SSSIG 2012 - Solutions for Sustaining Scalability in Internet Growth - Call for Book Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: April 30, 2012
Full Chapters Due: August 31, 2012
Submission Date: October 30, 2012
Introduction
Simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility were the main characteristics of the Internet architecture but unfortunately these design principles are not the actual characteristics of the deployed Internet. More precisely, the Internet is suffering from a wide range of complications which may impact its evolution. Some of the following issues alter the growth of Internet while other issues induce more complexity to introduce innovative services at large scale.
It is commonly agreed the continuous increase of routing and forwarding tables is a sensitive issue which may question the growth of the overall Internet. Some technical practices, such as multi-homing using Provider Independent (PI) prefixes and shrinking advertised prefixes to support advanced inbound traffic engineering policies, exacerbate the increase of inter-domain routing tables. Designing a scalable, robust, predictable, and stable routing system to sustain the growth of the Internet should be seriously tackled by Internet actors (including IETF, regulatory bodies and IP Connectivity Providers). Particularly, IP Connectivity Providers should undertake concrete actions to anticipate the potential failure of the deployed Internet routing architecture. Because the Internet is de-centralized, introducing new tools won't be shipped overnight. To be successful, this requires the involvement and coordination of several actors. Consequently, deploying these complementary tools may take a long time before being adopted at large, but it should not be considered as a pretext to delay introducing the proposed new schemes, and to cease investigating efficient solutions. If no particular action is conducted to mitigate issues encountered by the Internet routing architecture, serious risks for an emerging, fragmented Internet with non-global reachability will be faced. Routers have to process more and more information and the growth of routing and forwarding tables to be managed may not be satisfied by router technology evolution. Furthermore, such routing capabilities requirements dramatically impact routers’ power consumption.
Solving all the aforementioned complications can not be easily achieved because of the Internet's anarchical nature (there is no central entity controlling and managing the Internet). Nevertheless, some of these problems can be mitigated owing to an architectural re-design, the deployment of new protocols, and the enforcement of appropriate operational guidelines.
Objective of the Book
This book aims to offer a comprehensive overview on the recent advances in exploring viable solutions for expanding the scalability limits of the Internet and to mitigate encountered issues. Towards this end, the book solicits new ideas on relevant techniques in management, control, and data planes for deploying a scalable and robust Future Internet.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Issues with current Internet architecture
- Hurdles and barriers for introducing innovative services over the Internet
- Issues induced by massive deployment of middleboxes and Carrier Grade NAT
- Impact of IPv6 introduction strategies on routing architecture design
- New routing and forwarding architecture proposals
- Solutions review and analysis (e.g., LISP, IRON, hIPv4, Ivip, ILNP)
- Optimization studies for Core Edge Separation solutions
- Solutions for Core Edge Separation Mapping System
- Multi-homing
- Dynamic and flexible renumbering
- Inter-domain inbound traffic engineering techniques
- Prefix portability
- Mobility and impact on routing table (e.g., how LISP and/or Ivip can be used for mobility)
- Architecture proposals for the design of nodes involved in core networks owing to the use of OPS (Optical Packet Switching), OBS (Optical Burst Switching), etc.
- Solution proposals to reduce power consumption in edge and core networks
- Solutions to offl¬oad routing engine from routers to dedicated nodes
- Proposals for compact routing
- Review of Inter-domain route aggregation alternatives to the prefix-based schemes
- Interconnection agreements and interfaces
- Fixed Mobile Convergence and routing issues
- Impacts of CDNs deployment on routing schemes
- Deployment and emergence of promising services (e.g., M2M, Mobile Data) and new architectures (e.g., Cloud and virtualization)
- Internet Business Models
Example Problems:
- IPv4 address shortage
- Emergence of middleboxes such as CGNs (Carrier Grade NATs), firewalls, CDNs and DPI (Deep Packet Inspection)
- Inability to extend or upgrade protocols which are part of Internet foundations such as IP and TCP
- Inability to introduce new transport protocols at large
- Restriction of reachability to some protocols: only TCP/UDP, and in some cases only HTTP, are accepted .
- Brokenness of bi-directional communications because reachability is not symmetric due to the presence of NAT and tunnels (e.g., If “A” can reach “B”, this does not mean “B” can reach “A”). The reachability asymmetry is now part of the “new” characteristics of Internet just like path asymmetry. Applications should be designed to live this new constraint
- Brokenness of applications which make wrong assumptions based on the IP address (e.g., Locality, Geoproximity, etc.)
- Increase of routing and forwarding tables
- Instability of core routing tables induced by few edge networks
- Lack of deterministic tools to achieve (inter-domain) inbound traffic engineering: Current practices rely on injecting more specific routes, which exacerbates the growth of inter-domain routing table, or by prepending AS number technique for multi-homed networks, which is not deterministic since it depends on remote ASes in the path and their enforced policies.
- Lack of efficient means to support prefix portability for multi-homed or re-homed networks
- Prefix hijacking
- Rapid shuffl¬ing of prefixes
- Unbalanced cost and benefit
- Development of VPN services in business and mobile environments
Submission Procedure
You are invited to submit to the editors a 2-pages extended abstract on your proposed chapter. Full manuscripts will be invited upon the acceptance decision based on the initial proposals. Second round of review will be performed based on the full manuscripts before their final versions are produced for publishing. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. The initial extended abstract should contain the following information:
- Title
- Full list of authors with affiliations and contact information
- Basic description on the problem(s) to be tackled
- Main contributions from the work
The first author of each accepted book chapter will get one free copy of the published book.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2013.
Important Dates
April 30, 2012: Submission of initial extended abstract
May 31, 2012: Notification of acceptance
August 31, 2012: Submission of full manuscript
September 30, 2012: Review results to authors
October 30, 2012: Revised chapter submission
November 15, 2012: Final acceptance notifications
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):
M. Boucadair and D. Binet
mohamed.boucadair-AT-orange.com; david.binet-AT-orange.com
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