Preliminary Call for Papers

The International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), co-sponsored by IFIP, IEEE, and ACM (pending), is the premier annual conference in the general area of network and services management. CNSM has become a premier venue for the presentation of novel results and experience reports in all aspects of management of networks, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. CNSM 2014 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference is organized around a single track of paper presentations where fundamental research results are discussed. This core track is accompanied by a series of workshops, tutorials and poster sessions where focused discussions and progress reports are presented. CNSM invites academic, government, and industry researchers to submit papers to be presented at the conference.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

General Management Issues

Monitoring, correlation, and diagnosis
Performance management, fault management, and reconfiguration
Resource allocation and optimization
IT services, business impact analysis, and business process management
Configuration and accounting
Security, trust, and privacy
Energy management and optimization
QoS management


Management Techniques and New Paradigms

Self-Management
Economic models for management
Policy-based and declarative models of management
Virtualization
Control theory and optimization
Content centric networking
Stochastic models and machine learning in management
Management and Adaptation in

Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Cities
Sensor networks, opportunistic and mobile ad-hoc networks
Pervasive systems including Body Area Networks, Vehicular, and Home Networks
Cloud computing
Enterprise systems and federations
SOA and Web services
Multimedia and data services
Data centers
Social networks, cloud-based applications


Network Management

IP operations and management
Broadband access networks
Overlay and virtual networks
Wireless and mobile networks
Hybrid and next-generation networks
Data Center Networks


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 including references) or short (up to 4 pages including references) papers. Submissions should be in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. We welcome your contributions and look forward to your participation at CNSM 2014.

Important dates

Paper Submission:
April 15th, 2014

Acceptance Notification:
July 15th, 2014

Camera Ready:
September 15th, 2014