GridNets 2007 Technical Program

 

Wednesday October 17, 2007 (07.15-17:30)

          Room: Charme+Hetre (7th floor)

 

07:15-08:00 Registration

 

08:00-09:15 Opening Keynote Session

(08:00-08:15)

Welcome, Opening Remarks, Workshop Objectives

 

(08:15-09:15) Keynote 1: Chair – Dr. Joe Mambretti

Keynote Speaker: 

Bill St Arnaud (Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc.)

“How Grid Networks are pointing the way to the Internet of the Future"

 

09:15-10:35 Session 1: Architecture and Technology (Part 1)

 

(09:15-09:20) Session Introduction: Chair – Dr. Christopher Edwards

(09:20-09:45)

“End-host based mechanisms for implementing Flow Scheduling in GridNetworks” 

Sebastien Soudan, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, Romaric Guillier

(09:45-10:10)

“Performance of high-speed transport protocols coexisting on a long distance 10-Gbps testbed network  Network architectures and technologies for Grids”

Kazumi Kumazoe

(10:10-10:35)

“Reliable DAG scheduling on Grids with Rewinding and Migration”

Jesus I Hernandez

 

(10:35-11:00) Break

 

11:00-12:20 Session 1: Architecture and Technology (Part 2)

(11.00-11.05) Session Introduction: Chair – Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou

(11:05-11.30)

“A Survey-based Study of Grid Traffic Network monitoring, traffic characterization, performance analysis, and security”

Yehia El khatib, Christopher Edwards

(11:30-11:55)

“G-lambda and EnLIGHTened: Wrapped In Middleware Co-allocating Compute and Network Resources Across Japan and the US Network architectures and technologies for Grids” 

Steven RThorpe

(11:55-12:20)

“Joint Path and Resource Selection for OBS Grids with Adaptive Offset Based QoS Mechanism” 

Mehmet Koseoglu, Ezhan Karasan

 

(12:20-13:30) Lunch (Provided)

 

 

13:30-14:25 Session 2: Peer-to-Peer Network Enhancements And GridNets

(13:30-13:35) Session Introduction: Chair – Prof. Jussi Kangasharju

(13:35-14:00)

“A Peer-to-Peer Meta-Scheduler for Service-Oriented Grid Environments”

Kay Dörnemann

(14:00-14:25)

“A Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Distributing Large Scientific Data Sets Over Wide Area High-Performance Networks: Experimental Studies Using Wide Area Layer 2 Services” 

Robert L Grossman, Joe Mambretti, Yunhong Gu

 

14:25-15:20 Session 3: Grid Networks and Distributed Data Management

(14:25-14:30) Session Introduction: Chair – Dr. Laurent Lefevre

(14:30-14:55)

“Effective Content Organization and Retrieval within Point-to-multipoint Channels towards Mobile Grid IPTV”

Shaohua Liu

(14.55-15:20)

“Performance of File Replication Policies for Real-time File Access in Data Grids”

Atakan Dogan

 

(15:20-15:50) Break

 

15:50-17:25 Session 4: Advanced GridNets Research Topics and Methods I

Invited Speakers

(15:50-15 :55) Session Introduction: Chair – Dr. Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet

(15:55-16:25)

“Grid Meets Future Internet”

Jussi Kangasharju

(16:25-16:55)

<Title to be announced>

Tom Jackson

(16:55-17:25)

“Network Virtualization for Grid Applications”

Omar Cherkaoui

 

 

(17:25-17:30) First Day Comments, Preview of Day 2

 

 

 

Thursday October 18, 2007 (08:30-17:30)

          Room: Charme+Hetre (7th floor) 

 

 

08:30-09:35 Opening Keynote Session

(08:30-08:35) Keynote 2: Chair – Prof. David Hutchison

(08:35-09:35) Keynote Speaker: Mike Fisher (BT Group Chief Technology Office)

“Convergence of Grid and NGN : Towards a Service Oriented Knowledge Utility”

 

09:35-10:50 Session 5: Networks as First Class Grid Resources

 

(09:35-09:40) Session Introduction: Chair – Dr. Raj Kettimuthu

(09:40-10:05)

“A Reliable and Realistic Approach of Advance Network Reservations with Guaranteed Completion Time for Bulk Data Transfers in Grids” 

Kashif Munir, Michael Welzl, Somera Javed

(10:05-10:30)

“Design of a Dynamic SLA Negotiation Protocol for Grids”

Les J Green, Vinod Mirchandani, Dominique Verchere, Igor Cergol

(10:30-10:55)

"A novel load balancing mechanism for P2P networking"

Leonidas Lymberopoulos

 

(10:55-11:25) Break

 

