FCNC 2014 - International Workshop on Future Computing and Network Convergence (FCNC)

With the evolution of the service-oriented computing paradigm and the rapid development of the mobile devices, mobile cloud computing aims at combining the advantages of both mobile computing and cloud computing through efficient utilizing the service capabilities of the infrastructure, network as well as the mobile devices. Moreover, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Grid Computing, Crowdsourcing Computing and other emerging computing paradigms have also developed various applications on mobile devices. The evolution of the computing paradigms needs an efficient way to utilize the mobile devices¡¯ idle resources to build a unified service infrastructure.
Moreover, with the emergence of new computing paradigms, communication networks experience unprecedented transformation. On the one hand, the wireless network resources among the mobile devices and the access point should be carefully planned and utilized since they are usually limited in bandwidth or even unavailable sometimes. On the other hand, the wired network should integrate existing and upcoming technologies into a heterogeneous and highly dynamic resource pool. Virtualization and federation will allow operation of multiple distinguished networked services, tailored to different needs, on the same physical infrastructure. Based on this motivation, many novel network architectures, such as Software Defined Network (SDN), Content Centric Networks (CCN) and Service-Oriented Future Internet Architecture (SOFIA) etc., are put forward in recent years from the viewpoint of incremental approach or clean-state design. However, it still remains a challenging task to measure, manage, and control SDN.
Topics of Interest
In this workshop, our goal is to publish the latest advancements addressing the topics of future computing and network convergence, especially focused on the designation, measurement, management and security of the future network and communication paradigms. The topics of interest are (though the list should not be considered exhaustive)ve):
- Software Defined Network Architecture Designation
- Software Defined Network Measurement
- Software Defined Network Management
- Software Communication Architecture and its Applications
- Wireless Datacenter Network
- Cognitive Wireless Network
- Mobile Cloud Computing
- Network convergence technologies
- Video on demand in Wireless Network
- Fixed-mobile convergence
- Mobile-to-Mobile convergence
- Location-based services