[ghpn-wg] CFP: Autonomic Grid Networking and Management

[Volker Sander]

All:
following I forward a CFP which might be of interest for you
Regards,
Volker

                                          Call For Papers (text version)
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                            First IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on  
                    Autonomic Grid Networking and Management (AGNM05)
                                              October 28, 2005
                                 Universitat Politcecnica de Catalunya
                                                Barcelona, Spain

                   Held within the framework of the 1st International Week
               on Management of Networks and Services (MANWEEK2005)
           Co-located with DSOM 2005, MMNS 2005, IPOM 2005, and SSS 2005

Website: http://www.agnm05.fh-aachen.de


Scope:
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Autonomic Grid Computing (AGC) deals with self-managing and 
self-adapting parallel
and distributed computing and associated data management on a 
distributed and parallel
Grid of compute machines and storage systems. Grid computing is 
performed with the
support of two major infrastructure components: 1) a Grid middleware, 
such as Globus
or UNICORE, that provides advanced services and supports Grid resource 
management,
and 2) a fabric layer that comprises the underlying systems, computers, 
operating systems,
and storage systems. A fabric layer component of particular importance 
is the network
since all distributed services rely on the capabilities of the 
interconnecting network.

Recently, the Grid Community has started efforts to enhance the core 
services of a Grid
middleware with autonomic capabilities so that the functions are 
self-managing. For
example, an autonomic Grid resource allocation manager, instead of 
statically allocating
or releasing resources to Grid applications, could do so adaptively, or 
self-heal to failures.
However, the AGC and associated infrastructure (AGCI) is geared mainly 
towards
compute (servers, supercomputers) and storage resources. In other words, 
the autonomic
behavior of AGC and AGCI is a function of changes in compute and storage 
resources,
but not networking resources. Hence there is need for support of 
Autonomic Grid
Networking (AGN) and associated resource management. Note that, an AGN is a
overlay (layer 7) Grid network, in the same way a typical Grid network 
is, with the
following exceptions:
1) a limited set of network resources are considered along with the 
existing
   (compute and storage) Grid resources;
2) addition of autonomic functions to the Grid middleware that are 
(conceptually) similar
    to the ones provided in the lower layer (Layers 3, 2, 1) networks, 
such as self-control
   (dynamic rerouting, such as IGP rerouting), self-protection ([G]MPLS 
Fast Rerouting
    and Protection, Sonet/SDH protection switching), and self-healing 
(control and data
    plane high-availability, etc.) features of lower layer networks.
For example, in a typical Grid, the resource management architecture is 
client-server
oriented, where resources are typically registered to and pulled from a 
particular service.
In contrast, in an AGN, the resource management architecture could be 
distributed and
autonomous, where resource requests are routed by autonomous and 
distributed AGN
middleware components.

This one-day workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers and 
practitioners to
exchange ideas and experiences on problems, challenges, solutions and 
potential future
research and development issues in this new field of Autonomic Grid 
Networking and
Management. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an 
intimate setting
for discussion and debate through panels and group work.

The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on topics related 
to the concepts
described above, including, but not limited to:
   Grid middleware enhancements for AGN
   Network-aware autonomic Grid scheduling
   Network-aware autonomic Grid data and storage management
   AGN specific resource discovery
   AGN QoS (combined application and abstracted network QoS) management
   AGN routing
   AGN self-healing and self-protection
   AGN high-availability
   AGN monitoring and performance management

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Workshop Co-chairs
    Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA
    Volker Sander, Aachen U of Applied Sciences, Germany


Steering Committee

    Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA
    Volker Sander, Aachen U of Applied Sciences, Germany
    Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada

Program Committee

Bill St. Arnaud, Canarie, Canada
Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada
Jon Crowcroft, U Cambridge, UK
Asit Dan, IBM Watson Research C, USA
Cees DeLaat, U Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ, Germany
Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany
Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA
Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy
Markus Fidler, NUST, Norway
Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA
Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan
Heinz-Gerd Hegering, LRZ, Germany
Doan B. Hoang, U Sydney, Australia
Admela Jukan, UIUC, USA
B.H. Lee, Daejeon U, South Korea
Francis Lee, NTU, Singapore
J.P. Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada
M. Morrow, Cisco Systems, Switzerland
Pramila Mullan, France Telecom, USA
Sid Nag, Prominence Networks, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers U, USA
Pascale Primet, INRIA, France
Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul U Chicago, USA
Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA
Michael Welzl, U Innsbruck, Austria
Chan-Hyun Youn, ICU, South Korea

Panel Chair

Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA

Important Dates

Submission deadline: June 10, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005
Camera-ready: September 9, 2005

Paper Submission

Please submit your paper, which is previously unpublished and currently
not under review to agnm05 at fz-juelich.de. Please submit no more than 10
pages including figures, tables, references and annexes in .pdf or .doc
formats. Further instructions for final submission will be provided later