Keynotes

The keynotes were given by Bruce Maggs (Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke University and Vice President, Research Akamai Technologies, USA) and Volker Hilt (Head of Networked Services Research, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany). The talk by Bruce Maggs described two network overlays that are used heavily by the customers of Akamai Technologies today. The first protects the banking industry from distributed denial of service attacks, whereas the second reduces the latency experienced by users of a major search engine. In the context of these two overlays, the talk discussed limitations in the functionality that a content distribution network (CDN) like Akamai can provide on behalf of its customers (the content providers), and suggests that there may be opportunities to address these limitations by exploiting social awareness. 

Volker Hilt gave a keynote talk on “Network-Awareness and Virtualization Meets Cloud” where he recognized that the limitation of today's clouds is impacting in particular telecommunication services that are time-sensitive, media-based, mission-critical, or persistent (long-lived). Network virtualization and network-awareness are key enablers for a new type of cloud that supports a wider range of services at greater efficiency. New research on network-awareness and virtualization is enabling services to quickly respond to changing network conditions and jointly orchestrate network and computing resources. These clouds can use resources more efficiently and deliver highly available services with superior end-to-end performance.

Technical Sessions

With respect to the technical sessions, one focus was on video services in the Internet responsible for the majority of Internet traffic, as discussed in Session 1. The proposed approaches for improving video delivery ranges from concrete algorithmic solutions (Multi-source Cooperative Adaptation for QoE-aware Video Multicast Rate control) to social-aware concepts for recommendation system and content distribution networks (Determining leaders and clusters in video consumption),  while also economic aspects and business interests are analyzed (Video Delivery over Next Generation Cellular Networks). Network traffic management solutions are considered in Session 2 with a focus on the federation of clouds and available bandwidth provisioning systems for offering reliable network transfer services to the cloud systems (Networking solutions in the federation of clouds) and the problem of cost-optimal distribution of inevitable inter-domain traffic on multiple links dynamic solutions (Dynamic Traffic Management mechanism for active optimization of ISP costs). Session 3 considers user involved approaches to realize a socially-aware traffic management solution which targets three popular use cases: data offloading to WiFi, content caching/prefetching, and content delivery (HORST - Home Router Sharing based on Trust) but also to optimize energy and upload bandwidth of smartphones by proper incentive and collaboration schemes (Reciprocity with Virtual Nodes: Supporting Mobile Peers in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution).

Program

Keynotes

• Opportunities for Exploiting Social Awareness in Overlay Networks
  Keynote Speaker: Bruce Maggs (Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke University and Vice President, Research Akamai Technologies, USA)
• Network-Awareness and Virtualization Meets Cloud
  Keynote Speaker: Volker Hilt (Head of Networked Services Research, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany)

Session 1: Video Delivery

• Multi-source Cooperative Adaptation for QoE-aware Video Multicast Rate control
  Kaliappa Ravindran (City University of New York, USA)
• Video Delivery over Next Generation Cellular Network
  Manos Dramitinos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Nan Zhang (Aalto University, Finland), Miroslaw Kantor (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland), Jose Costa-Requena (Aalto University, Finland), Ioanna Papafili (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
• Determining leaders and clusters in video consumption
  Danny De Vleeschauwer, Chris Hawinkel (Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium), Yannick Lelouedec (Orange Labs FT, France)

Session 2: Network Traffic Management

• Networking solutions in the federation of clouds
  Roman Lapacz, Blazej Pietrzak (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland)
• Dynamic Traffic Management mechanism for active optimization of ISP costs
  Zbigniew Dulinski (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Rafal Stankiewicz (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Session 3: User Involved Approaches

• HORST - Home Router Sharing based on Trust
  Michael Seufert, Valentin Burger, Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
• Reciprocity with Virtual Nodes: Supporting Mobile Peers in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
  Matthias Wichtlhuber, Peter Heise, Björn Scheurich, David Hausheer (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Poster Session

• Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic with Energy Efficiency in the Internet
  Corinna Schmitt, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Relevant Applications to use SmartenIT
  Thomas Bocek, Corinna Schmitt, Guilherme Machado, Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Tobias Hoßfeld, Valentin Burger (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
• Reciprocity with Virtual Nodes: Supporting Mobile Peers in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
  Matthias Wichtlhuber, Peter Heise, Björn Scheurich, David Hausheer (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
• HORST - Home Router Sharing based on Trust
  Michael Seufert, Valentin Burger, Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
• eCOUSIN: enhanced COntent distribUtion with Social Information
  Yannick Le Louedec (Orange Labs, France), Rubén Cuevas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Danny De Vleeschauwer (Alcatel-Lucent Bell N.V., Belgium), Joerg Widmer (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain), Noël Crespi (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France), Klaus Satzke (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Germany, Germany), David Hausheer (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany), Claudio Venezia (Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy), Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Video Delivery over Next Generation Cellular Networks
  Manos Dramitinos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Nan Zhang (Aalto University, Finland), Miroslaw Kantor (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland), Jose Costa-Requena (AALTO University, Finland), Ioanna Papafili (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
• A model for posting and selection of videos by the users of an On-line Social Network
  George Darzanos, Ioanna Papafili, George D. Stamoulis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Download

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Conference proceedings can be also downloaded from IEEE eXplore. 

Metin Feridun, Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Sandrine Vaton, Tuan Anh Trinh, Shannon Keith-Marsoun, David Hausheer, Tobias Hoßfeld, Burkhard Stiller (Edts.): 2013 9th International Conference on Network andService Management (CNSM) and its three collocated workshops. IEEE, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2013. 

The presentations are available at the SETM 2013 homepage.