Submission deadline extended to Dec. 20, 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
please find below the CfP for a workshop at the IEEE ICC 2012 in Ottawa (http://www.ieee-icc.org/) on CLOUDS, NETWORKS and DATA CENTERS - A holistic approach towards an integrated service provider infrastructure collocated with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), 10-15 June 2012, Ottawa, Canada. Call for Papers One of the most frequently cited inhibitors for adopting cloud based services in business and IT architectures of medium and large enterprises is the lack of enforced and traceable trust and service quality (e.g. reliability, responsiveness, access). Therefore, more and more cloud services add to their offerings also a "private connection" to the cloud service to ensure certain service levels. In addition, several services span across multiple clouds infrastructures requiring dedicated high speed "links" between virtual machines in different clouds. It has to be analyzed how available IT cloud infrastructure APIs and capabilities can be combined with newly developed ideas for automated and dynamic QoS-aware connectivity provisioning. The objective is to investigate a combined control, management and optimization of IT and network resources. There are two challenges for the future that have to be investigated. The first one is the connectivity between the user and the cloud and to guarantee and to further improve the user experience offered by cloud-based services. Such a user experience relies on the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and more general on the Service Level Agreement (SLA) that is in place for a given service and its provisioning. This includes characteristics such as latency and throughput, but also for example high availability or security. Elasticity and flexibility are characteristics which are important especially in case of cloud-based services. In order to guarantee this kind of service level, the service needs to interact with its deployment environment and in particular with the underlying communication network used for delivering and accessing the service. The second challenge is the connectivity between two clouds to synchronize or exchange information. In this case also QoS-awareness and fast and reliable connectivity provisioning is a requirement. This workshop focuses on three main parts. The first one is the use cases for automated, dynamic and QoS-aware provisioning of user-cloud and cloud-cloud connectivity. The second part is the definition of requirements for the WAN connectivity from a cloud provider point of view that has to be fulfilled by the network of the CSP. Finally, the last part is the general architecture for the interaction of IT and telecommunication networks including e.g. interfaces and protocols to realize a combined control, management and optimization of IT and telecommunication networks. Topics of particular interest: * Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS * Network as a Service, NaaS * Virtualization Technologies * Network Virtualization * Combined Control (network and IT resource) * Cloud Service QoS / QoE * Control Plane * Management Plane * User - Cloud Connectivity * Inter - Cloud Connectivity * Inter - Data Center Connectivity Important dates: Submission of papers : December 20, 2011 Links Workshop web-page: http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/news-events/event/2012/ieee-icc-workshop-2012 Submission through EDAS: http://edas.info/N11481 Best regards, Workshop Chairs Volker Distelrath, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG Glen Hunt, Current Analysis Wolfgang Kellerer, NTT DOCOMO Euro-Labs Holger Macho, IBM _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
