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Scope:

The GridNets 2006 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
  • Integration of advanced optical networking technologies and architectures (OPS, OBS) for the Grid environment
  • Coordination of network resources with other Grid resources (CPU, Storage)
  • Layer interactions: optical layer with higher layer protocols
  • Grid advanced resource reservation
  • Self-healing Grid networks
  • Traffic characteristics and performance analysis
  • New architectures and technologies that address Grid requirements
  • 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
  • Peer-to-peer approach for Grid networks
  • Network support for wireless Grids
  • Novel data transport protocols designed for new application services
  • Data replication and multicasting strategies and protocols
  • Fault-tolerance, protection, security, and scalability issues related to connecting large number of sites
  • Network cost, performance, and incentive issues
  • Grid network simulation
  • Identification of Grid peculiarities that network mechanisms can build upon