but keeping them reserved in case an OpenLogicalChannel comes along - and: there it is ! Because of the above parameters the receiver of OpenLogicalChannel realizes that there is no new audio channel but a change of mode over the old channel. Hope that helps a little Peter From rem-conf Tue Jul 22 07:51:31 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 22 07:51:31 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqgF6-0004JV-00; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 07:48:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199707221347.QAA23918@uranus.vdo.net> From: "Stas Khirman" To: Subject: RTP timestamp Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:39:41 +0300 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list I am a little bit confuse about RTP timestamp definition. Chapter 5.1 RTP specification (rfc1889) declare: "The timestamp reflects the sampling instant of the first octet in the RTP data packet." And below : "Consecutive RTP packets may contain timestamps that are not monotonic if the data is not transmitted in the order it was sampled, " Note, that this definition say that RTP timestamp represent the time when RTP data was SAMPLED, but not when it was SENT !!!! Sometimes, at interarrival jitter definition (6.3.1)we see : "[interarrival jitter -] An estimate of the statistical variance of the RTP data packet interarrival time...... This is equivalent to the difference in the "relative transit time" for the two packets; the relative transit time is the difference between a packet's RTP timestamp and the receiver's clock at the time of arrival, measured in the same units." This definition imply that RTP timestamp reflect the time when RTP packet was SENT!!! So, how should I use the timestamp of received RTP packet - is it the time when data was captured? Or time when data was sent? Video on demand application do NOT have any direct relations between this two times - frames could be send faster or slower then there captured time, frames could be send out of sampling order, any may even be retransmited (much later). If timestamp represent sampling time we have no way to estimate send time. It's make impossible correct jitter calculation. I can see only one solution:- Skip the reported interarrival jitter as part of the data transmission. Any Suggestions/Comments? Regards Stas Khirman. From rem-conf Tue Jul 22 08:18:22 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 22 08:18:21 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqgfp-0005Ae-00; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 08:16:25 -0700 Message-ID: <33D4CF8F.7152@darmstadt.gmd.de> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:19:43 +0200 From: Peter Hoermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gumbee@ctd.comsat.com CC: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: Unidentified subject! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list > does anyone know where i might be able to get the software for > the RTP/RTCP protocol? anyone know how much it might cost or > is there a free shareware version out there perhaps? Try http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtp/ That's were Henning Schulzrinne has a lot of information and downloadable stuff concerned with RTP/RTCP. Regards Peter From rem-conf Tue Jul 22 10:36:03 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 22 10:36:02 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wqif3-0006s3-00; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 10:23:45 -0700 Message-Id: <199707221722.KAA19243@toaster> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 Reply-To: stewart@parc.xerox.com To: "Stas Khirman" cc: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: RTP timestamp In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jul 1997 06:39:41 PDT." <199707221347.QAA23918@uranus.vdo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 10:22:36 PDT From: Paul Stewart X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list In message <199707221347.QAA23918@uranus.vdo.net>you write: > >I am a little bit confuse about RTP timestamp definition. > >Chapter 5.1 RTP specification (rfc1889) declare: > > "The timestamp reflects the sampling instant of the first > octet in the RTP data packet." > >And below : > "Consecutive RTP packets may contain timestamps that are > not monotonic if the data is not transmitted in the order it was > sampled, " > >Note, that this definition say that RTP timestamp represent the time when >RTP data was SAMPLED, but not when it was SENT !!!! This is correct. >Sometimes, at interarrival jitter definition (6.3.1)we see : >"[interarrival jitter -] An estimate of the statistical variance of the RTP >data packet interarrival time...... >This is equivalent to the difference in the "relative transit time" for the >two packets; the relative transit time is the difference between a packet's >RTP timestamp and the receiver's clock at the time of arrival, measured in >the same units." > >This definition imply that RTP timestamp reflect the time when RTP packet >was SENT!!! Actually, it doesn't. It is implying that in order to perform jitter calculations, one needs to convert the difference between two RTP timestamps into a difference in whatever real time unit the receiver uses. Effectively this means we estimate how long it should take between sending two RTP packets, given their timestamps (and packet lengths, perhaps, like in the audio case), and then compare that with the difference in real time between the packets. In this calculation, we leave a component of the elapsed time between the sender sampling the data and actually sending it out, but the hope is that this is a lot less variable than the packet's time on the network. >So, how should I use the timestamp of received RTP packet - is it the time >when data was captured? Or time when data was sent? It is the time it was captured... Except perhaps in the case you mention below... :) >Video on demand application do NOT have any direct relations between this >two times - frames could be send faster or slower then there captured time, >frames could be send out of sampling order, any may even be retransmited >(much later). If timestamp represent sampling time we have no way to >estimate send time. It's make impossible correct jitter calculation. True. One of the only sane options for "video on demand" applications that do variable speed playback (or even just "pause/play" functionality) is to generate a "fake" timestamp that is directly related to real time on the sender, so that these calculations can work correctly. The timestamp should have a direct relation to when (relative to the previous timestamp) a packet should be displayed, so if the VOD server does anything other than simply replaying everything exactly as the original sender did, it will need to do its own timestamp generation. -- Paul From rem-conf Wed Jul 23 06:28:46 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 23 06:28:46 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wr1HC-00051k-00; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 06:16:22 -0700 Message-ID: <5721C97A32DBD011B3FF0060974B1C63037704@R-MHS> From: LE MINOUS Nicole CNET/DSM/REN To: 'Groupe AVT de l'IETF' Cc: "BABONNEAU Gerard (CCETT)" Subject: RTP in SDL Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:23:19 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Hello, Does anybody know if RTP has already been written in SDL (Specification and Description Language : ITU-T recommendation Z100) and if the answer is yes, where I can find it. Thanks for your help. Regards. Nicole Le Minous. From rem-conf Thu Jul 24 07:59:03 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 24 07:59:02 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wrP7y-0003PX-00; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 07:44:26 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary="NextPart" To: IETF-Announce@ietf.org cc: rem-conf@es.net From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-qt-rtp-00.txt Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:21:34 -0400 Sender: cclark@ietf.org Message-ID: <9707241021.aa07101@ietf.org> X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list --NextPart A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Audio/Video Transport Working Group of the IETF. Title : RTP Payload Format for QuickTime Media Streams Author(s) : A. Jones, A. Periyannan, D. Singer Filename : draft-ietf-avt-qt-rtp-00.txt Pages : 15 Date : 07/23/1997 This document specifies the payload format for encapsulating QuickTime media streams in the Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP). This specification is intended for QuickTime media/codec types that are not already handled by other RTP payload specifications. Each QuickTime media track within a movie is sent over a separate RTP session and synchronized using standard RTP techniques. A static QuickTime payload type (if assigned) or a dynamic payload type may be used. A QuickTime header within the RTP payload is defined to carry the media type and other media specific information. A packetization scheme is defined for the media data. This specification is intended for streaming stored QuickTime movies as well as live QuickTime content. