CAN 2016 - ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Cloud?Assisted Networking (CAN)

Virtualization of network functions (NFV) and software?defined networking (SDN) have been revolutionizing the practice of networking. Control functions at increasingly lower levels of the networking stack are getting offloaded to remote controller platforms for ease of management. At the same time, software middleboxes are being used to deploy data plane processing elements when and where they are needed. The increasing flexibility with which both the network control and data plane can be managed encourages us to reconsider how network functions should be implemented and where they should reside.
As cloud platforms are becoming closer and more ubiquitously available, offloading/outsourcing lower?than?application?layer functionality (e.g., routing, filtering, traffic engineering) to cloud platforms opens a new dimension to networking. Edge?clouds will provide mobile customers low latency access to geographically distributed cloud resources, opening new options for traffic management and flow processing. Clouds providing network functions “as a service”, potentially at packet levels, will enable optimizations across autonomous systems. Going beyond offloading the computation and memory complexity of network components to remote platforms, NFV on commodity cloud platforms can facilitate solutions and optimizations spanning multiple data?centers and networks. Clearly, the cloud will have a growing role by assisting to provide complex network functions at increasingly lower levels.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working to more proactively integrate cloud resources and network components as well as focus on assistive usage of cloud resources to solve complex networking problems across the control and data planes. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
● Caching with cloud platforms
● Cloud?assisted filtering, routing and load balancing
● Cloud?assisted mobile computing
● Cloud?assisted network security
● Economics of cloud?assisted networking
● Edge clouds and fog computing
● Energy?efficient networking using clouds
● Failover support and network resilience using cloud resources
● Inter? and Intra?domain optimizations using clouds
● Mobile data management with cloud support
● Multi?cloud designs for NFV and SDN
● Network measurement using clouds
● Security of cloud?assisted network components
● Service chaining using clouds
● Spectrum sharing and management using cloud resources
Submissions
Paper submissions may be up to six pages, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices. Submissions must be a single PDF file of less than 10MB, and should be formatted with ACM SIG Alternate 10pt style as described in the CoNEXT submission requirements, i.e., two?columns, 10pt font on 12pt leading, formatted for printing on letter?sized pages. The review process is single?blind.
Steering Committee
Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jack Brassil, Princeton
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge
Chip Elliott, BBN
KK Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside
Co?Chairs
Murat Yuksel, University of Central Florida
Tim Wood, George Washington University
Important Dates
Paper Submissions: August 21, 2016
Acceptance Notifications: September 21, 2016
Camera? ready Deadline: October 9, 2016
Workshop Day: December 12, 2016