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want to sit on my panel as a user on the 27 th if so send name
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 10:05:00 -0400
Conference Sessions Tuesday-Thursday, August 26-28 =20 Tuesday, August 26 Wednesday, August 27 Thursday, August 28=20 Tuesday, August 26=20 7:30 - 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast=20 8:30 - 9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks: Most of us are nomads, and we are faced with a lack of serious systems support for our activities. We are mobile in a number of dimensions: geography, context, application, device. We need support for location transparency and for device transparency. We must be liberated from failed system operation in our nomadic moves, including such annoyances as loss of session, need to reconfigure devices, unrecognizable TCP addresses, inconsistency among replicated files, and intermittent connectivity. In this session, we will lay out the landscape of nomadic computing and point to the solutions to these problems. The rest of the conference will elaborate on the issues, solutions and directions of nomadic computing.=20 Leonard Kleinrock, Computer Science Dept., UCLA =20 9:00 - 9:45 Keynote Address Edward Kozel CTO and Sr. Vice President, Business Development Cisco Systems, Inc. =20 9:45 - 10:15 Break=20 10:15 - 11:45 Nomadic Network Support Nomadic Application Support=20 =A0 =A0 Wireless Internet Access Much of the focus of the wireless data industry lately has been on untethered access to the Internet. Is the wireless data industry just trying to grab onto the Internet's coattails (like everyone else), or is there something compelling about this marriage? This session will look at a selection of wireless Internet access solutions. What can you do with it, how much performance is enough, and what will be the preferred subscriber device -- the portable computer or wireless phone? More specifically, what is being done to adapt portable devices to the Internet, and what do early market results tell us? Will wireless access change the way people use the Internet and intranets? Is wireless Internet access just for people, or will "things" (e.g., automobiles) go online as well? There are many interesting questions, and our panel promises some interesting answers. Ira Brodsky, President Datacomm Research Company=20 Jay Sheth, Director of Strategic Planning, GTE Alan Saldich, Director of New Business Opportunities, Metricom Dennis Abremski, Qualcomm, Inc. Information Replication for Nomadic Users Mobile computer users often have poor connectivity to their home network environment, and so must have local copies of the necessary relevant information; files, databases, web pages, etc. Without the right information, one can't work; the power of the mobile machine is in large measure lost. Since manual management of replication is awkward at best, a number of products and a variety of research efforts provide potentially powerful tools and solutions. There are a number of choices in each of the areas of database replication, long term web caching, and mobile file replication, with different levels of aspiration regarding transparent use and synchronization of independent updates. This session will focus on the nature of mobile replication problems, available shareware and commercial solutions, and likely developments in the near future. Jerry Popek, Chief Technical Officer, PLATINUM Technology, Inc. Corey M. Smith, President, Xcellenet David Yach, Vice President Technology, Sybase, Inc. =20 11:45 - 12:45 Lunch=20 12:45 - 2:15 Nomadic Network Support Nomadic Application Support=20 =A0 =A0 Satellite Communications in the Global Internet Recent advancement and deployment of commercial products in satellite communication networks demonstrate the promise of ubiquitous access to Internet. By virtue of simultaneously reaching large geographical areas, satellite systems are natural platforms for broadcast and multicast applications. Moreover, satellite systems provides the mechanisms for seamlessly connecting field workers to the enormous information and computing resources of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII). To fully utilize the capabilities of next-generation satellites, several research and development issues need to be addressed such as "seamless integration" of satellite communications into existing standard Internet transmission links. Son K. Dao, Head of Networking and Information Exploitation Research Dept. Hughes Research Laboratories, Inc. Kanwar Chadha, Founder and Vice President of Marketing and Sales SiRF Technology, Inc. Pre-fetching and Web Caching Nomadic users are faced with varying degrees of bandwidth availability and often find themselves completely disconnected. The nomadic user should be able to continue to operate transparently even when disconnected from the Internet! In order to continue to operate efficiently in a low bandwidth or disconnected fashion, files or web pages can be replicated, cached, or