Panlab: Latest News http://www.panlab.net/ Latest news from panlab.net en Panlab: Latest News http://www.panlab.net/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.panlab.net/ 18 16 Latest news from panlab.net TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:09:00 +0100 Demonstration at FIA Aalborg http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/demonstration-at-fia-aalborg.html OpenFlow and P2P integrated testing undefinedOpenLab project. The demonstration will show how it is possible to use OpenLab tools with OpenFlow configuration. In more detail the demonstration will use the Federation Scenario toolkit for describing the experiment, including some potential federated resources from OpenLab. Then mechanisms like Resource Adapters and the Panlab Testbed Manager will be used to configure the testbed. The aim of the demonstration will be to show what are the possibilities with OpenLab tools for future experimentation. OpenLab will also demonstrate two other scenarios: "PlanetLab-NITOS federation" and "Remote control of mobile robots for setting up mobility scenarios in mobile and wireless experiments." These demonstrations will be part of the programme of the EC initiative FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation), presenting thematic workshops and demonstrations (further details). They will take place on 10 May 2012 in the foyer of the event location. ]]> News Thu, 03 May 2012 09:19:00 +0200 Special Issue on Future Internet Testbeds http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/special-issue-on-future-internet-testbeds.html Guest Editors James P.G. SterbenzThe University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.... Guest Editors James P.G. Sterbenz
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. jpgs@ittc.ku.edu
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom. jpgs@comp.lancs.ac.uk
David Hutchison
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom. d.hutchison@lancaster.ac.uk
Paul Müller
Kaiserslautern University, Kaiserslautern, Germany.  pmueller@informatik.uni-kl.de
Chip Elliott
GENI Project Office, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. celliott@bbn.com

Important dates

Paper submission: 15-06-2012
Acceptance notification: 15-09-2012
Final papers: 15-11-2012
It is increasingly recognised that the current Internet architecture is being challenged by unprecedented scale, new applications, untethered mobile wireless access, and domain-specific network scenarios and technologies including MANETs (mobile ad hoc networks) and wireless sensor networks. At the same time we increasingly rely on the Internet for all aspects of our lives. The ability to evolve the Internet architecture to meet these challenges depends in part on the ability to test proposed protocols, services and configurations in a realistic setting at an appropriate scale. This requires testbeds that have significant scale, geographic scope, and that have a programmable Internet waist to permit experimentation with new addressing, forwarding, routing, and signalling paradigms. The GENI (Global Environments for Network Innovation) program in the US, and FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) programme in Europe have recognised and are funding this need. With this special issue of Computer Networks, we solicit papers that that describe the results of experimentation on the architecture, implementation, and deployment of Future Internet (FI) testbeds. While we are especially interested in experimental results, we also seek insightful papers that describe testbed architectures and their deployment issues, challenges, and experience.

About the Future Internet Testbeds special issue

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
•    programmable FI testbed architectures
•    scalability in node count, interconnection complexity, and geographic scope
•    interoperation and extension across research networks (such as Internet2, NLR, GÉANT2, JANET, JGN-X, and KOREN/KREONET)
•    heterogeneity and FI testbeds for domain-specific networks
•    alternative communication paradigms (e.g. packets vs. circuits)
•    deployment challenges and experiences
•    federation of heterogeneous testbeds with one another and with
•    instrumentation and measurement of FI testbeds
•    management of FI testbeds that are distributed across administrative domains
•    security, use policy, and broad research community access to FI testbeds
•    experiment design, methodology, and verification
•    experimental results that could not have been achieved on traditional end-system or localized testbeds (e.g. PlanetLab or Emulab)

Submission format

The submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet/
Submission Guideline
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “Future Internet Testbeds” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/

Guide for Authors

This site will guide you stepwise through the creation and uploading of you article. The guide for Authors can be found on the journal homepage (undefinedwww.elsevier.com/comnet/).

