INVITATION:

=================

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- ICN 2018, The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks

- SOFTNETWORKING 2018, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization

The submission deadline is December 28, 2017.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

=================


============== ICN 2018 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


ICN 2018, The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ICN18.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/SubmitICN18.html


SOFTNETWORKING 2018, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/SOFTNETWORKING18.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/SubmitSOFTNETWORKING18.html


Event schedule: April 22 - 26, 2018 - Athens, Greece


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]


Proposals for:

- mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

- tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: December 4, 2017


Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ICN 2018 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/CfPICN18.html

============================================================

Communication

Communication theory; Communications switching and routing; Communications modeling; Communications security; Computer communications; Distributed communications; Signal processing in communications; Multimedia and multicast communications; Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks); Vehicular communications

New Internet technologies

SDN, SDX, NFV; 4G/5G and advanced mobile Internet; Internet of X (everything, things, people, etc.); Internet, Virtualization and Cloud; Internet and Big Data; Sensing and sensor networks; Energy-aware networks; Content-oriented networking; Cellular cognitive networks; Future routing mechanisms

Networking

Next generation networks [NGN] principles; Storage area networks [SAN]; Access and home networks; High-speed networks; Optical networks; Peer-to-peer and overlay networking; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks; Vehicular Networks; GRID networks, Cloud and Visualization; Broadband networks; Small cell networks; Sensing and sensor networks

Computation and networking

Cloud computing; Fog computing; Internet computing; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing; Real-time computing; Big data-based computing; Services computing and opportunistic computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Fast data processing; Fast switching and routing protocols; Parallelization of algorithms and applications; Energy-efficient High Performance Computing

Networking metrics

Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]; Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS]; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring; Voice over IP services; Performance evaluation, tools, simulation; Network, control and service architectures; Network signalling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Applications and case studies

Next generation networks (NGN) and network management

NGN protocol design and evaluation NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3/4/5GPP, IETF, etc.]; NGN Device Instrumentation; Network Management, scheduling and policy; NGN policy-based control; Networks policy-based management; Management of autonomic networks and systems; Delay tolerant networks; Mobility management

------------------------


SOFTNETWORKING 2018 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/CfPSOFTNETWORKING18.html

============================================================

Software Defined Networking (SDN): concepts, challenges and architectures

Control and Management in SDN; Network Operating Systems (NOS, ONOS) and virtualization in SDNs

Network Function Virtualization concepts, challenges and architectures (NFV, OPNFV)

SDN and NFV cooperation

SDN and NFV standardization

OpenDaylight (goals, platforms, interfaces and applications), OpenStack and SDN

SDN Controllers design and implementation

SDN Forwarding Elements design and implementation

OpenFlow and Southbound Protocols

Application programming interfaces for SDN

Forwarding plane abstractions, programmability, languages

Verification techniques and tools for SDN and NFV

Performance evaluation, optimization and isolation of the Data and Control Planes

SDN applications and use cases (Data-center/ clouds/ BigData; Service Provider Networks: dynamic service chaining, optical networks and transport, cellular/mobile, traffic management, resources and QoS management, WANs/carrier networks and support for clouds, virtualization of aggregation networks; Enterprise, home, sensors networks; Software Defined Wireless Networks (SDWN); SDN in mobile and 5G networks; SDN controlled vehicular networks; Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M communications)

NFV applications and use cases (Home environment; Mobile Core&IMS, mobile base stations; Fixed access networks; CDNs; NFVIaaS, VNFaaS, VNPaaS, VNF Forwarding Graphs)

Reliability, resiliency and fault management in SDN and NFV

Security and privacy and in SDN and NFV

Data and Control Plane scalability, inter-operability

Autonomic (self) management technologies in SDN and NFV

SDN/NFV architecture versus Content delivery and oriented networks, Information Centric Networking

Operators and Service Providers business and deployment perspective on SDN and NFV

Planning and Deployment of SDN/NFV technologies and applications in operational networks

------------------------

ICN 2018 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ComICN18.html

SOFTNETWORKING 2018 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ComSOFTNETWORKING18.html