IEEE Global Internet 1996

When, Where, What

London, England, November 20 and 21, 1996

The conference takes place during Globecom'96 (sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society) and will be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London.

Tutorials: November 18 and 22
Exhibits and paper sessions: November 20 and 21

The mini-conference will be jointly organized by the two IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees on Internet and Computer Communications. It will provide an open forum for the communications and computer networking communities to review the state-of-the-art technologies and applications of the evolving Global Internet. It will also provide an opportunity to highlight solutions to pressing issues, establish a vision for the future, and challenge the participants to press forward in their research and engineering efforts to meet business and industry needs for global internetworking.

The mini-conference will include keynote speeches, tutorials and panel discussions by leaders in these areas and contributed papers by active researchers in the field. The conference will put special emphasis on hands-on experiences with actual implementations and widespread applications.

Additional information is also provided by the IEEE Communications Society.

Tutorials

Java
Internet Security
Interactive Multimedia over the Internet
ATM and IP

Exhibits

Technical Program

Topics

General topics:
- Evolution of the Internet and WWW: past, present, and future
- Legal and regulatory issues (e.g., censorship)
- Privacy, security and billing
WWW technology and applications:
- Protocol evolution and extensions
- Tools and browsers
- Retrieval and resource discovery
- Information representation, modeling and filtering
- Consistency, integrity and security
- User and application interfaces
- Virtual reality
- Integration of real time data
- Design techniques for Web applications
- Computer based training, teaching and CSCW
- WWW applications for corporate "intranets"
Internetworking technologies and applications
- Routing, addressing, naming, and large scale multicast
- ATM, Frame Relay and SMDS as part of the Internet
- Performance and reliability
- Multimedia services to the desktop, e.g., real-time audio/video conferencing, signaling, QoS guarantees
- Interactive multimedia video, sound and more on commercial networks
- Internet telephony
- Enterprise networking architectures and applications
- Security, billing, and privacy for electronic commerce

Technical Program

Registration

Registration is handled through Globecom'96.

Option	Before October 18		After October 18
	IEEE member	non-member	IEEE member	non-member
full Globecom + mini-conference	add £65	add £65	add £70	add £70
one-day (*) Globecom (Tuesday) + mini-conference	£335 ($504)	£410 ($615)	£390 ($585)	£465 ($698)
mini-conference only	£265 ($399)	£308 ($462)	not available	not available

(*) The one-day conference-fee option provides admission to the Chairman's Welcome Reception on Monday, November 18, Keynote Speech, special panel session on "Towards the 21st Century" and full conference attendance on Tuesday as well as full attendance at the Internet conference on (Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st) and full mini-conference proceedings. It does not include the Globecom conference record, awards luncheon or banquet.

Conference Committee

General Chair: Brian Carpenter (Chair IAB, CERN),
Technical Chair: Jon Crowcroft (UCL)
Vice Technical Chair: Henning Schulzrinne (IEEE Communications Society Internet Technical Committee)
Representative of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications: Roch Guerin

Technical Program Committee

Grenville Armitage
Fred Baker
Bob Braden
Andrew T. Campbell
Brian Carpenter CERN-CN
Nim K. Cheung
Jon Crowcroft
Laura Cunningham
John N. Daigle
Sally Floyd
Raj Jain
Srinivasan Keshav
Jim Kurose
Craig Partridge
Henning Schulzrinne
Jonathan M. Smith
Joe Touch
John Wroclawski
Yechiam Yemini
Lixia Zhang

Last modified: October 15, 1996
by Henning Schulzrinne