CALL FOR PAPERS
1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization
Software-Defined Infrastructures for Networks, Clouds and Services
London, U.K. April 13-17, 2015
http://sites.ieee.org/netsoft/
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The IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2015) will be held April 13-17, 2015 in London, U.K. at the Cruciform Building of University College London (UCL).
NetSoft 2015 will be the first of a series of annual events established as part of the IEEE Software-Defined Networks initiative of the IEEE Future Directions Committee to build an IEEE-wide community in this area across multiple IEEE societies and councils (http://sdn.ieee.org/about.html). Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Software-Defined Clouds could be seen as different expressions of an overall transformation trend, which is deeply impacting and Telecom and IT industries. This trend is also transforming several other Industries, in using softwarization" to optimize costs and processes and in bringing new values in infrastructures. In particular, SDN, NFV and network programmability are creating the conditions to reinvent network and cloud architectures, accelerate service deployment and facilitate infrastructure management. Accordingly, the theme of NetSoft 2015 is Software-Defined Infrastructures for Networks, Clouds and Services. NetSoft is intended to serve as the flagship IEEE forum for technical exchange on software-defined infrastructures and services.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into the area of software-defined and virtualized infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
SDI Architectures, Application Programming Interfaces Protocols & Programming languages
SDN Switch/Router Architectures/Designs
Control Architectures/Network Programmability
Verification/Debugging/ Auditing Tools
Placement/Factoring of Control Logic
Efficient Network Virtualization in SDN
Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
SDN Resource, Network and Service Management and Efficient Operations
Traffic Engineering and QoS in SDN
Mobility/Security/Safety Support and Management in SDN
Service & Information Orchestration/Chaining and Life Cycle Management
Energy Efficient and Green Software-defined Infrastructures
Software-based Integration of Computing, Storage & Networks
Software-Defined Datacenters and Inter-datacenter Networks
SDN Support for Big Data Applications
SDN Applications to Enterprise, Home, Cellular
Software-Defined Optical Transport and Backbone Networks
SDN and Virtualization for RAN and 5G
Performance Evaluation, Testbeds, and Experiences Benchmarking
Deployments and Interoperation with Legacy Systems
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original papers not published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers can be of two types: full (up to 9 pages) or short (up to 5 pages) papers. Papers should be in IEEE 2-column US-Letter style using IEEE Conference templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and submitted in PDF format via EDAS at: http://edas.info/N18361. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All submitted papers will be subject to a peer-review process. The accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore, provided that the authors do present their paper at the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: 15th December 2014
Camera Ready Papers: 13th March 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 15th February 2015
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
George Pavlou, University College London, U.K.
TPC CO-CHAIRS
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Alex Galis, University College London, U.K.
IEEE Software-Defined Networks Group Chair: Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy
For more information, please visit: http://sites.ieee.org/netsoft/
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Alex Galis
Professor in Networked and Service Systems
Communications and Information Systems Group
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University College London
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