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-avt-qt-rtp-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-qt-rtp-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa: ftp.is.co.za o Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au o US East Coast: ds.internic.net o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-qt-rtp-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. --NextPart Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess" --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; access-type="mail-server"; server="mailserv@ds.internic.net" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19970723103358.I-D@ietf.org> ENCODING mime FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-qt-rtp-00.txt --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; name="draft-ietf-avt-qt-rtp-00.txt"; site="ds.internic.net"; access-type="anon-ftp"; directory="internet-drafts" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19970723103358.I-D@ietf.org> --OtherAccess-- --NextPart-- From rem-conf Thu Jul 24 09:34:49 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 24 09:34:49 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wrQoC-0005Lz-00; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:32:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:31:49 +0100 From: luca.fantolino@CSELT.IT (Luca Fantolino) Subject: A couple of question on To: casner@precept.com, van@ee.lbl.gov, rem-conf@es.net Message-id: Old-X-Envelope-to: rem-conf@es.net MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Sender: FANTOLIN_EUD@POSTAL.CSELT.IT X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list I've read the draft on RTP/UDP compression and I have a couple of question. > >In order to communicate packets in the various uncompressed and >compressed forms, this protocol depends upon the link layer being able >to provide an indication of four new packet formats in addition to the >normal IPv4 and IPv6 packet formats: > If PPP is the link layer I see one obnviuous solution to differentiate the four different message types: the use of specific values in the Protocol field. In that case should be also defined four distinct NCP? Should be performed four procedure to open the Network Phase of every NCP? > For 8-bit context ID: > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > |0|1| Generation| CID | First length field > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > | 0 | seq | Second length field > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > For 16-bit context ID: > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > |1|1| Generation| 0 | seq | First length field > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > | CID | Second length field > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > I'm puzzled with those formats: would not be easier to implement if the first word had always the format includin seq (the second option) and the CID would always be put in the second word (reguardless whether 8-bit or 16-bit long)? bye Luca PS: Since I am a beginner on this matter, maybe I am raising some trivial and/or already discussed issue. Sorry in case. _______________________________________________________________________ Luca Fantolino CSELT (a STET Company) Tel: +39 11 228 7543 via G. Reiss Romoli, 274 Fax: +39 11 228 5069 10148 Torino - ITALY E-Mail: Luca.Fantolino@Cselt.It _______________________________________________________________________ From rem-conf Thu Jul 24 10:54:06 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 24 10:54:05 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wrS2z-0006UW-00; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:51:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:49:39 -0700 () From: Stephen Casner To: Luca Fantolino cc: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: A couple of question on In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list > If PPP is the link layer I see one obnviuous solution to differentiate the > four different message types: the use of specific values in the Protocol > field. Yes, that is the anticipated method. > In that case should be also defined four distinct NCP? Should be > performed four procedure to open the Network Phase of every NCP? No. See draft-engan-ip-compress-00.txt. > I'm puzzled with those formats: would not be easier to implement if the > first word had always the format includin seq (the second option) and the > CID would always be put in the second word (reguardless whether 8-bit or > 16-bit long)? Yes, it would be easier and cleaner. But note what the paragraph right before the diagrams says: As specified in Sections 5.3.2 of [3], the position of the context ID (CID) and 4-bit sequence number varies depending upon whether 8- or 16- bit context IDs have been selected, as shown in the following diagram (16 bits wide, with the most-significant bit is to the left): In the reference it is explained why the fields are arranged as they are, and it is the result of fitting in with compression of other protocols within the ipv6-hc framework. Reference [3] is draft-degermark-ipv6-hc-02.txt. [Perhaps you didn't look at the reference because, per the standard boilerplate for Internet-Drafts, the only allowable reference to them is as "work in progress", so the draft title isn't given. Perhaps that rule should not apply for references from other Internet-Drafts. Or maybe it already doesn't apply and I'm just not informed.] -- Steve From rem-conf Thu Jul 24 10:58:21 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 24 10:58:20 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wrS90-0006kv-00; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:57:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:57:39 -0400 From: luigi@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (John A. Stewart) Message-Id: <199707241757.NAA01575@jack.dgrc.doc.ca> To: rem-conf@tmpmail.es.net Subject: MultiMON v1.1 Announcement. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: M2d5qbe5Bq7EMAao0FvB1g== X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MultiMON ======== a MultiCast Traffic Monitor with built-in RTCP diagnostics --=====-------------===----------------------------------- Here at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa we are developing an Mbone management and diagnostics tool that monitors and displays the IPmulticast traffic on a network segment. MultiMon identifies traffic by type and a user can join any session that it locates. MultiMon also allows recording and analysis of the RTCP traffic from a particular multicast group stream to assist in QoS diagnostics. The program is client/server based, so the client and server can be located many miles apart to permit remote monitoring. We are releasing the code (alpha-release) for UNIX workstations, and would appreciate feedback from members of the MBone community. More details can be seen at the web page: http://www.merci.crc.doc.ca/mbone/MultiMON Source can be found at: ftp://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/pub/mbone/multimon/multimon.1.1.crc.tar.gz Thanks; John Robinson John Stewart john@mars.dgrc.doc.ca luigi@mars.dgrc.doc.ca From rem-conf Thu Jul 24 11:20:05 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 24 11:20:05 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wrSTG-0007Mp-00; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:18:38 -0700 Subject: Announcement: wbd, a wb-compatible whiteboard. To: rem-conf@es.net Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:18:30 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1062 Message-Id: From: JC Highfield X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Wbd Shared Multicast Whiteboard =============================== Version 1.00 alpha Wbd is a wb-compatible shared whiteboard, which is being made available for download in source form (under a BSD- style copyright). Wbd is written in C and Tcl/Tk. The source code and further details may be found on wbd's home page at . This is an alpha-quality release: The rate-limiting / ack-implosion-avoidance system is very new and probably very buggy. The alternative was to leave it out which seemed like an even worse idea :-) Both wb and wbd can be easily convinced to crash by sending them dud data, so running this early release of wbd in an international conference is not recommended! The development of wbd was partly funded by the ESPRIT ROPA Award Scheme as part of the "Tools for the Construction of Value-Added