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VISA 2010: The Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures
New Delhi, India (September 3, 2010)
We are pleased to announce the Second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA 2010, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2010. The workshop will take place in New Delhi, India, on September 3, 2010.
Below, you can find the Technical Program, the original Call for Papers and the workshop organization.
Technical Program
You can download all VISA papers as a single zip file.
| 09:00-09:05 | Welcome: Cedric Westphal, Guru Parulkar & Amin Vahdat (PC co-chairs) |
| 09:05 - 10:00 | Keynote Presentation Chip Elliott (BBN Technologies) |
| Talk title: GENI as an early Virtualized Infrastructure Architecture | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Architecture (Chair: Cedric Westphal, Docomo Labs USA) |
| Virtual Basestation: Architecture for an Open Shared WiMAX Framework | |
| Gautam Bhanage (WINLAB, Rutgers University); Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University); Rajesh Mahindra (NEC Labs America); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (WINLAB, Rutgers University) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Architecture (continued) (Chair: Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna) |
| RiaS -- Overlay Topology Creation on a PlanetLab Infrastructure | |
| Jens Lischka (Paderborn University); Holger Karl (Paderborn University) | |
| Competitive Analysis for Service Migration in VNets | |
| Marcin Bienkowski (Poland Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw); Anja Feldmann (TU Berlin / Telekom Laboratories); Dan Jurca (DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe); Wolfgang Kellerer (DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe); Gregor Schaffrath (TU Berlin / Telekom Laboratories); Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin / Telekom Laboratories); Joerg Widmer (DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe) | |
| Blueprint for Introducing Innovation into Wireless Mobile Networks | |
| Kok-Kiong Yap (Stanford University); Rob Sherwood (Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab); Masayoshi Kobayashi (NEC); Te-Yuan Huang (Stanford University); Michael Chan (Stanford University); Nikhil Handigol (Stanford University); Nick McKeown (Stanford University); Guru Parulkar (Stanford University) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Embeddings (Chair: Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts, Lowell) |
| Designing and Embedding Reliable Virtual Infrastructures | |
| Wai-Leong Yeow (DOCOMO USA Labs); Cedric Westphal (DOCOMO USA Labs); Ulas Kozat (DOCOMO USA Labs) | |
| Adaptive Virtual Network Provisioning | |
| Ines Houidi (Telecom SudParis); Wajdi Louati (Telecom SudParis); Djamal Zeghlache (Telecom SudParis); Panagiotis Papadimitriou (Lancaster University); Laurent Mathy (Lancaster University) | |
| PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains | |
| Mosharaf Chowdhury (University of California, Berkeley); Fady Samuel (University of Waterloo); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Systems (Chair: Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University and NICT) |
| Customizing Virtual Networks with Partial FPGA Reconfiguration | |
| Dong Yin (University of Massachusetts); Deepak Unnikrishnan (University of Massachusetts); Yong Liao (University of Massachusetts); Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts); Russell Tessier (University of Massachusetts) | |
| Accelerated Virtual Switching with Programmable NICs for Scalable Data Center Networking | |
| Yan Luo (University of Massachusetts, Lowell); Eric Murray (University of Massachusetts, Lowell); Timothy Ficarra (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) | |
| Network I/O Fairness in Virtual Machines | |
| Bilal Anwer (School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech); Nick Feamster (School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech); Ankur Nayak (School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech); Ling Liu (School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech) | |
Call for Papers
PDF version; Text version.Infrastructure virtualization has emerged as an important architecture and experimentation concept for the Internet infrastructure. The global computing and communication infrastructure will encompass (as it does today) a diverse and huge collection of networking, computing and storage resources. Together they need to form a coherent infrastructure and meet our society’s requirements for the 21st century. Infrastructure virtualization involves creation of a virtual slice of network, computing and storage resources in support of a service, an application, or an experiment from a physical substrate of diverse resources. Thus infrastructure virtualization provides a platform to allow innovation on a global scale and enables new business models.
There are many technical problems to solve to enable Infrastructure virtualization: how to discover and advertise the resources; how to create and manage an infrastructure slice across diverse resources; how does virtualization extend into the data center or to the wireless edge; how to implement virtualization across heterogeneous resources and protocols; how to map an application or service to run on an infrastructure slice; what applications and capabilities are enabled by infrastructure virtualization; how does infrastructure virtualization impact the business models of network operators; and others.
