GRIDNETS 2009 - Third International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications GridNets 2009

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Category GRIDNETS 2009

Deadline: May 08, 2009 | Date: September 07, 2009

Venue/Country: Athens, Greece

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

Call For Papers - CFP

September 7-9, 2009 - Athens (Greece)

http://www.gridnets.org

++ Sponsored by ICST ++

In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH (pending)

Technically co-sponsored by Create-Net and EU-IST

++ Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009 ++

GridNets provides a focused and highly interactive forum where

researchers and technologists have the opportunity to present and

discuss leading research, developments, and future directions in the

Grid networking area. The goal of this event is to serve as both the

premier conference presenting best Grid Networking research and a forum

where new concepts can be introduced and explored.

Grid developers and practitioners are increasingly realizing the

importance of efficient network support. Entire classes of applications

would greatly benefit by a network-aware grid middleware, able to

effectively manage the network resource in terms of scheduling, access

and use. Conversely, the peculiar requirements of grid applications

provide stimulating drivers for new challenging research towards the

development of grid-aware networks.

Cooperation between grid middleware and network infrastructure driven by

a common control plane is a key factor to effectively empower the global

grid platform for the execution of network-intensive applications,

requiring massive data transfers, very fast and low-latency connections,

and stable and guaranteed transmission rates. Large e-science projects,

as well as industrial and engineering applications for data analysis,

image processing, multimedia, or visualisation just to name a few are

awaiting an efficient grid network support. They would be boosted by a

global grid platform enabling end-to-end dynamic bandwidth allocation,

broadband and low-latency access, interdomain access control, and other

network performance monitoring capabilities.

-- TOPICS --

* Network architectures and technologies for grids;

* Integration of advanced optical networking technologies into the

grid environment;

* The network as a first class grid resource: network resource

information publication, brokering and co-scheduling with other

resources;

* Interaction of the network with distributed data management systems;

* Network monitoring, traffic characterisation and performance analysis;

* Inter-layer interactions: optical layer with higher layer protocols,

integration among layers;

* Experience with pre-production optical network infrastructures and

exchange points;

* Peer-to-peer network enhancements applied to the grid;

* Network support for wireless and ad hoc grids;

* Data replication and multicasting strategies and novel data transport

protocols;

* Cluster and high performance networks;

* Networks for Data Centers;

* Networks & Cloud computing issues;

* Fault-tolerance, self healing networks;

* Security and scalability issues when connecting a large number of sites

within a virtual organization VPN;

* Energy awareness and power consumption in grids.

-- SUBMISSION --

Authors are invited to submit papers through the ASSYST conference

management system, according to the indications given on this page:

* http://gridnets.org/submission.shtml

Regular papers should be up to 16 pages. Only original papers,

written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere,

will be considered for publication, after a peer-review process.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present

the work at the conference.

-- SPONSORSHIP --

The event is organized by ICST in cooperation with the ACM Special

Interest Groups on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH; pending).

All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the ICST Lecture

Notes (LNICST) series. The proceedings will be published by Springer and

will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink,

Springer's digital library.

-- WORKSHOPS --

Optical Grids - September 7, 2009

Organized by:

Kyriakos Vlachos, RACTI (Greece);

Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent (France).

Wireless Grids - September 7, 2009

Organized by: Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University (Denmark).

-- IMPORTANT DATES --

Submission deadline: May 8 2009

Notification of acceptance: June 19, 2009

Camera ready: July 12, 2009

Conference: September 7-9, 2009

-- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --

Steering Chair

* Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET

General Chairs

* Ioannis Tomkos, AIT

Local Chair

* Yvan Pointurier, AIT

* Konstantinos Kanonakis, AIT

Publicity Chairs

TBA