[Tccc] CFP (Deadline Extension): IEEE Communications Magazine - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain Networks using Measurement Federations

Calyam, Prasad calyampatmissouri.edu
Thu Feb 28 07:49:29 EST 2013



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IEEE Communications Magazine - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain 
Networks using Measurement Federations
CALL FOR PAPERS - Announcement (EXTENDED DEADLINE: APRIL 1 2013)
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http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag1113.htm

Aims and Scope

In both the scientific and corporate worlds, users, resources, and data are 
often physically distributed, making networks increasingly important for all 
operations. Enormous progress has been made in increasing the capacity and 
accessibility of networking infrastructures, which in turn has fostered wider 
adoption of Cloud and Grid environments. Unfortunately, these advances have not 
directly translated into improved performance for all applications and users; 
instead, network performance problems become even more subtle and detrimental 
as the capacity of the network increases, and troubleshooting them on 
multi-domain network paths is highly challenging. These problems may be as 
benign as congestion from other network users, or as serious as packet loss 
caused by one or more intermediate-domain infrastructure and architectural 
flaws.

Troubleshooting performance problems on multi-domain networks requires a great 
deal of effort and expertise, as well as measurement policy agreements that 
mutually benefit domains within measurement federations. Novel approaches are 
needed to foster wider adoption of explicit measurement federations such as 
perfSONAR, SamKnows, Grenouille and M-Lab involving co-operating agents in 
collaborating vendor organizations as well as user communities. These 
approaches may also be suitable for implicit measurement federations seen in 
content-delivery networks involving multiple service providers that co-operate 
to reduce operating costs, while providing satisfactory end-user experience. 
Building upon current end-to-end measurement federation related 
standards-development efforts - at Open Grid Forum (OGF), IETF IP Performance 
Metrics (IPPM), IEEE 802.1 ag, ITU-T Y.1731, and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) - 
can benefit the interoperability and sustainability of explicit and implicit 
measurement federations.

In addition, sophisticated tools are required to monitor multi-domain networks 
and to detect, localize and diagnose performance problems in real-time. As 
networks increase in capacity, and new paradigms such as Software Defined 
Networking emerge to aid in traffic management, performance monitoring tools 
must be scalable and capable of detecting performance issues in a timely 
manner. The monitoring and diagnosing tools must comply with measurement 
federation policies, and aid network operators when troubleshooting perceived 
abnormalities, as well as help network middleware and intelligent applications 
to work around problems, ultimately minimizing the impact to end users.

This special issue will cover novel techniques and standardization efforts in 
the area of monitoring and troubleshooting of multi-domain networks using 
measurement federations. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

         Algorithms and Techniques for Automated Network Troubleshooting
         Architectures for Federated Measurement Collection and Sharing
         Intra and Inter Domain Monitoring Strategies
         Measurement Federation related Standards-development Efforts
         Monitoring of Software Defined, Content-delivery and Overlay Networks
         Troubleshooting of Hybrid Packet and Circuit Networks
         Network-aware Middleware for High Speed Networks
         Measurements from Cloud and Grid Environments
         Security and Policy Considerations for Federated Measurements
         New Policy-based Network Monitoring/Analysis Tools and Paradigms
         End-to-End ("Disk-to-Disk") Performance Problem Troubleshooting
         Scalability of Measurement Methods and Infrastructures
         Embedded Active Monitoring based Collaborative Management
         Case Studies of End-to-End or Network Performance Troubleshooting
         Federations to jointly troubleshoot Home-area and Wide-area Networks

Submission Guidelines

Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible to 
readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE 
Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. 
Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at 
http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is very important 
to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical 
content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 
4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted 
through the IEEE Manuscript Central 
(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Select "November 
2013/Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain Networks using Measurement 
Federations" from the drop down menu.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Due: April 1, 2013 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2013
Publication: November 2013

Guest Editors

Constantine Dovrolis - Georgia Institute of Technology - dovro... at cc.gatech.edu
Prasad Calyam - University of Missouri-Columbia - caly... at missouri.edu
Raj Kettimuthu - Argonne National Laboratory - ketti... at mcs.anl.gov
Brian Tierney - Energy Sciences Network - bltier... at es.net
Jason Zurawski - Internet2 - zuraw... at internet2.edu
Loki Jorgenson - NooCore Technology Consulting - ljorgen... at noocore.com
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