PAM 2001 Call for papers

PAM2001
A workshop on Passive and Active Measurements
Amsterdam, April 23-24, 2001

A workshop on passive and active measurement techniques for high speed computer networks and the Internet.

As the Internet has grown over the last decade the need for precise measurement of network traffic has become steadily more apparent; most of today's Internet Service Providers and many of their large network customers are collecting and analysing traffic data for the purposes of performance monitoring, network engineering and cost recovery, but the engineering quality of these measurements vary.

A steadily growing number of research groups have been working in the areas of:

• Active Measurements, i.e. sending test packets and observing their progress through the Internet,
• Passive Measurements, i.e. observing actual traffic on 'live' networks,
• Performance Metrics, i.e. developing measures or indicators which can be used to characterise traffic behavior,
• Traffic Statistics, i.e. attempting to understand and develop models of 'real' Internet traffic, and
• Visualisation, i.e. finding effective ways to display what's happening in a network.

After the successful workshop PAM2000 in Hamilton, New Zealand, in April 2000, the RIPE NCC will be organising another workshop on this topic in Amsterdam in April 2001.

Papers are invited from the research, provider and any other communities on topics in the areas above, or any other area of network traffic measurement. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. 'Experience' papers, which describe practical uses of measurements, especially in large networks.
2. Papers on modeling network traffic, in particular if they are backed up by measurements of real traffic.
3. Papers describing network research that can be applied to existing networks.

Extended abstracts (about 500 words, plain ASCII preferred) must be submitted by e-mail by 12 November 2000. Paper submissions must contain the following: paper title, full name(s) of the author(s), organisational affiliation(s) and 1 email address where the author(s) can be contacted. Abstracts will be reviewed and acceptance notified no later than 18 December 2000.

Papers, maximum 15 printed pages, must be submitted electronically by 5 March 2001. Details of acceptable paper formats will be published on the conference web site.

There will be an opportunity for participants to present measurement equipment and software. Proposals for demonstrations (about 500 words, plain ASCII) should be sent by email to the conference chair by 5 March 2001.

The program committee is investigating the possibility of organise one or more tutorial sessions in conjunction with the conference. Proposals for tutorials (about 500 words, plain ASCII) should be sent by email to the conference chair by 12 November 2000.

The workshop will be held at the Barbizon Golden Tulip hotel in Amsterdam. Special room rates will be available for the conference. The conference fee will be (approximately) 175 Euro (US$165). The exact conference fee and details on registration will be published on the workshop's web page late November. The conference fee will include a printed copy of the papers selected for presentation at the workshop. Papers selected for publication will also be published on the web.