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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">==============================================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Call for Papers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> IEEE CloudNet 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> November 4-6, 2019 in Coimbra, Portugal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Paper submission: July 15, 2019 (extended)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> </span><a href="http://cloudnet2019.ieee-cloudnet.org/"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">http://cloudnet2019.ieee-cloudnet.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">==============================================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Cloud Networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">and reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">location of service facilities and the virtualization of hardware and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">software elements are stressing the communication network and protocols, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">especially when data centers are interconnected through the Internet.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Emerging technologies like Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Defined Network (SDN) can play significant roles by improving the dynamicity </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">and programmability of cloud networks. Middlebox has been significantly </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">improved the agility of cloud network deployment and management.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2019), </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">part of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, can greatly promote researches </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">in cloud network and emerging research areas.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">==============================================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Important Dates</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Paper submission: 15 July 2019 (extended)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Acceptance notification: 30 August 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Camera-ready paper: 12 September 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">==============================================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Conference topics
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Conference topics include (but are not limited to): </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">- Cloud network and resource management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Data Center Network Optimization and Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Reliability of Data Center Network and Architecture</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Energy-Efficient Datacenters and Networks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Cloud Traffic Engineering </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Data Flow Management and Load Balancing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Cloud Storage Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Green and Energy-Efficient Datacenters and Networks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">- Cloud network and virtualization</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Data Center Networks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Mobile Cloud Networking</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Virtualization of Network Equipment</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Software-Defined Networking</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Network Function Virtualization</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Middleware and Middleboxes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">- Cloud network and supported services</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Big Data Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Data Analytics in Cloud</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Network Services to support IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Unified User and Machine Mobility Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Content and Service Distribution</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Complementing Edge Computing with Data Center Networks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">- Cloud network architecture</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Control-Plane Architectures</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Distributed Data Center Architectures</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Routing in cloud networks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Intra-Cloud vs Inter-Cloud Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">- Cloud network security and privacy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Cloud Data Provenance and Data Loss Protection</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Cloud Storage Security</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Cloud Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> Firewall and Deep Packet Inspection Systems in Cloud Networks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Submission guideline</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Submissions must be in IEEE single-spaced double-column style with a length</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">limitation of six (6) pages (including title, abstract, all Figures, tables, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">and references) for Full papers and three (3) pages for Posters. Paper should </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">be accepted through EDAS (https://edas.info/N26327)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Authors of best qualified papers presented at CloudNet 2019 will be invited
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to submit their research to International Journal of Network Management (IJNM) </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">for possible publication in a fast review process (https://goo.gl/gnbCtt).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">IEEE CloudNet 2019 Organizing Committee </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">== General Chairs ==</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Paulo Simões, University of Coimbra, Portugal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Fed. University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">== TPC Chairs ==</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Mohamed Faten Zhani, ÉTS Montreal, Canada</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">== Steering Committee ==</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Guy Pujolle, University Pierre & Marie Curie, France</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Deep Medhi, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Aki Nako, University of Tokyo, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Puneet Sharma, HP Labs, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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