[geni-announce] Workshop on Below IP Networking (BIPN'09)

[Aaron Falk]

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

BIPN 2009 (<http://www.bipn.org/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original and previously unpublished papers addressing research 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.