WIOV '08 Call for Papers
First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08)
December 1011, 2008
San Diego, CA, USA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
WIOV '08 will be held in conjunction with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08), December 810, 2008.
Important
Dates
Submissions due: September 15, 2008
Notification to authors: October 3, 2008
Final files due: November 3, 2008
Workshop
Organizers
Program Co-Chairs
Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Haifa Research
Lab
Alan L. Cox, Rice University
Scott Rixner, Rice University
Program Committee
Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto
Jun Nakajima, Intel
Renato Santos, HP Labs
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pratap Subrahmanyam, VMware
Leendert van Doorn, AMD
Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia
Overview
Over the past decade, the use of virtualization technology has grown rapidly.
Moreover, it is being used in a variety of places, ranging from the data center
to the desktop. Although this has spurred great advances in processor and
memory virtualization in commodity hardware and virtualization software,
I/O virtualization has received far less attention. However, both personal
computers and servers may perform significant amounts of I/O. For example,
efficient virtualization of graphics hardware has presented significant challenges on the desktop and efficient virtualization of network interfaces has
limited server consolidation in the data center.
This workshop is meant to provide a forum to discuss challenges of I/O
virtualization that span the virtual machine monitor, guest operating
system, processor, memory subsystem, and I/O subsystem. In that spirit, we
welcome papers that describe new challenges in I/O virtualization and papers
that describe novel approaches to solving known problems in I/O virtualization. The final program will consist of both reviewed submissions and invited
talks. The invited talks will focus on open problems in I/O virtualization and
will be accessible to a broad audience.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Hardware support for I/O virtualization
- Novel I/O device architectures for virtualization
- Novel software approaches to I/O virtualization
- Software methods for I/O device emulation
- Para-virtualized I/O device driver design for virtualization
- Virtual machine monitors I/O subsystems
Submission Guidelines
Please submit an extended abstract in PDF format through the workshop submission Web form.
The extended abstract should be no more than 4 double-column pages using 10-point type on 12-point leading ("single-spaced"). Figures and references are not included in
this 4-page limit.
Accepted papers will be available to participants before the workshop on the USENIX WIOV '08 Web site and will be made generally accessible after the workshop.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues,
submission
of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or
fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and
journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation
of a
program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. In
some cases, program committees may share information about submitted
papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the
integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of these
principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited to,
barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX
conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions,
and publicizing the details of the case.
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's
guidelines should contact the program co-chairs, wiov08chairs@usenix.org, or the
USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX WIOV '08 Web site.
Registration Materials
Complete program and registration information will be available in
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