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IJCN Call For Paper
by CFP- CSC Journals 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

***Apologies for cross-postings*** FINAL CALL FOR PAPER Submission deadline; September 30 2010 The 2nd volume and 5th Issue of International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN) http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/description.php?JCode=IJCN BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES The International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN) is an archival, bimonthly journal committed to the timely publications of peer-reviewed and original papers that advance the state-of-the-art and practical applications of computer networks. It provides a publication vehicle for complete coverage of all topics of interest to network professionals and brings to its readers the latest and most important findings in computer networks. To build its International reputation, we are disseminating the publication information through Google Books, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open J Gate, ScientificCommons, Docstoc and many more. Our International Editors are working on establishing ISI listing and a good impact factor for IJCN. List of Topics The realm of International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN) extends, but not limited, to the following: a.. Algorithms, Systems and Applications a.. Ad-hoc Wireless Networks a.. ATM Networks a.. Body Sensor Networks a.. Cellular Networks a.. Cognitive Radio Networks a.. Congestion and Flow Control a.. Cooperative Networks a.. Delay Tolerant Networks a.. Fault Tolerant Networks a.. Information Theory a.. Local Area Networks a.. Metropolitan Area Networks a.. MIMO Networks a.. Mobile Computing a.. Mobile Satellite Networks a.. Multicast and Broadcast Networks a.. Multimedia Networks a.. Network Architectures and Protocols a.. Network Coding a.. Network Modeling and Performance Analysis Network a.. Network Operation and Management a.. Network Security and Privacy a.. Network Services and Applications a.. Optical Networks a.. Peer-to-Peer Networks a.. Personal Area Networks a.. Switching and Routing a.. Telecommunication Networks a.. Trust Worth Computing a.. Ubiquitous Computing a.. Web-based Services a.. Wide Area Networks a.. Wireless Local Area Networks a.. Wireless Mesh Networks a.. Wireless Sensor Networks IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: Paper Submission: September 30 2010 Author Notification: November 01, 2010 Issue Publication: November / December 2010 For general inquiries regarding IJCN; including contact information of IJCN editors, please visit http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/description.php?JCode=IJCN or http://www.cscjournals.org. Sincerely, CFP-CSC Journals, Computer Science Journals M-3-19, Plaza Damas, Sri Hartamas 50480, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Phone: +603 6207 1607 Fax: 00603 6201 1664 Url: http://www.cscjournals.org

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CFP: COMSNETS 2011 (EXTENDED FIRM DEADLINE: Sept 27, 11:59pm PDT!)
by Ramana Kompella 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

