LCN '98

Technical Activities:

• Tutorials
• Keynote Address
• Luncheon Talk
• Panel Sessions
• Paper Sessions

Conference schedule:

Sunday, Oct. 11, 1-5 p.m. (Half-day tutorials)

• Frame Relay Network Management, Dr. Parag Pruthi
• Computer Network Security, Dr. Ed Krall

Monday, Oct. 12, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Full-day tutorials)

• Web Infections and Protections, Rodney Lancaster
• VPN Technology Roadmap, Wray West
• Voice over IP: Issues and Protocols, Dr. Raj Jain

Tuesday, Oct. 13

• Registration/Continental Breakfast (7:30 - 8:30)
• Welcome to LCN (8:30-8:45 a.m.): Ellis Nolley, General Chair
• Welcome to Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell (8:45-9:00 a.m.): Dr. William T. Hogan, Chancellor
• Keynote address (9:00-10:00 a.m.): "Wiring up the user: Are we done yet?," Dave Clark, M.I.T.
• Best Paper Award and Paper Presentation (10:15-10:45 a.m.)
• Expert Panel Session 1 (10:45-12:00 noon): Wireless Networks, chaired by Professor Kaveh Pahlwan
• Lunch (12:00-1:00 p.m.)
  Luncheon talk (12:20-12:50 p.m.): "High Speed LANs Using the Upcoming Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture," Bikram Bakshi, Intel Corp.
• Paper Session 1 (1:00-2:20 p.m.)
  • Track A: Wireless
  • Track B: Congestion Control
• Paper Session 2 (2:30-3:50 p.m.)
  • Track A: Routing
  • Track B: Integrated Services/Multimedia
• Expert Panel Session 2 (4:00-5:15 p.m.): Universal High-Bandwidth Access to the Internet, chaired by Dr. David Shambroom
• Reception and Cash Bar (6:30 p.m.)
• Dinner (7:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, Oct. 14

• Paper Session 3 (9:00-10:20 a.m.)
  • Track A: Network Architectures
  • Track B: Modelling
• Paper Session 4 (10:30-11:50 a.m.)
  • Track A: Middleware
  • Track B: Quality of Service
• Lunch (11:50a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
• Paper Session 5 (1:00-2:20 p.m.)
  • Track A: Hardware
  • Track B: Real-Time
• Expert Panel Session 3 (2:30-3:45 p.m.):