PROCON 2016 - Workshop on Programmability for Cloud Networks and Applications (PROCON)

The continuous growth of Internet content, applications and services has resulted in ever more demanding requirements of computing power, scalability, data processing, data storage, energy consumption and transfer speed. To meet this, one solution is the use of the cloud paradigm for applications and services. It covers a broad range of distributed computing principles as well as related application paradigms, networking approaches or architecture models.
This workshop covers the scientific areas around Cloud Networks, Programmability inside Networks, Cloud and Fog Computing principles, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and Software Engineering approaches for Highly Distributed Applications.
The following topics fall within the target area of the workshop:
energy efficiency and cloud/network management approaches
personal cloud and network virtualization technologies
architectures for SDN and NFV in legacy and 5G networks
user mobility and application/service proximity
personal cloud services and the Internet of Things
management and monitoring of QoS/QoE over programmable networks
cloud and network operating systems
software development approaches over programmable infrastructure
software engineering for DevOps
distributed applications deployment and orchestration frameworks
service chaining approaches based on building of microservices
virtualization technology, management of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and enablers
architectural models, prototype implementations and applications
Internet of Things architectural models, prototype implementations and applications
extensions to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS concepts and interfaces
The workshop is supported and initiated by the two EC H2020 projects INPUT & ARCADIA.
Workshop co-chairs
Florian Wamser, University of Würzburg, Germany
Roberto Bruschi, Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Genova, Italy
Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Ubitech, Greece