[Tccc] CfP: Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS'13) at ICNP-2013

Dirk Kutscher Dirk.Kutscheratneclab.eu
Tue May 21 12:05:27 EDT 2013



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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

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                   Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS'13)
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In conjunction with ICNP'13, 7-11 October, Goettingen, Germany.

Internet data traffic continues to grow rapidly. The challenge that operators 
face, especially in the mobile Internet, is to support more subscribers with 
higher bandwidth demands and a large variety of services with different 
requirements. Therefore, operators need to seek for new technologies to 
efficiently utilize the available network resources, in particular, this 
concerns resource allocation and flow management. At the same time, network 
virtualization in data centers and carrier networks enables a more flexible and 
efficient resource management - but creates new challenges for sharing capacity 
among tenants and users of those networks, e.g, scaling up network resources 
transparently based on the congestion level. In wireless networks, capacity 
sharing is particularly relevant due to the inherently limited resources, which 
render a simple "throwing bandwidth at the problem" solution impossible.

This change in network operation and the strong growth and continual changes in 
the traffic characteristics and usage behavior raises questions on how to share 
limited capacity resources fairly and more efficiently. While efficiency is 
most important when resources are spare, fairness need to be evaluated based on 
the different quality requirements of the various Internet services that we 
have today. While the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, was mostly 
engineered to provide a low loss service, low-latency services are not well 
supported today. In addition, there is regulation that can impose additional 
requirements in some markets, such as availability requirements, network 
neutrality etc.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of 
transport protocols, system designers of data centers, fixed and mobile access 
networks, and their applications to advance the state of research on capacity 
sharing. We solicit contributions on the state-of-the-art, results of ongoing 
research, open issues, trends and new ideas. We solicit contributions on the 
state-of-the-art, results of ongoing research, open issues, trends and new 
ideas. We want to encourage researchers to consider integrated consideration of 
the problem space over all layers. 

Topics
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Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to

* Context-aware resource allocation and cross-layer adaptation

* Network protocols to exchange information on the network state

* Support low-latency services and Transport layer solutions

* Possible interactions with cellular/fixed access networks

* Application-layer adaption especially for mobile and interactive services

* Network Function Virtualization and SDN to implement capacity sharing

* QoE and fairness definitions, metrics and evaluation

* Data traffic characteristics in fixed and mobile Internet

* Economic aspects on capacity sharing and business models

* Related standardization activities, projects and regulatory constraints


Submission
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Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at 
another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages 
long, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices in IEEE 
Computer Society format.
Please see the workshop webpage for further submission guidelines:
http://icnp13.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/csws13/

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline:      June 21, 2013
Acceptance notification:        August 2, 2013
Camera-ready paper:             August 9, 2013
Workshop date:                  October, 2013 (to be announced)

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Mirja Khlewind, IKR University of Stuttgart, Germany
Dirk Kutscher, NEC Europe Labs Heidelberg, Germany


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