Services on High-Speed Networks" project at LUTCHI Research Centre, Loughborough University. Julian Highfield, 24th July 1997. LUTCHI Research Centre, Loughborough University. From rem-conf Fri Jul 25 00:44:42 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 25 00:44:42 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wrezs-0005q8-00; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:41:08 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:42:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Casner Reply-To: Stephen Casner To: Stas Khirman , stewart@parc.xerox.com cc: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Re: RTP timestamp In-Reply-To: <199707221722.KAA19243@toaster> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Stas, As Paul Stewart correctly explained, the RTP timestamp DOES represent the time when data is sampled, and we assume that the variance in delay between sampling and transmission is small relative to the variance in network transit time. Now, for encodings such as MPEG that transmit data in a different order than it was sampled, this adds noise into the jitter calculation. I have heard handwavy arguments that this factor can be calculated out given that you know the shape of the noise, but my math isn't strong enough for that. In many of the cases that we care about, the jitter introduced by MPEG will be small enough that when the network jitter is of the same order we don't have a problem anyway. There is another problem for video in that all of the packets of a frame have the same timestamp because the whole frame is sampled at once. However, the dispersion in time of those packets really is all part of the network transfer process that the receiver must accommodate with its buffer. It has been suggested that jitter be calculated only on the first packet of a video frame, or only on "I" frames for MPEG. However, that may color the results also because those packets may see transit delays different than the following packets see. The main point to remember is that the primary function of the RTP timestamp is to represent the inherent notion of real time associated with the media. It also turns out to be useful for the jitter measure, but that is a secondary function. The jitter value is not expected to be useful as an absolute value. It is more useful as a means of comparing the reception quality at two receiver or comparing the reception quality 5 minutes ago to now. > Video on demand application do NOT have any direct relations between this > two times - frames could be send faster or slower then there captured time, > frames could be send out of sampling order, any may even be retransmited > (much later). If timestamp represent sampling time we have no way to > estimate send time. It's make impossible correct jitter calculation. If the VOD stream is not being transmitted and played at real-time rate, then the jitter measure is irrelevant. If you are sending the data twice as fast as the receiver will play it, and the receiver is buffering the data, then who cares about jitter in the arrival time? > I can see only one solution:- Skip the reported interarrival jitter as part > of the data transmission. I see no reason to special case the calculation. The numbers that are generated may be meaninless, but it's up to the receiver of the RTCP to decide whether it wants to do anything with the jitter number. -- Steve From rem-conf Fri Jul 25 11:25:03 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Fri Jul 25 11:25:02 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wrotp-0001LN-00; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:15:33 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: msri.org: smap set sender to using -f Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707251814.LAA07597@hille.msri.org> To: rem-conf@es.net From: Reply-to: mmadrid@psc.edu Subject: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center MPP Workshop X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list MBone Broadcast Announcement ---------------------------- Title: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center MPP Workshop Date: Jul 28, 1997 Time: 11:00 GMT 6 hours Contact: mmadrid@psc.edu URL: http://www.psc.edu/training/MPP_Jul_97/welcome.html Description: The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participants to parallel processing on the CRAY T3E and explore more advanced topics, including performance monitoring and optimization techniques. mbone broadcast schedule http://www.msri.org/mbone From rem-conf Sat Jul 26 11:14:28 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Sat Jul 26 11:14:27 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wsBHb-0006MS-00; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 11:09:35 -0700 Message-Id: <199707261810.TAA25953@snow.btinternet.com> From: "John Thompson" To: Subject: DAVIC Call for Proposals Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:03:36 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list To the IETF Audio/Video Transport Working Group The Digital Audio-Visual Council - has been working since 1994 to select protocols and to recommend one overall systems Specification which could enable complete global interoperability of high quality, interactive, broadband, realtime, multimedia services. In San Diego last month, DAVIC launched its Internet initiative to both a) support the suite of applications which can be realised with the existing DAVIC 1.2 Specifications and b) support the suite of applications feasible through the inclusion of Internet tools and technologies in DAVIC. This Call for Proposals can be found via our homepage at www.davic.org/CFP9.htm It includes an IP-based systems architecture, and comments to enhance or modify this are explicitly and openly and requested in order to claify how best DAVIC might create a new reference model. The mutual benefit of combined IETF and DAVIC participation in defining IP-based real-time interactive services are expected to be very considerable. Please mail comments, or note any difficulties in downloading CFP9 to John Thompson DAVIC COO jet@btinternet.com Thanks 26 July 97 From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 01:55:28 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 01:55:27 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wslI1-0001ry-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 01:36:25 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.2.16.19970728013345.601fd08e@shell7.ba.best.com> X-Sender: rsf@shell7.ba.best.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 b5 (16) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 01:33:45 To: rem-conf@es.net From: Ross Finlayson Subject: Minor bugs in two popular MBone applications Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list FYI, I've recently noticed minor bugs in two popular MBone applications - "wb" and "rat" - that prevent them being used with monitoring and/or user-level relaying/proxy applications running on the same host. "wb" - appears not to set SO_REUSEADDR/PORT (versions checked: 1.59 on FreeBSD, 1.60 on Solaris) "rat" - allows other applications on the same host to use the same group address/port(s), but appears to ignore any packets that originate from (other processes on) the same host. I suspect that "rat" does this in order to ignore looped-back packets. However, this also prevents it from handling 'external' packets that have arrived via a user-level relay that's running on the same host. (versions checked: 3.0.23 on Windows 95) Moral of the story: Two tips for developers of multicast-based applications: 1/ Always set SO_REUSEADDR/PORT. Should you wish - for some reason - to prevent more than one copy of your application from running on the same host, then use some other mechanism (such as file locking) to ensure this. 2/ While turning on loop-back is usually a good idea (because it allows other processes on the same host to monitor your outgoing multicast packets), you should not then reject incoming packets as being 'looped back' merely by looking at the source address. Instead, use something (e.g., the RTP SSRC) that clearly identifies the packet as having originated from you. Ross. From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 02:47:35 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 02:47:34 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wsmLz-0002bd-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 02:44:35 -0700 X-Sender: vidcom@mail.matav.hu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: rem-conf@es.net From: vidcom@mail.matav.hu Subject: Videoconference in Budapest Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 02:44:34 -0700 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear Sir, Please allow us to offer our help for MERCI. Our company is specialised for video communication. We carry the whole range of videoconferencing systems and do complete system integration for video communication networks with all kind of auxiliary equipment. Our company also operates a videoconferencing room rental services in one of the most beautiful office buildings in Budapest, which I would like to offer for you. I hope, that we can support your work, and looking forward to hearing from you soon. Yours Sincerely Zsolt Cseh managing director Vidcom Ltd. 1065 Budapest Revay u. 10. HUNGARY Tel: +36-1-269-1100 Mobile: +36-30-219-473 Fax: +36-1-269-1030 Video: +36-1-301-0009 (up to 384 kbps) E-Mail: vidcom@mail.matav.hu From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 06:38:31 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 06:38:31 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wspw8-0004vz-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 06:34:08 -0700 Message-ID: <33DC9F9F.AC3511D4@dnrc.bell-labs.