Message from the steering committee and general chairs

All research topics of IEEE NCA*, for more than one decade, have been contributing to the creation of the foundation of the Network/Cloud Computing research and application do domain. Now, Network/Cloud Computing is becoming the major mode of operation of the Information Technology Industry over the Internet. BIG Data, Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFI), Internet of Things (IoT) have profound effect on the innovations and modern society. The challenge for Network Cloud Computing is to realize a true Internet of Things, a network capable of supporting potentially trillions of wireless connected devices and with overall bandwidth one thousand times higher that today's wireless networks. Current IT technologies are approaching their limits.