*** APOLOGIES IF YOUR RECEIVED MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE CFP *** *** EXTENDED FIRM DEADLINE: Sept 27, 11:59pm PDT *** COMSNETS 2011 The THIRD International Conference on COMunication Systems and NETworks January 4-8, 2011, Bangalore, India http://www.comsnets.org (In Co-operation with ACM SIGMOBILE) (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC) The Third International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, from 4 January 2011 to 8 January 2011. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in Networking and Communications Systems, and Telecommunications services. The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts, and venture capitalists, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of parallel tracks of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster sessions of work in progress. Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, thus complementing the technical program. Papers describing original research work and practical experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics including, but not limited to: Topics of Interest ------------------ Internet Architecture and Protocols Network-based Applications Video Distribution (IPTV, Mobile Video, Video on Demand) Network Operations and Management Broadband and Cellular Networks (3G/4G, WiMAX/LTE) Mesh, Sensor and PAN Networks Communication Software (Cognitive Radios, DSA, SDR) Wireless Operating Systems and Mobile Platforms Peer-to-peer Networking Cognitive Radio and White Space Networking Optical Networks Network Security & Cyber Security Technologies Cloud and Utility computing Storage Area Networks Next Generation Web Architectures Vehicular Networking Energy-Efficient Networking Network Science and Emergent Behavior in Socio-Technical Networks Social Networking Analysis, Middleware and Applications Networking Technologies for Smart Energy Grids Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking Conference Highlights --------------------- Conference Inaugural Speaker: Prof. Pravin Varaiya, U. C. Berkeley, USA Banquet speaker: Dr. Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo Research, India Keynote Speakers: • Prof. Don Towsley, U. Mass Amherst, USA • Dr. Pravin Bhagwat, AirTight Networks, India • Dr. Jean Bolot, Sprint, USA Workshops • WISARD (4, 5 Jan) • NetHealth (4 Jan) • IAMCOM (5 Jan) • Mobile India 2011 (7 Jan) Technical Paper and Poster Sessions Ph.D Forum Panel Discussions Demos & Exhibits Important Deadlines ------------------- Paper submission (FIRM, ABSOLUTELY NO EXTENSIONS): September 27, 2010 at 11:59 pm EDT (Sept 28, 9:29 am IST) Notification of Acceptance: November 8, 2010 Camera-Ready Submission: December 8, 2010 Detailed conference information and paper submission guidelines is available on the conference web site. Please see http://www.comsnets.org for detailed information from time to time. The conference email address is: comsnets2011(a)gmail.com General Co-Chairs ----------------- David B. Johnson, Rice University, USA Anurag Kumar, IISc Bangalore, India Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- Jon Crowcroft, U. of Cambridge, UK D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay, India Archan Misra, Telcordia Tech., USA Steering Committee Co-Chairs ---------------------------- Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad, India Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Sanjoy Paul, Infosys, India Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India G. Venkatesh, SASKEN, India Panel Co-Chairs --------------- Aditya Akella, U. of Wisconsin, USA Venkat Padmanabhan, MSR, India Ph.D Forum Chair ---------------- Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India Publications Chair ------------------ Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India Demos and Exhibits Co-Chairs ---------------------------- Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, India Ajay Bakre, Netapps, India Sponsorship Chair ----------------- Sudipta Maitra, Delhi, india Workshop Chairs --------------- Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent, India Ravindran Kaliappa, CUNY, USA Neelesh Mehta, IISc Bangalore, India Mobile India 2011 Co-Chairs --------------------------- Gulzar Azad, Google, India Gene Landy, Ruperto-Israel & Weiner, USA Rajaraghavan Setlur, SASKEN, India Sridhar Varadharajan, SASKEN, India Publicity Co-Chair ------------------ Augustin Chaintreau, TTL, France Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT Bombay, India Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Ramana Kompella, Purdue Univ, USA Nishanth Sastry, U. of Cambridge, UK Web Co-Chairs ------------- Santhana Krishnan, IIT Bombay, India Vinay Veerappa, SASKEN, India International Advisory Committee -------------------------------- K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T, USA Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National U., Korea Sajal Das, U. Texas at Arlington, USA B. N. Jain, IIT Delhi, India Anurag Kumar, IISc, Bangalore, India L. M. Patnaik, IISc, Bangalore, India Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Parmesh Ramanathan, U. Wisconsin, USA Krishan Sabnani, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Kang Shin, U. Michigan, USA Nitin Vaidya, U. Illinois, USA University Partners: -------------------- IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IISc Bangalore, IIT Hyderabad, NIIT University, IIIT Bangalore Patrons: -------- Mobile Monday Bangalore, Sasken, IBM Research, Alcatel Lucent

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ip block history.
by Greg Whynott 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

probably an odd question … we have been assigned a few large blocks of IPs, and while configuring BGP i got to wondering what these block's history might be. who had them in the past, etc.. is there a publicly accessible db or similar which tracks that type of information, or is that liability concern? thanks! greg

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IANA DNSSEC Testbed has been Decommissioned
by Joe Abley 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Colleagues, Following advanced notice sent to this list on 2010-08-03, the IANA testbed was shut down on 2010-09-03. For more details on the IANA DNSSEC testbed, see <https://ns.iana.org/>. For more details on DNSSEC deployment in the Root Zone, see <http://www.root-dnssec.org/>. Queries to the nameserver bound to NS.IANA.ORG (208.77.188.32, 2620:0:2d0:1::32) now fail with ICMP type 3 code 3 (Destination Unreachable, Port Unreachable). We suggest that anybody using the DNSSEC testbed for anything resembling production services make plans to stop doing so at their earliest convenience, if operational necessity has not already made that obvious. ICANN would once again like to thank Packet Clearing House (PCH) and Dyn.com DynTLD for their support and generous donation of global DNS resources to the IANA DNSSEC testbed. Regards, Joe Abley Director DNS Operations, ICANN

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Present at The Tools Track at NANOG 50
by Mohit Lad 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Dear all, The Tools track at NANOG Atlanta is a chance to talk about and discover non-commercial network tools of interest to network operations. If you have open-source or non-commercial software that you wrote or use and is relevant to NANOG, consider presenting at this NANOGs Tools Track. Please get in touch with me directly if you are attending NANOG 50 and interested. Thanks Mohit