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:33:19 -0400 From: "Jonathan D. Rosenberg" Reply-To: jdrosen@dnrc.bell-labs.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Reconsideration Algorithm X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list avt'ers, I have just submitted an Internet Draft which formally describes the reconsideration algorithms that Henning and I have proposed. It also includes lots of simulations and analyses, some of which were presented at Memphis. You should receive an announcement about the draft shortly. In the interim, you can find a copy at: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jdrosen/papers/draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.ps Comments and questions are welcome. -Jonathan R. -- Jonathan D. Rosenberg Lucent Technologies Member of Technical Staff 101 Crawfords Corner Rd. High Speed Networks Research Holmdel, NJ 07733 PHONE: (908) 949-6418 Rm. 4D-534B FAX: (908) 834-5379 EMAIL: jdrosen@bell-labs.com URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jdrosen From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 06:56:54 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 06:56:54 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wsqCW-0005Ne-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 06:51:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:49:54 -0400 From: Debanjan Saha Message-Id: <9707281349.AA25066@tapti.watson.ibm.com> To: end2end-interest@ISI.EDU, tccc@cs.umass.edu, ietf@ietf.org, int-serv@ISI.EDU, rem-conf@es.net Subject: CFP: JHSN special issue on Multimedia Networking X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Please feel free to circulate the CFP by any means you deem appropriate. Also, please excuse any multiple copies of this CFP you may receive due to your memberships in multiple mailing lists. Thanks and regards, Debanjan CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOURNAL OF HIGH SPEED NETWORKS Special Issue On Multimedia Networking ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rapid proliferation of multimedia applications has severely strained an already overloaded networking infrastructure. In order to foster an environment for ubiquitous deployment of these applications, it is imperative that we design and implement the next generation of network protocols and services that provide scalable end-to-end support to networked multimedia applications. The purpose of this journal issue is to report on the latest technological advances that will enable the development of such an infrastructure. The journal is looking for contributions in the following areas: o RSVP and integrated services in the Internet o Queue management in routers and switches o QoS signaling and routing in IP and ATM networks o Audio/Video streaming, push and pull technologies o Multicasting and media scaling, rate control o Network conscious/adaptive applications and protocols o Application level framing, customizable protocol features o New applications, experimental protocols and systems o Multimedia over cable modems/xDSL, wireless/satellite links o Traffic analysis, performance modeling and evaluation Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: October 31, 1997. First Round of Reviews: February 15, 1998 Acceptance Notification: March 30, 1998 Expected Publication Date: Summer, 1998 Please submit 4 copies of your paper to the editors of the special issue: Satish K. Tripathi Debanjan Saha Dean and Johnson Chair Professor Research Staff Member Bourns College of Engineering Room# H3-D32 University of California IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Riverside, CA 92521-0425 Hawthorne, NY 10532 Phone: (909) 787-6374 Phone: (914) 784-7194 Fax: (909) 787-3188 Fax: (914) 784-6205 Email: tripathi@engr.ucr.edu Email: debanjan@watson.ibm.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial Board of JHSN Editor-in-Chief Professor Deepinder Sidhu Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County Telephone: 410-455-3028 Fax: 410-455-3969 Email: sidhu@cs.umbc.edu Editorial Board Members Anthony Acampora(University of California, San Diego) Subrata Banerjee (Stevens Institute of Technology) Anthony Chung (Depaul University) Fow-Sen Choa (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Rene L. Cruz (University of California, San Diego) J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves(University of California, Santa Cruz) Inder Gopal (Prodigy) Roch Guerin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Cesar Johnston (NEC) Michael C. Hluchyj (Summa Four, Inc.) Raj Jain (Ohio State University) Srinivasan Keshav (Cornell University) Leonard Kleinrock (University of California, Los Angeles) Arvind Krishna (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Srikantha Kumar (Northwestern University) L. Landweber (University of Wisconsin) Brad Makrucki (IBM) Debasis Mitra (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Howard Motteler (UMBC) Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California, Davis) Kinji Ono (National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan) Abhey Parekh (Sun Microsystems) Steve Pink (SICS,Sweden) Neil Ransom Bell South Communications Norio Shiratori (Tohoku University, Japan) Dinkar Sitaram (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Jonathan M. Smith (University of Pennsylvania) O. Spaniol (Technical University Aachen, Germany) Martha Steenstrup (BBN Systems and Technologies) James Sterbenz (GTE Laboratories) Fouad Tobagi (Stanford University) Satish K. Tripathi (University of California, Riverside) Richard Watson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Ellen W. Zegura (Georgia Tech) PUBLISHER: IOS Press, Netherlands From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 15:16:22 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 15:16:22 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wsxtX-0002uF-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:03:59 -0700 Subject: Re: Minor bugs in two popular MBone applications To: rem-conf@es.net Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 23:03:50 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.16.19970728013345.601fd08e@shell7.ba.best.com> from "Ross Finlayson" at Jul 28, 97 01:33:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1376 Message-Id: From: JC Highfield X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list > FYI, I've recently noticed minor bugs in two popular MBone applications - > "wb" and "rat" - that prevent them being used with monitoring and/or > user-level relaying/proxy applications running on the same host. > > "wb" - appears not to set SO_REUSEADDR/PORT > (versions checked: 1.59 on FreeBSD, 1.60 on Solaris) [...] > Moral of the story: Two tips for developers of multicast-based applications: > > 1/ Always set SO_REUSEADDR/PORT. Should you wish - for some reason - to > prevent more than one copy of your application from running on the same > host, then use some other mechanism (such as file locking) to ensure this. Wb doesn't set SO_REUSEADDR because it will get confused if two of the session participants have the same IP address - the address is used as a unique identifier. So unless you have an acceptable file-locking solution which works to stop different users each running a copy of wb on one machine I wouldn't expect anyone to "fix" this in wb. (I believe the MASH project RMP framework has added more detail to its participant-ID to avoid this problem, so perhaps the fix will be to move to using their MediaBoard if/when it becomes available.) I do set SO_REUSEADDR in my wb-compatible whiteboard, but only because I got very fed up of waiting for IRIX to time out and declare sockets unused after a crash. Regards, Julian. From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 15:50:26 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 15:50:26 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wsyZL-0003ew-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:47:11 -0700 Message-Id: <9707282242.AA15345@boggs.wpine.com.wpine.com> To: JC Highfield Cc: rem-conf@es.net, boshea@wpine.com Subject: Re: Minor bugs in two popular MBone applications In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 1997 23:03:50 BST." Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:42:13 -0400 From: "Brian O'Shea" X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list -I do set SO_REUSEADDR in my wb-compatible whiteboard, but only because I -got very fed up of waiting for IRIX to time out and declare sockets unused -after a crash. - Set your linger to off, and it will let you restart again quickly. Here's a code fragment: struct linger sockLinger; sockLinger.l_onoff = onOff ? 1 : 0; sockLinger.l_linger = 0; status = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, (char *)&sockLinger, sizeof(sockLinger)); -bos +***********************************************************************+ + Brian O'Shea (bos@wpine.com) White Pine Software + + Engineering Manager 542 Amherst St + + MeetingPoint Conferencing Server (MPCS) Nashua NH, 03063 + + Phone: 603-886-9050 Fax: 603-886-9051 + + All it takes is all you've got. + +***********************************************************************+ From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 17:15:19 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 17:15:18 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wszt1-0004Uj-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:11:35 -0700 Subject: Re: Minor bugs in two popular MBone applications To: rem-conf@es.net Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:11:27 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <9707282242.AA15345@boggs.wpine.com.wpine.com> from "Brian O'Shea" at Jul 28, 97 06:42:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 428 Message-Id: From: JC Highfield X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list > > -I do set SO_REUSEADDR in my wb-compatible whiteboard, but only because I > -got very fed up of waiting for IRIX to time out and declare sockets unused > -after a crash. > - > > Set your linger to off, and it will let you restart again quickly. Thanks. Actually, I also do it that way because (as the original poster suggested :-) it sometimes makes running network debugging tools easier. Regards, Julian. From rem-conf Mon Jul 28 23:53:51 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Mon Jul 28 23:53:48 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wt5qC-0007IX-00; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 23:33:04 -0700 X-Sender: vidcom@mail.matav.hu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: rem-conf@es.net From: vidcom@mail.matav.hu Subject: Re: Videoconference in Budapest Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 23:33:03 -0700 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear Mr.Kirstein,=20 (I was unable to send this mail to P.Kirstein@cs.ucl.ac.uk) Thanks for your prompt reply. As wrote earlier, VIDCOM Ltd. runs a videoconference equipment rental service in one of the most beautiful office buildings in Budapest. You can organise here training, project meetings, or any other regular discussions. If it is needed we can rent out the equipment to the required place. We have installed the room so it meets highest needs. =B7 we have installed a system with excellent features like ease of use, excellent video, audio and graphics quality =B7 we have wide range of bureau equipment to further enhance the efficiency of the meetings =B7 in our office building the staff is ready to serve with catering and= full bureau services before, during or after the meetings We also have expertise in interactive distance education, and among our partners there is the company VTEL (CLI), OneTouch, ParkerVision and others with long experience on this field. I hope, that we can support your work, and looking forward to hearing from you soon. Please let me know if we can find detailed information about MECCANO on the Internet. If it is not available, then please send me some. Best Regards=20 Zsolt Cseh At 13:06 1997.07.28.=02=82=02=C6=17_s=12 +0100, you wrote: >At 02:44 28/07/97 -0700, vidcom@mail.matav.hu wrote: >> >>Dear Sir, >> >>Please allow us to offer our help for MERCI.=20 >> >>Our company is specialised for video communication. We carry the whole= range >>of videoconferencing systems and do complete system integration for video >>communication networks with all kind of auxiliary equipment. Our company >>also operates a videoconferencing room rental services in one of the most >>beautiful office buildings in Budapest, which I would like to offer for= you. >> >The MERCI project is now nearly over; it finishes at the end of November.= It >is much too late to consider broadening it in any way. We are currently >negotiating a new project called MECCANO; this will also be supported by= the >EC Telematics programme. This project will almost certainly have a Polish >partner - though their contract will be negotiated with another part of the >Commission under INCO funding. I am happy to consider your future adherence >to that; I need, of course, to know much more about your activities, >products and interests. We would also have to consider to what extent these >would supplement the partners we have already.=20 > >For one aspect, we may be considering extending our conferencign to some >Hungarian partners. For this even your room may be of some interest. Please >send me more information.=20 > >Peter Kirstein > >>I hope, that we can support your work, and looking forward to hearing from >>you soon. >> > >> >>Yours Sincerely >> >> >>Zsolt Cseh >>managing director >> >>Vidcom Ltd. >>1065 Budapest Revay u. 10. >>HUNGARY >>Tel: +36-1-269-1100 >>Mobile: +36-30-219-473 >>Fax: +36-1-269-1030 >>Video: +36-1-301-0009 (up to 384 kbps) >>E-Mail: vidcom@mail.matav.hu >> >> >> > > > From rem-conf Tue Jul 29 05:43:30 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 29 05:43:30 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wtBYP-0001Ft-00; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 05:39:05 -0700 X-Sender: vidcom@mail.matav.hu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Peter T. Kirstein" ,rem-conf@es.net From: vidcom@mail.matav.hu Subject: Re: Videoconference in Budapest Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 05:39:04 -0700 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear Mr.Kirstein, We are using the H.320 standard mostly. (FCIF video, G.728, G.722 audio). WE could set up a test if you would like. Please let me know suitable time. The URLs are: www.vtel.com www.onetouch.com www.parkervision.com Yours Sincerely Zsolt Cseh managing director Vidcom Ltd. 1065 Budapest Revay u. 10. HUNGARY Tel: +36-1-269-1018 +36-1-269-1100 Mobile: +36-30-219-473 Fax: +36-1-269-1030 Video: +36-1-301-0009 (up to 384 kbps) E-Mail: vidcom@mail.matav.hu From rem-conf Tue Jul 29 06:55:00 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 29 06:54:59 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wtCbK-0001sc-00; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 06:46:10 -0700 X-Sender: vidcom@mail.matav.hu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: rem-conf@es.net From: vidcom@mail.matav.hu Subject: Sorry Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 06:46:09 -0700 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear Everybody, Please appologize for my E-mails. THe reason why I used this address, is my missunderstanding. Sorry. Yours Sincerely Zsolt Cseh managing director Vidcom Ltd. 1065 Budapest Revay u. 10. HUNGARY Tel: +36-1-269-1018 +36-1-269-1100 Mobile: +36-30-219-473 Fax: +36-1-269-1030 Video: +36-1-301-0009 (up to 384 kbps) E-Mail: vidcom@mail.matav.hu From rem-conf Tue Jul 29 13:42:32 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 29 13:42:31 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wtJ1W-00055I-00; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:37:38 -0700 Message-Id: <199707292038.RAA04333@bicudo.remav.telebrasilia.gov.br> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 From: "Ildeu R. Borges J=?iso-8859-1?Q?=FA?