From celliott at bbn.com Thu Feb 2 07:18:07 2012 From: celliott at bbn.com (Chip Elliott) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:18:07 -0500 Subject: [geni-announce] USENIX: CSET '12 Call for Papers Message-ID: <4F2A7EFF.3030400@bbn.com> GENI colleagues, I believe the CSET '12 workshop will be of direct interest to many of us. Note the deadline of April 19, and please forgive me if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. best wishes, Chip USENIX: CSET '12 Call for Papers http://www.usenix.org/events/cset12/cfp/ 5th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '12) August 6, 2012 Bellevue, WA Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association CSET '12 will be co-located with the 21th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '12), which will take place August 6-10, 2012. Important Dates * Submissions due: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 11:59 p.m. PDT * Notification to authors: Thursday, May 31, 2012 * Final paper files due: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Workshop Organizers Program Co-Chairs Sean Peisert, University of California, Davis, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Stephen Schwab, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Program Committee Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis Jack Brassil, HP Labs Elie Bursztein, Stanford University Ron Dodge, U.S. Military Academy Deborah Frincke, U.S. National Security Agency Brian Hay, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Cynthia Irvine, Naval Postgraduate School Chris Kanich, University of California, San Diego Christian Kreibich, International Computer Science Institute Patrick Lardieri, Lockheed Martin ATL Damon McCoy, George Mason University Ron Ostrenga, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Phil Porras, SRI International Jessica Staddon, Google, Inc. Ed Talbot, Independent Consultant Robert Watson, University of Cambridge Computing Laboratory Sean Whalen, Columbia University Steering Committee Chair Terry V. Benzel, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Overview CSET invites submissions on the science of cyber security evaluation, as well as experimentation, measurement, metrics, data, and simulations as those subjects relate to computer and network security and privacy. The science of cyber security is challenging for a number of reasons: For example, very little data is available for research use, and little is understood about what good data would look like if it was obtained. Experiments must recreate relevant, realistic features -- including human behavior -- in order to be meaningful, yet identifying those features and modeling them is hard. Repeatability and measurement accuracy are essential in any scientific experiment yet hard to achieve in practice. And cyber security experiments carry significant risk if not properly contained and controlled, yet often require some degree of interaction with the larger world in order to be useful. Meeting these challenges requires transformational advances, including understanding of the relationship between scientific method and cyber security evaluation, advancing capabilities of underlying experimental infrastructure, and improving data usability. Topics Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Science of cyber security, e.g., experiences with and discussions of experimental methodologies * Measurement and metrics, e.g., what are useful or valid metrics, particularly when human behavior and perception (such as privacy) are considered? how do we know? how does measurement interact with (or interfere with) evaluation? * Data sets, e.g., what makes good data sets? how do we know? how do we compare data sets? how do we collect new ones, or generate derived ones? how do they hold up over time? how well do red teaming or capture-the-flag exercises generate data sets? * Simulations and emulations, e.g., what makes good ones? how do they scale (up or down)? * Testbeds and experimental infrastructure, e.g., tools, usage techniques, support for experimentation in emerging security topics (cyber-physical systems, wireless, etc.) * Experiences with cyber security education, e.g., capture-the-flag exercises, novel experimentation techniques used in education, novel ways to teach hands-on cyber security Workshop Format Because of the complex and open nature of the subject matter, CSET '12 is designed to be a workshop in the traditional sense. Presentations are expected to be interactive with the expectation that a substantial amount of this time may be given to questions and audience discussion. Some papers will be given their own time slot of about 45 minutes, while similarly themed papers may be grouped together for discussion. Papers and presentations should be conducive to discussion, and the audience is encouraged to participate. To ensure a productive workshop environment, attendance will be limited to 80 participants. Submissions Position papers, research papers, and extended abstracts are welcome as submissions. For all submissions, the program committee will give greater weight to papers that lend themselves to interactive discussion among attendees. Research papers should have a separate section labeled "Methodology" in which the paper clearly identifies the research hypothesis and experiments designed to be proven or disproven. Submissions that recount experiences (e.g., from experiments or teaching) should have a section labeled "Lessons Learned" that discusses conclusions drawn from experience and generalized to other environments. Extended abstracts and position papers, particularly those that are critiques of past work, should make certain to also include detailed, proposed solutions. Full position and research submissions must be 6?8 pages long including tables, figures, and references. Extended abstracts must be 2?4 pages long. Text should be formatted in two columns on 8.5" x 11" paper using 10 point type on 12 point leading ("single-spaced"), with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Text outside the 6.5" x 9" block will be ignored. ** All submissions must be anonymized. ** Submissions must be in PDF and must be submitted via the Web submission form. All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the workshop. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production at usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the day of the workshop. At least one author from every accepted paper must plan to attend the workshop and present. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Questions? Contact your program co-chairs, cset12chairs at usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy at usenix.org. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX CSET '12 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. From celliott at bbn.com Wed Feb 15 16:20:47 2012 From: celliott at bbn.com (Chip Elliott) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:20:47 -0500 Subject: [geni-announce] GEC 13 - reserve your hotel room NOW Message-ID: <4F3C21AF.8050707@bbn.com> GENI Folks- Due to an unexpected situation, LUX has not yet been able to go live with the GEC 13 registration site. It should be up this Friday, but in the meantime, I urge you to: * make your hotel reservation immediately! * the hotel deadline is February 21. For online hotel reservation - https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=8422149 For a phone reservation, please call the hotel directly: (888) 421-1442. Please reference the group name (NSF/GENI 13th ENGINEERING CONFERENCE) The room rate should be $209.00 plus tax. INTERNS... If you are interested in becoming a summer intern, please talk with us and other industry participants at the conference. APPLYING FOR A TRAVEL GRANT.... We offer travel grants for selected US academics (students and professors) to increase the educational, ethnic and geographic diversity of the conference attendees and to create opportunities for informal social networking between participants from a wide range of universities and companies. Travel grant info: http://www.geni.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Travel-Grants-Instructions_GEC13.pdf For any questions, please contact GEC at genicon.net Thank you, Chip Chip Elliott GENI Project Director From celliott at bbn.com Wed Feb 22 13:24:07 2012 From: celliott at bbn.com (Chip Elliott) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:24:07 -0500 Subject: [geni-announce] SC12 SCinet Research Sandbox call for proposals Message-ID: <4F4532C7.9040202@bbn.com> GENI colleagues, On behalf of Brian Tierney and and Matt Zekauskas , I'm pleased to forward this invitation for the SC12 SCinet Research Sandbox call for proposals. There we some great interactions between GENI and the SCinet Research Sandbox last year, and with luck there will be more and better this year. cheers, Chip ------ The SC12 SCinet Research Sandbox call for proposals is now available. See: http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/scinet-research-sandbox Please note the following: This year the full proposals should be 5-6 pages, compared to 2-3 pages last year. All accepted SRS proposals will be published in the SC12 proceedings, and have a speaking slot in the technical program. SRS Abstracts Due: April 27, 2012 Full Proposals Due: June 1, 2012 From celliott at bbn.com Tue Feb 28 10:37:18 2012 From: celliott at bbn.com (Chip Elliott) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:37:18 -0500 Subject: [geni-announce] GENI Racks - good news Message-ID: <4F4CF4AE.5020200@bbn.com> Dear GENI colleagues, I'm pleased to announce that both GENI Rack teams have now passed their formal design reviews. Rack development activities are well underway and we expect early deployment to begin shortly. The HP team, led by Rick McGeer in close collaboration with Andy Bavier, Joe Mambretti, and Rob Ricci, is creating racks of HP equipment. The RENCI team, led by Ilia Baldine in close collaboration with Jeff Chase, is creating racks of IBM equipment. Both racks include virtualized and bare-metal servers, storage, and a production OpenFlow switch as the top-of-rack switch. We expect that GENI racks will be installed and operational within the following 11 campuses in Spiral 4: Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, GPO, Florida International University, University of Houston, University of Kansas, Northwestern, NYU, Princeton (temporary), and University of Utah. Many thanks to the universities that are hosting and operating these first GENI Racks! This initial "wave" of deployments will be followed up with a considerably larger set of campus deployments in Spiral 5, once the initial bugs have been worked out from this first wave. Congratulations to everyone involved in creating and deploying this first wave of GENI Racks. It's going to be an exciting time as they begin to come online over the next four to six months. Chip Chip Elliott GENI Project Director