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Sponsored
by the IEEE ComSoc
Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and
discussing recent advances in ultra high-speed and high-performance
networks. With the continued technological advances, these new
generation networks are expected to deliver unprecedented bandwidths,
ranging from terabits/sec in the core to multiple gigabits/sec to the
edge. This workshop will focus on various aspects of ultra high-speed
network infrastructures including their role in enabling distributed
large-scale science applications. In particular, the e-science
applications have already demonstrated the need for agile networks
operating well beyond 100 Gbps now, and will require sustained
terabits/sec throughputs by the end of decade. Furthermore, the need
for ultra high-speed networks is also emerging in a wide spectrum of
application domains as diverse as entertainment, energy, banking,
defense and medicine. In the past, there have been several attempts to
address the bandwidth-intensive applications by deploying larger
capacities in the core networks. However, experience indicates that
simply scaling the core capacity does not necessarily result in a
commensurate increase in end-to-end application throughputs. Indeed,
the ability of existing network technologies, especially transport
protocols, routing, traffic engineering and network provisioning to
scale to the terabits/sec range remains a challenge. It is here that
the emerging ultra high-speed networking technologies offer great
opportunities along with unprecedented challenges. A key goal of this
workshop is to explore approaches for meeting these challenges,
particularly within the context of broader e-science applications.
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