---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:53:19 +0100 (CET) From: "Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)" <henk@ripe.net> To: Undisclosed recipients: ; Subject: PAM2001 registration opens Passive & Active Measurement: PAM-2001 Registration Opens A workshop on passive and active measurement techniques for high speed computer networks and the Internet Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 23-24, 2001 As the Internet has grown over the last decade the need for precise measurement of network traffic has become steadily more apparent; most of today's Internet Service Providers and many of their large network customers are collecting and analysing traffic data for the purposes of performance monitoring, network engineering and cost recovery, but the engineering quality of these measurements vary. A steadily growing number of research groups have been working in the areas of: - Active Measurements, i.e. sending test packets and observing their progress through the Internet, - Passive Measurements, i.e. observing actual traffic on 'live' networks, - Performance Metrics, i.e. developing measures or indicators which can be used to characterise traffic behavior, - Traffic Statistics, i.e. attempting to understand and develop models of 'real' Internet traffic, and - Visualisation, i.e. finding effective ways to display what's happening in a network. After the successful workshop PAM2000 in Hamilton, New Zealand, in April 2000, the RIPE NCC will be organising another workshop on this topic in Amsterdam in April 2001. Registration for this workshop has now been opened. To register online, go to: http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/pamreg Also available on the web-site are the preliminary program: http://www.ripe.net/pam2001/program.html as well as general information on the workshop: http://www.ripe.net/pam2001/ and hotel information: http://www.ripe.net/pam2001/hotels.html Rooms are available at the conference hotel. The rate is 285 Euro/night (including taxes, approximately 255 US$). To reserve a room, call, fax or email the hotel. Contact details can be found on the web page. If you prefer to stay in another hotel, then there are rooms available in all price classes between 35 Euro/night and 1500 Euro/night within a 5 km radius of the conference site. A selection of hotels and links to reservation sites can be found on the webpage. There are still opportunities for participants to present measurement equipment and software. Proposals for demonstrations (about 500 words, plain ASCII) should be sent by email to the conference chair at pam2001@ripe.net by 5 March 2001. Contact information: * PAM 2001 c/o RIPE-NCC Singel 258 1016 AB Amsterdam The Netherlands * Phone: +31.20.5354444 * Fax: +31.20.5354445 * Email: pam2001@ripe.net * Webpage: http://www.ripe.net/pam2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal@ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As long as you don't tell your friends how I played the hand, then I won't tell my friends how you defended it. (Anonymous)