IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking
25-27 September 2017 – Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Special sessions papers

Important Dates

Special session submission: June 19, 2017 July 10, 2017 (firm deadline)
Acceptance notification: July 26, 2017
Camera-ready paper: August 13, 2017

 

Demo Session

Co-chairs

  • Navid Nikaein, Eurecom, France
  • Laurent Roullet, Nokia-Bell-labs, France

Call for Demo and Exhibitions

The CloudNet demo session features works-in-progress that are broadly of interest to cloud networking community. Demonstrations should be innovative research prototypes, platforms and applications that are related to the practice of cloud networking and computing for wired and wireless system. We strongly encourage demos based on novel applications in the domain of mobile cloud networking and computing and wireless systems. Please refer to the main conference introduction and CFP for the general areas.

Benefit of submitting a demo

Presenting a demo is a great opportunity, especially for students, to demonstrate the latest experimental achievement and obtain interesting and valuable feedback on ongoing research from the knowledgeable crowd at the conference. Accepted demos will be published as a up to four-page papers in the main conference proceedings.

Submission procedure

The demo or exhibit proposal should be in a form of a summary or extended abstract describing the research to be presented, maximum 4 pages following common conference submission instruction. Make sure the proposal will include the following additional information:

  • Equipment to be used for the demo.
  • Space needed and setup time required.
  • Additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access.

The CloudNet technical program committee will review all submissions. Once the demo is accepted, we will post the submission (summary and video) on the conference website and publish it in the main conference proceedings.

Authors of he accepted papers shall remove the additional information when submitting the camera ready version.

How to submit

The papers in two-columns IEEE format will be submitted via EDAS website.


Special session: Security considerations for cloud usage in mobile networks

Co-chairs

  • Makan Pourzandi, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Ben Smeets, Lund university, Sweden

Call for papers for special session 1

Cloud computing has received huge interest as it enables scalable, elastic and on-demand computing, networking, and storage.

However, security remains a major obstacle for a wide adaption of cloud computing in the industry. At the same time, we see that 5G networks bring with them NFV and SDN approaches in the mobile networks, the increasing interplay between devices, IoT and cloud services as well as developments in virtualization and other containerization technologies. Therefore, the cloud environment takes central stage in the mobile networks. This in turn lead consider security for the cloud usage in the mobile networks as a major future subject to be addressed.

The aim of this session is to present the latest research results related to the fields of cloud usage in the mobile networks. The scope of the session encompasses the security for the cloud and the mobile networks.

We encourage the participation from academia and from the industry presenting hands on experience on this field.

We invite original research contributions in the following topics:

  • Security Considerations for using SDN in Cloud-Based Mobile Networks
  • Security orchestration in the cloud for mobile networks including use of NFV
  • Exploring the new threats from cloud for mobile networks
  • Security Management for cloud in the mobile networks
  • Security solutions for mobile networks based on NFV or other frameworks
  • Security solutions for mobile networks using SDN
  • Security solutions for secure life-cycle handling of networked services
  • Security solutions for identities for cloud services and their communication end-points
  • Security solutions for tenant’s assurance of cloud computing infrastructures

Submission procedure

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers to IEEE CloudNet 2017. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font), following the IEEE 2-column conference paper format.

How to submit

The papers in two-columns IEEE format will be submitted via EDAS website.


Special session: Consumer Centric IoT using Edge Computing

Co-chairs

  • Soumya Kanti Datta, EURECOM, France
  • Thomas Coughlin, Coughlin Associates, USA
  • Arne Broering, Siemens, Germany

Call for papers for special session 2

Internet of Things (IoT) is extending the Internet connection to physical things making them part of a much larger ecosystem, thereby requiring high computational capabilities for M2M data processing, management and storage systems. Such demands will be generated by both fixed and mobile things covering a wide geographic area and pertaining to heterogeneous domains and use cases. Although cloud based IoT platforms have become the industry norm now-a-days but they face many challenges. Several consumer IoT applications demand ultra-low to low latency, support for high degree of mobility, real time data analysis with decision making and actuation abilities. These strict requirements can be observed in connected vehicle and healthcare scenarios. To respond to the consumer needs, we are witnessing a paradigm shift where the capabilities of the cloud are being extended to the edge of networks paving way for Edge Computing. Both cloud and edge paradigms provide similar set services in terms of data storage, computation etc. But the latter has additional advantages due to its proximity to consumers, dense geographic coverage and mobility support. Utilizing the Edge Computing platforms, IoT applications and services could be operated from intelligent edge devices (e.g. access points, set top boxes, Road Side Units and M2M gateways). This creates enormous intelligence at the edge and in turn reduces latency, improves QoS and allows real time data analysis with actuation resulting in superior user experience and creation of consumer centric IoT services. Additionally, Edge Computing saves bandwidth as data are processed at the edge of network, promotes distributed architecture. This in turn maintains fault tolerance, reliability and scalability of the system.

The aim of this session is to present the latest research results related to the fields of consumer centric IoT services and Edge Computing. The scope of the session encompasses the communication, data processing, management and real time aspects of IoT and Edge Computing.

We encourage the participation from academia and from the industry presenting hands on experience on this field.

We invite original research contributions in the following topics:

  • Resource allocation and management challenges in Edge Computing and IoT
  • Distributed mobile applications utilizing Edge Computing and IoT
  • Performance evaluation of IoT and Edge Computing test beds
  • Consumer centric IoT applications and services using Edge Computing platforms
  • M2M data processing, management and storage at Edge Computing platforms
  • Standards for IoT and Edge Computing

Submission procedure

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers to IEEE CloudNet 2017. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font), following the IEEE 2-column conference paper format.

How to submit

The papers in two-columns IEEE format will be submitted via EDAS website.


Special session: Edge, Cloud and IoT in Robotics and Cyber-Physical Systems

Co-chair

  • Pieter Simoens, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Alexandros Gkiokas, Ortelio, United Kingdom

Call for papers for special session 3

The 2017 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2017), part of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, will be held from 25-27 September 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic. Following up on last year’s success, we are now organizing for the second time a special session on “Edge, Cloud and IoT in Robotics and Cyber-Physical Systems”.

Today’s integration between cloud systems and the physical world is mostly focused on scalable, real-time processing of IoT sensor data. How the IoT and distributed cloud systems can advance robots and cyber-physical systems has received much less coverage so far. The special session invites original research papers as well as position papers that trigger inspiring discussions. As the challenges in this domain are multi-disciplinary, the session aims at building a bridge between researchers working in different fields, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, software architecture, big data analytics, Internet-of-Things and distributed cloud systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:

  • Architectures and middleware solutions for cyber-physical systems, integrating the IoT, the cloud/edge with robots and other actuators
  • Distributed sensing, planning and actuation
  • Cloud-based control systems, possibly using deterministic wireless or wired networking
  • Tele-robotic systems
  • Computational offloading and load balancing in robotics
  • Multi-robot coordination and orchestration
  • Self-adaptive cyber-physical and robotic systems
  • Cloud-supported collective knowledge and parameter sharing between actuation systems
  • Sensor fusion for improved control policies
  • Transfer learning between tasks or across robotic systems
  • Hands-on experiences and use cases in the fields of manufacturing, Industry 4.0, healthcare, active assisted living, logistics and transportation, security and surveillance, precision agriculture and others

Submission procedure

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers to IEEE CloudNet 2017. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font), following the IEEE 2-column conference paper format.

How to submit

The papers in two-columns IEEE format will be submitted via EDAS website.