ZTECommunications Call for Papers—Special Issueon“Cloud Computing”

Scope

Cloud computing is a consumer/delivery model where ITcapabil?ities are offered as services to be consumed on demand.Cloud ser?vices include IaaS,PaaS,and SaaS.The underlying cloud architec?ture includes a pool of virtualized computing,storage,and network?ing resources that can be aggregated and launched as platforms to run workloadsand satisfy service-level agreements.This special is?sue of ZTE Communications presents recent advances in cloud computing,software-defined datacentersetc.

Topics

The topics include,but not limited to:

·Cloud computingplatforms(IaaS,PaaS,SaaS)

·Software-defined datacenters

·Cloud oriented IDC(power and cooling efficiency,DCIM,etc.)·Cloud oriented system architecture and hardware design(serv?er,storage,workload optimized system)

·Cloud oriented software system(high distributed file systems,storageoptimization software,global synchronized database,etc.)

·Open sourcetechnologies(Openstack,etc.)

Paper Submission

Papers should be no more than 10,000 words or 10 pages in length and in Word format.Submissions will be reviewed anony?mously by at least 3 reviewers.If possible,please ensure and equa?tions,figures,and tables in your paper are in an editable format.Please avoid submitting equations and mathematical notation in im?ageform.

Papers will be judged on originality,correctness,clarity and rele?vance.Submitted papers must be original work,and may not be un?der consideration for another conference or journal.Complete for?matting and submission instructions can be found on http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/endata/magazine/ztecommunications/index_5104.html.

Guest Editor

Hong Cai,PhD，CTOof Cloud Computing,ZTECorporation

Email:hong.cai@zteusa.com

Important dates

Paper submission due:Jul.31,2013 Notification of acceptance:Aug.31,2013 Camera-ready deadline:Sept.15,2013