-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE Network Magazine: Special Issue on Managing an Autonomic Future Internet Datum: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:20:15 +0200 Von: Panagiotis Demestichas pdemest@unipi.gr An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu, cnom@inf.ufsc.br, tccn@comsoc.org

Call for Papers

*IEEE Network Magazine* Special Issue on Managing an Autonomic Future Internet *Background* Information and telecommunications technologies are migrating towards the Future Internet (FI) era. Key characteristics envisaged are powerful network infrastructures, numerous applications and services, and the evolution of existing and the emergence of new business models, compared to today. The infrastructure will be highly pervasive: people, smart objects, machines and the surrounding space, all embedding devices (e.g., sensors, RFID tags, etc.), will result in a highly decentralized environment of resources, interconnected by dynamic Networks of Networks. These characteristics entail that management in the FI era will have additional complexity to support, which derives from the need to handle multiple, demanding and changing situations for the provision of QoE/QoS levels, the exploitation of the infrastructure for increased efficiency in QoE/QoS provision, and the support of diverse interactions, objectives and policies designated by business model aspects.

Autonomic systems are seen as the most viable direction for realizing the FI era, at first due to their self-management and learning features. Self-management is essential for fast adaptations to changing situations. Learning can increase the reliability of decisions through knowledge, for instance, on situations encountered, on how they were addressed, and on the efficiency of the action plan. This opens the opportunity towards multiple and essentially heterogeneous management systems on top of a common managed infrastructure in both fixed and mobile Internet. This opportunity clearly leads to reductions in the OPEX and CAPEX, which need to be quantified, but also calls for a research on future Unified Management Framework that must allow diversity and evolution of business model, as well as Total Illusion of Ownership of shared infrastructure. In line with the targets of cost reduction is the achievement of "green" targets by the management systems. Autonomic systems call for the design, development and validation of functionality in the area of context acquisition and reasoning, the derivation and evaluation of policies, distributed optimization techniques, and learning for acquiring and sharing knowledge and experience.

*Scope* Research is producing results in the area of autonomics/self-management. Now is the appropriate time for taking the essential steps that will show that the technology reaches maturity and, therefore, is closer to the market. In this respect, the special issue solicits innovative and high-quality work, as well as general, survey-like papers on relevant areas. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

- Future Internet visions and initiatives, requirements for management, business drivers for facilitating adoption of autonomics; reference models for the evolvable FI architecture. - New business models for a sustainable Future Internet. - Unified Management Framework: components, patterns, interfaces and systems; Consolidation and federation of approaches; Principles for network governance and re-defined human-to-network interactions. - Design of self-managed networks. - Performance evaluation of autonomic network intelligence; functionality and results on context reasoning, policies, distributed optimization, machine learning. - Cooperation protocols, knowledge/experience management and sharing. - Prototypes, experiments, trials, pilots, and guidelines for migration or transition to an autonomic Future Internet. - End-to-end validation with respect to QoE/QoS offered, cost factors, green targets, convergence, coherence, scalability. - Stability of autonomic solutions, approaches for establishing trust and certification. - Standardization initiatives.

*Manuscript Submission* Articles should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for preparation of the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Guidelines for manuscripts" at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html, at the IEEE Network magazine web site. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, complete contact information (indicating the primary contact author), a 250-word abstract, and 3-5 keywords, via an e-mail to all of the guest editors. Papers outside of the scope of this special issue will be rejected; authors uncertain about the relevance of their paper should inquire with the guest editors before submission. All papers will be subject to a peer-review process.

*Schedule* Full Paper Submissions: April 1, 2011 Author Notification about Acceptance: July 1, 2011 Accepted papers in Final Form: September 1, 2011

*Guest Editors* Panagiotis Demestichas University of Piraeus, Greeece, Dep. of Digital Systems Email: pdemest@unipi.gr

Martin Vigoureux, Alcatel-Lucent, France, martin.vigoureux@alcatel-lucent.com

Dr. Mikhail Smirnov Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, Mikhail.Smirnov@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Antonio Manzalini Telecom Italia, Italy, antonio.manzalini@telecomitalia.it

Sudhir Dixit Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, India, sudhir.dixit@hp.com _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc