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The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks

SOFTNETWORKING 2015

April 19 - 24, 2015 - Barcelona, Spain


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This symposium is part of ICN 2015.

 
   
   

Call for Papers:

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a recent architectural approach that decouples the network control and data planes. It separates the network control logic from the underlying routers and switches by logically centralizing the network control in SDN controllers and implementing the traffic forwarding in switching hardware. SDN offers network programmability capabilities, applicable in a flexible way. SDN introduces novel abstractions in networking, thus simplifying network management and facilitating faster network evolution. SDN is natively based on virtualization. Via service orchestration, applications can automatically reconfigure the network and simultaneously optimize the user experience, application performance and network resource utilization. SDN approach can support or is applicable in various contexts: clouds/data centres; enterprise; WANs, cellular/mobile, wireless, home, sensors – networks; network and resources management, security; traffic and QoS management, media and content distribution. While still in early stage, SDN is moving very fast towards its adoption in the industry and by the operators, but it still has open research issues.

SOFTNETWORKING 2015, the Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks, is dedicated to advances and challenges on the following SDN-related topics.

Topics:

  • SDN concepts and architectures
  • Control and Management in SDN
  • SDN Controllers design and implementation
  • SDN Forwarders
  • Network Operating Systems (NOS) and virtualization in SDNs
  • SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
  • OpenFlow and Southbound Protocols
  • Application programming interfaces for SDNs
  • Network programmability in SDN
  • Programming languages
  • Verification techniques and tools for SDNs
  • Performance of controllers and forwarders
  • SDN in data-center/clouds/big data
  • SDN applications in:
    • enterprise, WANs, cellular/mobile, wireless, home, sensors networks
    • network and resources management, security
    • traffic and QoS management, media and content distribution
  • Security, privacy and reliability in SDN
  • SDN scalability in large environments
  • SDN and Information Centric Networking (ICN)
  • SDN versus Content/ICN architectures
  • Operators and Service Providers perspective on SDN
  • Deployment of SDN technology and applications in operational networks

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

Important deadlines:

due to winter holidays, submission deadline has been extended
Submission (full paper)

Nov 24 December 30, 2014

Notification

February 2, 2015

Registration

February 15, 2015

Camera ready

March 6, 2015

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Contribution types

  • 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 on www.iaria.org]
  • presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
  • doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

Details on contributions and proposals.

FORMATS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.

Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).

Committees:

SOFTNETWORKING 2015 Advisory Committee

Eugen Borcoci, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez, Telefónica, Spain
Nicola Ciulli, Nextworks,  Italy
Marc Sune, Berlin Institute for Software Defined Networks GmbH, Germany
Wolfgang John, Ericsson Research, Sweden

Technical Program Committee

Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez, Telefónica, Spain
Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague,  Czech Republic
Eugen Borcoci, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Nicola Ciulli, Nextworks, Italy 
Didier Colle, iMinds - Ghent University, Belgium
Daniel Corujo, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brazil
Roberto Gonzalez, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Wolfgang John, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Eiji Kawai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Wolfgang Kiess, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
Zoltán Lajos Kis, Ericsson, Hungary
Diego Kreuz, University of Lisboa , Portugal
Maciej Kuzniar, EPFL, Switzerland
Luca Prete, Open Networking Laboratory (ON.LAB), USA
Milosz Przywecki, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Yang Song, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Marc Sune, Berlin Institute for Software Defined Networks GmbH, Germany
Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan
Samir Tohmé, PRISM Laboratory - University of Versailles, France
Jozef Wozniak, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland

(to be completed)

Publishing Information:

Published by IARIA XPS Press

Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

ISBN: 978-1-61208-398-8


Submit a Paper:

First, fill out the submission form with information about your paper. Please, fill it out only once for each paper, and do not resubmit it. Contact the address below if you run into any difficulties.

As the designated correspondence author, you will then receive a first e-mail message containing the paper ID. The information in the email will allow you to submit your paper.

If you have some problems send your paper via this e-mail (please report your paper ID in the text of your mail AND the name of the conference).

The conference staff will contact you only if the paper does not print properly or has other problems.

You can change information about your paper, submit brief corrections, view an email trail, and even edit your personal information by following the link in the initial confirmation email.

Touristic Information:

Touristic information is available from the hosting conference, ICN 2015.

Hotels and Travel:

Hotels and travel information is available from the hosting conference page, ICN 2015.

Tutorials:

Tutorials are available from the hosting conference page, ICN 2015.

Preliminary Program:

Preliminary program is available from the hosting conference page, ICN 2015.

Camera Ready:

The link below contains the details on how to upload the final version of your paper to the publisher. The upload should be done after registering your article via the Registration Form.

Publication Site for SOFTNETWORKING 2015

Article publication details are in the Call for Papers, namely "Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost". The costs of additional pages are on the Registration Form.

If you have any questions about the paper upload process, please contact the proceedings production editor, Mike.

Registration Form:

Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. The student rate is the lowest registration rate listed in the registration form.

One registration form covers the registration of the paper and the participation of one presenter. If an author has two (or more) accepted papers, each paper must be registered paid for with a separate form.

Every participant must register separately: if two co-authors attend, each of them has to register

Support letters for entry visa will only be issued to attendees who have successfully paid their registration fees in full.

 

Registration form:

The registration form can be found here.

Note: If you attend but do not have a paper to present, use paper number "guest" in the registration form.

Note: For any registration related questions, please contact annemarie@vicov.com or by fax at 1-302-397-2096

Note: For questions or requests related to entry visa support letters, please contact annemarie@vicov.com or by fax at 1-302-397-2096

Note: For a group registration rate at the conference hotel, you can use this form. The booking is done directly to the hotel by the attendee; hotel contact information is on the form. If this is not a suitable option, you can book any hotel you decide.

 

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During IARIA events, photos and recordings may be made. By registering to and/or attending IARIA events, you consent to allow IARIA to make and distribute such material for informational, publicity, promotional and/or reporting purposes in print or electronic media.

Video recording of presentations by attendees are not allowed without written permission from IARIA and the on-site OK of the presenter.

Copyrighted presentation material may be photographed or copied for personal use only, not for reproduction or distribution. Material labeled confidential or proprietary may not be photographed or copied.

Presence:

If for unforeseen reasons physical presence at the conference location is not  possible, proceedings will not be mailed as the articles are freely available from ThinkMind digital library, www.thinkmind.org

Statistics:

Statistics are available from the hosting conference page, ICN 2015.

Photos:

Photos are available from the hosting conference page, ICN 2015.

Awards:

Awards are available from the hosting conference page, ICN 2015.

 
 

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