=nior" To: Subject: Firewall + Mrouted 3.81 for Linux Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:39:33 -0300 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list I'm trying to do Multicast transmissions over a firewall wich is running on a Linux with mrouted 3.81 but I'm having several problems with it. My machine (the firewall one) is very instable and it crashes all the times. I heard that this version of Mrouted has a bug, and that there is a new version of it without this bug. Does somebody knows where I can get this version ? ________________________________________________________________________ \\\\\\\\//////// ////////\\\\\\\\ Telebrasilia Unidade de Negocio - Telecomunicacoes Avancadas Ildeu R. Borges Junior tel: +55-61-323-2411 fax: +55-61-322-2992 From rem-conf Tue Jul 29 15:00:07 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Tue Jul 29 15:00:07 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wtKGi-00062W-00; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:57:24 -0700 Message-ID: <19970729145727.30873@nlanr.net> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:57:27 -0700 From: k claffy To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: Internet audio application ports in a storm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.64e X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list hi so a few folks have asked me lately 'how much phone-type audio is on the net' (i.e., not realaudio, whose port #s i can kind of kludge my way through, but real-time voice conversation goop, e.g., InternetPhone or whatever) so i could use some help on name_of_audio_app TCP/UDP_port_number it would help me answer these kindfolk many tnx k From rem-conf Wed Jul 30 07:13:36 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 30 07:13:35 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wtZH1-0003Zi-00; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 06:58:43 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary="NextPart" To: IETF-Announce@ietf.org cc: rem-conf@es.net From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.txt, .ps Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:37:56 -0400 Sender: cclark@ietf.org Message-ID: <9707300938.aa07611@ietf.org> X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list --NextPart A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Audio/Video Transport Working Group of the IETF. Title : Timer Reconsideration for Enhanced RTP Scalability Author(s) : J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne Filename : draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.txt, .ps Pages : 24 Date : 07/29/1997 RTP, the Real Time Transport Protocol, has gained widespread acceptance as the transport protocol for voice and video on the Internet. It provides services such as timestamping, sequence numbering, and payload identification. It also contains a control component, the Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP), which is used for loose session control, QoS reporting, and media synchronization, among other functions. The RTP specification describes an algorithm for determining the RTCP packet transmission rate at a host participating in a multicast RTP session. This algorithm was designed to allow RTP to be used in sessions with anywhere from one to a million members. However, we have discovered several problems with this algorithm when used with very large groups with rapidly changing group membership. One problem is the flood of RTCP packets which occurs when many users join a multicast RTP session at nearly the same time. To solve this problem, we present a novel adaptive timer algorithm called reconsideration. We present a mathematical analysis of this algorithm, and demonstrate that it performs extremely well, reducing the congestion problem by several orders of magnitude. We also back up these results with simulation. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.txt". Or "get draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.ps". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa: ftp.is.co.za o Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au o US East Coast: ds.internic.net o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.txt". Or "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.ps". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. --NextPart Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess" --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; access-type="mail-server"; server="mailserv@ds.internic.net" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19970729153243.I-D@ietf.org> ENCODING mime FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.txt --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; name="draft-ietf-avt-reconsider-00.txt"; site="ds.internic.net"; access-type="anon-ftp"; directory="internet-drafts" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19970729153243.I-D@ietf.org> --OtherAccess-- --NextPart-- From rem-conf Wed Jul 30 12:25:59 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Wed Jul 30 12:25:59 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wteK1-0006KN-00; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:22:09 -0700 To: rem-conf@es.net cc: mbeaulie@ietf.org Subject: Multicast Schedule for the 39th IETF, Aug. 11-15, 1997 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:26:16 -0400 From: Marcia Beaulieu Message-ID: <9707301526.aa23102@ietf.org> X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Munich IETF Multicast Guide (as of 08/30/97) Following is the tentative schedule of plenary meetings and working group sessions to be transmitted; to interpret the acronyms, see the agenda (available via FTP from ds.internic.net as /ietf/0mtg-agenda.txt). It is possible that this schedule will be modified. MULTICAST GUIDE Note that times are in German Time. UTC (aka GMT) also provided. MONDAY 0930-1130 1300-1500 1530-1730 1930-2200 (UTC) 0730-0930 1100-1300 1330-1530 1730-2000 =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ CHAN 1 | issll | ion | ion | tcpimpl | =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ CHAN 2 | xxxxx | xxxxx | tcpsat | udlr | =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ TUESDAY 0900-1000 1015-1115 1300-1400 1415-1515 (UTC) 0700-0800 0815-0915 1100-1200 1215-1315 =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ CHAN 1 | rsvp | xxxxx | ipc | ipc | =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ CHAN 2 | xxxxx | xxxxx | idmr | idmr | =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ TUESDAY (CON'T) 1545-1645 1700-1800 (UTC) 1345-1445 1500-1600 =========+===========+===========+ CHAN 1 | mmusic | mmusic | =========+===========+===========+ CHAN 2 | mobileip | mobileip | =========+===========+===========+ WEDNESDAY 0900-1130 1300-1500 1530-1730 1930-2200 (UTC) 0700-0930 1100-1300 1330-1530 1730-2000 =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ CHAN 1 | issll | mboned | ipngwg | iab | =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ CHAN 2 | xxxxx | intserv | pint | mboned | =========+===========+===========+===========+===========+ THURSDAY 0900-1130 1300-1500 1530-1800 1800- (UTC) 0700-0930 1100-1300 1330-1600 1600- =========+===========+===========+==============+============+ CHAN 1 | avt | ipngwg | presentation |open plenary| =========+===========+===========+==============+============+ CHAN 2 | mobileip | mmusic | " | " | =========+===========+===========+==============+============+ FRIDAY 0900-1130 (UTC) 0700-0930 =========+===========+ CHAN 1 | ipsec | =========+===========+ CHAN 2 | xxxxx | =========+===========+ Each day's program may also be replayed by tape delay from: 2330 (UTC): 2130 Advice for remote participants: Please keep your microphones muted and your video transmissions disabled during the plenaries and working group sessions, unless or until invited to respond by the chair of the session. Vat users can disable reception of accidental sources of audio multicasts (such as people who forget to mute their mics) by clicking in the box next to that source's name. From rem-conf Thu Jul 31 03:08:00 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 31 03:07:58 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wts30-0004qT-00; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:01:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199707311001.MAA09368@renoir.uio.