[Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine CFP on Networking and Communication Challenges in Cloud Computing

Amitabh Mishra amitabh
Mon Oct 31 14:21:00 EDT 2011


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Cloud Computing: Networking and Communications Challenges*

Over the past few years, cloud computing has rapidly emerged as a widely 
accepted computing paradigm built around core concepts such as on-demand 
computing resources, elastic scaling, elimination of up-front capital 
and operational expenses, and establishing pay as you go business model 
for computing and information technology services. With the widespread 
adoption of virtualization, service oriented architectures, and utility 
computing there has been a significant development in the creation of 
cloud support structures to deliver the IT services within QoS bounds, 
service level agreements, and security and privacy requirements.
While cloud data centers are dominated by the server and infrastructure 
costs followed by the networking and power, it turns out that the 
networking and systems innovations are the key to the success of the 
cloud. The capital cost of networking gear for data centers is a 
significant portion of the cost of networking and is concentrated 
primarily in switches and routers, and load balancers. The remaining 
networking costs are concentrated in wide area networking such as - 
Peering; data center links;  and Regional back haul facilities needed to 
reach wide area network inter-connection sites. The value of the wide 
area network is shared across the data centers, and costs vary with 
industry dynamics (e.g., with tariffs), and are sensitive to site 
selection.  Clever design of peering and transit strategies combined 
with optimal placement of micro and mega data centers therefore have 
role to play in reducing network costs which can be further reduced by 
optimizing the usage of network through better design of the services 
themselves, better partitioning of their functionality. For example, 
with micro centers built out close to users, the latency of response can 
be reduced, but under the threat of substantial increases in wide area 
network costs. Networking has a role in data partitioning and 
replication, which requires better methods for design and management of 
traffic across the network of data centers, as well as better algorithms 
to map users to data centers.

This special issue of Communications Magazine on Cloud Computing and 
Networking will address topics related to all aspects of the 
infrastructure which include computing centers and data centers, the 
cloud network, and its end-user services. The challenges related to the 
architecture, performance, reliability, security, maintainability and 
the virtualization of the cloud are all very important topics to be 
discussed within this issue and therefore the issue will seek 
contributions in these areas.

SCOPE Of CONTRIBUTIONS
To ensure complete coverage of the recent advances in the networking and 
communication aspects of cloud computing, this issue will seek original 
contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Networking Architectures in Clouds
- Scalability of Clouds and the associated Networks
- Peer to Peer Communication in Clouds
- Performance Models and Evaluation
- Platform, Data and Software as a Service
- Networking issues with Virtualization
- Models for Managing Clouds of Clouds and including Inter-networking
- Traffic and Load Balancing
- Cloud computing programming and application
- Cloud technologies: Computing and Data Center Clouds
- Discovery of Services, Data and other Resources
- Fault-Tolerance, Reliability and Consistency Models
- Mobile clouds -- Architectures and Performance

The special issue is expected to have 6-8 papers.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being 
all members of the communications technology communities. They should be 
written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of 
the article. Mathematical equations should not be used (in justified 
cases up to three simple equations are allowed). Articles should not 
exceed 4500 words. Figures and tables should be limited to a combined 
total of six. The number of references is recommended to not exceed 10 
(maximum 15).  Complete guidelines for preparation of the manuscript are 
posted at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html. 
Please send a pdf (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript 
Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/commmag-ieee). Register or 
log in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select 
"September 2012/ Cloud Computing: Networking and Communications Challenges".

Manuscript  Deadline:         January 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance:     May 1, 2012
Final Manuscript Due:         July 1, 2012
Publication:             September 2012

GUEST EDITORS
Amitabh Mishra                         Raj Jain                       
                 Arjan Duressi
Computer Science                    Computer Science & Engg.            
Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University        Washington University in                
IUPU of Indianapolis
3400 N. Charles Street            One Brookings Drive                    
723 W. Michigan St.
Baltimore, MD 21218            St. Louis, MO 63130                    
     Indianapolis, IN 46202,
Email: amishra5 at jhu.edu        Email: Jain at cse.wustl.edu duressi at cs.iupu.edu




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