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<div>========Call For Paper=========</div>
<div>The International Workshop of Software-Defined Data Communications and</div>
<div>Storage
(SDDCS) 2016 in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2016 on June 27, 2016, in Nara,
Japan</div>
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<div>******Overview******</div>
<div>The future infrastructures of the data centers and</div>
<div>cloud computing are becoming more software</div>
<div>defined. Although networking infrastructures</div>
<div>consist of communications and storage resources,</div>
<div>they are generally studied separately. Hence,</div>
<div>applications and platforms have to precisely</div>
<div>define the virtual environment in which they</div>
<div>wish to run, and the communication performance</div>
<div>decreases because we have been ignoring the</div>
<div>properties of storage devices. </div>
<div>The software-defined methodology offers an</div>
<div>opportunity to bridge this gap and to deliver</div>
<div>higher and improved performance. The SDDCS</div>
<div>workshop provides the forum for researchers of</div>
<div>multi-disciplinary fields: networks, systems</div>
<div>research which spans data communications,</div>
<div>networking, storage systems and devices, as well</div>
<div>as the applications, to discuss and exchange idea</div>
<div>on how to take this opportunity to bridge the</div>
<div>performance gap.</div>
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<div>SDDCS aims to bring together industry and</div>
<div>academia to jointly explore recent progresses</div>
<div>related with the potential performance bottleneck</div>
<div>and the gap between communications and</div>
<div>storage in the software-defined context. We</div>
<div>particularly encourage contributions which</div>
<div>contain highly original ideas, new approaches,</div>
<div>and/or groundbreaking results.</div>
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<div>*******Topics******</div>
<div>Topics of interest in SDDCS include but are not</div>
<div>limited to:</div>
<div>** Software-defined communication protocols</div>
<div>** Software-defined storage devices</div>
<div>** Convergent design for communications and storage</div>
<div>** Non-volatile storage support for network transmission</div>
<div>** Storage deduplication for cloud backups</div>
<div>** Data collection and analytics for system optimization</div>
<div>** Dynamic workload redistribution and scheduling</div>
<div>** Non-volatile devices in network switches</div>
<div>** Cross-layer coordination</div>
<div>** Storage virtualization in network end systems</div>
<div>** Security for SDDCS schemes</div>
<div>** Programmable interfaces for convergent design</div>
<div>** User studies and experiences of real-world applications</div>
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<div>******Submission Instructions******</div>
<div>Submitted papers must be no longer than 8</div>
<div>single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures,</div>
<div>tables, and references; two-column format, using</div>
<div>10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced)</div>
<div>leading; and a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep.</div>
<div>Author names and affiliations should appear on</div>
<div>the title page.</div>
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<div>The submitted papers should present original</div>
<div>theoretical and/or experimental research in any</div>
<div>of the areas listed above that has not been</div>
<div>previously published, accepted for publication,</div>
<div>or is not currently under review by another</div>
<div>conference or journal.</div>
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<div>******Important Dates******</div>
<div>Paper submission due: January 20, 2016</div>
<div>Notification to authors: March 5, 2016</div>
<div>Final paper files due: April 5, 2016</div>
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<div>******Workshop Organizer******</div>
<div>Steering Committee:</div>
<div>Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island</div>
<div>Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington</div>
<div>Peng-Jun Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Xue Liu, McGill University</div>
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<div>Program Co-chair:</div>
<div>Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology</div>
<div>John C.S. Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong</div></div></div>