]]> News Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:58:00 +0200 JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT, Special Issue on Management of Federations, and Cooperative Management http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/journal-of-network-and-systems-management-special-issue-on-management-of-federations-and-cooperati.html Call for Papers
For the special issue we solicit papers presenting novel contributions in the following topic areas:
  • Governance Mechanisms for federated environments
  • Policy-based Management in federations
  • Collaborative management, algorithmic adaptation,game theoretic approaches, predictive modelling.
  • Modelling cross domain relationships, incudling Information Models,Formal Specifications, Languages for Federation
  • Distributed trust management and federated security systems
  • Data federation Techniques
  • Semantic technologies, Semantic mapping and linked data
  • Information Security in federated environments
  • Management of inter-cloud federations and public/private hybrid clouds
  • Grid computing management
  • Federations for third party management of Home Area Network devices
  • Software Engineering for Federated Systems, including Tool chains, Design by Contract, Model Driven Engineering and Design Patterns

Author Instructions

The submitted papers must be written in English and be formatted in accordance with the JNSM author instructions at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10922
Prospective authors should note that is the policy of JNSM that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be previously published or be under review at  another journal or conference at any time during the review process.

Important Dates

Paper submission due:  May 15, 2012
Acceptance notification:  November 30, 2012 Camera-ready due:  March 15, 2013 Publication date:  V21N3 (September 2013)

Guest Editors

Kevin Feeney
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
kevin.feeney at cs.tcd.ie

Joel Fleck II
Hewlett Packard Inc., USA
joel.fleck at hp.com

Brendan Jennings
Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland bjennings at tssg.org

http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/authors

]]> News Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:18:00 +0100 Self-Net over PII testbed http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/self-net-over-pii-testbed.html The successful demonstration of the use case on "Testing end-to-end Self-Management in... The Self-NET project has designed the architecture and the software for communication networks self-management based on the so called closed control loop or Monitor-Decide-Execute Cycle. The scope of this use case was to experiment on the improvement of QoS features (e.g., packet loss, delay, jitter) using the Self-NET software for self-management over a live network environment and exploiting monitoring and configuration capabilities that different administrative domains provide (i.e. access network and service layer). The effectiveness and the feasibility of various parameters optimization of existing network protocols avoiding manual effort was also tested.

The testbed for the execution of the use case was deployed by Panlab/PII.

]]> News Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:26:00 +0100 Tridentcom 2010 book published http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/tridentcom-2010-book-published.html Testbeds and Research Infrastructures, Development of Networks and Communities News Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:51:00 +0100 PII wins Future Internet Award http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/pii-wins-future-internet-award.html The EU-funded research project PII has won the Future Internet Award for the best European Future... The EU-funded research project PII has won the Future Internet Award for the best European Future Internet initiative that is currently running and nearing completion. PII coordinator Anastasius Gavras from Eurescom received the award on behalf of the project at an official ceremony within the closing plenary of the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Ghent on 17 December 2010. Joan Batlle i Montserrat from the City Council of Barcelona presenting the Future Internet award to PII coordinator Anastasius Gavras in Ghent. The second Future Internet Award went to the EU-funded StratAG research project in the category ‘best new initiative that is about to start’. The project acronym stands for ‘Mobile Spatial Interaction of the Future Internet of Things’. The two winners in the first edition of the Future Internet Award were selected from 32 submissions. The judging panel consisted of six senior representatives from the ICT industry and from politics. The panel had given PII and StratAG the highest values on ten criteria, including, for example, innovative use of technologies, inclusion, excellence. The Future Internet Award has been organised by the ceFIMS Coordination Action in order to acknowledge projects of great potential to advance the Future Internet and innovate products and services. PII, the Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation project, is part of the FIRE intiative on Future Internet Research and Experimentation. The FIRE concept and especially PII are widely recognised beyond the boundaries of Europe. Recently, the Canadian research programme CANARIE launched a similar testbed federation concept, explicitly referring to PII. ]]> News Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:30:00 +0100 Call for chapters for the FIA book 2011 http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/call-for-chapters-for-the-fia-book-2011.html "Future Internet: Achievements and Promising Technology", to be published by Springer... "Future Internet: Achievements and Promising Technology", to be published by Springer Verlag May 2011

