IEEE Communications Magazine - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain Networks using Measurement Federations CALL FOR PAPERS - Announcement

IEEE Communications Magazine - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Multi-domain Networks using Measurement Federations
CALL FOR PAPERS - Announcement
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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 measur
 ement 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: March 1, 2013
Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2013
Publication: November 2013

Guest Editors

Constantine Dovrolis - Georgia Institute of Technology - dovrolis@cc.gatech.edu
Prasad Calyam - University of Missouri-Columbia - calyamp@missouri.edu
Raj Kettimuthu - Argonne National Laboratory - kettimut@mcs.anl.gov
Brian Tierney - Energy Sciences Network - bltierney@es.net
Jason Zurawski - Internet2 - zurawski@internet2.edu
Loki Jorgenson - NooCore Technology Consulting - ljorgenson@noocore.com