BIPN 2009 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards metropolitan and wide area networking that work below the IP layer. Particular interest is in enhanced Ethernet technology in context with future access and Internet core networks and systems as well as advances in the label switching technologies. A common denominator is implementing carrier grade transport capabilities below IP.
The role of IP in networks is undermined by numerous add-on solutions, many of which reside below IP in the stack. Add-ons provide resiliency, traffic engineering, quality of service, network virtualization, network hiding and edge to edge connectivity etc. Ethernet and MPLS footprints in networks are increasing. An industry trend is that from synchronous transmission, networks are moving to packet based transport based on 802.1 variants or IP/MPLS. Both Ethernet and MPLS are being turned into Carrier Grade transport technologies. The use of native Ethernet based control, signaling and management solutions in large operator and corporate networks will help to reduce costs while scaling networks to higher transport speeds and to carrier grade operator solutions. IP/MPLS transport is agnostic to underlying layers.
Now the industry is seeking advice on the particular form of packet based transport technology and on what will be the role of IPv4 when unallocated address pools will soon be exhausted – will it continue to serve as a routed protocol or will the responsibility for all end to end connectivity be delegated to below IP technology?
In order to support different products, services, pricing or business models, etc. solutions must be open standard and flexible enough. New networking principles using enhanced Ethernet are being explored in several international efforts. The industry is developing the MPLS transport profile.
The 1st IEEE Workshop on Below IP Networking (BIPN’09) provides a venue for academic and industrial research communities for exchanging ideas and experience on all aspects of below IP Networking. Papers that present work, validated by experimentation, simulations, or analysis, as well as position papers and papers discussing and comparing concepts, architectures and interfaces are solicited, on the topics including, but not limited to
Papers should be original material in the IEEE two column format limited to 6 pages.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will appear in the IEEE Explore.