Overview

The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is a success.  FIA is a unique bi-annual event that brings together the participants of over 100 projects from a number of units in the EU Framework 7 Challenge 1 to share scientific and technical results and to discuss cross-domain research topics around the notion of creating a new global communications infrastructure, which is fit for Europe and the World. FIA began in the Spring of 2008 in Bled, Slovenia, and Spring 2011 will see the seventh FIA in Budapest.  As with prior Spring FIAs, we are producing a book that aggregates both the results achieved so far within FIA, and the possibilities of what we can expect in the short term.  In this sense the scope of the text is broad rather than focusing on single technical or socio-economic topics. The previous FIA books are:
  • undefinedTowards the Future Internet: A European Research Perspective (2009)
  • undefinedTowards the Future Internet: Emerging Trends from European Research (2010)
Early on in the FIA time line we realised that a number of key elements were required to ensure success:
  • Cross-unit and cross-domain discussions: on both core technical issues (such as architecture, supporting experimentation at scale) and on softer issues such as socio-economics, trust and identity.
  • Mediated engagement: between FIA and the 100 plus individual projects. In this respect is imperative that the FIA activities and processes are transparent and open and that clear explanation and direction is provided.
  • Users: over the last few FIAs representatives from a variety of user communities including transport, energy, health and municipal services have joined the meetings facilitating the incorporation of a broad range of stakeholder views within Future Internet solutions.
In structuring the book, we suggest to mirror these elements, resulting in a tripartite book:
  • Future Internet Foundations: covers the core cross-domain technical and ‘soft’ topics. The chapters under this section are: Architectural Issues; Socio-Economic Issues; Trust and Identity; Search and Discovery; and Experiments and experimental design.
  • Future Internet Areas: the principle technical domains associated with the Future Internet, which are aligned with the units associated with Challenge 1. The chapters under this section are: Networks; Services; Internet of Things; Content; and Inter-area Issues.
  • Future Internet Application Areas: key target areas with associated user communities, which will be revolutionised by the Future Internet. The chapters under this section are: Smart Cities; Smart Living; Smart Energy; Smart Health; Smart Enterprises; Smart Transportation; Smart Manufacturing; and Utilities environment;

Submission

Submission and acceptance of chapters will be done in two phases: in the first phase we seek chapter proposals in the form of abstracts. Authors of accepted proposals will then be invited to submitted full-length chapters which will be subject to further acceptance, review, and revision.
  • Phase 1: Multiple papers for each chapter is envisaged. We invite one-two pages abstracts by 2010-10-08 as proposals for full-length chapters.  Each proposal should target one of the chapter descriptions at http://services.future-internet.eu/index.php/FIA_Book_3 Proposals should not be project-specific, but reflect a broad view of the subject. Authors should indicate their FIA and Challenge 1 Track record. The abstracts will be reviewed by the book reviewers and editors.
  • Phase 2: Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to develop full chapters of 12 pages by 2010-12-03. In light of the actual submissions made, the editors may consider combining proposals and asking the authors to collaborate on single chapters.  The full chapters will again be reviewed by the editors and reviewers, and subject to acceptance and revision.
Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair.

Dates

  • 2010-10-08 - Abstract submission
  • 2010-10-22 - Notification for the accepted abstracts
  • 2010-12-03 - Full chapter submission
  • 2011-01-03 - Reviews of accepted chapters
  • 2011-02-14 - Camera ready chapters
  • 2011-03-15 - Book published by Springer