stored on the local machine to allow the user to continue to operate. This session describes the various techniques and solutions which provide pre-fetching, web caching, and disconnected operation. Steve Cappo, Product Manager - Weblicator, Lotus Development Murray Mazer, Open Group Research Institute Bill Schilit, FX Palo Alto Laboratory Eric Brewer, EECS Dept., University of California Berkeley=20 =20 2:15 - 2:40 Break=20 2:40 - 4:10 Nomadic Network Support Nomadic Application Support=20 =A0 =A0 Wireless ATM This session will cover the synergies between ATM and radio and the implications to users of portable and wearable devices inherent in the convergence of ATM and IP. The advantages of Wireless ATM are not limited to the extension of ATM networks over radio links, but rather allow the introduction of a wide varitey of new techniques that enhance the network, applications, and usability. Session participants will explore these areas and their interactions. Tom Freeburg, VP & Officer of the Technical Staff, Motorola Bernard Herscovich, Asst. VP of Wireless Networks, Newbridge Networks Corp. Arup Acharya, Systems Architecture Group, C&C Research Labs, NEC USA Mobile Application Protocols: LDAP, IMAP, and ROAMOPS Nomadic users are faced with different computing environments, different network services, and different communication alternatives. In order to be able to deal with such nomadic communication and computing challenges, protocols which provide mobile application support need to be developed. In this session, we will be addressing how applications can be developed and protocols utilized to provide a manageable environment for the nomad. For example, ROAMOPS enables Internet Roaming, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) provides directory service standards, and the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) provides support for multiple e-mail users to access their e-mail as though they were local. Tim Howes, Directory Service Architect, Netscape Dave Crocker, Brandenburg Consulting=20 Glenn Zorn, Microsoft Corporation =20 4:10 - 4:20 Break=20 4:20 - 4:50 Special Update of the Mobile Network Computer Reference Specification (MNCRS) Gabriel Montenegro, Sun Microsystems Jackson Wong, Sun Microsystems Henry Chang, IBM =20 4:50 - 7:00 Reception and Exhibits=20 Wednesday , August 27=20 7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast=20 8:30 - 9:30 Nomadic Devices and How They Live in Cyberspace This session will address the wide range of devices proposed to allow users to be nomadic while utilizing the internet. It will explore the devies themselves and how they can communicate with the rest of the Internet. We will examine some application senarios that range from those currently being tried to "Snow Crash" like systems with virtual worlds and people. A range of technical and societal issues such as security, addressing, costs and privacy will be examined as to how they effect Nomadic computing now and in the future . David Farber, University of Pennsylvania =20 9:30 - 10:15 Industry Outlook This session will provide an overview of the mobile data sector, delineating the factors that will drive market acceptance and offering some projections as to what applications will be demanded by the various segments: corporate, mobile professional, and consumer.=20 James (Seamus) McAteer, Consultant, Business Intelligence Center, SRI Consulting John Zahurancik, Wireless Internet Analyst, The Strategis Group =20 10:15 - 10:45 Break=20 10:45 - 12:45 The Mobile-Aware Internet: IPv6 and Mobile IP Mobile IP opens the doors towards seamless roaming and application transparency for nomadic users. In this session, the base protocol and some associated technologies are covered. Charles Perkins, closely involved with the IETF working group effort that produced the Mobile IP Proposed Standard protocol, first gives an overview of the base protocol, and some aspects of route optimization that will eventually augment the network efficiency of the base protocol. Gabriel Montenegro, who is also involved with the mobile IP working group, then describes some of the current security challenges and solutions for the use of Mobile IP in the face of enterprise protection by firewalls and ingress filtering at the border routers.