11:25-12:45 Session 6: GridNets Management, Traffic Analysis, Monitoring, Analysis, Reliability

 

(11:25-11:30) Session Introduction: Chair – Prof. Zhili Sun

(11:30-11:55)

“Secure Grid Monitoring, a Web-based Framework Security and scalability issues when connecting a large number of sites within a virtual organizations”

Amir H Amintabar

(11:55-12:20)

“Using Network Traffic to Passively Detect Under Utilized Resources in High-Performance Cluster Grid Computing Environments”

Lanier Watkins, Raheem Abeyah, Cherita Corbett

(12:20-12:45)

“Building a Demilitarized Zone with Data Encryption for Grid Environments” 

Matthias Schmidt, Matthew Smith, Bernd Freisleben, Niels Fallenbeck, Hans-Joachim Picht

 

(12:45-13:55) Lunch (Provided)

 

13:55-15:15 Session 7: Talks from the Industry

 

(13:55-14:00) Panel Introduction: Chair – Dr. Michael Welzl

(14:00-14.25)

"Grid Research Activities and Business Perspectives at Orange Labs"

Frederic Dang Tran, Orange Labs

(14.25-14.50)

<Title to be announced>

Loic Prylli, Myricom

(14.50-15.15)

“Evolution of Carrier Networks towards Grid Computing services deliveries:

Technical and Business challenges”

Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent

(15.15-15.40)

“Applying Grid concepts on Business Support Systems: a success story from the Telecom sector”

Serafim Kotrotsos, EXIS IT

 

(15:40-16:10) Break

 

16:10-17:30 Session 8: Advanced GridNets Research Topics and Methods II

Invited Speakers

(16:10-16:15) Session Introduction: Chair – Dr. Joe Mambretti

(16:15-16:40)

“Network as a resource: G-lambda project and its architecture”

Tomohiro Kudoh

(16:40-17:05)

“Globus GridFTP: What's New in 2007”

Rajkumar Kettimuthu

(17:05-17:30)

“National Grid+NRENs in ASEAN region: a snap shot”

Francis Bu Sung Lee

 

(17:30 - ) Wrap-up; Next Steps 

 

(20 :00 – 22 :00) Banquet dinner. Location : Le Pavillon du Parc

 

 

October 19, 2005 [Friday], 9:00 AM-5:30 PM

MetroGrid Workshop Program:

Room : Charme (7th floor)

09:00 - 10:00    Invited Speaker: François Baccelli - Dynamics of congestion control

10:00 - 10:30    Laurent Bobelin and Traian Muntean - Metric induced network poset (MINP): a model of the  network from an application point of view

10:30 - 11:00    Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00    Invited Speaker: Michalis Polychronakis - Presentation of LOBSTER, a Monitoring API

12:00 - 12:30    Olivier Richard and Brice Videau - Towards an experiment engine for lightweight grids

12:30 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 14:30    Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf , Michael Welzl and Malik Junaid - Fog in the Network Weather Service: A case for novel Approaches

14:30 - 15:00    Matthew S. Allen , John Brevik and Rich Wolski - Comparing Network bandwidth Time-Series

15:00 - 15:30    Patrick Loiseau , Paulo Goncalves and Pascale Primet Vicat-Blanc - A comparative study of different heavy tail index estimators of the flow size from sampled data

15:30 - 16:00    Hui Li - Long Range Dependent Job Arrival Process and Its Implications in Grid Environments

16:00 - 17:00    Invited Speaker: Darryl Veitch - Active measurement in networks

 

 

Utility Computing Workshop Program:

Room: Hetre (7th floor)

9:15 – 9:45 - Workshop opening

9:45 – 10:15 - « Next Generation IP Networks: From Dumb to Intelligent Overlay Networks » Mauricio Arango and Christian Demeure, Sun Microsystems.

10:15 – 10:45 - « Economic Aspects of a Utility Computing Service » Jean Paul Degabriele and David Pym, Trusted Systems Laboratory, HP Laboratories Bristol

10:45 – 11:15 - « Analytical modeling of burst aggregation algorithms with real Internet traces for data and video »  Xenia Mountrouidou, IBM Software Group and Harry G. Perros, Computer Science Department, NCSU

11:15 – 11:30 – Break

11:30 – 12:00 - « The IST PHOSPHORUS project: A new model for integrating applications and transport network resources» Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex and Artur Binczewski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

12:30 – 13:00 - « Benefits of an ultrahigh bit rate transmission networks for Optimal IT Service deliveries» Dominique Verchere, Olivier Audouin et al., Alcatel-Lucent Research & Innovation.

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 – Round Table on « Utility Computing enhanced with High Bit Rate networks: Opportunity and Requirements » Workshop Speakers.

16:00 – 16:15 – Workshop Closing