BIPN'09 2009 - 1st IEEE Workshop on Below IP Networking (BIPN'09)

1st IEEE Workshop on Below IP Networking (BIPN'09)
in conjuction with Globecom 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii.

BIPN 2009 (www.bipn.org) is soliciting original and previously unpublished
papers addressing research challenges and advances towards metropolitan and
wide area networking that work below the IP layer. Particular interest is in
enhanced Ethernet technology in context with future access and Internet core
networks and systems as well as advances in the label switching
technologies. A common denominator is implementing carrier grade transport
capabilities below IP.

The 1st IEEE Workshop on Below IP Networking (BIPN?09) provides a venue for
academic and industrial research communities for exchanging ideas and
experience on all aspects of below IP Networking. Papers that present work,
validated by experimentation, simulations, or analysis, as well as position
papers and papers discussing and comparing concepts, architectures and
interfaces are solicited, on the topics including, but not limited to

* intra and inter carrier path computation and routing below IP
* intra and inter carrier protection and restoration below IP
* intra and inter carrier OAM
* below IP solutions for intra domain and inter carrier traffic engineering
* new forwarding technologies
* connection oriented and connectionless network services using packet
transport
* identities and addressing for enhanced Ethernet networks
* mobility issues and mobility solutions for packet transport networks
* scalability and implementation complexity of below IP networking solutions
* quality of service in packet transport networks
* network discovery below IP
* IP vs End-2-End Ethernet
* co-existence and interoperation of routed IP and routed Ethernet
* positioning of native enhanced Ethernet against IP, MPLS, GMPLS and
MPLS-TP
* techno-economics of transport Ethernet, MPLS-TP and Internet by Ethernet

Papers should be original material in the IEEE two column format limited to
6 pages.

Important dates
* Full paper submission: July 23rd 2009
* Notification of acceptance: August 28th 2009
* Final papers due: September 10th 2009

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper. Accepted papers must be presented at the
workshop and will appear in the IEEE Explore.