Call for Papers
IEEE Network magazine - Special Issue on Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is a recent trend in information technology and scientific computing that moves computing and data away from desktop and portable PCs into large Data Centers. Cloud computing is based on a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud Computing opens new perspectives in internetworking technologies, raising new issues in the architecture, design and implementation of existing networks and data centers. The relevant research has just recently gained momentum and the space of potential ideas and solutions is still far from being widely explored.
Scope
This special issue of the IEEE Network Magazine will feature articles that discuss networking aspects of cloud computing. Specifically, it aims at delivering the state-of-the-art research on current cloud computing networking topics, and at promoting the networking discipline by bringing to the attention of the community novel problems that must be investigated. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Data center architecture
Server interconnection
Routers (switching technology) for data center deployment
Centralization of network administration/routing
Energy-efficient cloud networking
Low energy routing
Green data centers
Measurement-based network management
Traffic engineering
Network anomaly detection
Usage-based pricing
Security issues in clouds
Secure routing
Security threats and countermeasures
Virtual network security
Virtual Networking
Virtualized network resource management
Virtual cloud storage
Futuristic topics
Interclouds
Cloud computing support for mobile users
Manuscript Submission
Authors should submit their manuscript electronically in PDF format by email to all the guest editors according to the timetable. Authors are encouraged to register their papers by submitting the paper abstract, the paper title, authors and keywords by the corresponding deadline. Prospective authors must prepare their original submissions in accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Articles should not exceed 4500 words, be tutorial in nature, and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. The title page should include the paper title, authors and keywords. Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance.
Schedule
Abstract submission: January 9, 2011
Deadline for paper submission: January 15, 2011
First round of reviews: February 28, 2011
Revisions due: March 15, 2011
Author notification: March 26, 2011
Publication materials due: May 1, 2011
Publication date: July, 2011
Guest Editors
Swami Sivasubramanian
Amazon, USA
swami@amazon.com
Dimitrios Katsaros
University of Thessaly, Greece
dkatsar@inf.uth.gr
George Pallis
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
gpallis@cs.ucy.ac.cy
Athena Vakali
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
avakali@csd.auth.gr
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