perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

All;

The deadline on this CFP has been extended to April 1st by request.

Thanks;

-jason

On Feb 7, 2013, at 4:15 AM, Jason Zurawski 
<>
 wrote:

> 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 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> IEEE Communications Magazine - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain 
>> Networks using Measurement Federations
>> CALL FOR PAPERS - First announcement
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 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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>> Internet2
>> 
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