NETCLOUD 2011 - The 2011 Workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing (NetCloud)

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Category NETCLOUD 2011

Deadline: August 28, 2011 | Date: November 29, 2011-December 01, 2011

Venue/Country: Athens, Greece

Updated: 2011-07-27 14:20:20 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

(NetCloud)

In conjunction with the 3

rd

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing

Technology and Science (CloudCom2011)

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 endusers. 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: August 28, 2011

Author’s Notification: September 21, 2011

Camera-ready paper submission: October 1, 2011

Paper submission instructions:

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 CloudCom 2011 web page http://2011.cloudcom.org/.

Review procedure

All submitted paper will be reviewed by international 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)

Invited Speakers

To be announced…