Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on “Communications and Networking in the Cloud II” (Deadline Feb 15, 2015)

Call for Papers

Elsevier Computer Networks Journal

Special Issue on “Communications and Networking in the Cloud II”

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-communications-and-networking/

Guest Editors

Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo

Nelson Fonseca, University of Campinas

Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Luxembourg

Noura Limam, University of Waterloo

Important dates

Paper submission: Feb 15, 2015 

Acceptance notification: May 15, 2015 

Final papers: June 15, 2015

Scope

Cloud communications and networking become more and more important fostered by proliferation of cloud offerings. Data centers are becoming containers of virtual provider networks, whose embedding can be optimized as a function of cost, customer demands, energy savings (“Follow-the-Sun” concept), dynamic scaling, Quality-of-Service (QoS) and Quality-of-Experience (QoE). In the access, network offloading protocols and advanced service migration and caching techniques are being leveraged to offload cellular provider networks and improve user QoE (“Follow-Me Cloud” concept). Efficient resource management in data center and cloud networks is an open research challenge, which is particularly important with the increasing reliance on bandwidth-demanding Virtual Machine (VM) migrations for resource consolidation and energy management across geographically distributed data centers.

Topics of interest

• Intra/Inter-Cloud Network architectures and protocols

• Data Center Network Architectures

• Data Center Network Virtualization

• Addressing and Routing in Cloud-based Networks

• Virtual Ethernet and Data Center Bridging

• Cloud-based Virtualization of Wireless Access Networks

• Data Transport protocols for Cloud Networks

• Cloud Traffic Monitoring and Characterization

• Cloud traffic Modeling and Engineering

• Cloud service and network brokering

• Energy-efficient and Green Cloud Networking

• Cloud User and Virtual Machine Mobility Management

• Mobile cloud networking and mobile network offloading

• Mobile cloud resource and QoS management

• Cloud Network Consolidation and Optimization

• Cloud network elasticity and dynamic scaling

• Cloud resource and network management

• Algorithms and protocols for Virtual Machine placement and migration

• Fault tolerance and cloud network service resiliency

• Billing in mobile cloud networks

• Security, Privacy, Confidentiality in cloud networking

• Design of cloud network interfaces and libraries

• Software Defined Networking in the Cloud

• OpenFlow routing and scalability in cloud networking

• Networking with OpenStack and CloudStack

• Testing and evaluation tools

• Prototype systems and real life deployments

• Relevant standardization activities.

Submission

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages in length. Authors must select as relevant SI Article type “Cloud Networking II” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.