[Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing

Martin Gilje Jaatun atc08
Fri Jul 20 05:02:46 EDT 2012


CFP: The 2nd workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of 
Cloud Computing (NetCloud 2012)
Submission deadline: August 10, 2012
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/workshops.html

In conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud 
Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2012, http://2012.cloudcom.org)
Taipei, Taiwan, December 3-6 2012

Introduction

The workshop is a follow-up of the first successful workshop in 2011, 
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 2012, collocated with IEEE CloudCom 2012, 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
? Heterogeneous network architectures and frameworks for distributed and 
high performance
computing
? Cloud and Intercloud architecture frameworks and required on-demand 
network
infrastructure provisioning
? 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
? Network infrastructure optimization for intra- and inter-datacenter 
communication and
resources virtualisation
? Standardization of optical network service provisioning interfaces for 
cloud based platforms
and services
? Co-advertisement, co-planning, composition and co-provisioning of any 
type of optical
network resource and IT services (i.e. connectivity + IT resources at 
the end-points
coordinated in a single, optimal procedure)
? 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: August 10, 2012
Notification: September 7, 2012
Camera-ready: September 28, 2012

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 CloudCom2012 proceedings, for 
further information see IEEE CloudCom 2012 web page 
http://2012.cloudcom.org/.

Review procedure
All submitted paper will be reviewed by international program committee.

Workshop Organizers
The workshop is organized by the partners of the GEYSERS, the EC-funded 
FP7 project.
? Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
bartosz.belter (at) man.poznan.pl
? Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
y.demchenko (at) uva.nl

Technical Program Committee (tentative list)
1. Thomas Michael Bohnert (ZTH, Switzerland)
2. Graca Carvalho (Cisco, The Netherlands)
3. Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks, Italy)
4. Pasquale Donadio (Alcatel-Lucent Italy, Italy)
5. Joan Antoni Garcia Espin (i2CAT, Spain)
6. Anna Tzanakaki (AIT, Greece)
7. David O'Callaghan (TCD, Ireland)
8. Ilias Baldine (RENCI, US)
9. John Baras (Maryland, US)
10. Athanasios Liakopoulos (GRnet, Greece)
11. Max Ott (NICTA, Australia)
12. Symeon Papavassiliou (NTUA, Greece)
13. Jeroen van der Ham (UvA, Netherlands)

Invited Speakers
To be announced?



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