Subject: [Icn-interest] Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Information-Centric Networking
From: Ignacio.Solis at parc.com (Ignacio.Solis at parc.com)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:49:50 PDT

I'm not involved in this but will forward to the list since I didn't see it go by.

Nacho

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> Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Information-Centric Networking
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> Call for Papers 
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> IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on 
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> Information-Centric Networking 
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> Background and motivation 
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> Information-Centric Networking (ICN) marks a fundamental shift in communications and networking. ICN focuses on finding and transmitting information to end users instead of connecting end hosts that exchange information. The key concepts are expected to h a ve a huge impact on the familiar textbook protocol stack, in network architecture in general, and will create new opportunities for all associated stakeholders including equipment vendors, network operators, service and content providers, and above all en d -users. 
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> Scope and Objectives 
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> Information-centric networking is to succeed only if it can to provide clearly superior solutions to well-known problems in the current generation of all-IP networks and can be introduced to general usage incrementally. We inv ite authors to consider the following aspects with respect to information-centric networks: 
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> ? Naming & addressing: there is currently a strong association between content naming and addressing. Information-centric networking aims to introduce new ways for identifying content in a location-independent manner. What breakthroughs in naming and addressing will make ICN scalable when faced with a global network of billions of devices and zettabytes of available content? 
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> ? Protocol stack: the original TCP/IP pr otocol stack was neat and simple. Today ? s stack is arguably neither having been extended through patchwork over several decades. Can ICN simplify things? 
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> ? Network architecture: ICN is expected to have a profound effect on network architecture as storage c apacity becomes an integral element of all network nodes. What does an ICN network architecture look like? 
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> ? Management: resource/mobility/multihoming management are add-ons to the current architecture. With ICN we have the opportunity to include support for all these aspects right from the start. What are the essential characteristics of a complete management framework that is scalable, flexible, and suitable for ICN? 
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> ? Caching: Information-centric networking is an in-network process that relies on conten t storage in the network so as to efficiently access popular content, alleviate flash-crowd effects, improve the end-user quality of experience, and increase network efficiency. This raises new issues to be addressed such as buffer management and caching p olicy. 
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> ? Energy efficiency: battery-powered devices abound and will dominate in the future as the primary means for connecting to the Internet. At the same time, there is a strong drive for energy-efficient networking from core networks to access networks, and from data centers to home media centers. ICN has more leverage to make tradeoffs between storage/computation/communication ? will ICN pave the way to a holistic energy efficient operation? 
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> ? Internet of Things (IoT): as the physical world is more and mo re connected to the digital world through a multitude of sensors and actuators, the current host-centric approach followed in IP networks, typically requiring synchronous, always on, end-to-end connections stretches beyond its capacity to deliver, introdu c ing further inefficiencies. How does ICN scale in the scenarios envisioned for the IoT and how does it compare with current IP-based IoT solutions? 
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> ? Security and trust is established today through the use of third parties in an end-to-end manner. Synchron ous three-way, end-to-end connectivity is a prerequisite, and it does not guarantee provenance. Can ICN foster the development of a more secure and trusted global communications infrastructure? 
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> ? Business models in the Internet are established between pro viders according to peering agreements. The new ICN paradigm based on in-network caching may impact the current relationships between players. Which business models could foster a fair relationship between content producers, content providers and service/ n etwork providers? 
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> Submitted articles do not need to cover all these aspects but should strive to clearly contrast the ICN approach with the current TCP/IP-based state of affairs. 
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> Prospective authors should describe the key concepts, design, implementatio n, and evaluation of ICN proposals. Articles that demonstrate the feasibility of groundbreaking approaches through testbed/experimental results are particularly welcome. Topics of particular interest include: 
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> ? Naming and name resolution in ICN 
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> ? Informat ion/service discovery in ICN 
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> ? Flow and congestion control in ICN 
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> ? Routing and forwarding in ICN 
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> ? Caching an buffer management in ICN 
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> ? Security, self-certification, privacy and trust in information-centric networks 
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> ? QoS/QoE in ICN 
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> ? ICN over he terogeneous networks 
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> ? Network programming and APIs for ICN 
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> ? Scalability and Performance 
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> ? Empirical evaluations of ICN protocol stacks 
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> ? Use cases 
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> ? Business models 
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> Submission 
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> We invite authors to submit articles reporting original, previously unpublished research work on information-centric networking. Articles must be tutorial in nature, accessible to a wide audience in the communications technology community. Articles should be limited to approximately 4500 words, and include no more than a combined total of 6 tables and figures. References should also be limited to no more than 15. Authors can find the complete article guidelines at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub _ guidelines.html. Authors need to adhere to the IEEE Communications Magazine limits on mathematical content and strive for a tutorial exposition of the problems and their solutions. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through th e IEEE Manuscript Central ( http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com ). Select ?July 2012: Information-Centric Networking.? 
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> Submission Schedule 
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> Submission Deadline: November 1, 2011 
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> Notification of Acceptance: February 29, 2012 
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> Final Manuscript Due: May 1, 20 12 
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> Publication Date: July 2012 
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> Feature Topic Editors 
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> Dr. Kostas Pentikousis 
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> Huawei Technologies European Research Centre 
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> Email: k.pentikousis at huawei.com 
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> Dr. Prosper Chemouil 
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> Orange Labs 
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> Email: prosper.chemouil at orange-ftgroup.com 
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> Dr. Kathleen Nichols 
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> Huawei Innovation Center 
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> Email: kathleen.nichols at huawei.com 
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> Prof. George Pavlou 
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> University College London, Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering 
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> Email: g.pavlou at ee.ucl.ac.uk 
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> Prof. Dan Massey 
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> Colorado State University 
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> Email: massey at cs.colostate.edu 

