Workshop on Service Aware Optical Grid Networks
Held in conjunction with GridNets 2008
Beijing, China, 8 October 2008
Motivation and rationale for the workshop
The constantly increasing interest devoted to grids, both in terms of developments and applications, proves that distributed computing has now achieved a high degree of maturity to be considered as a new network paradigm. Quality of Service as well as service awareness of both network and non network resources are important aspects for both controlling an managing grids. Service awareness concept is derived from autonomic networks for self-organizing purposes. Service awareness in grids will allow the combination of complex grid services with QoS-enabled connectivity or in other words a seamless internetworking of network and non-network resources. In this direction, service composition, service discovery as well as complete service restoration (apart from simple connectivity restoration) are key aspects when distributed grid services are offered.
Scope of the workshop:
This workshop will solicit contributions discussing the most significant aspects of deployment service awareness in a grid infrastructure. The scope of the papers includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Resource virtualization and grid service abstraction
- Service oriented grid network architectures
- Grid service composition
- Intelligent optical network architectures
- Grid service discovery mechanism
- Service restoration and protection
- GMPLS extensions for new service paradigms
Expected number of submissions and target audience/participants:
The workshop will be organized with invited contributions, from both the academia and the industry. People from the China National Grid Project (CNGrid), international for a (ie GGF, lamdaRAIL, CANARIE etc) as well as EU funded projects (i.e Phosphorus, DICONET, etc) will be invited.
Sponsorship:
The European Network of Excellence BONE will sponsor the project and will promote the call for papers to its members. This will raise awareness of the workshop and give visibility to a large number of R&D groups. BONE network brings together 49 partners from both the academia and the industrial sector.
Submission Guidelines:
Papers that are submitted to the Workshop should follow the instructions of the GridNets 2008 conference (see the GridNets Author Kit)
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