Call for papers of Optical Switching and Networking [1]http://www.journals.elsevier.com/optical-switching-and-networking/
Special issue on Virtual Infrastructure Recovery After Disaster [2]http://www.journals.elsevier.com/optical-switching-and-networking/c all-for-papers/optical-network-architectures-and-applications/ Overlaying virtual infrastructures on top of a physical infrastructure is a cost-effective way to achieve high resource utilization and has received a lot of attention in various research fields. In the communication network field, multiple virtual overlay networks with diverse topologies, bandwidth and resilience properties can be created over a common physical network. For example, by partitioning an optical network infrastructure into virtual resources, we can provision multiple virtual optical networks, one for each client (e.g., an ISP), over the same optical network. The adoption of virtual infrastructure can also be found in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) paradigm of cloud computing, where a virtual infrastructure includes both virtualized computing and networking resources. A resilient virtual infrastructure design provides clients with hardened virtual infrastructures capable of achieving high availability even after one or more failures cripple the physical infrastructure. Virtual infrastructure recovery involves dynamically allocating additional resources or activating reserved backup (or spare) resources after failures to re-provision virtual infrastructures. For a few small scale failures, cost-effective virtual infrastructure designs that reserve backup resources to survive such failures may be explored. After large scale failures, however, progressive repair/restoration strategies may be needed to mitigate the disruption. A virtual infrastructure may also be moved from one physical infrastructure to another after large-scale failures, e.g., from one datacenter to another. Under such an option, technologies to replicate/re-provisioning the virtual infrastructure with the minimum disruption need to be explored. This special issue aims to stimulate research and development in resilient virtual infrastructure design and recovery. Original contributions are solicited in all areas relevant to resilient virtual infrastructure design and recovery, including (but not limited to) the following topics: * Resilient virtual infrastructure design * Backup or spare resource allocation * Dynamic allocation of additional resources after failures * Repair/restoration strategies * Strategies to move a virtual infrastructure from one physical infrastructure to another physical infrastructure * Cooperative and/or non-cooperative behaviors in virtual infrastructure design and recovery * Performance measures for partially functional virtual infrastructure * Case studies of virtual infrastructure recovery * Economic analysis of virtual infrastructure recovery Editors: Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York at Buffalo Hongfang Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Schedule: Full article submission: Nov. 15, 2012 Acceptance/rejection/revision: Jan. 31, 2013 Revised manuscripts: Feb. 28, 2013 Final manuscripts due: March 31, 2013 Publication date: Third Quarter of 2013 Papers Submission: For manuscript submission, the authors should follow the OSN Journal guidelines at: [3]http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/703621 /authorinstructions References 1. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/optical-switching-and-networking/ 2. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/optical-switching-and-networking/call-for-papers/optical-network-architectures-and-applications/ 3. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/703621/authorinstructions _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
