Welcome to GridNets 2004 at San Jose, CA, USA

First Workshop on Networks for Grid Applications (GridNets)

Co-located with BroadNets 2004.
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communication Society.

Camera-ready paper submission deadline is August 25, 2004 (Refer to Author Kit).

The emergence of data-intensive grid applications will engender movement and replication of very large data sets (up to petabytes of data) among geographically distributed sites. To the overall performance of grid applications, the data access-time is as much of a critical component as the computational speed.

The high-bandwidth demand created by very large data sets prompts for the deployment of network infrastructures with efficient data transport capabilities. At the same time, the application-level control of network resources, end-to-end, results in intelligent, dynamic service provisioning and access platforms. The new challenges posed by grid applications lead to new research directions in network infrastructures, services, and data transport.

The significant push generated by grid applications has already led to the deployment of small-scale nationwide optical networks (For example, Terragrid) connecting few remote experimental sites. The various new challenges posed by the grid application requirements have also initiated new research directions in network infrastructures, services and data transport.

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

Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2004
Paper Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2004
Final paper submission: August 25, 2004
Workshop date: October 29, 2004

Please join us in San Jose for GridNets 2004!