[CAnet - news] First International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications

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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.


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