Dear colleagues,

this year we are organizing the first Special Session on Cloud Benchmarking
at CloudNet 2016, which will be held in Pisa, Italy, from 3 to 6 October 2016.
This Special Session invites original research papers specifically focused on
performance evaluation of the networking side of Cloud infrastructures and
applications. We are particularly interested in novel papers dealing also
with controversial research problems and able to stimulate interesting
discussions.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Cloud traffic characterisation and measurements.
- Workload generation for cloud and data centre applications
- Network performance evaluation on geo-distributed cloud applications
- Benchmarking of software-based middleboxes
- Techniques for end to end latency mitigation in cloud applications.

If you have interesting research papers on these topics, we strongly encourage
you to submit them here. The direct edas link for submission is:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22468&track=80554

Paper submission deadline is on May 15, 2016!

You can find more information on CloudNet below.
Please note that the edas submission link is different for the Special Session.

We look forward to seeing you in Pisa,
the Special Session Organizers,
Alessio Botta and Felix Cuadrado

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IEEE CloudNet 2016
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Pisa, Italy
October 3-6, 2016
http://cloudnet2016.ieee-cloudnet.org/

Cloud Networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient
and
reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic
location of service facilities and the virtualization of hardware and
software
elements are stressing the communication network and protocols, especially

when datacenters are interconnected through the Internet. Although the
"computing" aspects of Cloud technologies have been largely investigated,
lower attention has been devoted to the "networking" aspects. The 2016
5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet
2016),
part of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, precisely addresses these
aspects.

Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
- Data Center Network Management, Reliability, Optimization
- Distributed Data Center Architectures and Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Energy-Efficient Datacenters and Networks
- Big Data Management
- Internet Routing of Cloud data
- Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging
- Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements
- Intra-Cloud vs Inter-Cloud Management
- Cloud Traffic Engineering and Control-Plane Architectures
- Green Data Centers and Cloud Networking
- Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking
- Virtualization of Network Equipment
- Unified User and Machine Mobility Management
- Data Flow Management and Load Balancing
- Multipath Routing
- Congestion control
- Software Defined Networking
- Network Function Virtualization
- Fog/Edge Computing
- Mobile Cloud Networking
- Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
- Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, Fiber Channels
- Content and Service Distribution


Submission guideline:
Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers to
IEEE
CloudNet 2016. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum

paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font), following
the IEEE 2-column conference paper format.

Important Dates:
Paper submission: May 15, 2016
Acceptance notification: July 15, 2016
Camera-ready paper: August 1, 2016

EDAS Paper submission:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22468

IEEE CloudNet 2016 Organizing Committee:
General Chair
Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy

Technical Program Committee co-chairs
Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas Cty, USA
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Special Sessions Co-Chairs
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

Publicity co-Chairs
Roberto Bruschi, University of Genoa, Italy
Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA

Patrons Co-Chairs
Antonio Cisternino, Università di Pisa, Italy
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France

Panel Chair
Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy

Webmaster
Giuseppe Portaluri University of Pisa, Italy

Steering Committee
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Guy Pujolle, University Pierre & Marie Curie, France
Deep Medhi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA
Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Puneet Sharma, HP Labs, USA

Special Session Chairs:
European Project on Cloud (http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/)
Silvana Muscella Trust-IT

Cloud and Space
Marco Luise Toscanaspazio Unipi, Italy
Nicolas Kuhn CNES France

Cloud in Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems
Antonio Bicchi Italian Institute of Technology & Univ of Pisa
Davide Bacciu Univ of Pisa

Cloud and Defense
Andrea Manco (Commander - Mariteleradar - Italian Navy)
Emmanuel Dotaro Thales, France

Cloud and Optical Networks
Piero Castoldi S.Anna

Cloud for Medicine, E-Health and Ambient Assisted Living
Davide Caramella Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Joel J. Rodriguez Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal

Cloud and Security
Peter Mueller IBM Zurich, Switzerland
Shui Yu Deakin University, Australia

Cloud for Carriers and mobile Cloud
Enrico Roberto Polese, Telecom Italia
Tarik Taleb, Aalto University, Finland

Cloud Network Benchmarking
Alessio Botta Univ of Naples Federico II, Italy
Felix Cuadrado Queen Mary University of London, UK