=20 David Johnson, one of the early researchers involved with mobile IP and co-author of the current IETF draft for IPv6 mobility, describes the proposed mechanisms to support mobility, and the natural way that IPv6 is suited for the task. The Service Location Protocol (SLP) has been developed to support the establishment of connections between network client and service, and James Kempf will present his perspective on the way that Java clients can expect to make use of SLP to satisfy their service needs automatically. Charles E. Perkins, Technology Development Group, Sun Microsystems David B. Johnson, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University James Kempf is with the Technology Development Group, Sun Microsystems Gabriel Montenegro, Advanced Development Group - Nomadics, Sun Microsystems =20 12:45 - 1:45 Lunch=20 1:45 - 3:15 Nomadic Network Support Nomadic Application Support=20 =A0 =A0 Integrating Wireless LAN Technologies "Why has wireless data been so promising, yet so far been so unsuccessful?" The panelists will review the state-of-the-art in wireless data, and evaluate why the technology has had limited success to date. They will also describe challenges faced by wireless data systems, such as coverage, interoperability, and performance, and will suggest solutions to these challenges based on developments from their own leading research= laboratories. R. H. Katz, Panel Chair, University of California, Berkeley B. R. Badrinath, Rutgers University M. G. Baker, Stanford University J. J. Garcia-Luna, University of California, Santa Cruz=20 IP Security=20 For companies interested in establishing an Internet presence, security is a major concern. To address the problem, several security proposals have emerged including IPSEC (IP Security), SOCKS, SSL (Secure Session Layer), PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail), etc. These mechanisms offer different trade-offs in terms of transparency to applications, traffic overhead, and ease of implementation (some require changes to the operating system while others can be layered on top of the transport layer without altering the operating system). This session will provide an overview of Internet security technologies and compare their relative advantages and= disadvantages. Vipul Gupta, Sun Microsystems and State University of New York John Zao, Advanced Networking Dept., BBN Evan Kaplan, President & CEO Aventail Corporation =20 3:15 - 3:45 Break=20 3:45 - 4:30 XIWT Nomadicity Working Team UpdateNomadicity's fluid technological underpinnings are kept in turmoil as much by government and industry dynamics as by technological innovation. The Nomadicity Working Group of the Cross Industry Working Team (XIWT), housed within the Center for National Research Initiates (CNRI), has worked for several years to understand, clarify, and communicate the concepts which define nomadicity. The group is now actively engaged in production of a nomadicity reference model which architects nomadicity-specific structures and relates them to existing technologies. This presentation is a report on the state of that effort.=20 Frank Prince, Hewlett Packard=20 =20 Thursday, August 28=20 7:30 - 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast=20 8:30 - 10:00 Nomadic Network Support Nomadic Application Support=20 =A0 =A0 Ad Hoc Networks: Creating a Network on the Fly Ad Hoc Networks enable communications among mobile users without requiring a fixed backbone or infrastructure. These dynamically created networks, usually connected by wireless links, adapt to topology change when mobile hosts and even mobile routers move. Ad hoc networks can operate in a standalone fashion, part of an intranet or part of an integrated internet providing mobile nodes to be more than one hop away from the fixed network. Issues discussed in this session include various adaptive routing protocols and techniques, resource discovery, and resource reservation for ad hoc networks. Joel Short, VP & CTO, Nomadix LLC M. Scott Corson, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland Bob O'Hara, President Informed Technology, Inc. QoS and Mobile Multimedia Allowing users to roam with their computers while continuing to access services on the wired network introduces problems due to highly variable connectivity and changing service environments. Many traditional applications can try to mask these effects, for example, by hoarding files or deferring communication or retransmission operations. The real-time nature of multimedia services renders many such options unattractive. This session will discuss issues of providing QoS for mobile multimedia services, including the design of packet telephony services and an application program interface (API) that allows applications to be kept aware of current network performance metrics, and by having the applications adapt their behavior to the current characteristics of the connection available to them. Thomas Kunz, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Cormac Sreenan, AT&T Labs Research Andrew Lippman, MIT Media Lab =20 10:00 - 10:20 Break=20 10:20 - 11:20 Executive Plenary: Integrating the Protocol Stack This session will discuss bridges between the two tracks of this conference, namely, Nomadic Network Support and Nomadic Application Support. One of the key problems facing the nomad today is the lack of interoperability of the "piece parts" that are rolling out from the vendors. Only through an integrated view, such as this session provides, can the technology provide effective solutions to the nomad's needs. Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, Computer Science Dept., UCLA George Abe, Global Alliances Staff, Cisco Systems A.J. 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