From: Ignacio.Solis at parc.com (Ignacio.Solis at parc.com)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:58:29 PDT
Subject: [Icn-interest] CCNx Community Meeting Call for Participation
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Hi folks, this might be of interest to the list.

Nacho

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ? CCNxCon ? CCNx Community Meeting

Friday, September 9, 2011, PARC, Palo Alto, CA, USA
[immediately following ITC 23 in San Francisco]
www.ccnx.org/CCNxCon2011

Please forward to all who may be interested.  We apologize if you receive duplicate copies.

We are pleased to announce the first CCNx Community Meeting, a gathering for researchers and developers who are working with the CCNx Open Source platform for Information-Centric-Networking (ICN).  If you are interested in the CCNx platform for your own applications, or developing the CCNx platform itself, we hope that you will consider joining the conversation in September.  We invite participation from academic, industrial, and government institutions and hope to welcome representatives from major projects working with CCNx around the world.

The purpose of the meeting is to strengthen the community of CCNx users, developers, and researchers by discussing experiences, use cases, plans and potential collaborations. Focus topics include:

? Application experiences
? Experimental results
? Use cases
? Platform enhancements and roadmap
? Testbed collaboration
? Project CCNx organization

We plan to allow time for presentations, demonstrations, informal conversation, and plenary discussions.  The technical program will be assembled by a small program committee (to be named) based on submissions we receive.  We will end the day with a special evening social event at the nearby Computer History Museum (computerhistory.org), home to the largest international collection of computing artifacts in the world.

Attendance at this event is limited due to space constraints and the focused goals of the meeting.  If you are interested in attending, please request an invitation by sending a short note according to the submission instructions below.  There will be no charge to attend.  We encourage students to submit and faculty members to nominate their students.  Limited travel support may be offered through the generosity of corporate sponsors.

Records of the meeting will be captured and made available via the web, however this meeting is not designed to be a peer-reviewed scientific publication venue.

We are considering the possibility of hosting a few days of ?CCNx Bootcamp? for hands-on coding help in the week following this meeting. If you are interested in this, you must let us know in your submission (see below).  We anticipate that space will be very limited for this opportunity.

Corporate and institutional sponsorship opportunities are available; please write to the event information address below if you are interested.

SUBMISSION

We need to hear from you about your interests and what you can contribute! This is simple and lightweight: if you are interested in attending, please send an email message to the submissions address below with the following information:

? Your current or anticipated work related to CCNx (1 short paragraph max)
? Topics for the program that are of greatest interest to you (1 short paragraph max)
? [Optional] Abstract of information or demonstration you could present during the meeting (1 short paragraph max).  If there are multiple distinct topics you could present, please include separate abstracts clearly distinguished.
? [Optional] Note of interest in a ?CCNx Bootcamp? following the meeting, with mention of subjects of greatest interest (1-2 sentences max)
? [Optional] Note if your ability to attend is conditional on receiving travel support.

The total submission (with one abstract) must be no longer than one page of text with font size no smaller than 11 point (around 700 words total).  If there are multiple topic abstracts the submission may be proportionally longer up to two pages of text in total.  You may include the text in the body of the message or attach a PDF file ? no other submission format will be considered.

Sending this email is not a commitment to attend.  You will have the opportunity to accept or decline an invitation after more information about the program is available.

Due to the very limited amount of time available in a one-day program, we anticipate that there will be many worthwhile topic proposals that cannot be given significant presentation time in plenary session.  You may be asked to present a poster and/or a demonstration, or share highlights in a short talk of 15-30 minutes.

Submission address: submissions at ccnx.org

Submission Deadline: Submissions with abstracts are required by May 15, 2011.  To request an invitation only, submission is required by July 27 but we encourage submission as soon as possible.

EVENT INFORMATION

For all inquiries other than submissions described above, please write to event at ccnx.org

To receive announcements about this and future events, please sign up at www.ccnx.org and join the ccnx-interest mailing list.

Chairs: Van Jacobson and Jim Thornton
Arrangements Chair: Sharon Johnson
Coordinator: Susi Lilly