FEDNET2012 – Collocated with IEEE NOMS 2012, April 16th, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA (http://www.ieee-noms.org/).

Two major concepts have emerged recently for implementing the Future Internet or future networks: Network Virtualization (NV) and Network Federation (NF).

Network Virtualization enables the parallel operation (respectively consolidation) of multiple and possibly application specific network in a single physical system, and thus achieving vertical integration of network and services. Network Federation aims at the combination, also denoted as stitching, of willingly cooperating network resources and thus achieving horizontal convergence of diverse technical or administrative domains. Due to these features, NV and NF are currently investigated in almost all major FI projects such as GENI, AKARI, OneLab2 or G-Lab as the core technologies.

However, the operation of NV and NF based networks might become challenging. The support of multi-domain federated networks in virtual environments requires scalable management of network nodes and resources, which may exhibit a strong dynamic behavior. Future NV and NF based networks form constantly changing transport system in contrast to today’s rather static network. Furthermore, the users will not care about the whereabouts of services; currently they are viewed as parts of the virtualized and federated “cloud”, and it’s completely up to the operators to orchestrate the system behind the user interface such that good Quality of Experience is achieved.

Thus, new paradigms for network management of NV and NF are required. Here, a highly distributed ‘In-Network Management’ may be envisaged. To support this scalable management several challenges are in place. Some of these challenges include the discovery of the virtual resources in the federated environment, the support of different resources and how they can be stitched, which resources to be combined together, the bootstrap and federation of different virtual resources from different places, the negotiation of resources between providers, the maintenance of transparency of the network with multiple criteria and multiple operators, and of extremely importance is the performance measurement and models to evaluate federated networks. The integration of network and cloud resources for the support of federation of both networks and services will also be of major importance.

The aim of the first IEEE Workshop on Algorithms and Operating Procedures for Federated Virtualized Networks (FEDNET2012) is to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry and from various disciplines to exchange and discuss their ideas, views and research results towards the management and especially operation of consolidated, converged, virtualized and federated Future Internet and networks of the future.

Topics of particular interest:

• Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS 
• Network as a Service, NaaS 
• Virtualization Technologies
• Network and Cloud Virtualization
• Virtualized Resources Discovery Mechanisms
• Combination of Virtual Resources
• Mechanisms and protocols for Network Virtualization (NV)
• Performance, scalability and reliability of NV mechanisms
• Mechanisms and protocols for Network Federation (NF)
• Performance, scalability and reliability of NF mechanisms
• Mechanisms and protocols for providing Cloud services
• Mechanisms and methods for the operation of IaaS, NaaS, and Cloud services
• Combined Control (network and cloud resource)
• Cloud Service QoS / QoE
• Measurements in Virtualized Environments and Clouds
• Performance Modeling
• Transparency and Isolation
• Control Plane
• Management of Virtualized Resources
• User-Cloud Connectivity
• Inter-Cloud Connectivity
• Inter-Data Center Connectivity

Workshop organizers:

• Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden)
• Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telelcomunicações, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
• Kurt Tutschku (University of Vienna, Austria)

Technical Program Committee (confirmed, additional members will be added):

• Andy Bavier Princeton University, USA.
• Roland Bless Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
• Marshall Brinn GENI GPO, Raytheon BBN, USA.
• Justin Cappos NYU Poly, USA.
• Georg Carle TU Munich, Germany.
• Hermann de Meer University of Passau, Germany.
• Christopher Edwards University of Lancaster, UK.
• Xavier Hasselbach Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain.
• Marco Hoffmann Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG, Germany.
• Wolfgang Kellerer NTT DOCOMO EuroLabs, Germany.
• Akihiro Nakao University of Tokyo and NICT, Japan
• Joel Obstfeld Juniper, USA & UK.
• George Polyzos Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.
• Rastin Pries University of Wuerzburg, Germany.
• Florian Schreiner TU Berlin, Germany.
• James Sterbenz University of Kansas, USA.
• Pascale Vicat-Blanc Lyatiss, USA & France.
• Felix Wu UC David, USA.

PROCEEDINGS

Papers accepted for FEDNET2012 will be included in the conference proceedings, IEEE Xplore, and EI Index. The IEEE reserves the right to remove any paper from IEEE Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

AGENDA

Start time: 5pm on April 16th, 2012 
Total Duration: 120min