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[NANOG-announce] Call for Nominations - Communications Committee
by Michael K. Smith - Adhost 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hello: Nominations for the NANOG Communications Committee are now open. This is a great way to become involved and serve the NANOG community. From the website: "The Communications Committee is a group of five individuals from the NANOG community who together are responsible for the administration and moderation of the NANOG mailing lists. A new Communications Committee will be selected by the Steering Committee after the election in October. Two positions are to be filled. The currently-serving Communications Committee members whose terms are expiring are Randy Epstein and Tim Yocum. The main NANOG mailing list serves an important role in the community by providing a day-to-day forum for network operators. Participating as a member of the Communications Committee gives you the opportunity to make a noticeable contribution. The Communications Committee is covered under section 7.1.2 of the NANOG charter." If you are interested in volunteering on the Communications Committee, please either volunteer yourself or nominate someone you feel would be willing and able to serve. Please send nominations to nominations(a)nanog.org and include your name, company affiliation, a brief biography and a statement of interest. This information will be posted to the NANOG website in the coming weeks. Please see http://www.nanog.org/governance/elections/2010elections/index.php for more information as well as samples of previous candidate submissions. Kind Regards, Michael K. Smith NANOG Communications Committee Chair _______________________________________________ NANOG-announce mailing list NANOG-announce(a)nanog.org https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-announce

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perl lib for management of NX-OS ?
by Leland Vandervort 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi All, I have an XMLRPC server/API that I implemented (written in perl) to manage most of the cisco kit on the network, with most of the "worker" methods using Net::Telnet::Cisco. Our new datacenter, however, has Cisco Nexus equipment which totally breaks the API since Net::Telnet::Cisco doesn't work at all with NX-OS. I've done some scouring around to try to find something useful for NX-OS, but have come up with nil... Don't suppose anyone has any pointers or has heard of a similar lib for perl to be able to manage NX-OS based systems? I've tried to find a netconf-xmlrpc-ssh lib, but everything that I've found is specifically geared towards juniper rather than Cisco -- and while netconf is supposed to be "standard" (more or less), there are significant differences between the two implementations sufficient enough to make the libs that I've found incompatible with NX-OS. Anyone happen to have any ideas ? Many thanks, Leland

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ISP port blocking practice
by Zhiyun Qian 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi all, What is the common practice for enforcing port blocking policy (or what is the common practice for you and your ISP)? More specifically, when ISPs try to block certain outgoing port (port 25 for instance), they could do two rules: 1). For any outgoing traffic, if the destination port is 25, then drop the packets. 2). For any incoming traffic, if the source port is 25, then drop the packets. Note that either of the rule would be able to block outgoing port 25 traffic since each rule essentially represent one direction in a TCP flow. Of course, they could apply both rules. However, based on our measurement study, it looks like most of the ISPs are only using rule 1). Is there any particular reason why rule 1) instead of rule 2)? Or maybe both? Also, is it common that the rules are based on tcp flags (e.g. SYN, SYN-ACK)? One would think block SYN packet is good enough. Regards. -Zhiyun

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Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?
by Tim Franklin 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

> Competition would be wonderful, but is simply not practical in many > cases. Most people and companies don't want to hear this, but from > a consumer perspective the Internet is a utility, and very closely > resembles water/sewer/electric/gas service. That is, having 20 > people run fiber past your home when you're only going to buy from > one of them makes no economic sense. Indeed, we probably wouldn't > have both cable and DSL service if those were both to the home for > other reasons already. The copper pair from your house to the exchange isn't congested (at least, between you and other people), by definition. The fibre from your house to somewhere isn't congested, in the same way - although the 'somewhere' may be closer to you than the exchange. There's no reason to have competition here - but there's no reason to have a commercial entity trying to make a profit here either. Treat it like a real, basic utility, and run it on a cost-recovery basis, either directly by your local government entity, or by a dedicated organisation acting on their behalf. Whatever entity owns the local-loop sells access to competing service providers on an equal and transparent basis. Providers can then compete on level of network congestion, amongst other things, because they can directly control it in terms of how much backhaul they want to build from the exchange / FTTP street cab / whatever the aggregation point is against the volume of subscribers they sell off that aggregation point. For places which have it, this seems to work much better, or least break far less, than the alternatives (Openreach in the UK, Stokab in Stockholm being two I've dealt with). Exactly like electricity and gas - I only have one set of wires / pipes to my house, but there's a plethora of companies I can choose to buy energy services from. Regards, Tim.

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Multicast issues in windows TCP/IP stack
by Philip Lavine 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Not sure if this the the right venue for this, but would anyone happen to know if there is any changes or "enhancements" in the Windows 2008 64 Bit R2 TCP/IP stack or in TOE that would cause multicast or microsecond bursts of UDP to be dropped between the physical layer (NIC) and OS. I am running the same multicast app on Windows 2008 64 bit NOT R2 or standard and do not have this issue. -thx Philip

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