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: ICTE Oslo 1997 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:01:16 +0200 From: Frank J|rgen Solem X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list The fourteenth annual International Conference on Technology and Education (ICTE) will convene in Oslo, Norway at the University of Oslo, from August 10 - 13, 1997. The theme will be "Changing Practices and Technologies: Decisions Now for the Future." The University of Oslo will broadcast the ICTE plenary sessions to the MBONE and the session is announced in sdr. This years speakers include: - Thorbjorn Jagland, Prime Minister of Norway - Dr. Rolf Lenschow, Norwgian University of Science and Technology - Dr. David Nelson, U.S Department of Energy - Dr. Robert Glass, Director, Science Office - Sunsoft Sun Microsystems Inc - Fred-Arne Odegaard, Deputy Director, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research, and Church Affairs - Arne Laukholm, Director, Center for Information Technology, University of Oslo, Norway - Sigmund Lieberg, Director General Norwegian National Centre for Educational Resources - Hakon Gunderson, The Fornbu Project, Oslo, Norway - Dr. P.A Motsoaledi, Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Northern Province, Republic of South Africa - Alexis Poliakoff, U.S. Department of Education More information about the conference can be found at http://www.icte.org/ -- Frank Solem University of Oslo Ph: +47 2285 2766 Center for Information Technology Services From rem-conf Thu Jul 31 12:51:35 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 31 12:51:35 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wu16y-0000vI-00; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:42:12 -0700 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:23:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Sanjeev Setia Message-Id: <199707311923.PAA00661@cs.gmu.edu> To: alg@comm.toronto.edu, apc@ee.nthu.edu.tw, apc_members@hornbill.ee.nus.sg, cabernet-general@newcastle.ac.uk, ccrc@dworkin.wustl.edu, cellular@comnets.rwth-aachen.de, cnom@maestro.bellcore.com, commsoft@cc.bellcore.com, comsoc-chapters@ieee.org, comsoc-gicb@ieee.org, comsoc.tac@tab.ieee.org, comswtc@gmu.edu, cost237-transport@comp.lancs.ac.uk, ctc-members@redbank.tinac.com, dbworld@cs.wisc.edu, end2end-interest@isi.edu, enternet@bbn.com, f-troup@codex.cis.upenn.edu, fokus-user@fokus.gmd.de, g-troup@ccrc.wustl.edu, giga@tele.pitt.edu, hipparch@sophia.inria.fr, ieee_rtc_list@cs.tamu.edu, ieeetcpc@ccvm.sunysb.edu, isadsoc@fokus.gmd.de, itc@fokus.gmd.de, modern-heuristics@uk.ac.mailbase, multicomm@cc.bellcore.com, osimcast@bbn.com, rem-conf@es.net, reres@laas.fr, sb.all@ieee.org, sc6wg4@ntd.comsat.com, sigmedia@bellcore.com, tccc@ieee.org, xtp-relay@cs.concordia.ca Subject: CFP -- ACM Sigmetrics '98/ Performance '98 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear Colleague, The SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, June 24-26, 1998. (Tutorials June 22-23). The Call for Papers and other information about the conference can be found on the following web page: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/conf/sigmetrics98 Papers are sought on performance-oriented design and evaluation of computer systems as well as on performance evaluation techniques. Deadline for paper submissions: October 27, 1997 Program Co-Chairs: Garth Gibson (garth@cs.cmu.edu) & Guy Latouche (Guy.Latouche@ulb.ac.be) Deadline for tutorial proposals: September 15, 1997 Tutorials Chair: Daniel Menasce (menasce@cne.gmu.edu) For further information, check out the conference web page. Sanjeev Setia & Christoph Lindemann, Publicity Co-Chairs From rem-conf Thu Jul 31 13:25:32 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 31 13:25:31 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wu1l1-0001WD-00; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:23:35 -0700 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:21:05 -0700 () From: Stephen Casner To: mbone@isi.edu Subject: Raising the bar on the MBone Message-ID: X-X-Sender: casner@little-bear.precept.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list [I'm addressing this message to "the MBone community". Since that entity is somewhat amorphous and not necessarily represented by one mailing list, I've sent this message primarly to the mbone list but Bcc'd it to rem-conf and mboned. Please excuse the duplicates.**] The size of the MBone continues to grow more or less exponentially, but the level and type of usage has grown much more slowly. I think we'd all like to see the MBone grow into a ubiquitous IP multicast service across the Internet and fade away as a separate entity. To push this process, it is necessary to periodically "raise the bar", as Carl Malamud did when he formed the Internet Multicasting Service and initiated 24-hour transmissions. Taking such steps is always a cause for some concern, but in the end that's how we make progress. The IP Multicast Initiative (IPMI, www.ipmulticast.com) was formed with the explicit goal of accelerating the deployment of IP Multicast on Intranets and the Internet. IPMI addresses the business aspects of this problem (education, marketing) while the IETF MBONED Working Group addresses the technical issues. IPMI is now planning a project called the "Internet Multicast Channel" (IMC) to transmit compelling content over the MBone for a fixed number of hours per day, several days per week. By bringing together ISPs and content providers the IPMI hopes to overcome the "chicken and egg" problems that have so far have hampered development of commercial multicast capabilities in the Internet: content providers need assurance that the network will work; ISPs won't implement multicast as a service if there is no content and no demand. Our goal is to transmit content that is sufficiently compelling to motivate users to request a multicast feed from their ISP and to deploy multicast within their internal networks. This project includes several people who have been involved with the MBone for a long time. We want to make sure that it fits in with other MBone activities, for example by limiting the bandwidth or scope of transmissions during IETF week. At the same time, we do want to push on the MBone a bit and raise the bar in multiple dimensions: - Demonstrate higher quality by transmitting part of the time at higher data rates than the 128Kb/s that has typically been used for video on the MBone. - Reduce loss rates by engineering sufficient multicast capacity in at least a "core" portion of the network. - Expand the number of networks and the reach of multicast using satellite networks to provide low-loss feeds, and also bringing in cable networks and xDSL trials. - Reach larger audiences. We anticipate transmitting the IPMI IMC from a centralized "head-end" where the content and transmission servers can be brought together. The head-end will connect to one or more terrestrial backbones and satellite networks that are participating in the project and have sufficient multicast capacity to carry the traffic reliably. Some of these may already constitute portions of the MBone and some will be new. I head the subgroup that is planning the network architecture from the perspective of the head end. I'm sending this message to the MBone community to get feedback on what level of connection to or isolation >from the MBone we should establish. Points between the two extremes can be implemented using filtering of multicast route advertisements (which is implemented in recent versions of mrouted in addition to some commercial routers). I believe it is useful to have both a core portion of the multicast-capable network engineered with sufficient resources to allow demonstrating the higher quality that will eventually be available more widely, plus connectivity to the whole MBone so that content at lower bandwidth can reach a larger multicast audience. The idea would be to grow that core until it consists of the entire Internet! -- Steve ** In this age of spam, I recommend installing an incoming mail filter which as a side benefit can eliminate duplicate messages. See http://www.best.com/~ii/internet/faqs/launchers/mail/filtering-faq/ From rem-conf Thu Jul 31 21:29:23 1997 From rem-conf-request@es.net Thu Jul 31 21:29:22 1997 Received: from list by mail1.es.net with local (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0wu97T-00046k-00; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:15:15 -0700 From: IEEE Multimedia Systems Conference Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:14:50 -0500 Message-Id: <199708010414.XAA14261@cap.cs.utexas.edu> To: rem-conf@es.net Subject: CFP: ICMCS'98 X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: rem-conf@es.net Precedence: list Dear Colleague, We have enclosed the CFP for ICMCS'98 below. Please feel free to circulate the CFP to interested colleagues. Also, please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================= IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 June 28-July 1, 1998 Renaissance Austin Hotel Austin, Texas, USA Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society* Conference Web Pages: http://www.utexas.edu/coe/sqi http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ieeemm98 * Approval pending ======================================================================== IEEE Multimedia Systems is an annual conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all facets of multimedia, content authoring, processor technology, and systems design. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. A key objective of IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 is to create a program that achieves a balance between theory and practice, academia and industry, systems/tools-oriented research and content creation. