Workshop on Programmability for Cloud Networks and Applications (PROCON)
Date: Monday, September 12, 2016
Description: The continuous growth of Internet content, applications and services has resulted in ever more demanding requirements of computing power, scalability, data processing, data storage, energy consumption and transfer speed. To meet this, one solution is the use of the cloud paradigm for applications and services. It covers a broad range of distributed computing principles as well as related application paradigms, networking approaches or architecture models. This workshop covers the scientific areas around Cloud Networks, Programmability inside Networks, Cloud and Fog Computing principles, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and Software Engineering approaches for Highly Distributed Applications. The workshop is supported and initiated by the two EC H2020 projects INPUT & ARCADIA.
Website: http://procon-workshop.com
Details: Workshop program
Workshop co-chairs
- Florian Wamser, University of Würzburg, Germany
- Roberto Bruschi, Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Genova, Italy
- Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Ubitech, Greece
2016 International Workshop on Quality of Experience Centric Management (QCMan)
Date: Friday, September 16, 2016 (full day)
Description: In recent years, the Internet has evolved from a pure packet forwarder to a provider of complex and high demanding services and applications (e.g., video, voice, on-line gaming, cloud applications). These services and applications are typically managed through a set of Quality of Services parameters (e.g. packet loss, delay, jitter). However, it is widely agreed that the management of these services and applications should be centered on their quality as perceived by the end user: the Quality of Experience (QoE). However, this QoE centric management is greatly challenged in today’s Internet by (i) the stringent QoE requirements of the supported services and applications (e.g., timing constraints, loss intolerance) and users (e.g., unpredictability of user behavior, request for high quality services), (ii) the plethora of service consumption possibilities (e.g. for video: live vs on-demand, managed vs over-the-top), (iii) the inherent complexity of services and applications which can be offered to users in several ways to reach the same QoE level and (iv) the difficulty in assessing the quality as perceived by the end user also due to insufficient insight in the psychological and sociological factors of the service and application consumption.
Website: http://qcman.org
Details: Workshop program
Workshop co-chairs
- Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
- Oliver Hohlfeld, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- Raimund Schatz, FTW Wien, Austria
- Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri, USA
COST Action ACROSS on "Quality Engineering for a Reliable Internet of Services"
Date: Friday, September 16, 2016 (full day)
Description: The emergence of new, powerful network concepts like 5G and advanced cloud technologies - complemented with the nearly unlimited data access nowadays – will provide unbounded possibilities and flexibility in the creation and implementation of new, innovative services. A challenging factor in service reliability and quality provisioning is the highly dynamic nature of these complex environments, imposing a high degree of uncertainty in many respects (e.g., in terms of number and diversity of the service offerings, the system load of services suddenly jumping to temporary overload, demand for cloud resources, etc.). This raises the need for online control methods that quickly adapt to – or even anticipate to – changing circumstances. The workshop addresses fundamental scientific challenges for (autonomous) quality-driven control in such virtualized (through NFV, SDN), cloud-based network settings. Particular focus will be on: (i) quantitative methods and algorithms for quality control, (ii) concepts and methods for QoS monitoring and prediction, and (iii) pricing and competition in the future Internet of Services.
Details: Workshop program
Workshop organizer: The workshop is organized by the European COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services” (COST ACROSS, http://www.cost-across.nl/). For more information, please contact Hans van den Berg, J.L.vandenBerg@tno.nl, or Rob van der Mei, mei@cwi.nl.
Registration: Please use the online registration form.
