Call For Papers

The First IEEE Workshop on

“Adaptive Policy-based Management

in Network Management and Control (A-PBM)”

Co-located with IEEE Infocom 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 28, 2006

On behalf of the A-PBM 2006 Organizing Committee, I would like to invite you to participate as a speaker or delegate in the first IEEE Workshop on “Adaptive Policy-based Management in Network Management and Control” , which will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on April 28 2006.

Efficient collaboration of network management and control is one of the most challenging issues in future multi-layer network architectures. Policy-Based Management (PBM) is a powerful tool for facilitating management and control interaction. The focus of the Adaptive Policy-Based Management 2006 workshop is on innovative concepts of PBM and evolutions for adaptive mechanisms in PBM.

The A-PBM workshop will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas, present results on ongoing research, and examine a number of topics and issues concerning the area of adaptive PBM. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to collaborative mechanisms between network control and management.

Topics

Innovative PBM Concepts and Design

• Requirements for management and control interaction

• Specific Issues of PBM in metro and core networks

• Specific Issues of PBM in access and aggregation networks

• Implementation Framework

Adaptive Policy Models

• Abstractions and languages for policy specification processes

• Methodologies for discovering, specifying, installing, executing and adapting policies

• Extensions and refinements of policy standards

Adaptive Policy Mechanisms for PBM Operation

• Implementation techniques and enforcement criteria

• Integrating adaptive policy mechanisms in existing network control and management systems

• Specific Issues of PBM in metro and core networks

• Specific Issues of PBM in access and aggregation networks

• Interoperability

Adaptive Policy Applications

• Models for network access-control

• Models for resource and traffic oriented Traffic Engineering performances

• Case studies of applying adaptive policy-based technologies

PBM simulations and experiments

• Functional tests of implementations

• Performance simulations

• Performance test results

Experts from industry and academia working in this area are invited to submit contributions reporting on their achievements in research and development. Page limit for the manuscript is 12 pages (including figures, tables, etc.). Submissions should follow the IEEE INFOCOM formatting guidelines, templates for which are available at:
<http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/confpub/auxfiles/sample_manuscript.pdf> .

To submit a paper, send your manuscript to A-PBM.Infocom2006@ac.upc.edu

Accepted papers will be incorporated in the Infocom 2007 CD and published in the IEEE Explore as Infocom co-located Workshop papers.

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline:	December 1, 2005	January 30, 2006 (Extended)
Paper Acceptance Notification:	January 15, 2006	February 21, 2006
Final paper submission:	February 1, 2006	March 14, 2006