Call for Papers
28th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies – MSST Research Track
April 19-20, 2012
http://storageconference.org/

Objectives
The 28th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2012) will be held at
Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California from April 16-20, 2012 and offers one week dedicated to storage technology. This year’s conference will include a two-day research track from April 19-20 of peer-reviewed papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems. As with prior MSST conferences, this conference will be a top-quality venue for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government.

We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest for MSST2012 include, but are not limited to:

- Performance modeling, benchmarking, and analysis of storage systems
- Parallel and distributed file and storage systems
- Evaluation of networked storage architectures
- Data protection and recovery
- Storage security, privacy, and provenance
- Data archiving, long-term data preservation and management
- Non-volatile memory (SSD) file and storage systems
- Storage in virtualized environments
- Metadata management
- Cloud storage and globally scalable storage approaches
- Caching and replication
- Storage for mobile devices
- Energy-efficient storage systems
- Storage technologies
- Storage system architecture and design
- Experience with real systems

Full paper submissions may be up to 12 pages long, including figures and references. MSST 2012 will also accept short papers up to 5 pages long, including figures and references. Full paper submissions that are not accepted as full papers will also be considered for the short paper session unless the authors request otherwise. All submitted papers (full and short) should be formatted as two-column, letter-size paper (8.5x11) with one inch margins and 10 point font. Reviewing will be single-blind: papers may include author information, and need not be anonymized. Paper abstracts are due one week before the paper submission deadline.

Important Dates
Abstract registration: January 20th, 2012
Paper submissions due: January 27th, 2012
Notification: February 29, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: March 16, 2012


Conference Organizers

Steering Committee
Ben Kobler, NASA/GSFC
Ethan L. Miller, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Andre Brinkmann, Univ. of Mainz
Merritt Jones, MITRE Consultant
Sam Coleman, Lawrence Livermore Lab (retired)

Program Co-Chairs
John Bent, EMC
Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz

Program Committee
Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University
Andre Brinkmann, University of Mainz
Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University
Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory
Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratories
Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
Michael Factor, IBM Research Haifa
Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Haryadi Gunawi, University of California, Berkeley
Kevin Greenan, EMC
Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska
Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratories
Chanik Park, Samsung
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Microsoft Research
Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
Jamie Shiers, CERN
Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame
Andy Wang, Florida State University
Brent Welch, Panasas
Youjip Won, Hanyang University
Tao Xie, San Diego State University
Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island
Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine