ICNS 2009 - ICNS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Networking and Services

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Category ICNS 2009

Deadline: November 11, 2008 | Date: April 21, 2009

Venue/Country: Valencia, Spain

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

IPv6, the Next Generation of the Internet Protocol, has seen over the past three years tremendous activity related to its development, implementation and deployment. Its importance is unequivocally recognized by research organizations, businesses and governments worldwide. To maintain global competitiveness, governments are mandating, encouraging or actively supporting the adoption of IPv6 to prepare their respective economies for the future communication infrastructures. In the United States, government¡¯s plans to migrate to IPv6 has stimulated significant interest in the technology and accelerated the adoption process. Business organizations are also increasingly mindful of the IPv4 address space depletion and see within IPv6 a way to solve pressing technical problems. At the same time IPv6 technology continues to evolve beyond IPv4 capabilities. Communications equipment manufacturers and applications developers are actively integrating IPv6 in their products based on market demands.

IPv6 creates opportunities for new and more scalable IP based services while representing a fertile and growing area of research and technology innovation. The efforts of successful research projects, progressive service providers deploying IPv6 services and enterprises led to a significant body of knowledge and expertise. It is the goal of this workshop to facilitate the dissemination and exchange of technology and deployment related information, to provide a forum where academia and industry can share ideas and experiences in this field that could accelerate the adoption of IPv6. The workshop brings together IPv6 research and deployment experts that will share their work. The audience will hear the latest technological updates and will be provided with examples of successful IPv6 deployments; it will be offered an opportunity to learn what to expect from IPv6 and how to prepare for it.

Packet Dynamics refers broadly to measurements, theory and/or models that describe the time evolution and the associated attributes of packets, flows or streams of packets in a network. Factors impacting packet dynamics include cross traffic, architectures of intermediate nodes (e.g., routers, gateways, and firewalls), complex interaction of hardware resources and protocols at various levels, as well as implementations that often involve competing and conflicting requirements.

Parameters such as packet reordering, delay, jitter and loss that characterize the delivery of packet streams are at times highly correlated. Load-balancing at an intermediate node may, for example, result in out-of-order arrivals and excessive jitter, and network congestion may manifest as packet losses or large jitter. Out-of-order arrivals, losses, and jitter in turn may lead to unnecessary retransmissions in TCP or loss of voice quality in VoIP.

With the growth of the Internet in size, speed and traffic volume, understanding the impact of underlying network resources and protocols on packet delivery and application performance has assumed a critical importance. Measurements and models explaining the variation and interdependence of delivery characteristics are crucial not only for efficient operation of networks and network diagnosis, but also for developing solutions for future networks.

Local and global scheduling and heavy resource sharing are main features carried by Grid networks. Grids offer a uniform interface to a distributed collection of heterogeneous computational, storage and network resources. Most current operational Grids are dedicated to a limited set of computationally and/or data intensive scientific problems.

Optical burst switching enables these features while offering the necessary network flexibility demanded by future Grid applications. Currently ongoing research and achievements refers to high performance and computability in Grid networks. However, the communication and computation mechanisms for Grid applications require further development, deployment and validation.

The conference has the following independents tracks:

ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies

COMAN: Network Control and Management

SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance

NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services

MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking

GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services

EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications

IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure

IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics

GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The following track topics are expected to be covered (but not limited to):

ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies

Access and home networks

Ad hoc networks

Application-specific networks (e.g. SANs)

Autonomic Networks

Delay-tolerant Networking

Distributed communications systems & applications

Energy-efficient networking

High-speed & optical networks

Mobile networking and systems

MPLS-VPN & IPSec-VPN networks

Multimedia and multicast communications

Networking Communication theory

Network modeling & simulation

Network monitoring techniques

Network security

Next Generation Networks (NGN)

Overlay networks

Peer-to-peer networking

Programmable and Active Networks

Sensor networks

Switching and routing

Wireless and Satellite Networks

COMAN: Network Control and Management

Network, control and service architectures

Network signaling, pricing and billing

Network middleware

Network management, monitoring and control

Network resource scheduling

Networks policy-based management

Management of autonomic networks and systems

Telecommunication networks architectures

On-demand networks, utility computing architectures

Applications and case studies

SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance

Service-oriented architectures

Service definition, creation, bundling, deployment

Service reuse, composition and service feature interaction

Service orchestration and federation

Inter-provider service dependency

Intra-provider service dependency and service interaction

Service middleware and service development platforms (SDPs)

Service open architecture (SOA)

Profiling and service adaptation

Service privacy and security

Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]

Service agreement violations

Mobile services and service migration

Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]

