Networks for Grid Applications Third International ICST Conference, GridNets 2009, Athens, Greece, September 8-9, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

The GridNets conference is an annual international meeting that provides a focused and highly interactive forum where researchers and technologists have an opportunity to present and discuss leading research, developments, and future directions in grid networking. The goal of this event is to serve as both the premier conference prese- ing best grid networking research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. After the great success of the Second International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications in Beijing, China, which was held during October 8–9, 2008, the next event was scheduled for Athens in 2009. The 2009 event featured two invited keynote speakers, ten reviewed papers, and three invited papers. The program was supplemented by forums on three key areas––a workshop on Green Grids, a workshop on Wireless Grids, and a workshop on Optical Grids. Next year’s event is currently being planned, and it will incorporate multiple new important emerging topics related to grid networks. December 2009 Tasos Doulamis Joe Mambretti Ioannis Tomkos Dora Varvarigou

Keynote.- Designing 21st Century Communications: Architecture, Services, Technology, and Facilities.- General Session 1.- Authorisation Infrastructure for On-Demand Grid and Network Resource Provisioning.- On the Definition of Access Control Requirements for Grid and Cloud Computing Systems.- Business Models, Accounting and Billing Concepts in Grid-Aware Networks.- General Session 2.- Network Centered Multiple Resource Scheduling in e-Science Applications.- Percolation-Based Replica Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Grid Infrastructures.- GridFTP GUI: An Easy and Efficient Way to Transfer Data in Grid.- General Session 3.- An Alarms Service for Monitoring Multi-domain Grid Networks.- Grid Anywhere: An Architecture for Grid Computing Able to Explore the Computational Resources of the Set-Top Boxes.- The Open Cloud Testbed: Supporting Open Source Cloud Computing Systems Based on Large Scale High Performance, Dynamic Network Services.- Green Grids Workshop.- Designing Power-Efficient WDM Ring Networks.- Energy Efficiency in Thin Client Solutions.- Wireless Grids Workshop.- Architecture to Integrate Broadband Access Networks and Wireless Grids.- Implementation of Random Linear Network Coding Using NVIDIA’s CUDA Toolkit.- Collaboration in a Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed by Virtual Consortium.- Challenges for Social Control in Wireless Mobile Grids.