HP-WAN
bofreq-huang-hp-wan-01

Document Type Proposed BOF request
Title HP-WAN
Last updated 2024-09-02
State Proposed
Editor Daniel Huang
Responsible leadership
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bofreq-huang-hp-wan-01

Name: HP-WAN (High Performance Wide Area Network)

Description

High Performance Wide Area Networks(HP-WAN) are designed specifically to meet the high-speed, low-latency, and high-capacity needs of research and academic services, and increasingly extending to other types of big data and massive dataset applications. In all cases, HP-WANs require high bandwidth utilization,low packet loss ratio, effective high-throughput transmission, and resilience. The current state of the art HP-WAN practices depends upon either congestion control algorithm refinements for transport protocols, or dedicated networks. The service footprints starts to vary and grows beyond the reach of the dedicated network as the specific services go beyond research and education. Also, cost considerations from both the consumer and provider turn out to be another factor when it comes to the service provisioning of non-dedicated and dedicated networks.
HP-WAN BoF is designed to discuss state of the art experiences with HP-WANs, identify the use cases, problems as well as the requirements for non-dedicated (shared) and high performance networks.

Required Details

  • Status: Non WG Forming
  • Responsible AD: TBD
  • BOF proponents: Daniel Huang (huang.guangping@zte.com.cn),Kehan Yao(yaokehan@chinamobile.com), Tim Chown (Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk),Daniel King (d.king@lancaster.ac.uk)
  • Number of people expected to attend: 150
  • Length of session : 2 hours
  • Conflicts (whole Areas and/or WGs)
  • Chair Conflicts: TBD
  • MUST avoid: RTGWG, QUIC, TSVWG, CCWG，6man, v6ops and maprg
  • Technology Overlap: WIT Area, INT Area, OPS Area, RTG Area
  • Key Participant Conflict: Daniel Huang, Kehan Yao, Quan Xiong, Daniel King, Tim Chown
  • Scheduling: given expected remote participation from North America and Asia, prefer early afternoon session

Information for IAB/IESG

To allow evaluation of your proposal, please include the following items:
- There are intensive discussions in the hp-wan mailing list with significant interests from various vendors as well as operators and research & education institutions across Asia, Europe and North America. Rough consensus about use cases, problems and requirements starts emerging in hp-wan community.
- Any protocols or practices that already exist in this space:Dedicated optical networks, BBR/CUBIC etc.
- Which (if any) modifications to existing protocols or practices are required:None identified so far
- Which (if any) entirely new protocols or practices are required:To be identified with the ongoing discussions.
- Open source projects (if any) implementing this work:None identified so far

Agenda

  • Chair introduction
  • Private HP-WAN state of the art implementation (2-3 presentations)
  • Public HP-WAN use cases, problems and requirements (1-2 presentations)
  • Gap analysis of the existing technologies (1 for transport and 1 for routing)
  • Open discussions
  • Polls (about use cases, problems, requirements and scope)