NetCloud 2011 - The 2011 Workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing (NetCloud)

Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing
(NetCloud)
In conjunction with the 3
rd
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
Technology and Science (CloudCom2011)
Introduction
The Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm which aims to provide
secure and reliable, on demand QoS guaranteed computing environments for the endusers. 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
virtualised services/infrastructures operation.
The workshop will discuss issues of optical network virtualisation to create internal
distributed datacenter network infrastructure and provide dedicated inter-cloud network
connectivity on-demand.
Objective
NetCloud, collocated with IEEE CloudCom 2011, 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
The workshop includes, but is not limited to the following topics:
? Dynamic infrastructure services for Clouds
? Heterogeneous network architectures and frameworks for distributed and high
performance computing? Information modeling for combined network and IT resources infrastructure
services
? New services provisioning/delivery models for multi-provider business
environment
? Network virtualization technologies
? Virtual networking and network services in Clouds
? Network infrastructure provisioning and management as a part of cloud
computing workflows
? Network interfaces for clouds
? Performance and reliability issues
? Service Level Agreement and QoS guarantees in the network layer
? Dynamically provisioned security infrastructures (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 testbeds and measurements 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 28, 2011
Author’s Notification: September 21, 2011
Camera-ready paper submission: October 1, 2011
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 CloudCom2011 proceedings, for further
information see IEEE CloudCom 2011 web page http://2011.cloudcom.org/.
Review procedure
All submitted paper will be reviewed by international program committee.Workshop Organizers
Mary Grammatikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (mary (at)
netmode.ntua.gr)
Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland (bartosz.belter
(at) man.poznan.pl)
Technical Program Committee
1. Ilias Baldine (RENCI, US)
2. John Baras (Maryland, US)
3. Thomas Michael Bohnert (SAP, Switzerland)
4. Graca Carvalho (Cisco, The Netherlands)
5. Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks, Italy)
6. Pasquale Donadio (Alcatel-Lucent Italy, Italy)
7. Yuri Demchenko (UvA, Netherlands)
8. Joan Antoni Garcia Espin (i2CAT, Spain)
9. Athanasios Liakopoulos (GRnet, Greece)
10. Diego R. Lopez (RedIRIS, Spain)
11. Norbert Meyer (PSNC, Poland)
12. David O'Callaghan (TCD, Ireland)
13. Max Ott (NICTA, Australia)
14. Symeon Papavassiliou (NTUA, Greece)
15. Anna Tzanakaki (AIT, Greece)
16. Pascale Vicat-Blanc (Lyatiss, France)
Invited Speakers
To be announced…