[telco-cg] GridNets'07: 1st International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications (CFP)

[Sumit Naiksatam]

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     *                         CALL FOR PAPERS                           *
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     *                          GridNets 2007                            *
     * First International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications  *
     *             Co-Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST and INRIA            *
     *        In-technical cooperation with ACM SIGARCH and EU-IST       *
     *                Lyon, France, October 17-19, 2007                  *
     *                  http://www.gridnets.org/2007                     *
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     All accepted papers will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as 
                     well as indexed by EI and ISI Index.


The GridNets conference series is an annual international meeting which
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 objective 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.

The previous events in this series were: GridNets 2004 in San Jose
(USA), GridNets 2005 in Boston (USA), GridNets 2006 in San Jose
(USA). All of these events have been successful in attracting high
quality papers and a wide international participation. From the first
event through the fourth, we have been known as the GridNets Workshop
affiliated with the IEEE BroadNets conference series. For this, our
fifth event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and in
Europe.  The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be
available through ACM Digital Library. Best papers will be considered
for publication in a special section of Elsevier Future Generation
Computer Systems (FGCS) - The International Journal of Grid Computing:
Theory, Methods and Application.

Grid developers and practicioners are increasingly realising the
importance of an 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. Big 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
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* 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 Grid 
  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
* 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 which may fundamentally reshape the evolution 
  of Networks.


Workshops
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Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential instructors are
requested to submit a workshop proposal in ASCII or PDF format to the
Workshops chair, Laurent Lefevre (laurent.lefevre at inria dot fr) by
April 3, 2007


Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal Deadline: April 3, 2007
Paper Submission Deadline: May 11, 2007, Midnight CET
Paper Acceptance Notification: June 22, 2007
Final paper submission: July 27, 2007
Conference  in Lyon: October 17-19, 2007

(For submission instructions, refer to http://www.gridnets.org)



Organizing Committee
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General co-chairs:
	Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon),
	Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) 
Local co-chairs: 
	Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), 
	Paulo Goncalves (INRIA,ENS-Lyon) 
Program Committee co-chairs: 
	Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh), 
	David Hutchison (Lancaster University), 
	Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University) 
Publicity chair: 
	Serafim Kotrotsos (EXIS IT) for Europe, 
	Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) for Asia, 
	Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco Systems) for USA 
Publications chair: 
	Piero Spinnato (LNGS - INFN)
Workshop chair: 
	Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) 
Steering Committee:
	Imrich Chlamtac, Chair, (CREATE-NET), 
	Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA,ENS-Lyon), 
	Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) 
Industry track chair: 
	Bela Berde (Alcatel) 
Panels chair: 
	Volker Sander (University of Applied Sciences Aachen) 
Exhibits and sponsorship chair: 
	Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) 
Conference coordination and registration:
	Zita Rozsa (ICST) 
Finance chair: 
	Karen Decker (ICST)
Webmaster: 
	Jean-Christophe Mignot (CNRS, ENS-Lyon)