perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hi All;

A friendly reminder that this CFP is due on March 1st.

Thanks;

-jason

On Oct 22, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Jason Zurawski 
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 wrote:

> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
> 
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> IEEE Communications Magazine - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain 
> Networks using Measurement Federations
> CALL FOR PAPERS - First announcement
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> 
> http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag1113.htm
> 
> Aims and Scope
> 
> In both the scientific and corporate worlds, users, resources, and data are 
> often physically distributed, making networks increasingly important for 
> all operations. Enormous progress has been made in increasing the capacity 
> and accessibility of networking infrastructures, which in turn has fostered 
> wider adoption of Cloud and Grid environments. Unfortunately, these 
> advances have not directly translated into improved performance for all 
> applications and users; instead, network performance problems become even 
> more subtle and detrimental as the capacity of the network increases, and 
> troubleshooting them on multi-domain network paths is highly challenging. 
> These problems may be as benign as congestion from other network users, or 
> as serious as packet loss caused by one or more intermediate-domain 
> infrastructure and architectural flaws.
> Troubleshooting performance problems on multi-domain networks requires a 
> great deal of effort and expertise, as well as measurement policy 
> agreements that mutually benefit domains within measurement federations. 
> Novel approaches are needed to foster wider adoption of explicit 
> measurement federations such as perfSONAR, SamKnows, Grenouille and M-Lab 
> involving co-operating agents in collaborating vendor organizations as well 
> as user communities. These approaches may also be suitable for implicit 
> measurement federations seen in content-delivery networks involving 
> multiple service providers that co-operate to reduce operating costs, while 
> providing satisfactory end-user experience. Building upon current 
> end-to-end measurement federation related standards-development efforts - 
> at Open Grid Forum (OGF), IETF IP Performance Metrics (IPPM), IEEE 802.1 
> ag, ITU-T Y.1731, and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) - can benefit the 
> interoperability and sustainability of explicit and implicit measurement 
> federations.
> 
> In addition, sophisticated tools are required to monitor multi-domain 
> networks and to detect, localize and diagnose performance problems in 
> real-time. As networks increase in capacity, and new paradigms such as 
> Software Defined Networking emerge to aid in traffic management, 
> performance monitoring tools must be scalable and capable of detecting 
> performance issues in a timely manner. The monitoring and diagnosing tools 
> must comply with measurement federation policies, and aid network operators 
> when troubleshooting perceived abnormalities, as well as help network 
> middleware and intelligent applications to work around problems, ultimately 
> minimizing the impact to end users.
> 
> This special issue will cover novel techniques and standardization efforts 
> in the area of monitoring and troubleshooting of multi-domain networks 
> using measurement federations. Topics to be covered include, but are not 
> limited to:
> 
>       • Algorithms and Techniques for Automated Network Troubleshooting
>       • Architectures for Federated Measurement Collection and Sharing
>       • Intra and Inter Domain Monitoring Strategies
>       • Measurement Federation related Standards-development Efforts
>       • Monitoring of Software Defined, Content-delivery and Overlay 
> Networks
>       • Troubleshooting of Hybrid Packet and Circuit Networks
>       • Network-aware Middleware for High Speed Networks
>       • Measurements from Cloud and Grid Environments
>       • Security and Policy Considerations for Federated Measurements
>       • New Policy-based Network Monitoring/Analysis Tools and Paradigms
>       • End-to-End ("Disk-to-Disk") Performance Problem Troubleshooting
>       • Scalability of Measurement Methods and Infrastructures
>       • Embedded Active Monitoring based Collaborative Management
>       • Case Studies of End-to-End or Network Performance Troubleshooting
>       • Federations to jointly troubleshoot Home-area and Wide-area Networks
> 
> Submission Guidelines 
> 
> Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible 
> to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the 
> IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the 
> manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at 
> http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is very 
> important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits 
> mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length 
> should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for 
> publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central 
> (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Select 
> "November 2013/Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain Networks using 
> Measurement Federations" from the drop down menu.
> 
> Important Dates 
> 
> Manuscript Submission Due: March 1, 2013
> Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2013
> Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2013
> Publication: November 2013
> 
> Guest Editors 
> 
> Constantine Dovrolis - Georgia Institute of Technology - 
> 
> Prasad Calyam - Ohio Supercomputer Center/OARnet, The Ohio State University 
> - 
> 
> Raj Kettimuthu - Argonne National Laboratory - 
> 
> Brian Tierney - Energy Sciences Network - 
> 
> Jason Zurawski - Internet2 - 
> 
> Loki Jorgenson - NooCore Technology Consulting - 
> 
> 
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