MCN 2013 - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking and Services (MCN)

The workshop will address the integration of two technologies that are expected to have significant impact in the ICT area for the next decade(s): next generation mobile communication networks (mainly 4G) and cloud computing. While mobile communication networks have been established decades ago and are still continuously evolving, cloud computing became a hot topic in recent years and is expected to have significantly impact on novel applications as well as on ICT infrastructures. Cloud computing and mobile communication networks have been considered separate from each other in the past. However, there are various possible synergies between them.
First, access to cloud storage and computing service via wireless/mobile networks should be optimized in terms of delay, bandwidth and energy consumption from an end user perspective. Second, there is an increasing trend to implement more and more functions of a mobile communication network in software, e.g., for signal and protocol processing. This enables the use of cloud computing infrastructures as processing platforms for signal and protocol processing of mobile communication networks, in particular for current (4G) and future (5G) generation networks. In particular, the integration of protocol and application/service processing enables several opportunities to optimize performance of cloud applications and services observed by the mobile user, whose device is connected to the cloud via wireless access networks.
The workshop will discuss emerging technologies in cloud computing and mobile communication networks. Moreover, it will focus on possible integration scenarios and synergies between them..