Note: The registration for this "Hot Topics" workshop has been closed due to an overwhelming response.

The study of scaling phenomena in modern communication networks is another realization of Mandelbrot's vision of order in physical and social phenomena that are characterized by scaling laws. This exciting new multi-disciplinary field has attracted the attention of researchers from networking, mathematicians with interest in fractal geometry, physicists experienced in dealing with scaling laws, and computer scientists, economists and control theorists concerned with robustness and scaling issues associated with complex large-scale interacting systems. Moreover, developments in this field have been accompanied by the availability of extended, high quality data sets of network traffic measurements that are unprecedented in other disciplines. This 3-day workshop is intended to bring together the leading researchers in this emerging area, representing its various constituencies. Its main objective is to foster the exchange of ideas between leading networking experts and researchers in other fields, matching problem areas with solution methods.

The workshop will be structured around three fundamental aspects of the study of scaling phenomena in networks: description (e.g., empirical evidence, physical understanding, dynamical systems); analysis (e.g., network performance with fractal traffic flows, renormalization group techniques for large scale distributed systems, mean-field theory approaches for full-service networks); and control (e.g., self-organization; pattern formation, evolution and adaptation in spatially extended non-equilibrium systems). Participants are expected to contribute to this effort by giving a talk and/or actively engaging in the proceedings. In contrast to many other fields where scaling phenomena have had a long history but have not moved beyond the descriptive stage, this area shows great potential to apply the theory to analyze and control complex, large-scale networks such as the Internet. It is expected that this workshop will advance the study of scaling phenomena in networks from a descriptive theory to a prescriptive reality.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

as of 10/21/99

Name	Department	Affiliation
Patrice Abry	Laboratoire de Physique - URA 1325	CNRS
Hari Balakrishnan	Electrical Eng & Computer Science	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Baras	Institute for Systems Research	University of Maryland
Paul Barford		Boston University
Stephan Bohacek	Mathematics	University of Southern California
Onno Boxma	Computing Science	Eindhoven University of Technology
Keith Crank		NSF
Mark Crovella	Computer Science	Boston University
Richard DeMillo	Information & Computing Sceinces Research	Telcordia Technologies
David Donoho	Statistics, Sequoia Hall	Stanford University
John Doyle	Electrical Engineering	California Institute of Technology
David H.C. Du	Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
Fred Dulles		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Ashok Erramilli		Netmetrix Inc.
Anja Feldmann		AT& T Labs-Research
Patrick Flandrin	Laboratoire de Physique	Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Sally Floyd	ACIRI	International Computer Science Institute
Kensuke Fukuda		NTT Network Innovation Labs
Jianbo Gao		UCLA
Anna Gilbert	Shannon Laboratory	AT& T Labs-Research
Sonja Glavaski	Guidance and Control	Honeywell Inc.
Matt Grossglauser		AT& T Research
Mark Handley		International Computer Science Institute
Fotios C. Harmantzis	Electrical & Computer Engineering	University of Toronto
Hawoong Jeong	Physics	University of Notre Dame
Youngmi Joo	Electrical Engineering	Stanford University
Krishna Kant	Enterprise Server Group	Intel
S. Keshav	Computer Science	Cornell University
Jon Kettenring	Mathematical Sciences Research Center	Telcordia Technologies
Joseph M. Kizza	Computer Science & Electrical Engineering	University of Tennessee
Hira Lal Koul	Statistics & Probability	Michigan State University
K.R. Krishnan	Network Design & Traffic Research	Telcordia Technologies
Tom Kurtz	Center for the Mathematical Sciences	University of Wisconsin - Madison
Donald Lewis	Mathematics	University of Michigan
Larry Liebovitch	Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences	Florida Atlantic University
Chjan C. Lim	Math Sciences	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Armand Makowski	Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Maryland
Benoit Mandelbrot		Yale University
V. Mandrekar	Statistics and Prob.	Michigan State University
Petteri Mannersalo		VTT Information Technology
Willard Miller		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Carlos J. Morales	Mathematics	Boston University
Onuttom Narayan	Physics	University of California - Santa Cruz
Arnie Neidhardt	Mathematical Sciences Research Center	Telcordia Technologies
Klas Nordstrom		Carlstedt Research & Technology
Ilkka Norros		VTT Information Technology
Andrew Odlyzko		AT& T Labs-Research
Pablo Parrilo	Control & Dynamical Systems	Caltech
Vern Paxson	Network Research Group	University of California-Berkeley
Vladas Pipiras	Mathematics	Boston University
Majid Raissi-Dehkordi	Institute for Systems Research	University of Maryland
Sid Resnick	Operations Research & Industrial Eng	Cornell University
Vinay Ribeiro	ECE	Rice University
Rolf Riedi	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Rice University
Carl Robert	Physics	University of California-Santa Barbara
Jim Roberts		CNET France Telecom
Iraj Saniee	Bell-Labs Research	Lucent Technologies
Fadil Santosa	MCIM	IMA & Minnesota Center for Industrial Math
Robert Savit	Physics	University of Michigan
Scott Shenker	Palo Alto Research Center	Xerox
Didier Sornette	Earth & Space Sciences	UCLA
Steven Strogatz	Theoretical & Applied Mathematics	Cornell University
Murad Taqqu	Mathematics	Boston University
Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap	Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Don Towsley	Computer Science	University of Massachusetts
Donald Turcotte	Geological Sciences	Cornell University
Eric Van den berg	Traffic Research	Telcordia Technologies
Gabor Vattay	Physics of Complex Systems	Eotvos University Budapest and ERICSSON Hungary
Darryl Veitch	Software Engineering Research Center, Level 3	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Ed Waymire	Mathematics	Oregon State University
Walter Willinger		AT& T Labs Research
Yimin Xiao		Microsoft
Zhi-Li Zhang	Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
Xiaoyun Zhu	Electrical Engineering	Caltech

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