[Isod-rg] Final Extension - 15 Sept. - 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:

The deadline is extended until September 15. You are welcome to submit a 
paper.

This might be especially interesting for European researchers.
This is a chance to attend the premier Cloud conference for Europe that 
features a number of invited speakers and presentations from European 
Commission on the current FP7 Call 8.

Regards,

Yuri

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing
(NetCloud2011)

In conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud 
Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2011)
November 20 - 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:

EXTENDED: Paper Submissions: September 15, 2011
Authors' Notification: September 25, 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 paper 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)