The emergence of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) as two pillars of a new networking paradigm has led to design and deployment of elastic content- and service-delivery virtual networks on cloud-based data centres whose backbones consist of software-defined substrate physical networks. This dynamic, multi-layer architecture for network functions introduces new challenges in maintaining performance and quality of service for service providers, and requires new ideas and frameworks in performance measurement and network management. This workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers from software-defined ecosystems to identify and discuss technical challenges, state of the art techniques, and contemporary results related to performance analysis of SDN and NFV environments. Submissions are welcomed on a variety of topics including but not limited to:

Performance models for virtualized environments
Performance metrics in virtualized environments
Performance measurement in virtualized environments
Quality of Service and Quality of Experience in cloud-based networks
Content distribution in virtualized environments and software-defined networks
Resource-aware virtualisation and infrastructure as a service
Management of software-defined ecosystems
Service provider requirements
SDN/NFV Performance in Context of 5G
Performance of SDN data, control, and management planes
Design and assessment of efficient SDN northbound/southbound interfaces
Performance of multi-controller SDN deployments
Service function chaining performance evaluation
Performance of NFV orchestration solutions
Approaches relavant to SDN and/or NFV
Analysis of SDN and/or NFV systems
SDN/NFV in Context of BlockChains, and FinTech


Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers. Papers must have no more than 10 pages, including figures and possible references in IEEE Computer Society format, although contributions of 5 or more pages will be considered sufficient. All the accepted papers need to be presented at the workshop. They will be included in the workshop proceedings as well as IEEE Xplore.



Submission Link

http://sites.ieee.org/sagroups-1916-1/pve-sdn/submission-instructions/


Important Dates

July 22, 2017: Paper submission

Aug 15, 2017: Acceptance notification

September 1, 2017: Camera-ready submission



Organizers

General Co-Chairs:

Mohammad Asad Rehman Chaudhry, Soptimizer, Canada

Shahram S. Heydari, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Jinsong Wu, Universidad de Chile, Chile



Technical Co-Chairs:

Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy

David Malone, Hamilton Institute, Ireland

Adrian Popescu, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Hesham ElBakoury, FutureWei, Huawei, USA



Technical Program Committee:

Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Qusay Mahmoud, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Zakia Asad, University of Toronto

Khalid Adnan, Verizon Wireless

Mingming Liu, University College Dublin

Amir Sheikh, Cox Communications

Deepaknath Tandur, ABB

Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University

Müge Sayıt, International Computer Institute, Ege University

William Liu, Auckland University of Technology

Masood Ur Rehman, University of Bedfordshire

Grzegorz Jereczek, Intel

Hassan Ahmed, Ryerson University

Flavio Esposito, Saint Louis University

Mohamed Faten Zhani, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec

Barbara Martini, National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT)

Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH)

Wei Shi, Carleton University



Publicity Co-Chairs:

William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Zakia Asad, University of Toronto