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Network and operating system support for multimedia * Quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms * Multimedia file systems and databases * Audio and video compression * Sound and MIDI music, surround and around video * Set-top technologies and operating systems * Multimedia processor architecture * Computer-aided training and education, tele-medicine * Animation and morphing, fractals and rendering * Virtual reality * Mobile network architecture * Intelligent network applications * Internet and intranet applications * Web servers and services * Multimedia conferencing, internet phones, and mail * Electronic commerce * User interfaces * Authoring systems * Entertainment and games IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 will include a single-track technical program, a full day of tutorials, and several new exciting features such as focussed technical workshops, exhibits/demonstrations, and special multimedia showcase events in the evenings. You are cordially invited to participate in IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 in one or more of the following ways. TECHNICAL PAPERS Technical papers are scheduled to be presented on June 29-July 1, 1998, and will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Descriptions of original and significant research, the results of empirical studies, and innovative applications in the area of multimedia systems are solicited. Please submit 5 copies of each paper. Submissions must use a minimum of 10-point typeface, and should not exceed 15 single-spaced pages (preferably double sided), including figures, tables, and references. Where applicable, submission of prototype demonstrations or videotape presentations are encouraged to supplement the papers. For each paper, please also submit a cover page containing the title of the paper, author names and their affiliations, the topic area(s), and an abstract. The cover page should be submitted in plain text format by e-mail to: ieeemm@sqi.utexas.edu. PANELS Panel presentations are scheduled for June 29-July 1, 1998. Topics that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues are being sought. Proposals for panels should be limited to 2 pages and include a 2-paragraph publishable biography of the panel organizer and the number of panelists. Please send an e-mail to ieeemm@sqi.utexas.edu for more information. TUTORIALS Tutorials are scheduled for June 28, 1998. Topics for both novice and seasoned professionals are solicited. Tutorial proposals (at most 5 pages) should include a description of the subject matter, and a 2-paragraph publishable biography of the instructors. Please send an e-mail to ieeemm@sqi.utexas.edu for more information. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations are scheduled for June 29-July 1, 1998. Working systems in technical and artistic categories are solicited. Submissions (at most 2 pages) should include a description of the demonstration requirements, a 2-paragraph publishable biography of the demonstration leader, the number of people involved, and demonstration samples on CD-ROM, the World Wide Web, or a VHS NTSC video, as appropriate. Please send an e-mail to ieeemm@sqi.utexas.edu for more information. WORKSHOPS Workshops are scheduled for June 29-July 1, 1998, focusing on techniques, tools and breakthroughs that will carry members of the multimedia research and development community and field practitioners into the 21st century. Each workshop plans to relate to a common area of technology and present the innovation(s) therein. Competing technical approaches will be organized for each session to promote interaction with the audience. Workshop proposals should include a clear statement of objectives, the target audience, and a 2-paragraph publishable biography for the workshop leader. Please send an e-mail to ieeemm@sqi.utexas.edu for more information. EXHIBITS The IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 will offer multimedia product vendors and publishers an opportunity to interface with more than 400 conference participants worldwide. Displays and demonstrations of product lines may include (but are not limited to) technologies and research prototypes as well as commercial products. Please send an e-mail to ieeemm@sqi.utexas.edu for more information. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions must be sent to the following address. Postal Mail: IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 Software Quality Institute The University of Texas at Austin PRC/MER MC R9800 Austin, TX 78712-1080 Express Mail (e.g., FedEx): IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 Software Quality Institute The University of Texas at Austin 10100 Burnet Road, Bldg. 160, Rm. 2l206T Austin, TX 78758 Phone : (512) 471-4875 Fax: (512) 471-4824 E-mail: ieeemm@sqi.utexas.edu IMPORTANT DATES All submissions due: October 31, 1997 Notification of acceptance: February 6, 1998 Final manuscripts due: March 20, 1998 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: General Chairs: Gary Cobb, Dell Computer Corporation and Southwest Texas State University, USA Tadao Ichikawa, Hiroshima University, Japan Program Chairs: Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Nobuyoshi Terashima, Waseda University, Japan Harrick Vin, University of Texas at Austin, USA Associate Chairs: Cecelia Buchanan, Washington State University, USA Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Luigi Cinque, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Robert Ensor, Lucent Bell Laboratories, USA Martin Freeman, Philips Research, USA Pawan Goyal, AT&T Research Laboratory, USA Fumio Hattori, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Paul Jardetzky, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina, USA Dilip Kandlur, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Wolfgang Klas, University of Ulm, Germany T.D.C. Little, Boston University, USA Peiya Liu, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA Hiroshi Nagase, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Jun Ohya, ATR Media Integration & Communications Lab, Japan Guru Parulkar, Washington University, USA Brian Smith, Cornell University, USA Raj Yavatkar, Intel, USA Program Committee: Edward Altman, ATR Media Integration & Communication Lab, Japan P.C.P. Bhatt, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Subhash Bhalla, The University of Aizu, Japan Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK David Boyer, Lucent Bell Laboratories, USA Leonardo Chiariglione, CSELT, Italy Roland T. Chin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Tzi-cker Chiueh, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA James L. Crowley, I.N.P. Grenoble, France Asit Dan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Song De Ma, Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Science, China Andre Gagalowicz, INRIA ROCQUENCOURT, France J.J. Garcia-Luna, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Yoshio Harada, ATR Media Integration & Communication Lab, Japan Rainer Lienhart, University Mannheim, Germany Dario Lucarella, Automatica Research Center ENEL, Italy Masao Managaki, NEC C&C Research Laboratory, Japan Kiichi Matsuda, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan Pankaj Mehra, Tandem Labs, USA Max Muehlhaeuser, University of Linz, Austria Laszlo Nemes, Division of Manufacturing Technology CSIRO, Australia Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Yong-Jin Park, Hanyang University, Korea Srinivas Ramanathan, HP Labs, USA Sebasti Sallent Ribes, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Masao Sakauchi, University of Tokyo, Japan Chia Shen, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Harold Thimbleby, Middlesex University, UK Nobuo Tsuda, Waseda University, Japan Donald Towsley, University of Massachusetts, USA Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI, Germany Fumio Wakamori, Hitachi, Japan Sadahiko Yameshita, Matsushita Research Institute, Japan Jae-Woo Yang, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Atsuo Yoshitaka, Hiroshima University, Japan Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tutorial Chairs: A.L. Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA Carlo Colombo, University of Brescia, Italy Masahito Hirakawa, Hiroshima University, Japan Exhibits and Demonstrations Chair: Bryan Fugate, J & B Imaging Services, USA Workshops Chairs: Jim Babcock, Consultant, USA Bryan Fugate, J & B Imaging Services, USA Publicity Chair: Christie Peterson, Crystal Semiconductor, USA Steering Committee: Laszlo A. Belady, Mitsubishi Electric Research, USA Tadao Ichikawa, Hiroshima University, Japan Scott M. Stevens, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Conference Manager: Joanne Click, Software Quality Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA Conference Staff: Leti Cavazos, Leslie Coffee, Carolynn Elmshaeuser, Candy Walser Software Quality Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA ========================================================================