Call for Papers: IEEE ICC 2016 Selected Areas in Communications Symposium -Cloud Communications and Networking TrackMay 23-27, 2016 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia http://icc2016.ieee-icc.org/ Scope and Motivation Cloud networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient, reliable and on-demand service provisioning across data communication networks. The Selected Areas in Communication Symposium – Cloud Communications and Networking provides international forum and fosters discussing on the scientific advancements in optimizing cloud network virtualization and management, reducing energy consumption, developing novel network architectures, service provisioning over heterogeneous connections and wireless links, efficient resource allocation and optimization of communication protocols in the cloud. Main Topics of Interest Data Center Network Management, Reliability, Optimization Distributed Data Center Architectures and Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Energy-Efficient Datacenters and Networks Big Data and Traffic Management 5G and the Cloud Internet Routing of Cloud Data Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements Intra-Cloud vs Inter-Cloud Management Cloud Traffic Engineering and ControlPlane Architectures Energy-Efficient Data Centers and Cloud Networking Security, Privacy and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking Virtualization of Network Equipment Unified User and Machine Mobility Management Data Flow Management and Load Balancing Mobile Cloud Networking Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, Fiber Channels Content and Service Distribution Sponsoring Technical Committees Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) Important Dates Paper submission: October 16, 2015 Paper Acceptance Notification: January 29, 2016 Camera-ready Papers Due: February 29, 2016 Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in the IEEE ICC 2016 Conference Proceedings. All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge if accepted). Submit now using EDAS system: http://edas.info/N21009 Symposium Track-Chair Dzmitry Kliazovich University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Dzmitry.Kliazovich@uni.lu Dzmitry Kliazovich is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Science, Technology, and Communication of the University of Luxembourg. He holds an award-winning Ph.D. in Information and Telecommunication Technologies from the University of Trento (Italy). Dr. Kliazovich is a holder of a large number of scientific awards, mainly from the IEEE Communications Society and European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). His work on energy-efficient scheduling in cloud computing received Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) in 2010. He chaired a number of highly ranked international conferences and symposia, including the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET 2014). Dr. Kliazovich is the author of more than 100 research papers. He is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and of the IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing journals. He is a Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling. Dr. Kliazovich is a coordinator and principal investigator of the Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing and Communications initiative funded by the National Research Fund of Luxembourg. His main research activities are in the field of energy efficient communications, cloud computing, and next-generation networking.