Many research groups worldwide are pursuing different aspects of infrastructure virtualization; various international funding agencies are actively supporting research in this area; and many providers and vendors are very interested in exploring how this concept and associated technologies would help solve their business problems and create new growth opportunities. The goal of the workshop is to feature recent research and developments related to infrastructure virtualization; to allow exchange of ideas; and to help build a research and user community to explore and help realize the potential of infrastructure virtualization.
Topics
We encourage the submission of position papers and of works which encompass the whole infrastructure virtualization (network and storage and computing resources). We solicit previously unpublished work on the following, non exhaustive, list of topics:
- Infrastructure virtualization architecture;
- Resource allocation to virtual slices;
- Impact of infrastructure virtualization on the data center;
- Management tools for infrastructure virtualization;
- How can infrastructure virtualization enable or support cloud computing;
- Isolation and slice independence in a virtualized infrastructure;
- Integration of the wireless edge into a virtualized network;
- Inter-operability and federation of virtualized infrastructures;
- Cross-layer protocols for virtualized networks;
- Applications and services enabled by virtualized infrastructure; and
- Security issues with virtualized infrastructure.
Submission Instructions
Authors should submit pdf papers exclusively, to the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=visa10. Please follow the format of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 submission guidelines, except VISA does not require anonymity of the authors, and the VISA page limit is eight pages. This workshop strongly encourages the submission of exploratory results that point to new directions and challenges in the design and management of a virtualized infrastructure.
At least one author of any accepted papers is required to register to the workshop and to present the paper in New Delhi, India. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal.
Important dates
| Submissions due | Friday April 2, 2010 |
| Notification of acceptance | Monday May 17, 2010 |
| Camera ready version due | Friday May 28, 2010 |
| Workshop date | Friday September 3, 2010 |
Program Committee
| VISA Steering committee | Tomonori Aoyama | Keio University and NICT |
|---|---|---|
| Anja Feldmann | TU Berlin and T Labs | |
| Nick McKeown | Stanford University | |
| Guru Parulkar | Stanford University | |
| Larry Peterson | Princeton University | |
| Cedric Westphal | Docomo Labs USA | |
| PC Co-chairs | Guru Parulkar | Stanford University |
| Amin Vahdat | UCSD | |
| Cedric Westphal | Docomo Labs USA | |
| PC Members | Hasan Alkhatib | Microsoft |
| Tomonori Aoyama | Keio University and NICT | |
| Jack Brassil | HP Labs | |
| Stephan Baucke | Ericsson | |
| Christophe Diot | Thomson Labs | |
| Lars Eggert | Nokia Research Center | |
| Serge Fdida | UPMC - Paris 6 | |
| Nick Feamster | Georgia Tech | |
| Anja Feldmann | TU Berlin and T Labs | |
| Albert Greenberg | Microsoft | |
| James Kempf | Ericsson | |
| Dae Young Kim | Chungnam National University | |
| Ulas Kozat | Docomo Labs USA | |
| Nick McKeown | Stanford University | |
| Sue Moon | KAIST | |
| Akihiro Nakao | University of Tokyo | |
| Pradeep Padala | Docomo Labs USA | |
| Fabio Picconi | Thomson Labs | |
| Dipankar Raychaudhuri | Rutgers University | |
| Jennifer Rexford | Princeton University | |
| Robert Ricci | University of Utah | |
| Martin Stiemerling | NEC Labs Europe | |
| Stephen Stuart | ||
| Kurt Tutschku | University of Vienna | |
| Mustapha Uysal | HP Labs | |
| Xiaoyun Zhu | VMware |
Keynote
| Keynote: Chip Elliott, BBN Technologies |
|
GENI as an early Virtualized Infrastructure Architecture
The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a suite of research infrastructure components rapidly taking shape in prototype form across the US. It is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, with the goal of becoming the world's first laboratory environment for exploring future Internets at scale, promoting innovations in network science, security, technologies, services, and applications. Rather than build a separate, parallel set of infrastructure "as big as the Internet," current plans call for GENI-enabling existing testbeds, campuses, regional and backbone networks, cloud computation services, and commercial equipment. This talk considers GENI within the broader context of emerging Virtualization Infrastructure Architectures, and explores open issues in its architecture, including federation across multiple organizations, resource descriptions, management systems, and incorporation of a range of virtualized technologies from wireless handset access through cloud computation and storage. |
Chip Elliott is Project Director for GENI, the National Science
Foundation's virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at
scale. He is Chief Engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies and an AAAS
and IEEE Fellow with over 85 patents issued and pending. Mr. Elliott
has served on many national panels and has held visiting faculty
positions at Dartmouth College, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.