[Isod-rg] Deadline extended - 10 Sept 2011 - CFP: NetCloud2011 - Workshop Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing, in conjunction with CloudCom2011 - November 20 - December 1, 2011, Athens, Greece

[Yuri Demchenko]

FYI:
This is a good opportunity to meet researches and practitioners in Cloud 
at the Europe the most representation conference on Cloud (check for 
conference website) that will feature a number of interesting invited 
talks and presentations from European Commission.

[apologies for cross-posting]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing
(NetCloud2011)
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http://www.ds.unipi.gr/cloudcom2011/images/stories/cloucom2011-cfp-workshop-NetCloud.pdf

In conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2011 - http://2011.cloudcom.org/)
November 29 - December 1, 2011, Athens, Greece

Introduction

The Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm which aims to
provide secure and reliable, on demand QoS guaranteed computing
environments for the end-users. Cloud computing services usage in both
academia and industry, changed the way of thinking on how users' needs
can be satisfied by computational infrastructures. However, with the
increase of data transferred among different places, it became critical
how to support distributed computing resources with advanced network
infrastructure services. It is envisioned that network infrastructure
services provisioned on-demand could be managed and reconfigured
dynamically by Cloud operators and user applications to achieve optimal
usage criteria. Such dynamic infrastructures reveal new aspects in
network virtualization, service delivery automation and general
infrastructure resources management that should be supported by
well-defined information models and related middleware. New components
of the required network infrastructure for Cloud services and
applications should create an integrated self-management environment
that can react to changes in workloads and other events with minimal
human interference. Security issues should addressed as a part of the
general service delivery framework/workflow and support both
infrastructure provisioning process and secure virtualised
services/infrastructures operation.

The workshop will discuss issues of optical network virtualisation to
create internal distributed datacenter network infrastructure and
provide dedicated inter-cloud network connectivity on-demand.

Objective

NetCloud, collocated with IEEE CloudCom 2011, attempts to address the
problem of how the underlying network infrastructure is capable of
supporting advanced cloud computing cases. The workshop is intended to
bring together network research community, commercial network operators
and industry with the major cloud computing players, including IT
specialists, researchers and commercial providers.

Topics of Interest

The workshop includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

* Dynamic infrastructure services for Clouds
* Heterogeneous network architectures and frameworks for distributed
   and high performance computing
* Information modeling for combined network and IT resources
   infrastructure services
* New services provisioning/delivery models for multi-provider business
   environment
* Network virtualization technologies
* Virtual networking and network services in Clouds
* Network infrastructure provisioning and management as a part of cloud
   computing workflows
* Network interfaces for clouds
* Performance and reliability issues
* Service Level Agreement and QoS guarantees in the network layer
* Dynamically provisioned security infrastructures (integration with
   provider and customer legacy services and service provisioning
   workflow, security policy definition, security context management)
* End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of cloud resources
* Policy based infrastructure services management
* Experimental platforms that support network management in Cloud
   computing
* Experimentation testbeds and measurements studies

Call for papers:

Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical
aspects of dynamic network services for cloud computing are solicited.

Important Dates:

Paper Submissions: September 10, 2011 (Extended)
Authors' Notification: September 24, 2011
Camera-ready paper submission: October 1, 2011

Paper submission instructions:

Submission website:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=netcloud2011

This workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not
been previously published. Papers should be formatted based on the IEEE
Transactions journals and conferences style; maximum allowed
camera-ready paper length is six (6) pages.
Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, including text, figures and
references.
Accepted papers will be published in the CloudCom2011 proceedings.

For further information see IEEE CloudCom2011 web page
http://2011.cloudcom.org/.

Review procedure

All submitted papers will be reviewed by international Technical
Program Committee.

Workshop Organizers

Mary Grammatikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
(mary (at) netmode.ntua.gr)
Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
(bartosz.belter (at) man.poznan.pl)

Technical Program Committee

1. Ilias Baldine (RENCI, US)
2. John Baras (Maryland, US)
3. Thomas Michael Bohnert (SAP, Switzerland)
4. Graca Carvalho (Cisco, The Netherlands)
5. Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks, Italy)
6. Pasquale Donadio (Alcatel-Lucent Italy, Italy)
7. Yuri Demchenko (UvA, Netherlands)
8. Joan Antoni Garcia Espin (i2CAT, Spain)
9. Athanasios Liakopoulos (GRnet, Greece)
10. Diego R. Lopez (RedIRIS, Spain)
11. Norbert Meyer (PSNC, Poland)
12. David O'Callaghan (TCD, Ireland)
13. Max Ott (NICTA, Australia)
14. Symeon Papavassiliou (NTUA, Greece)
15. Anna Tzanakaki (AIT, Greece)
16. Pascale Vicat-Blanc (Lyatiss, France)