Editors

John Domingue, Susana Avesanna, Frederico Alvarez, Frances Cleary, Petros Daras, Alex Galis, Anastasius Gavras, Srdjan Krco, Dave Lambert, Volkmar Lotz, Hennig Muller, Michael Nilsson, Burkhard Stiller, Anne-Marie Sassen, Georgios Tselentis, Theodore Zahariadis.]]> News Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:03:00 +0200 The sun never sets on the GreenStar Network http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/the-sun-never-sets-on-the-greenstar-network.html The PII/Panlab Canadian partners demonstrate cutting edge technology that helps reducing the CO2... News gavras@eurescom.eu Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:58:00 +0200 Introduction to Panlab Testbed Federation - Training Seminar of the Spanish Panlab Cluster http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/introduction-to-panlab-testbed-federation-training-seminar-of-the-spanish-panlab-cluster.html On 1 July 2010, PII organised a training seminar on the Panlab testbed federation in Barcelona,... undefinedtraining seminar page. ]]> News gupta@eurescom.eu Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:51:00 +0200 Report from Tridentcom 2010 http://www.panlab.net/news/view/article/report-from-tridentcom-2010.html From 18 to 20 May 2010, Berlin was the focal point of the community working on testbeds and... Welcome and keynotes Prof. Thomas Magedanz from Fraunhofer FOKUS and Technical University Berlin, who acted as the general chair, opened the conference by pointing out that the research and development in the areas of converging networks, unified communications, as well as emerging cross-sector smart applications is getting increasingly complex and expensive. For this reason open testbeds and research infrastructures are becoming the enabling infrastructure for achieving innovations in various domains, ranging from networking and services up to various application domains. In the first keynote session, Dr. Max Lemke from the European Commission presented the European view on the role of experimentation in future Internet research. He gave also an outlook on the future activities in this area that are subsumed under the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) Initiative. Chip Elliott from the GENI project office presented the approach taken in the US towards exploring networks of the future. He presented the current status and plans of GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) as well as the programme activities of the GENI project office. Prof. Phuoc Tran-Gia from the University of Würzburg presented in his keynote the concept and federation issues of the G-Lab project, a large German initiative to deploy testbeds and experimental platforms in Germany. In the second keynote session, Prof. Akihiro Nakao from the University of Tokyo presented the relevant activities in Japan towards the design and development of testbeds for the future Internet. He devoted particular attention to infrastructures that support virtualisation as one of the fundamental concepts in the area. Finally, Bernard Barani from the European Commission presented the European Public Private Partnership on the Future Internet (PPP-FI). The PPP-FI implicitly had a strong influence on the conference, as it represents a significant effort to demonstrate future Internet services and applications.

Technical sessions

With the emergence of the future Internet, including the network of the future, the Internet of things, and the Internet of services, the traditional borders of network and service layers are vanishing. Cross-layer experimental platforms are being established around the globe to enable rapid prototyping and validation of innovative ideas but also taking into account migration and interworking with existing network and service platforms. Thus, this year’s Tridentcom emphasised Testbeds and Experimental Facilities for the Future Internet and also featured additional testbed highlights from other domains. The accepted contributions resulted in 11 technical sessions, addressing:
  • Federated and large-scale testbeds
  • Future Internet testbeds
  • Future wireless testbeds
  • Monitoring in large scale testbeds
  • Network and resource virtualisation for future Internet research
  • Future Internet testbeds for wireless sensors, media and mobility
  • Wireless and mobile networking testbeds
  • Monitoring, QoS and application instrumentation in large scale testbeds
  • Management, provisioning and tools for future network testbeds
  • Experimentally driven research and user experience testbeds
The conference programme also featured an interactive panel and three tutorials. TridentCom 2010 was also the site of the second focused workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbeds (ONIT).

Conclusion

The TridentCom conference “brand” is now established as the main yearly conference of the research and development community for testbeds and experimental infrastructures. The 6th conference this year impressively demonstrated that the community is very active and is taking up the challenge to deploy the necessary infrastructure for supporting future Internet and future network research. The conference concluded with the announcement that the next conference, the 7th TridentCom 2011, will take place in Shanghai, the flourishing centre of commerce, finance and business of China, organised by the Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Broadband Networks and Applications. Further information is available at http://www.tridentcom.org/tridentcom2010/  ]]> News Mon, 31 May 2010 10:45:00 +0200