Workshop Objectives

With the growth of global Internet connectivity, and increasing demands for inter-domain QoS support, there is an important research challenge for novel toolkits for inter-domain toplology and performance analysis, monitoring, traffic engineering, visualisation, modelling and simulation which are able to meet the requirements of ISP operators for inter-domain performance management and planning and end-user needs for inter-domain QoS analysis and verification. Further R&D challanges on macroscopic performance analysis and simulation toolkits are raised with introduction of new services and QoS based technologies in inter-domain infratsructures: VPNs, Mobile Networks (UMTS) , Voice over IP, Transaction-Oriented Services, Electronic Commerce as well as QoS Management and Service Level Agreement (SLA) in inter-domain environment.

Some aspects of inter-domain performance analysis and modelling are addressed by macroscopic topology analysis research at CAIDA (for instance skitter and NMS activities), Autonomous System interconnectivity analysis (for instance Hermes), policy based monitoring and tools for topological and geographical mapping (NetGeo), by different projects and activities - RIPE and NGNI, EURESCOM (P1008) and IST (ATRIUM, INTERMON, Clusters of European Projects MeMo), IETF efforts on BGP-4.

The motivation for the initiation of an International Inter-domain Performance and Simulation (IPS) Workshop is to serve as a integration forum for researchers, industrial partners, ISP operators and end-users from academia, standardisation, industry and research labs, working on inter-domain performance, modelling and simulation concepts and toolkits for presenting recent research results and practical experience. It is intended to bring together papers on early research in the different aspects of inter-domain traffoc engineering and performance simulation. These papers tend to be based on very recent research results (including work in progress) or on new research results that discuss important inter-domain topics.

The tied destiny of technology, management, modelling and business factors in the area of inter-domain management and connectivity is focus of the IPS Workshop as well as mathematical analysis, modeling and optimization to investigate fundamental issues and tradeoffs at the inter-domain performance and connectivity.

The emphasis are integrated inter-domain monitoring, modelling and simulation technologies and tools with examination both the technical and business aspects of ISP interconnections, inter-domain resource modelling, planning and optimisation.

The topics will cover R&D activities aimed at QoS and SLAs in inter-domain infrastructures, inter-domain traffic engineering and resource management, integrated inter-domain policy based monitoring and modelling, visual data mining and data bases for analysis of inter-domain connectivities, QoS based inter-domain routing, accounting, fault detection and security in inter-domain infrastructures, macroscopic inter-domain toplogy discovery, inter-domain QoS based architectures and inter-domain business models and scenarios.