[Tccc] [CNSM 2012] CFP *** DC CAVES 2012 *** Submission deadline June 18, 2012 ****

CNSM Workshops cnsm.wkp
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4th DC Converged And Virtual Ethernet Switching (DC CAVES) Workshop
     		 In conjunction with CNSM 2012
	http://cnsm-conf.org/2012/cfp-DCCaVES.html
	Oct. 22-26 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Deadline for submission                         	      June 18, 2012
Notification of acceptance                       		July 31, 2011
Camera ready papers                                	      Sept. 24, 2012

Workshop date                                      	 October 26, 2012

Organized together with CNSM 2012, the fourth IEEE DC CAVES workshop is
intended to serve as a forum to present the latest work by researchers  
and
developers from both academia and industry. The workshop focuses on the
technologies that will be needed to meet the demands of the new  
virtual and
converged compute model described above, including Software Defined
Networking, OpenFlow and Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
networks. For each of these technologies the workshop will analyze the  
problem
and solution alternatives.

The two major topics of interest are server virtualization  
infrastructure and
physical switch virtualization infrastructure:

* Server virtualization infrastructure
- Software Defined Networking
- Server Input/Output Virtualization enhancements
- Automation of virtual server network identity management
- Enhanced virtual server network access and traffic controls
- Networking technologies to enable server migration within an entire DC
- Networking technologies to enable virtual server migration across DCs
- Security plane infrastructure virtualization
- Enhancements to virtual Ethernet switches used by virtualization
	intermediaries (e.g. Hypervisors)
- IEEE 802.1Qbg Ethernet Virtual Bridging mechanisms
- IEEE 802.1Qbh Bridge Port Extension mechanisms
- Offloading of virtual switching to external fabrics
- Converged fabric reference services architectures
- Future directions

* Virtual & converged fabric infrastructure
- Overall network virtualization & performance
- OpenFlow
- Layer-2/3/+ fabric virtualization technologies
- Enhancements to convergence technologies
- Performance evaluation of converged iSCSI, NAS and emerging FCoE  
fabrics
- Converged fabric security considerations
- Transport stack options converging Inter-Process Communication (IPC)  
traffic
- Additional Ethernet Quality of Service enhancements needed for  
converged
	environments
- Performance and fault event management for converged fabrics
- Converged fabric management infrastructure
- Converged fabric reference services architectures
- Future directions
- Performance evaluation of RDMA over Ethernet technologies

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit technical papers, position papers, and  
case studies
relevant to the workshop. Submission guidelines can be found at
http://cnsm-conf.org/2012/cfp-DCCaVES.html

Workshop Program Chair: Renato Recio, IBM

Organizing Committee:
Peter Ashwood-smith, Huawei, China
Paul Congdon, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA
Uri Elzur, Intel, USA
Mike Kagan, Mellanox, Israel
Srikanth Kilaru, Juniper, USA
Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA
Rob Sherwood, BigSwitch, USA
Pat Thaler, Broadcom, USA
Suresh Vobbilisetty, Brocade, USA
Manoj Wadekar, QLogic, USA



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