Introduction

Software-Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud-Edge-Fog Computing are key ingredients of an overall techno-economic transformation trend, which is impacting deeply Telecom and ICT industries. This trend, often called “Softwarization”, will bring costs optimizations and new service paradigms. In particular, SDN, NFV and network programmability are going to become the main enablers of the 5th Generation (5G) of infrastructures, which will span from high data rate fixed-mobile services to the Internet of Things.

This timely flagship conference of IEEE SDN will shed light on the fundamental technology components and systems for SDN-NFV infrastructures, clouds-edges and any sort of network services in order to fully exploit its potential for the efficiently handling of heterogeneous resources across wire and wireless networks and datacenter domains and for easy and fast deployment of new ICT services. The IEEE NetSoft will bring together academia and industry to jointly review and ponder maturing developments related to all aspects of Softwarization, and its first exploitation with the 5G.

Call for paper

Important date

2017-01-09
Draft paper submission deadline
2017-03-06
Draft paper acceptance notification
2017-04-10
Final paper submission deadline

Submission Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • SDN and NFV as enabling technologies for 5G

  • From Cloud Computing to Edge-Fog Computing

  • 5G Functional Decomposition and Infrastructure slicing

  • 5G sustainable ecosystems: IoT, Industry 4.0, Pervasive Robotics, Self-driving vehicles, Tactile Internet, Immersive Communications, Artificial Intelligence applications

  • Software Defined infrastructures for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) network services

  • Service Function Chaining for NFV: Modeling, composition algorithms, deployment

  • Intent-based interfacing for NFV

  • SDN/NFV Network & Service Orchestration and Management

  • Management of federated SDN/NFV infrastructure and frameworks

  • Real time operations and efficient network/service monitoring in SDN/NFV

  • Performance and scalability issues in NFV implementation scenarios

  • Traffic Engineering and QoS/QoE in SDN/NFV

  • APIs, protocols and languages for programmable networks and Software-Defined Infrastructure

  • SDN switch/router architectures/designs

  • SDN/NFV issues and opportunities for security, trust and privacy

  • Experience reports from experimental testbeds and deployment

  • Softwarized platforms for Internet-of-Things (IoT)

  • New value chains and business models

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Important Date

  • Conference Date

    Jul 03

    2017

    to

    Jul 07

    2017

  • Jan 09 2017

    Draft paper submission deadline

  • Mar 06 2017

    Draft Paper Acceptance Notification

  • Apr 10 2017

    Final Paper Deadline

  • Jul 07 2017

    Registration deadline

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