Conveners
Network Latency BoF: BoF
- Tim Chown (Jisc)
Description
Much of the focus in international R&E networking lies with capacities and the ability to move large volumes of data in support of data-intensive science and international science collaborations. While important, capacity is not everything. Latency is also critical in many scenarios. As a colleague recently put it “it’s not just megabytes it’s also milliseconds”. Use cases for low latency networking are many and varied, from haptic control, through distributed databases, to networked music performances. Different applications will have different sensitivity to latency and jitter.
The BoF will include a small number of short talks to set the scene for subsequent discussion, and reserve at least half the allotted time for that discussion. The discussion will consider gaps in the tools and approaches for reporting measurements, and explore potential collaboration to address identified gaps.
