[Nml-wg] CFP GridNets 2008

[Pascale VICAT-BLANC]

			GridNets 2008
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Second International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications
Beijing, China, October 8-10, 2008
http://www.gridnets.org/

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


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.

The GridNets conference series is an annual international meeting  
that 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.

Previous events in this series were: GridNets 2004 in San Jose (USA),  
GridNets 2005 in Boston (USA), GridNets 2006 in San Jose (USA) and  
GridNets 2007 in Lyon (France). All these events have been successful  
in attracting high quality papers and a wide international  
participation. From the first event through the fourth, it was known  
as the GridNets Workshop affiliated with the IEEE BroadNets  
conference series. From last year on, it has been offered as an  
independent conference.

Grid developers and practitioners are increasingly realising 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.

Scope
* Network architectures and technologies for grids;
* Integration of advanced optical networking technologies into the  
grid environment;
* End to end lightpath provisioning software systems and emergent  
standards;
* 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;
* Simulations;
* New concepts and requirements that may fundamentally reshape the  
network evolution.

Keynote Speakers
        To be defined.

Important Dates
* Workshop Proposal Deadline: 30 May 2008
* Paper Submission Deadline: 13 June 2008
* Paper Acceptance Notification: 8 August 2008
* Final paper submission: 1 September 2008
* Conference: Beijing during October 8-10, 2008
 >>  For submission, please refer to	http://gridnets.org/authkit.html

Organizing Committee

-General co-chairs:
* Chris Edwards (Lancaster University)
* Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck)
* Junsheng Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

-Local co-chairs:
* Yuan'an Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
* Tongxu Zhang (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co. Ltd.)
* Shaohua Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

-Program Committee co-chairs:
* Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon)
* Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University)
* Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST, Japan)

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