Dynamic Resource Management (ISSN: 2032-9261)

Description

Future networks, increasingly dynamic and diverse, require new approaches to resource management. The communication services world is moving increasingly towards openness, with services made of components originating from different providers, who themselves are growing in number and becoming more specialized. Networks themselves are becoming more specialized and adaptive in a quest for increasing bandwidth and efficiency, and this means that the underlying communications medium is much more dynamic. All these factors increase the demands on resource management systems.
Existing approaches to resource and service management, such as walled gardens, subscribers-ownership based business models, are breaking down in this new environment. Business models are changing for traditional operators and infrastructure providers, as this “trend to openness” worsens the situation of “bottom OSI layer” providers, whose already commoditised businesses are going to be further depleted of value and ROIs. Growing numbers of providers and virtualisation of resources at different levels have created a need for new dynamic resource management methods, such as market based approaches, acting as catalysts between offer and demand.
The scope for this journal publication is to cover all those technologies that sustain the creation and the operations of dynamic, distributed resource management functionality. The topics of interest span from marketplace platforms, enabling network and service providers of any size to trade their resources, to network virtualisation, where providers can create new networks spanning multiple administrative domains; from cross-layer service composition and delivery platforms to negotiation and trading techniques that facilitate the use of resources from other providers; from virtualisation techniques that enable reuse of modularised resources to models and languages for the common description of telecommunication resources to interfacing techniques that ensure interoperability between traded components; from new business models enabled by market based resource management to performance-monitoring, reputation management features that foster quality and reliability of traded resources; from techniques for securing, policing and regulating the operations of marketplaces to those that ensure adequate SLA monitoring and subsequent compensation; from autonomic resource management within network components to verification of system operation at a network level.
We therefore encourage multidisciplinary submissions supporting the creation and operations of dynamic management of communication resources in the following areas:
Next Generation service overlay networks
Open APIs to expose network and device functionalities and related SDKs
Internet resource management
Next Generation Network resource management
Future Internet resource management
Market based resource management systems
Cross-layer multi-domain service composition and delivery platforms
Virtualisation, interfacing and description of generic resources (spanning from network resource to service resources)
Service Brokering and Orchestration
Negotiation, trading and dynamic SLA mechanisms
Securing marketplace operations
Verification of system operation
Monitoring and policing participation
Autonomic resource management
Socio-Economic and regulatory constraints
Performance monitoring
Reputation and reward management
New business models associated virtualised and market based approaches
New business models related to brokerage services such platforms enable
Green / carbon efficient resource management
Keywords

digital marketplace operations, network virtualization, cross-layer service delivery platforms, virtualisation, modularisation, service brokering, resources as a service, open telco and web APIs, service mashups, cloud computing, dynamic SLAs, communication resources modularisation, autonomic resource management, resource description and trading, federation, competition, negotiation, performance monitoring, resource management in SOA, future internet services and resource management
Editors-in-Chief
Dr. Raffaele Giaffreda is a network and services research scientist. He received his first degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1995 and his Master of Science in Telecom Engineering from University College of London in 2001. After a brief work experience at the Optical Systems unit of Telecom Italia Labs, in 1998 he joined British Telecom (BT) where he served for more than ten years as a researcher in future networking concepts, mainly working on information retrieval systems and context-aware networks. He contributed to a number of European collaborative projects and between 2003 and 2007 was involved in the FP6 EU project Ambient Networks as a leader of the Context, Network and Policy Management activities. In his most recent work at BT before joining CREATE-NET, Raffaele was involved in shaping research activities on potential roles for Telecom operators in future open service environments and the related technology enablers. Despite his industrial background, Raffaele has published more than 20 papers in international conferences and journals. He is currently Area Head for the OSCO group at CREATE-NET and his research interests relate to open, context-aware and dynamic orchestration of communication services.
Dr. James Irvine is a Reader in the EEE Department of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, from where he obtained his BEng (Hons) in 1989 and PhD in 1994. His research work focuses on novel resource management for future dynamic, heterogeneous communications networks, and he is currently working in the Mobile VCE programme, where he was one of the inventors of the digital marketplace. He has worked on all core Mobile VCE programmes, co-ordinating Software Based Systems (Core 2) and Personal Distributed Environment (Core 3). He is currently Academic Co-ordinator of the Core 4 Security programme, Instant Knowledge, and assisting in the development of the Core 5 programme, Flexible Networks. Prior to working within Mobile VCE, he worked on the ACTS MOSTRAIN project, where he was leader of System Architecture work-package. His research interests include resource management, agents systems, coding theory and security. He holds four patents, with three more being pursued, and over 60 papers in the past 5 years. He has co-authored two books with a further one in press. Technical Programme Chair of VTC2004-Spring in Milan, and Editor in Chief of the IEEE VT Magazine 2005-8, he is currently President of IEEE VTS.
Dr. Thomas Magedanz (Ph.D.) is full professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for AV Next Generation Networks since 2003. In addition, he is director of the “next generation network infrastructure” division of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. Since more than 20 years Prof. Magedanz is working in the convergence field of fixed and mobile telecommunications, the internet and information technologies, which resulted in many international R and D projects centred around the implementation of open API-based Service Delivery Platforms for for converging networks, Next Generation Networks, and the future Internet. In the course of his research activities he published more than 200 technical papers/articles. In 2007 Prof. Magedanz joined the European FIRE (Future Internet Research Experimental Facilities) Expert Group introducing the service orientation into future internet research. In addition, Prof Magedanz is senior member of the IEEE, and editorial board member of several journals and TP member of many related conferences and workshops.
Editorial Board
Web-Telco Convergence Architectures
R. Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
N. Crespi, Sud Paris Telecom Institute, France
S. Fallis, BT, UK
J. Heuer, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
R. Glitho, Concordia University, Canada
Market-Based Resource Management
J. Barria, Imperial College London, UK
J. Zuidweg, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
S. Olafsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Mobile Service Platforms and Network Mobility
K. Moessner, University of Surrey, UK,
T. Melia, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France
G. Christensen, MindCommerce, US
A. Jaokar, futuretext, UK
Next Generation Communication Services
R. Minerva, Telecom Italia, Italy
A. Gavras, Eurescom, Germany
V. Varma, Telcordia, US
U. Naoki, NTT, Japan