Scope

The GridNets 2004 workshop will focus on research issues and challenges as well as lessons learned from experience. Topics of interest include and are not limited to:

• New concepts and requirements to shape the design of eScience and Research networks
• Network cost, performance, and incentive issues
• Traffic characteristics and performance analysis
• Experience on production-level optical network infrastructures
• Middleware design and grid layer integration issues for accessing and managing network resources
• Routing and scheduling for dynamic bandwidth control
• Monitoring, provisioning, brokering of network resources
• New multi-service frameworks and models
• End-to-end application level control of network resource
• Novel data transport protocols aimed at new application services
• Data replication and multicasting strategies and protocols
• Fault-tolerance, protection, security, and scalability issues related to connecting large number of sites