FICN 2011 - The First International Workshop on Future Internet and Cloud Networking (FICN-2011)

The First International Workshop on Future Internet and Cloud Networking (FICN-2011)

in conjunction with IEEE 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2011)

Tainan, Taiwan, December 7-9, 2011

Due to the extensive demands of scalability, security, and performance support, several projects are initiated in US, Europe and Asia that study on the clean-slate redesign of current Internet, which is known as Future Internet. Recently, Future Internet Testbeds are deployed, usually with NetFPGA hardware and OpenFlow platform. Since Future Internet is expected to be more flexible, it is still an open issue for new hardware switching/forwarding paradigm along with QoS and Security integration. How existing applications exploit Future Internet technologies to achieve better performance is another interesting area to explore. It is also an important issue to manage the control and usage of Future Internet testbed within a single domain or across multiple administrative domains. Such new architecture will enable programmable networks and allow innovation on a global scale.

Meanwhile, Cloud Computing has emerged as an important architecture and concept for the Internet infrastructure. The network infrastructure in Cloud or IDCs faces many interesting challenges because it should support a diverse and huge collection of virtual machines (VMs), virtualized network devices, computing and storage resources. Currently, we have software Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB) solutions that switch packets of Virtual Machines (VMs) within the same physical host, which creates a new network tier inside the servers. IEEE is now working on hardware solutions that switch the VM packets at physical uplink switches, which will get the network configurations back to network layer devices. These approaches will affect Cloud IDCs designs and should be carefully surveyed. The Future Internet should encompass both the physical and virtualized network mechanisms to form a coherent infrastructure.

This workshop seeks papers describing contributions from research and development to the field of both Future Internet and cloud networking technologies. During the workshop session, researchers will be able to exchange their experiences and ideas interactively.

Scope

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

o Future Internet testbed and deployment

o Future Internet switching/forwarding and applications

o QoS and Traffic Engineering over Future Internet

o Future Internet maintenance and security

o Network virtualization technologies for cloud environments

o Resource allocation/isolation to virtual network slices

o Management for virtualized network technologies

o Security issues with virtualized network infrastructure

o Cloud virtual switch technologies and hypervisor integration

Organizing Committee

General Chair
Chu-Sing Yang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)

Program Co-Chairs
Mon-Yen Luo (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan)

Te-Lung Liu (National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan)

Program Committee
Dongkyun Kim (Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea)

Han-Chieh Chao (National I-Lan University, Taiwan)

Jiann-Liang Chen (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

Jim Chen (The International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University, USA)

Joe Mambretti (The International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University, USA)

Li-Der Chou (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan)

Li-Ming Tseng (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan)

Nen-Fu Huang (Department of Computer Science, National Tsing-Hua University)

Shinji Shimojo (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT, Japan)

Yu-Huang Chu (Chunghwa Telecom Labs, Taiwan)