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IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on
Cloud and Data Center Performance
Modern data
centers, consisting of massive farms of servers and abundant
bandwidth availability, are becoming the next computing platform for
the Internet. Cloud computing, as an efficient means of providing
computing resources as a form of utility, uses data centers to play
its pivotal role of leasing computing and storage resources to users.
Cloud computing has already become prevalent with the burgeoning of
cloud service providers, such as Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine.
The paradigm shift to cloud computing is driven by a strong demand,
especially from enterprises, to improve the overall efficiency of
using and managing computing resources.
With the rapid growth of
cloud users and with an increasing number of resource-demanding
applications deployed, it is critically important to understand and
improve the performance of cloud computing platforms, so that
performance needs from hosted applications can be satisfied. In
particular, the geographically distributed nature of data centers in
a cloud and the architectural shift to container-based data centers
have posed new challenges in the design, deployment and management of
cloud computing platforms. These challenges, all of which are
closely related to the performance of cloud applications, include the
distribution and migration of large volumes of data, the reduction of
operational costs, the multi-dimensional allocation of available
resources, accurate monitoring and prediction of service qualities,
flexible data center network architectures and communication
protocols, intra- and inter-data center network traffic
characteristics and engineering, strong guarantees of security and
privacy, as well as the efficiency of virtualization and power
consumption. This Special Issue solicits both original research and
tutorial articles that discuss deficiencies in current-generation
designs, present existing solutions in an insightful and
comprehensive manner, and propose new strategies to improve the
performance of cloud computing and modern data centers. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Performance interference, costs and optimization of
virtualization technologies
- Multi-dimensional
allocation and management of available computation, storage and
network resources within and across data centers
- Energy,
performance, quality of experience trade-offs in cloud computing and
data centers
- Competing and emerging technologies for
data center networking, such as data center bridging (DCB) in IEEE
802.1, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), as well as flexible
network architectures and communication protocols
- Intra-data center and inter-data center network traffic
characteristics, innovative traffic engineering and routing
optimization approaches
- Instrumentation, measurement and
evaluation of cloud and data center performance
- Accurate
monitoring and prediction of service availabilities and qualities in
clouds
- Migration of Internet-scale applications and
distribution of large-volume data and content in clouds
- Rising challenges and solutions of security and privacy
guarantees in clouds
With regard to both the content and
formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should
follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at
http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines.
Authors should submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne for IEEE
Network Magazine. Choose "Special Issue &151; Cloud and Data Center
Performance" from the drop down menu on the submission page. The
timetable is as follows:
Manuscript submission: December 1,
2012
Acceptance notification: March 1, 2013
Final manuscript
due: May 1, 2013
Publication date: July 2013
The Guest
Editors for this issue are:
Bo Li, bli@cse.ust.hk
Baochun Li, bli@eecg.toronto.edu
Fangming Liu, fmliu@hust.edu.cn