NetCloud 2014 - The 4th workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing (NetCloud 2014)

The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshop in 2011-2013, where a number of enthusiasts of cloud computing and future networking exchanged ideas and presented results of research projects dealing with clouds and network integration.
The Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm which aims to provide secure and reliable, on demand QoS guaranteed computing environments for the end-users. 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 virtualized services/infrastructures operation.
The workshop will address issues of network virtualization to create an ecosystem for cloud computing applications. In particular, the workshop will discuss the progress of development of advanced tools and mechanisms for seamless and efficient integration of network and IT worlds, not well interconnected so far.
The workshop will consist of a number of sessions, where recent results of on-going and just-finished research projects will be demonstrated. The workshop will present also some future research considerations on the future of cloud computing and networking and expose views from different perspectives: research projects and industry.
The workshop will be followed by a panel discussion, to allow free exchange of thoughts and ideas between the workshop speakers and audience.
Objective
NetCloud 2014, collocated with IEEE CloudCom 2014, 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
Definition and architectures for the Network as a Service (NaaS) cloud service model and Cloud Carrier operational model
Intercloud and inter-datacenters Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Heterogeneous network architectures and frameworks for distributed and high performance computing
Cloud and Intercloud architecture frameworks and required on-demand network infrastructure provisioning
Cloud and Intercloud Federation Infrastructure and components
“Last mile” in cloud services delivery
Unified and converged IT and optical resources description languages and frameworks for cloud oriented infrastructures
General Infrastructure services provisioning in clouds, new architecture developments, service delivery and on-demand provisioning frameworks
Isolation and flexibility of the cloud oriented virtualized optical networks
Network infrastructure optimization for intra- and inter-datacenter communication and resources virtualisation
Standardization of optical network service provisioning interfaces for cloud based platforms and services
Co-advertisement, co-planning, composition and co-provisioning of any type of optical network resource and IT services (i.e. connectivity + IT resources at the end-points coordinated in a single, optimal procedure)
Performance and reliability issues, Service Level Agreement and QoS guarantees in the network layer
Dynamically provisioned security infrastructure and its 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 test-beds and measurement 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 4, 2014
Notification: September 8, 2014
Camera-ready: September 16, 2016
NetCloud2014 workshop (during CloudCom2014 Conference): 15-18 December2014
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 CloudCom2014 proceedings. For further information see IEEE CloudCom 2014 web page http://2014.cloudcom.org/.
Paper submission website? To be announced.
Review procedure
All submitted paper will be reviewed by international program committee.
Workshop Organizers
The workshop is organized by the partners of the GN3plus, the EC-funded FP7 project.
Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
bartosz.belter (at) man.poznan.pl
Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
y.demchenko (at) uva.nl
Technical Program Committee (tentative list)
1. Ilias Baldine (RENCI, US)
2. John Baras (Maryland, US)
3. Thomas Michael Bohnert (ZTH, Switzerland)
4. David O'Callaghan (TCD, Ireland)
5. Graca Carvalho (Cisco, The Netherlands)
6. Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks, Italy)
7. Pasquale Donadio (Alcatel-Lucent Italy, Italy)
8. Joan Antoni Garcia Espin (i2CAT, Spain)
9. Jeroen van der Ham (UvA, Netherlands)
10. Athanasios Liakopoulos (GRnet, Greece)
11. Juan Rodriguez Martinez (TID, Spain)
12. Max Ott (NICTA, Australia)
13. Symeon Papavassiliou (NTUA, Greece)
14. Anna Tzanakaki (AIT, Greece)