1st international Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN 2013)
Organized in conjunction with IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC 2013) 9-13 June 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
The workshop will address the integration of two technologies that are expected to have significant impact in the ICT area for the next
decade(s): next generation mobile communication networks (mainly 4G) and cloud computing. While mobile communication networks have been
established decades ago and are still continuously evolving, cloud computing became a hot topic in recent years and is expected to have
significantly impact on novel applications as well as on ICT infrastructures.
Cloud computing and mobile communication networks have been considered separate from each other in the past. However, there are various
possible synergies between them. First, access to cloud storage and computing service via wireless/mobile networks should be optimized in
terms of delay, bandwidth and energy consumption from an end user perspective. Second, there is an increasing trend to implement more
and more functions of a mobile communication network in software, e.g., for signal and protocol processing. This enables the use of
cloud computing infrastructures as processing platforms for signal and protocol processing of mobile communication networks, in particular
for current (4G) and future (5G) generation networks. In particular, the integration of protocol and application/service processing enables
several opportunities to optimize performance of cloud applications and services observed by the mobile user, whose device is connected to
the cloud via wireless access networks. The workshop will discuss emerging technologies in cloud computing and mobile communication
networks. Moreover, it will focus on possible integration scenarios and synergies between them.
The workshop solicits original contributions in the topics of interest for the workshop. Those topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Protocols and wireless network technologies for mobile cloud applications
- Network virtualization for mobile cloud networks
- Energy-saving at mobile end systems in network elements supporting
mobile cloud applications
- Distributed mobility management, including mobility prediction
- Future Internet architectures and protocols for mobile cloud
computing, including content-centric / context-based networking
- Network and protocol support for delay-tolerant applications
- Cloud computing in opportunistic networks
- Management and allocation of mobile cloud resources, including SLA
management
- Cloud service management and migration
- Seamless handover support for mobile cloud applications
- Resource and service monitoring in mobile cloud networks
- Physical radio resource sharing
- End-to-end performance of mobile cloud applications
- Novel cloud-based implementation architectures for mobile
communication networks
- Quality-of-Experience in mobile cloud applications
- Cloud-based applications and services for mobile users, including
social networks
- (Participatory) sensing and mobile cloud applications, including
data aggregation
- Security and privacy issues of mobile cloud computing, including
authentication and authorization
- Accounting and charging of mobile cloud services
- Testbeds and performance evaluation for mobile cloud networking and
applications
Workshop Chairs:
- Torsten Braun
- Luis M. Correia
- Georgios Karagiannis
- Edmundo Monteiro
- Almerima Jamakovic
Important Dates:
- Registration of abstract: January 4, 2013
- Manuscript submission: January 11, 2013
- Acceptance Notification: February 22, 2013
- Camera-ready: March 8, 2013
Submission Procedure:
Paper length should not exceed five-pages standard IEEE conference
two-column format (including all text, figures, and references). You
may use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or
LaTeX. Alternatively you can follow the IEEE Communications Society's
guidelines for attendees and authors. Only PDF files are accepted for
review.
To submit the paper, use the EDAS online submission system. All
submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted
and presented papers will be included in the IEEE ICC 2013
proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and
registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.
Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for
publication in Special Issues of prestigious International Journal.