[DistComp] CFP: IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Virtualization

[Fred Douglis]

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IEEE Internet Computing<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/internetcomputing>is
soliciting papers for a special issue on
*Virtualization*.

*Final submissions du**e: 1 July 2012*
* Publication date: March/April 2013*

*Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan
to submit by 15 June 2012.*

One of the most famous adages in computer science is that “any problem in
computer science can be solved by an extra level of indirection.”
Increasingly, that level of indirection takes the form of virtualization,
where a resource’s consumers are provided with a virtual rather than
physical version of that resource. This layer of indirection has helped
address a multitude of problems, including efficiency, security, high
availability, elasticity, fault containment, mobility, and scalability.

In the past several years virtualization has gone mainstream, and more and
more resources are virtualizable. Although virtual machines are the most
obvious example, others include desktop sharing (VNC), virtual networks,
virtual storage, and many more. All these have an enormous impact on
Internet computing. A key recent use of virtualization is to enable
infrastructure-as-a-service clouds. Virtualization lets producers
efficiently support many tenants while strongly isolating them from each
other, and consumers to be isolated from the specifics of providers’
physical capacity, allowing, for example, virtual machines to move between
different computers and even clouds. This special issue seeks articles from
both industry and academia that discuss the application and development of
virtualization in the Internet computing space. Topics include

   - cloud computing;
   - virtual networks;
   - storage-area networks;
   - remote desktops;
   - security;
   - performance (in a network context); and
   - migration of virtual environments.

Editors' note: We encourage submissions from both academic and industrial
practitioners, especially as they pertain to open source tools or products,
but content must have technical merit, not be an advertisement.
Questions?

Contact Guest Editors Fred Douglis and Orran Krieger (ic2-2013 at computer.org)

All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words,
focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are
subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to *IC*’s
international readership—primarily system and software design engineers. We
do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or
mathematical papers. To submit a manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne
(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs)<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ic-cs>to
create or access an account, which you can use to log on to
*IC*’s Author Center<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/acinternet>and
upload your submission.
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