Submission Information
Proposals: The focus areas for talks at this Joint Techs are IPv6, Campus Networking, and Emerging Technologies (Cloud Computing, Network Testbeds, and Much More). Other areas of continued interest include Security, Performance/Measurement, and Mobility in the Environment. Please feel free to submit proposals on those topics as they will be duly considered. We are also holding a few spaces for proposals on other topics, so please do not let the primary focus areas limit your submission.
If you would like to give a presentation, propose a panel discussion, present a tutorial on Sunday afternoon, or organize a BoF, SIG, or side meeting, submit your proposals HERE. If you have questions, please contact either of the co-chairs Phil Demar or Eric Boyd.
| Focal Area (5 talks each) | Co-Chairs |
| Campus Networking | Kate Mace (Clemson) & Susan Hicks (ORNL) |
| IPv6 | Michael Lambert (PSC) & Michael Sinatra (ESnet) |
| Emerging Technologies: Cloud Computing, Network Testbeds, and More | Jason Zurawski (Internet2) & Brian Tierney (ESnet) |
| Continued Interest Topic (3 talks each) | |
| Performance/Measurement | Joe Metzger (ESnet) |
| Security | Joe St Sauver (Internet2 & University of Oregon) |
| Mobility in the Environment | Paul Martinez (INL) |
Campus Networking
The campus networking environment faces numerous challenges – it needs to support an increasing number of advanced services, support the demand for more bandwidth, keep up with the increasingly sophisticated cyber security challenges, and make infrastructure investments to support future technologies. All this while operating with (hopefully) flat budgets!
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
- Advanced services to address:
- End-end performance challenges
- QoS for voice, video, and dynamic circuit services
- Special campus networks for researchers
- Network needs for data centers, grid and cloud computing
- Virtualization support for the data center, as well as routers/switches
- Demand for more bandwidth on the campus:
- Increasing deployment of 10 GigE throughout the campus
- Evaluation of 40 Gig and 100 Gig aggregation links
- Security infrastructure build out & management:
- Integrating solutions to provide defense in depth
- Managing the diverse threat vectors (e-mail, web, identity theft, etc)
- Building out the infrastructure:
- Wiring closet upgrades to support VoIP
- In-building cellular coverage
- Wireless infrastructure (more coverage, newer technology)
IPv6: The Coming Crisis in Routing and Addressing
Several significant addressing and routing limitations in both hardware and software are converging into a "perfect storm" that could have a major impact on the stability of the Internet. These include:
- Exhaustion of IPv4 address space and its impact on the size of the forwarding table.
- Growth of the default-free FIB has moved beyond the capacity of many popular routers.
- "Churn" resulting from the acceleration of the growth in prefixes advertised in BGP is reaching the point where processors in popular routers can no longer converge forwarding tables between updates.
- The deployment of global network resources (storage and computing) has been forced into NAT and application gateways, even in North America.
- IPv6-enabled networks don't help until users can run IPv6-only stacks.]
- Those deploying IPv6 for wide-area services have encountered problems involving both loss of ‘reach-ability’ in some cases, and even faster growth of the hardware resources needed.
This focus area will look at the nature and scope of the problem and at possible approaches to dealing with it. These may involve hardware and software changes including significant changes in how global routing is done.
Emerging Technologies: Cloud Computing, Network Testbeds, and More
The Emerging Technologies focal area is interested in talks related to the following topics:
- Distributed network testbeds, including the NSF funded GENI project
- Bulk data transfer applications
- Intelligent applications capable of adjusting behavior based on network performance and availability
- Grid and Cloud computing, including use of commercial services for R&D efforts.
- Identity Management
- Scientific VO use of R&E networks
- Home Broadband Measurement and Expansion
Other topics will be considered. In progress use and research of network or middleware technology are encouraged to submit.
Performance/Measurement
User expectations for data transfer performance across the wide area are still seldom met. Users are left wondering what went wrong and how to improve performance. This problem is intrinsically complex because the user's data transfer path is likely to involve multiple layers of the network stack and to cross multiple network domains that are administratively independent. However, network monitoring and performance diagnosis tools, and monitoring frameworks, have emerged to alleviate the problems in addressing this complexity. In addition, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will start in November with unprecedented data volumes -- its transfers will be a significant field validation for existing network performance tools.The network performance and monitoring focus area at Summer 2010 Joint Techs will examine the advances and opportunities in network performance monitoring, diagnosis, and tuning. We seek presentations that discuss such experiences; suggested topics include (but are certainly not limited to):
- Performance Measurement
- Multi-domain end-to-end network measurement projects and tools, both IP-based, and circuit-based. For projects and tools that consider circuit-based services, how is end-to-end (e.g., workstation to server) performance considered?
- Measurement and monitoring tools and use cases
- Best practices in application, network and device performance tuning and diagnosis
- Effective network operational metrics to show how well network performs.
- Advanced and complex network metrics monitoring, such as topology monitoring for dynamic network circuits.
- Emerging Tools
- perfSONAR developments and directions; monitoring frameworks and layered architectures
- Network Monitoring Centers
- Secure access / use concerns (adopting OpenID, etc.)
- User Experience
- End-user experiences
- Application community experiences
- Campus experiences
- Monitoring LHC data transfers after LHC starts in November
- NOC engineer experiences (deploying & using to solve problems)
Security
The Security Focus area is interested in network security and/or system security talks including (but not limited to) talks on:
- Routing security (RPKI and BGP route hijacking analysis/mitigation, attacks against the routing infrastructure control plane, etc.)
- Layer-2 ethernet security (ARP/ND spoofing and related threats)
- IPSec deployment experiences
- Scalable deployment of multifactor/multichannel authentication (including lessons learned from large scale deployments of crypto tokens, personal certs, biometrics, etc.)
- New security issues arising from commercial deployment of large-scale NAT (aka "carrier grade NAT"), particularly with respect to successful backtracking abnd mitigation of observed security incidents
- The unique challenges of network security at 10Gps and higher speeds
- Security consideration related to US UCAN and broadband stimulus-relateed activities
- Physical security of advanced networking facilities
- New and particularly promising open source network security tools the community should know about
- Reports on security related work by Internet2-related entities in leading third party organizations such as the IETF, IEEE, NANOG, ICANN, ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/LACNIC/AFRINIC, ACM, IEEE, APWG, MAAWG, etc.
Mobility in the Environment
This is a brand-new topic area; a full description of this area is under development but, in general, talks will concentrate on how networks are affected by the demands of a range of mobile devices providing presence information as users move about the campus. Some examples might include:
- Merging of traditional voice, video, and data services onto common infrastructure, VoIP, IPTV, etc.
- iPads, mobile phones, and other hand-held devices that are programmed to accept mail/calls/information while the device owner is in transit across the network map.
- Convergence of application layer services such as unified communications (UC) - tying together instant messaging, presence, VoIP, video, SMS etc.
Lightning Talks: A 30-minute slot is offered on Wednesday morning for various Lightning Talks. A Lightning Talk is a sub-5-minute talk on a topic of your choice -– anything interesting, timely, or even a bit off the wall. Proposals are solicited both before and during the workshop; successful candidates will be informed on Tuesday before the Reception. Slides are welcome but not required. Submissions may be sent to: jt-lightning-talks@internet2.edu