Submission Deadline: 26th November 2012 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Papers IEEE WCNC 2013 Mobile Cloud Computing and Networking Workshop 7-10 April 2013, Shanghai, China Weblink: http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/people/shumao.ou/?page_id=106 Cloud computing is on the hype but largely confined in wired networks. With the rapid advancement of both wireless network technologies and mobile smart phones, there is an increasing need for cloud services to be equally accessible by mobile users, thus rendering a new research field of mobile cloud computing (MCC). In this workshop, MCC refers to a vision and its associated enabling technologies that facilitate an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device. Current cloud computing architecture, platforms and services need to evolve, by taking into consideration the specific features of mobile networks that are different from these of fixed IP networks, to better serve cloud applications operating over mobile wireless networks. Apart from investigating into mobile IaaS framework, which provides fundamental, infrastructure-level support to MCC, SaaS (software as a service) is particularly attractive to mobile applications. This is because a SaaS can free resource-constrained mobile devices from having many applications installed and executed on them. The other side of the mobile cloud story is networking, which is largely neglected by the cloud computing research communities. This can be addressed from two different angles. One angle is how the wireless networks can be engineered to provide better connectivity support to cloud services. For example, discussions have started as to whether and how LTE BBUs can be separated from their frontend radio unit and then put together into a pool (cloud) to increase resource utilization and energy efficiency. On the other hand, there is also the aspect of how wireless networks can take advantage of the advanced features of cloud computing to solve network problems. Therefore, this workshop will solicit papers that address either aspect or both aspects of the above two issues (i.e., computing and networking) and therefore provide a unique and unified venue for a more holistic discussion of the research issues and outcomes concerning mobile cloud computing. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) * Cross-layer issues in mobile cloud computing and networking such as network-aware cloud and cloud-aware wireless networks * Computing issues in mobile cloud such as overall system architecture, protocols, algorithms * Networking issues in mobile cloud such as network routing, resource allocation, scheduling, quality of services * Heterogeneous wireless infrastructure for mobile cloud computing * Media cloud over wireless networks * Mobile cloud for Internet of Things * Energy efficiency in mobile cloud computing systems and networks * Network-aware VM (Virtual Machine) selection, migration, scheduling. * Protocols and algorithms for cloud-aware wireless networks * Quality of Service assurance in cloud-enabled wireless networks * Billing issues in mobile cloud systems and networks * Mobile cloud network resource management, mobility management and traffic engineering * Fault tolerance and service availability * Mobile cloud network management and adaptation * Application-layer mobile cloud service engineering * Testing and evaluation tools * Prototype systems and real-world deployment experiences * Standardization of mobile cloud computing and networking Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 6-page IEEE conference style paper (including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13333&track=25613 Accepted papers must be registered and presented at the workshop by one of the authors. All papers selected for publication will be published together with IEEE WCNC 2013 proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore database. Important Dates: Paper Submission: 26th November 2012 Acceptance Notification: 8th December 2012 Camera Ready Version: 8th January 2013 Workshop Date: 7th-10th April 2013 Workshop Chairs: Dr. Shumao Ou, Oxford Brookes University, UK Prof. Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK Prof. Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Prof. Amiya Nayak, University of Ottawa, Canada _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
