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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