Call for Papers
Submission extended until May 22, 2009
Following the successful, although unanticipated, merge at MANWEEK
2008, NGNM and EVGM will be officially merged as NGNM 2009 at MANWEEK
2009. The new and improved workshop will comprehensively cover topics
related to the middleware needed in next-generation networks, including
the middleware necessary to enable virtualization, a key functionally for
enabling Grid/Cloud/Utility computing. The workshop proceedings will be
published in the Multicon Lecture Notes Series.
The convergence of telecommunication networks has opened up prospects
for a rich ecosystem of IP-based next-generation network technologies and
applications. The emergence of principles and practices such as
Virtualization, the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, along
with gradual adoption of industry standards such as the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and Java API for
Internetworking (JAIN) is making this convergence possible. The challenges
to the operators are to provide suitable interfaces to an increasingly
complex and heterogeneous underlying wireless access landscape, typically
consisting of cellular (e.g., UMTS, LTE, etc.), metropolitan area (e.g.,
WiMAX) and short-range (e.g., WiFi) systems. Future telecom service
providers, on the other hand, are expected to stem from the fact that a
converged network needs to carry a multitude of high-bandwidth triple-play
(voice, video, and data) services over a single network, which is much
more distributed, multipoint, diverse, and interactive in nature.
Virtualization is an emerging trend that refers to an abstraction of
computing resources in a way that makes physical computing resources
(e.g., processors, storage, connectivity) totally transparent to other
systems, applications, as well as end-users that interact with these
resources. In a virtualized environment, multiple distributed resources
are federated and appear a single logical resource. State of the art
virtualization deployments facilitate enterprises in aggregating,
configuring, and managing enterprise resources in a cost-effective
fashion. Nevertheless, these deployments focus on relatively homogeneous
environments (e.g., environments comprising single vendor resources) and
selected types of computing resources. End-to-end (E2E) virtualization
solutions aim at extending the benefits of virtualization in larger scale
environments, spanning multiple heterogeneous resources across
geographical and administrative boundaries.
To cater to these emerging service paradigms, the network intelligence
has to address several aspects including multimedia session management,
coordination of multi-protocol connections, advanced security, etc.
Multimedia content delivery over the Internet has been extensively
researched. However, the related engineering problem is evolving into the
problem of how to dynamically create content distribution infrastructures
and services in the context of telco-provider managed networks. To stay
ahead in the competition and provide market-leading offerings, carriers
further need to enable a global ecosystem of third-party independent
application developers to deliver converged services leveraging open
standards-based service delivery platform. Finally, to establish a common
architecture for the convergence among services and networks, standards
and frameworks will be required to ensure the interoperability of networks
and applications, and facilitate best utilization of the existing
telecommunications infrastructure within the converged ecosystem.
It is in this setting of an open services market with service
operators, application developers as well as the IT infrastructure as
stakeholders, that the role of middleware is crucial. Middleware enabled
rapid development and deployment of new applications allows early
introduction of value-added services to attract new customers and retain
existing ones. Established telcos often have a plethora of legacy systems,
such as Intelligent Networks (IN), Business / Operational Support Systems
(BSS/OSS), Web-based systems and SIP/IMS-based services, which can all
interoperate through open interfaces provided by the middleware layer,
allowing a seamless, autonomic interaction between them. The arguments for
a middleware-oriented consolidation of services in the telecommunications
service provider/carrier space are also largely applicable to the
enterprise segment. There are, of course, differences in requirements and
service expectations for corporate users as opposed to consumers; however,
the trend towards consolidation of IT and telecom architectures is just as
compelling. Further, middleware approaches can offer scalability and load-
balancing capabilities to critical infrastructure components. For example,
the roll out of distributed / federated presence-based applications will
necessitate management of huge amounts of subscriber data residing in the
middleware. Finally, there are challenges of enabling guaranteed QoS and
seamless access to triple-play services. In the emerging heterogeneous
networking environment, cross-layer and inter-system optimization studies
are essential to guarantee that these challenges are met. In this regard,
large-scale distributed experimental testbeds with real or virtual
components interconnected through an efficient middleware can be leveraged
to validate promising approaches, algorithms and mechanisms prior to
commercial deployment.
SCOPE OF NGNM/EVGM 2009
The organizers of NGNM 2009
envisage a balance between academic and industrial participation and seek
original, unpublished papers on different aspects of middleware
technologies for enabling Next-Generation Network (NGN) services and
applications. Topics of submission include, but are not limited to:
- Middleware architectures, Resource Allocation and Heterogeneous Network Access for converged networks
- NGN middleware for content distribution infrastructures, context-aware applications, collaborative/P2P applications, and for enterprise applications
- NGN middleware adaptation to underlying technologies (e.g., cellular, metropolitan area, and short-range systems)
- Middleware support for NGN inter-networking and interoperability with non-NGN systems
- Publish/subscribe middleware and middleware for peer-assisted carrier-grade content delivery
- Scalable, adaptive, and self-managing aspects of middleware
- Converged networks policy-based management, monitoring, and control
- QoS provisioning, service differentiation, accounting, and billing
- Identity management and anonymity support infrastructures
- Trust, security and privacy issues
- Presence and contextual data management
- Middleware for distributed experimental testbeds with real or virtual components
- Web Service/Grid-enabled middleware for converged networks
- Service modeling, composition, deployment, and orchestration
- Programming paradigms, Web 2.0, and mashups
- Virtualization in Autonomic, Grid, Cloud, and Utility Computing
- Architectures and Frameworks, Provisioning Protocols, Management Policies, Performance Analysis and QoS, Reliability Analysis, and Applications in Virtualized Environments
- Migration Strategies Towards Resource Federation and Virtualization
PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions must present original,
unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-
progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged. Papers under
review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted. Authors are requested to submit
either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in
LNCS format (see below):
- Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages)
- Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 6 single-spaced single-column pages)
Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed
and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed
instructions.
PROCEEDINGS
The workshop proceedings will be
published in the Multicon Lecture Notes Series.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
- Paper registration: May 1, 2009
- Paper submission: Submission extended until May 22, 2009
- Author notification: June 30, 2009
- Camera ready papers due: July 18, 2009
- Workshop: October 27-28, 2009
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