[Isod-rg] Fwd: [Policy-sig] NetCloud2014 (deadline 31 August 2014) - The 4th workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing, (NetCloud 2014) 15-18 December 2014, Singapore

[Yuri Demchenko]

FYI:

Consider submitting a paper. The deadline will be extended until the end 
of August.

CloudCom conference is highly ranked and last year acceptance rate was 
below 20%, with workshop 27%.

Yuri

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Subject: [Policy-sig] NetCloud2014 (deadline 17 August 2014) - The 4th 
workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing, 
(NetCloud 2014) 15-18  December 2014, Singapore
To: <policy-sig at doc.ic.ac.uk>

The 4th workshop on
Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing
(NetCloud 2014)
http://cipsijoomla.ux.uis.no/cloudcom2014/index.php/workshops?id=49%20

In conjunction with the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2014)
15-18 December 2014, Singapore
http://2014.cloudcom.org/

Paper submission deadline - 31 August 2014
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netcloud2014

Introduction

The 2014 workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshop in years
2011-2013, where a number of enthusiasts of cloud computing and future
networking exchanged ideas and presented results of research projects
dealing with clouds and network integration.

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 virtualized
services/infrastructures operation.

The workshop will address issues of network virtualization to create an
ecosystem for cloud computing applications. In particular, the workshop
will discuss the progress of development of advanced tools and
mechanisms for seamless and efficient integration of network and IT
worlds, not well interconnected so far.

The workshop will consist of a number of sessions, where recent results
of on-going and just-finished research projects will be demonstrated.
The workshop will present also some future research considerations on
the future of cloud computing and networking and expose views from
different perspectives: research projects and industry.

The workshop will be followed by a panel discussion, to allow free
exchange of thoughts and ideas between the workshop speakers and audience.

Objective

NetCloud 2014, collocated with IEEE CloudCom 2014, 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

* Definition and architectures for the Network as a Service (NaaS) cloud
service model and Cloud Carrier operational model
* Intercloud and inter-datacenters Software Defined Networks (SDN)
* Heterogeneous network architectures and frameworks for distributed and
high performance computing
* Cloud and Intercloud architecture frameworks and required on-demand
network infrastructure provisioning
* Network infrastructure optimization for intra- and inter-datacenter
communication  and resources virtualisation
* High performance network infrastructure for Cloud based Big Data
Infrastructure and Data Intensive Science
* Unified and converged IT and optical resources description languages
and frameworks for cloud oriented infrastructures
* General Infrastructure services provisioning in clouds, new
architecture developments, service delivery and on-demand provisioning
frameworks
* Isolation and flexibility of the cloud oriented virtualized optical
networks
* Performance and reliability issues, Service Level Agreement and QoS
guarantees in the network layer
* Dynamically provisioned security infrastructure and its 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 test-beds and measurement 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 deadline: 17 August 2014

Notification: September 8, 2014

Camera-ready: September 22, 2014

Workshop dates (during CloudCom2014 Conference): 15-18 December 2014

Paper submission instructions

Submission link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netcloud2014

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 CloudCom2014 proceedings. For
further information see IEEE CloudCom 2014 web page
http://2014.cloudcom.org/.

Review procedure

All submitted papers will be reviewed by international program committee.

Workshop Organizers

The workshop is organized by the partners of the GN3plus, the EC-funded
FP7 project.

* Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
y.demchenko (at) uva.nl
* Eduard Escalona, i2CAT Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
eduard.escalona (at) i2cat.net

Additional information
http://cipsijoomla.ux.uis.no/cloudcom2014/index.php/workshops?id=49%20


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