Cloud Services and Networks

Networked Cloud has emerged as a promising direction for cost efficient and reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic locations of service facilities and virtualization of hardware and software elements are stressing the communication network and protocols, especially when data centers are interconnected through the Internet and wide-area networks. Although the "computing" aspects of Cloud technologies have been largely investigated, lower attention has been devoted to the "networking" aspects around Cloud network management, Cloud Fabric protocols, Cloud traffic engineering, network-aware consolidation and related issues, novel technologies paving the way to the emergence of new advanced Cloud services. The "Cloud Services and Networks Track" precisely addresses these aspects.

# Main Topics of Interest

The Cloud Services and Networks Track seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related:

* Data Center Network Management, Optimization, and Virtual Embedding

* Distributed Data Center Architectures, and Reliability

* Cloud Overlay Network Protocols

* Cloud Network Operating Systems

* Software-Defined Networking and Protocols

* Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements

* Intra-Cloud and Inter-Cloud Management

* Cloud Traffic Engineering and Control-Plane Architectures

* Mobile Cloud Networking

* Cloud Radio Access Networks technologies

* Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, and Fiber Channel

* Cloud Content and Service Distribution, Information Centric Networking

* Security, Privacy, Confidentiality in Cloud Networking

* Green Cloud Networking, Energy Efficiency in VM Consolidation

* Network Functions Virtualization

* Internet Routing of Cloud traffic

* Ethernet Routing Fabrics

* Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging

* Virtual Machine Mobility Algorithms and Protocols

* Unified User and Machine Mobility Management, Application Offloading

* Wireless and Mobile Networking

The "Cloud" is a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology.

Other relevant topics of interest, but are not limited to:

Architecture and Virtualization

Intercloud architecture models

Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & "last mile" issues

Networking technologies

Programming models & systems/tools

Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs

Storage & file systems

Scalability & performance

Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance

Operational, economic & business models

Green data centers

Computational resources, storage & network virtualization

Resource monitoring

Virtual desktops

Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery

Modeling & performance evaluation

Disaster recovery

Energy efficiency

Cloud Services and Applications

Cloud services models & frameworks

Cloud services reference models & standardization

Cloud-powered services design

Business processes, compliance & certification

Data management applications & services

Application workflows & scheduling

Application benchmarks & use cases

Cloud-based services & protocols

Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications

Application development and debugging tools

Business models & economics of cloud services

IoT and Mobile on Cloud

IoT cloud architectures & models

Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT

Cloud-based context-aware IoT

Mobile cloud architectures & models

Green mobile cloud computing

Resource management in mobile cloud environments

Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols

Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments

Cloud-based mobile networks and applications

Big Data

Machine learning

Data mining

Approximate & scalable statistical methods

Graph algorithms

Querying & search

Data lifecycle management

Frameworks, tools & their composition

Dataflow management & scheduling

High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud

Load balancing

Middleware solutions

Scalable scheduling

HPC as a Service

Programming models

Use cases & experience reports

Cloud deployment systems

TCO analysis Cloud vs HPC

Security and Privacy

Accountability & audit

Authentication & authorization

Cloud integrity

Cryptography for & in the cloud

Hypervisor security

Identity management & security as a service

Prevention of data loss or leakage

Secure, interoperable identity management

Trust & credential management

Trusted computing

Usable security

Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge Computing

Distributed Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud federation & hybrid cloud infrastructure

Utility Computing (UC)

Cloud Brokering Problem

Edge Computing infrastructure

Cloudlets

Fog Computing Systems

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