General information

CESNET Conference 2008 is organised by CESNET, two years after the 10th CESNET anniversary conference in 2006. This event also fulfils the promised beginning of a tradition of regular bi-annual conferences focusing on advances in high-speed communication technologies, Grids, related middleware and their sophisticated applications.

Conference topics

This year conference focuses on areas that stay behind not only the network itself, but are the basic building bricks of general e-Infrastructures. The three major topics are:

Security

conceptual, technical, and organizational aspects of the broadly understood security in networks, Grids, and generic e-Infrastructures; classical (like Kerberos and PKI) and novel (federations) approaches to authentication; new authorization mechanisms, tools, and infrastructures that could serve networks and Grids together; security in sensor networks and peer to peer systems; security in healthcare and other sensitive application areas; the concept of trust and its implementation in distributed systems

Middleware

software components that lie between individual components and the vision of the hidden complexity of large-scale distributed systems like networks, and grids; planning and scheduling algorithms and systems; multimedia and other large capacity demanding content distribution; overlay and user empowered networks, ROI; security related middleware

Virtualization

virtual networks, computing nodes and data depots; virtual clusters and Grids; novel techniques in network virtualization; virtual organizations, user and resource management; new addressing and identification paradigms

About CESNET

CESNET was established in 1996 as an association of major Czech universities and the Czech Academy of Sciences with the aim of building and developing the national broadband computer network for science, research and education. From the very beginning of its existence, CESNET has assumed a leading position in the research and development of high-speed networks and communication technologies in the Czech Republic. Shortly after its foundation, CESNET joined the international networking community and its specialists actively participated in a number of international research projects since 1997.

Nowadays, CESNET operates and develops the CESNET2 national research network and performs applied research in a number of areas such as optical transmission technologies, programmable hardware, Grids, network monitoring, authentication/authorisation infrastructure and mobility. CESNET participates in pan-European projects GN2 and EGEE II/III and other international activities.

Contacts

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