[Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine CFP on Networking and Communication Challenges in Cloud Computing
Amitabh Mishra
amitabh
Mon Oct 31 14:21:00 EDT 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
*
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
More information about the TCCC
mailing list