IP Operations and Management

On behalf of the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on NetworkOperationsandManagement(CNOM),Manweek2009OrganizingC- mittee, and membersof the IPOMTechnicalProgramCommittee, it isour pl- sureto presenttheproceedingsofthe 9thIEEEWorkshoponIP Operationsand Management(IPOM2009),held aspartofManweek2009duringOctober26-30, 2009, Venice, Italy. Recently, there has been a heated discussion followed by highly ambitious, thus, high in risk, international research undertakings and programs, GENI and FIND in USA, FIRE in Europe, u-Japan in Japan to name a few, aiming at de?ning the Future Internet. Building on the success of the previous events, IPOM 2009 focused on network management challenges for the current Internet as well as Future Internet Design (FIND). We are particularly interested in network managementissues relatedto virtualization,mobility, service provision, security, multimedia, wireless networking, and P2P applications. Building on the success of the previous events, we wanted IPOM 2008 to focus on network managementchallengesfor thecurrentInternet aswellasfutureInternetdesign. Like the previous four IPOM workshops, IPOM 2009 was co-located with several related events as part of Manweek. The other events were the 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2009), the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2009), the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Modeling Autonomic Communi- tions Environments(MACE 2009),and the 6th InternationalWorkshoponNext Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM 2009). Co-locating those events providedthe opportunityfor anexchangeof ideasamong separateresearchc- munities working on related topics, and also allowed participants to forge links and exploit synergies.