GRIDNETS 2010 - 4th International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications

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Category Networking; Grid Networking; Computing; Communications

Deadline: May 31, 2010 | Date: September 13, 2010

Venue/Country: Chicago, IL, U.S.A

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

Call For Papers - CFP

GRIDNETS 2010

4th International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications

September 13 - 15, 2010 - Chicago, IL, USA

http://www.gridnets.org/

Sponsored by ICST

Technically co-sponsored by Create-Net

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.

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.

Scope:

-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;

-Cloud networking and Grid networking intersection;

-Grid networking and petascale computing;

-Grid networking for e-Science;

-Terabit Grid networking;

-Digital media and Grid networks;

-Energy awareness and power consumption in grids;

-Virtual networks;

-Digital media networks;

-Ad hoc networks.

The organizers of GridNets encourage submissions related to the results of

future network research activities. Currently, many large scale advanced

networking research projects have been established to create new types of

experimental research environments, such as the US National Science

Foundation's Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), those

being created in Europe through the EIFFEL (Evolved Internet Future for

European Leadership) and FIREworks (Future Internet Research and

Experimentation - Strategy Works) initiatives, in Japan through the New

Generation Internet program, and in many other countries. In addition,

various related initiatives, such as the NSF's Future Internet Design

(FIND), have been established to support research using advanced network

research testbeds. GridNets has been designs as a forum in which the

results of such activities can be presented and discussed.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: extended till May 31, 2010 (firm deadline)

Notification of Acceptance: July 5, 2010

Camera Ready Deadline: August 2, 2010

Conference Date: September 13 - 15, 2010

Organizing Committee

Steering Committee Chair

Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy

General Chairs

Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University, USA (chair)

Gigi Karmous-Edwards, North Carolina State University, USA (co-chair)

TPC Chairs

Robert Grossman, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, UK

Publicity Chair

Iwan Adhicandra, University of Pisa, Italy

Conference Coordinator

Gergely Nagy, ICST