International Workshop on Cross-Stratum Optimization for Cloud Computing and Distributed Networked Applications,

http://cccso.net/ or http://www.cccso.net/

July 10-13, 2012, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

(co-located with the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, ISPA 2012)

Aims and Scope

The current lack of interaction between networked applications and the underlying network during service provisioning can cause inefficiencies in the use of network resources and can negatively impact the quality received by the final consumers of those applications.

Typical networked applications are offered through Information Technology (IT) resources (such as computing and storage facilities) residing in data centers. Data centers then provide the physical and virtual infrastructure in which applications and services are provided. Since the data centers are usually distributed geographically around a network, many decisions made in the control and management of application services, such as where to instantiate another service instance, or which data center out of several is assigned to a new customer, can have a significant impact on the state of the network. In the same way, the capabilities and state of the network can have a major impact on application performance.

Cross-stratum optimization (CSO) is defined as the combined optimization of both the IT data center and the network components of an application that aims to provide joint resource optimization, responsiveness to quickly changing demands from/to application to/from network, enhanced service resilience using cooperative recovery techniques, and quality of experience assurance by a better use of existing network and application resources, among others.

The CSO involves the overall optimization of application layer (IT) and network resources by envisioning next generation architecture for interactions and exchanges between the two layers to improve service continuity, performance guarantees, scalability and manageability. The goal of this workshop is to promote the research interest on the optimal integration of application and network resources.

This workshop aims to explore the challenges and issues faced by cloud computing and data center integration with networks. Among the key areas of investigation to be discussed in the workshop are as follows:

.- Application/network integration architectures and subsystems

.- Use cases, business models and requirements for application/network integration

.- Control/management issues for application/network integration

.- Network virtualization and its impact for application/network integration

.- Network-aware application/cloud computing

.- Flexible and scalable networking solutions for distributed Data Centers

.- Joint application/network reliability and security

.- Experimental/trial experience

.- Scalability

.- Joint/shared performance and fault monitoring

.- Multi-domain issues



Important Dates

Extended Submission Deadline: 17 February 2012 (*firm* deadline)
Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 March 2012
Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 13 April 2012
Tentative workshop day: 10 July 2012 (to be confirmed)



Submision guidelines

Target papers should describe original and unpublished work. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Authors should submit full papers of up to 6 pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style (available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting), using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size. Figures and references must be included in the 6 pages.
The submission process will be done online by using EasyChair submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa2012
choosing this workshop among the various workshops held in conjunction with ISPA-2012
Submissions received after deadline, exceeding length limit, or not following the specified format will not be considered.
The proceedings will be published by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore.


Technical Program Committee

Richard Alimi (Google, USA)
Greg Bernstein (Grotto Networking, USA)
TaeSang Choi (ETRI, Korea)
Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks, Italy)
Oscar Gonzalez de Dios (Telefónica I+D, Spain)
Volker Hilt (Bell Labs, USA)
Giada Landi (Nextworks, Italy)
Dan Li (Huawei, China)
Vishwas Manral (HP, USA)
Thomas D. Nadeau (CA Technologies, USA)
Kohei Shiomoto (NTT, Japan)
Ning So (Verizon, USA)
Hui Yang (Beijing University Post and Telecommunication (BUPT), China)
Yang Richard Yang (Yale University, USA)


Venue

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Leganes, Madrid, Spain


Workshop Organizing Committee

Young Lee, Huawei Technologies

Email: leeyoung (at) huawei.com


Luis M. Contreras, Telefónica I+D

Email: lmcm (at) tid.es


Andrea Fumagalli, The University of Texas at Dallas

Email: andreaf (at) utdallas.edu