Service performance metrics

Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring

Voice over IP services

IP Multimedia services

Real-time/not-real-rime services; real-time services over IP/IPv6

Service performance evaluation, tools, simulation

NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services

Methodologies, development support, and tools for NGN and converging services

NGN and convergence of ubiquitous services

NGN frameworks, architectures, and concepts

NGN technologies and mechanisms

QoS/SLA, traffic in NGN

NGN transport/service layered capabilities and operations

NGN concepts for active, ad hoc, mobile, and wireless networks

3G and 4G Mobile networks

Fixed/mobile networks integration and internetworking

Services and service differentiation over NGN

Managing ubiquitous services in NGN

NGN interworking, non-NGN interoperability, migration

Regulatory services in NGN and standard activities

NGN device instrumentation

NGN policy-based control

Next Generation Internet

MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking

Architectures, frameworks, mechanisms for admission control and measurement

QoS in multi-provider and multi-technology networks

Service classes and multi-provider service class discovery

Service level agreement and service assurance in multi-provider environments

Carrier-class end-to-end SLA and QoS monitoring and management

Multi provider accounting/billing/cost sharing

Management, monitoring, and measurements in multi-provider networks

End-to-end QoS/SLA advanced network services in multi-provider networks

End-to-end QoS/SLA for multimedia applications and services in multi-provider networks

Security issues in multi-service provider networks

Business models for multi-providers under QoS/SLA constraints

Standards and fora activities

GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services

GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology

GRID infrastructure and technologies

GRID middleware

GRID protocols and networking

GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing

Programmable GRID

Data GRID

Context ontology and management in GRIDs

Distributed decisions in GRID networks

GRID services and applications

Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID

Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID

GRID monitoring, control, and management

Traffic and load balancing in GRID

User profiles and priorities in GRID

Performance and security in GRID systems

Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID

QoS/SLA in GRID networks

GRID fora, standards, development, evolution

GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned

EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications

Theory on disaster-tolerant robust networks

Recovery by disruption resource procedures

Security issues with emergency services and disaster recovery

Networks resiliency methods

Formal methods for safety-critical systems

Networks emergency services

Public safety, reliable emergency communications, and applications

Response to the networks emergency services

Disaster prevention and recovery

Fighting mechanisms for disaster of networks and applications

Notifications and recovery in various network technologies

Customer protection and serviceability perception

Cost models and business impact

Cultural and legal aspects

Future advanced network development and evolution

Standards and guidelines

Lawful interception and defense strategies

IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure

IP Upgrade ¨C An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?

Worldwide IPv6 Adoption ¨C Trends and Policies

National Strategies in Stimulating IPv6 Adoption

IPv6 in Government Infrastructures - Specific Requirements

IPv6 Infrastructures for Emergency Response and Law Enforcement ¨C MetroNet6

Communications Equipment Certification for IPv6 Support

IPv6 in Broadband Networks

IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination

IPv6 Technology ¨C Practical Information

Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6

IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies

IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices

IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics

Measurement of stream characteristics (reordering, delay, losses, jitter, etc.)

Measurement and estimation of network characteristics

Tools, metrics and benchmarks

End-to-end packet dynamics

Timing aspects in packet dynamics

Impact of load balancing, parallelism within nodes, etc. on packet dynamics

QoS mechanisms and their impact on packet dynamics

Models (e.g., relating protocols, resources and architectures to packet dynamics)

Mitigation of adverse effects of reordering, jitter, etc.

Traffic engineering

Impact of packet dynamics on application performance

GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks

Terabit burst switching

Burst assembly for IP DiffServ over optical burst switching networks

Optical network infrastructure for Grid

Synchronous stream optical burst switching

Optical burst switching based GRID architecture

Reliable optical burst switching for next-generation Grid networks

Throughput for Grid optical burst switching Grid networks.

Resiliency paths over the optical Grid networks

Consumer oriented Grids using optical burst switching

Protocols for optical burst switched Grid networks

Hybrid optical switching for data-intensive media Grid

Anycast routing in optical burst switched Grid networks

Optical burst switching for IP-over-WDM/DWDM

Customizable Grid-to-optical network

Ultra high capacity optical networks

Hybrid optical burst/circuit switched for Grid-enabled optical networks

Job scheduling in optical burst switching Grid networks

Architecture and middleware for Grid-Over-OBS

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The ICNS 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) November 1, 2008 November 10, 2008

Authors notification December 5, 2008

Registration December 20, 2008

Camera ready December 25, 2008

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "WIP: Work in Progress". Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference¡¯s CD collection. Please send your presentations to petreiaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petreiaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, petreiaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petreiaria.org.