Call for Papers


IEEE INFOCOM 2009 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2009)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Friday, April 24, 2009
http://www.encs.concordia.ca/~assi/hsn2009/



Patrons

·        United States Department of Energy

·        Ciena Inc. Linthicum, MA, USA

 

In Cooperation with

·         IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN)

·         IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC)

Traditionally held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, the workshop on High-Speed Networks brings together researchers from a wide spectrum of areas related to end-to-end communications at rates up to the Tbps range. While physical transmission media enable such high-bitrate communications, existing link, network, transport, and application protocols and their software and hardware implementations in both end systems and core nodes have not yet realized this potential. The limitations of the current designs justify exploration of novel clean-slate approaches to dependable high-bitrate networking desired in e-Science, medicine, entertainment, data centers and other application domains.

HSN 2009 provides a unique forum for discussions centered on the design, validation and deployment of high-speed networks without imposing the constraint of straightforward integration of the proposed ideas into the existing network infrastructure. All topics pertinent to high-speed networking are of interest. They include but are not limited to the following:

Terabits optical networks technologies

·        Innovative and agile terabits network architectures and protocols

·        Multi-layer provisioning and federated management

·        Control and signaling plane technologies (GMPLS, UNI, NNI, etc)

·        End-to-end performance issues

·        Host systems issues including bus and OS

·        Switching technologies including packet, burst, flow and circuit switching

·        Ultra high-speed cyber security systems

·        Experimental deployment of high-capacity optical networks

·        Traffic engineering for ultra high-speed networks, performance modeling

·        Network survivability and fault management

·        Carrier Ethernet services

·        Network virtualization and overlay design

·        Free-space high-capacity optical networks

·        High capacity next generation metro networks

 

Applications for terabits optical networks

·        Petascale data transfers over terabit networks

·        Prototyping high-end applications for ultra high-speed environments

·        High-performance transport protocols and middlewares

·        High-speed I/O and storage systems

·        Distributed access to supercomputing facilities

·        Data distribution in petabyte networks

·        Grid computing and terabyte optical networks

·        Data center design in metro and core networks

·        Virtualized and consolidated data centers

·        Security issues with petascale optical networks

 

Submission Guidelines

 

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a full paper (6 pages) for review. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. The submission process is carried through EDAS conference management system (http://edas.info/). These submissions should follow the IEEE INFOCOM formatting guidelines, templates for which are available at: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/confpub/auxfiles/sample_manuscript.pdf. The maximum paper length is of six (6) pages.

Submission of electronic versions of the presentation slides is due on March 28, 2009. These slides will be included in the on-line proceedings of the workshop, which will be compiled in advance of the event.

Important dates are as follows:

·         Full paper due: January 31, 2009 extended to Feb 10

·         Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2009 March 10

·         Slides and extended abstracts due: March 28, 2009

·         Workshop date: April 24, 2009

General Chairs

·         Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA

·         Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

 

Technical Program Committee Chairs

·         Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

·         Yonggang Wen, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Workshop Panel Chair

 

·        Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh

 

Local Co-Chair

·        Nelson Fonseca, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

 

Technical Program Committee

TBD

 

 

Past history of the workshop

 

For the past 3 years the workshop has been running and the acceptance rate is around 20%. Other relevant information is presented as follows:
 
1) Approximately 20-30 high-quality papers presented
2) Approximately 30-50 paid attendees
3) Good panels/breakout sessions

 


HSN 2009 website is maintained by Chadi Assi