Meeting

The 1st  IRTF GAIA workshop was held at the IETF 89 meeting in London on Thursday 6th March 3:00 pm- 6:00 pm at the London Hilton Metropole, Edgware Road (Hilton Meeting Rooms 1-4).

Agenda

3:00-3:10 - ​​Welcome, Chairs (Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Warren Kumari)

Session 1: Deployment Experiences

3:10-3:20 - ​​IXP Deployment Experiences in Africa - Michuki Mwangi, ISOC

3:20-3:30 - Caching and the local content equation - Mike Blanche, Google

3:30-3:35 - Digital divide challenges: A perspective from the Commonwealth Countries - Dr. Martin Koyabe, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation

3:35-3:40 - ​Enabling Affordability, Ensuring Development - Kojo Boakye, A4AI

3:40-3:50 - ​​Internet Deployment Experiences from NSRC - Steve Huter & Hervey Allen, NSRC

3:50-4:00 - ​​Understanding broadband performance - A Network Operator's Perspective - Achilles Petras, BT

4:00-4:15 - Q & A

Session 2: Architectures

4:15-4:25 - ​​TAQ: Enhancing Fairness and Performance Predictability in Small Packet Regimes, Jay Chen, New York University

4:25-4:35 - ​Less-than-Best-Effort Service for Community Wireless Networks: Challenges at Three Layers -  Michael Welzl, University of Oslo

4:35-4:45 - ​​From an always-on Internet to one that is almost surely off - Dirk Trossen, InterDigital

4:45-4:55 - Q & A

Session 3: Research Project Experiences

4:55-5:05 ​Internet Access Requirements: a view from the IU-­‐ATC project - Saleem Bhatti, University of St. Andrews

5:05-5:15 - ​Liberouter - Towards Do-It-Yourself Networking - Joerg Ott, Aalto University

5:15-5:25 - ​​Virtual Public Networks - Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Hannover

5:25-5:30 -​​Funkfeur.at and Community Wireless Networks, Aaron Kaplan, Funkfeuer

5:30- 5:40 - Q & A

5:40-6:00 - ​Discussion of proposed charter and future plans