Next generation
cloud systems will require a
paradigm shift in how they are
constructed and managed.
Conventional control and
management platforms are facing
considerable challenges
regarding flexibility,
dependability and security that
next generation systems will
require. The cloud computing
paradigm has gone part of the
way towards alleviating some of
the problems associated with
resource allocation, utilization
and managements (e.g., via
elasticity). However, many of
the elements of a well-designed
cloud environment remain “stiff”
and hard to modify and adapt in
an integrated fashion. This
includes underlying networking
topologies, many aspects of the
user control over IaaS, PaaS or
SaaS layers when such is needed,
construction of XaaS services,
provenance and meta-data
collection, and so on. In many
situations the problem may be
because service abstraction is
inadequate. Software Defined
Systems (SDS)
are systems that have added
software components which help
abstract actual IT equipment and
other layers. One classical
example, of course, are
hypervisors. Such separation
provides a great opportunity for
system administrators to more
easily construct and managing
their systems through flexible
software layers. Software
Defined Systems include Software
Defined Networking (SDN),
Software Defined Storage,
Software Defined Servers
(Virtualization), Software
Defined Datacenters (SDD),
Software Defined Security
(SDSec), and ultimately Software
Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name
a few possibilities. Individual
solutions and seamless
integration of these
abstractions remains in many
respects a challenge. After the
high success of the previous
editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016
and SDS'2017),
The fifth International
conference on Software Defined
Systems 2018 (SDS'2018)
will continue to be a forum for
scientists, researchers,
students, and practitioners to
present their latest research
results, ideas, and developments
in the area of software defined
systems – both components and
their integration - and by
implication advancement of next
generation clouds.
SDS 2018
aims to investigate the
opportunities and in all aspects
of Software Defined Systems. In
addition, it seeks for novel
contributions that help
mitigating
SDS challenges.
That is, the objective of
SDS 2018
is to provide a forum for
scientists, engineers, and
researchers to discuss and
exchange new ideas, novel results
and experience on all aspects of
Software Defined Systems.
Researchers are encouraged to
submit original research
contributions in all major areas,
which include, but not limited to:
*
Software Defined Systems support
for Cloud Computing.
* Software Defined Networking
(SDN).
* SDN concepts, architecture, and
APIs.
* Network Virtualization
* SDN and OpenFlow protocol
* Software Defined Radio
* Cognitive Radio Networks.
* Access Control models in SDN.
* Software Defined Storage.
* Storage Automation and
Abstraction.
* Policy-driven storage
provisioning.
* Software Defined Servers and
Virtualization.
* Software Defined Datacenters.
* Software Defined Security o
Security policies automation.
* Self-management systems.
* Autonomic Computing techniques.
* Real-time load prediction model
to optimize the user satisfaction.
* Software Defined Systems
Scalability.
* Software Defined Systems
optimization.
* Software tools and frameworks to
support SDS .
* Software Defined Systems
challenges and opportunities
* Software Defined Systems surveys
.
* Social engineering, insider
threats system for SDS.
* Incident Handling and
Penetration Testing with SDS.
* Software Defined Systems support
if IoT.
* Security protocols in SDS.
* Security and privacy of mobile SDS based
cloud computing
* Service-oriented architectures,
service portability andP2P
* Network virtualization and
cloud-based radio access networks