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Call For Papers
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**Papers for Cloud Services and Networks Track**

Part of The 14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
8-11 January 2017
Las Vegas, USA

# Links
* [Website](http://ccnc2017.ieee-ccnc.org)
* [Submission](http://ccnc2017.ieee-ccnc.org/call-for-submissions)

# Important Datas
* Technical papers due: June 15, 2016
* Acceptance notification: September 4, 2016
* Final camera ready: November 2, 2016

# Scope and Motivation
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

# TPC Track Chairs
* Angelos K. Marnerides, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
* Amir H. Payberah, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Sweden





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