The 3rd workshop on

Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing

(NetCloud 2013)

 

http://monstera.man.poznan.pl/netcloud/netcloud2013.html

In conjunction with the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2012)

3 – 5 December 2013, Bristol, UK

Introduction

The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshop in 2011 and 2012, 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 2013, collocated with IEEE CloudCom 2013, 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

•                    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: Open; deadline September 2nd, 2013, EXTENDED; Submission link https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=netcloud2013

Notification: September 18th, 2013

Camera-ready: October 1st, 2013

NetCloud2013 workshop (during CloudCom2013 Conference): 2-5 December2013

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 CloudCom2013 proceedings. For further information see IEEE CloudCom 2013 web page http://2013.cloudcom.org/.

Review procedure

All submitted paper will be reviewed by international program committee.

Workshop Organizers

The workshop is organized by the partners of the GEANT and GEYSERS, the EC-funded FP7 projects.

•                    Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

bartosz.belter (at) man.poznan.pl

•                    Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Bristol, UK

Dimitra.Simeonidou (at) bristol.ac.uk

•                    Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

y.demchenko (at) uva.nl