Message from
the General Chairs
Welcome to Boston, the
intellectual hub and melting pot of the Universe, and
welcome to the International Conference on Network
Protocols (ICNP), the melting pot of ideas from
networking researchers and practitioners interested in
all aspects of computer network protocols from
specification and design to analysis and verification,
and from prototyping and implementation to testing and
deployment.
Sponsored by the IEEE
Computer Society and hosted by the Web and
InterNetworking Group at Boston University, with
generous support from the National Science Foundation
and IBM, the 13th IEEE ICNP is held in Boston’s historic
Back Bay area, a stone’s throw away from where the first
optical one-if-by-land-and-two-if-by-sea bit, the first
telegraph, the first transatlantic radio message, and
the first email all originated. Against the background
of such rich traditions, it is befitting for ICNP 2005
to also be a conference with many firsts!
The ICNP conference has a
long-standing track record of excellence and this year
is no exception. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the
technical program co-chairs—Professors Ibrahim Matta of
Boston University and Mohamed Gouda of the University of
Texas at Austin—ICNP 2005 is packed with an excellent
mix of plenary sessions, technical sessions,
work-in-progress sessions, tutorials, and for the first
time this year an exciting pre-conference workshop on
secure network protocols. On behalf of the ICNP steering
committee and on behalf of all attendees, we thank
Ibrahim and Mohamed and all members of the technical,
tutorial, and workshop committees for producing such a
wonderful program.
For the first time this
year, and in an effort to reach out to a more diverse
audience, we have been able to offer travel awards to
encourage participation from constituents who otherwise
are not able to attend the conference – namely graduate
students who are not presenting papers at the
conference, and faculty members belonging to (or at
institutions serving) under-represented groups. The
inclusion in ICNP of a travel grant program targeting
minorities and minority-serving institutions is the
first such initiative in a major computer
science/networking conference. These travel awards would
not have been possible without the generous support of
the NeTS program of the National Science Foundation. On
behalf of the organizing committee and on behalf of all
awardees, we extend our appreciation to NSF and in
particular to Darleen Fisher who embraced the outreach
goals underlying these awards.
Another first that we are
proud to announce at ICNP 2005 is the institution of the
ICNP Outstanding Technical Achievements Award, which
aims to recognize and honor individuals who have made
particularly significant and fundamental contributions
to the art and science of networking protocol design,
analysis, and implementation. We are thankful to the
ICNP steering committee for their consideration and
adoption of this idea and we look forward to celebrating
the first administration of this award in ICNP 2006.
On behalf of all
attendees, we would like to thank the staff of the IEEE
Computer Society and the TC on Distributed Processing
for their continued sponsorship of the conference.
Special thanks are also due to the ICNP steering
committee and in particular to Ken Calvert and David Lee
for their invaluable advisory roles. Last but not
least, we wish to express our appreciation to the many
members of the WING group and to the staff of the
Computer Science Department at Boston University for
their logistical and technical help, including the
multicast of the ICNP technical presentations in
real-time – a first in ICNP’s history. Special thanks
are due to Ms. Ellen Grady for her hard work on local
arrangements and registration, which have kept the
registration fees for ICNP well below the norm for major
conferences, especially in a prime location such as
Boston’s historic Back Bay area.
In closing, let us
emphasize that one of the most important characteristics
of ICNP is the truly open nature of its community—a
community that welcomes and embraces new members. It is
that welcoming and interactive nature of ICNP that makes
it the perfect venue for introducing new comers to the
networking community and for these new comers to forge
meaningful “networks”. It is in that spirit that we
welcome you to ICNP 2005, whether this is your first
time or thirteenth time around. We hope that you will
enjoy the program and the city of Boston, that you will
make the most out of your participation, and that you
will come back to ICNP for many years to come!
Azer Bestavros and Jim
Kurose
ICNP 2005 General
Co-Chairs
Message from
the Program Chairs
It is with honor and
privilege that we welcome you at ICNP 2005. On its
thirteenth anniversary, ICNP is back in Boston for the
second time. The first time ICNP was held in Boston was
in 1994 and since then, the reputation of ICNP has
rapidly grown and ICNP has become one of the premier
conferences in the field of computer networking.
The goal of the conference is to present significant
research contributions to the field of network
protocols. The number and the quality of the submissions
remained high, commensurate with the competitive nature
of ICNP. In total we received 212 submissions from all
over the world. During the first phase of the review
process, each submission was assigned to at least three
program committee members. During the second phase, the
program committee members discussed the paper reviews
online to resolve conflicts and reach consensus as much
as possible. In the final phase of the review process,
the program committee met on June 25, in Boston, to
further discuss and make final decisions on the
acceptance of papers. Additional reviews were obtained
during and after the meeting, and so many papers ended
up with a total of four or five reviews. This whole
rigorous review process resulted in over 670 reviews.
Finally, 36 full papers were selected for publication
and presentation at ICNP 2005, resulting in an overall
acceptance rate of about 17%. This means unfortunately
that many high-quality papers could not be accommodated
into the program.
The selected papers constitute a solid program of
stimulating and timely topics on network protocols. They
are organized in sessions on traffic engineering, sensor
and ad-hoc protocols, routing in the Internet and ad-hoc
networks, congestion control, peer-to-peer and overlay
protocols, security and safety, wireless transport, and
protocol implementation and analysis.
The technical sessions are supplemented by a student
poster session, which had a separate call for
submissions and review process. We thank Professor
Michalis Faloutsos of UC Riverside for organizing this
poster session, and also thank other members of the
poster review committee.
In addition, the program features a keynote speech by
Professor Larry Peterson of Princeton University on “A
Strategy for Continually Reinventing the Internet”, and
an invited talk by Darleen Fisher of the National
Science Foundation on "NSF NeTS Initiatives on New
Architectures and Protocols".
For the first time, the program also includes a timely
workshop on "Secure Network Protocols (NPSec)" that is
held together with the tutorials to precede the main
conference. We would like to extend our special thanks
to Professor Sonia Fahmy of Purdue University for
serving as the NPSec 2005 general chair. She had
skillfully put together an outstanding organizing
committee and put in tremendous effort in all aspects,
including producing the NPSec proceedings and ensuring a
successful launch of this first ICNP workshop. We are
thankful to Professor George Kesidis of Pennsylvania
State University and Dr. Nicholas Weaver of the
International Computer Science Institute for serving as
the NPSec 2005 technical program co-chairs, and to all
members of the NPSec 2005 organizing and technical
program committees.
Many thanks go to Dr. Debanjan Saha of IBM research and
Dr. Nina Taft of Intel Research for their hard work in
seeking and reviewing tutorial submissions and putting
together a high-quality and timely tutorial program.
It would have not been possible to put together such a
strong program without the efforts and contributions of
all the authors and speakers, all members of the
steering and technical program committees, and the
additional reviewers. We thank them all.
Last but not least, we would like to extend our special
thanks to the general co-chairs, Professors Azer
Bestavros of Boston University and Jim Kurose of the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the
executive committee chair, Professor David Lee of the
Ohio State University, for their support. We also thank
Dr. Milind Buddhikot of Bell Labs for his efforts as
publicity chair, and Chani Johnson of Microsoft for his
tremendous help in setting up and maintaining the
web-based conference management system.
We hope that you will enjoy the ICNP 2005 program and
that you will have some time to enjoy all what Boston
has to offer!
Ibrahim Matta and Mohamed Gouda
ICNP 2005 Technical Program Co-Chairs
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