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 - 17 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