[aims-announce] CFP - IJNM Special Issue on Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for Flexible Network Management
David Hausheer
hausheer at ps.tu-darmstadt.de
Thu Mar 12 09:03:55 CET 2015
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management (IJNM)
Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for
Flexible Network Management
Publication: January 2016
Scope of the Special Issue
Economical and operational aspects motivate the demand for fundamental
changes towards more flexible management solutions. This trend is
stimulated by Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
(SDN) that emerged in recent years. These technologies allow networks
to be run in a more flexible and cost efficient manner. As an emerging
topic, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) allows even further
flexibility by migrating network functions (e.g., DHCP, PPPoE,
Firewalls, DPI, SBCs) from dedicated hardware to virtual machines
running on commodity hardware. Virtualized network functions are
appealing to network operators since they can be migrated and flexibly
adapted to current demands.
The newly achieved flexibility in network management, particularly for
NFV, opens a set of currently unresolved key questions concerning i)
function placement, ii) service orchestration iii), reliability and iv)
performance. How to operate virtualized network functions in a reliable
manner by providing redundancy and load balancing? Can virtualized
network functions provide performance guarantees required for network
operations and how can such virtualized services be benchmarked and
compared? Where should network functions be placed to optimize the
network subject to different design criteria? How can services be
orchestrated? How can network monitoring in such flexible networks be
used to dynamically manage them?
This special issue aims at addressing these and related questions in
virtualized networks. Contributions to the following topics are of
specific interest, but are not limited to:
- SDN/NFV architectures and applications
- Monitoring and QoE management in virtualized networks
- Advanced content placement in virtualized networks
- Business considerations and economic aspects
- Network Operating Systems and Languages
- SDN in Mobile and Wireless Networks
- SDN/NFV Resource allocation algorithms
- Reliability of virtualized network functions
- SDN/NFV-based service orchestration
- SDN/NFV-based network deployment and management
- Security Management in SDN/NFV-based systems
- Theoretical foundations of SDN/NFV networks
- Construction and deployment of Service Function Chains
- Fault correlation and diagnosis in virtualized networks
Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit their papers in PDF format only to
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem
Paper submissions should not exceed 20 pages (double-space). Author
instructions are available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal
/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/ForAuthors.html and the respective
LaTeX template can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal
/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. In case of acceptance, the final
and camera-ready version has to take into account comments of reviewers
and needs to follow the template’s requirements.
Important Deadlines
- Submission Deadline: June 30, 2015
- Notification of Acceptance: Aug 31, 2015
- Final Version: Oct 15, 2015
- Publication: Jan 2016
Submissions in PDF format only to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem
Guest Editors
* Theophilus Benson, Duke University, USA
tbenson at cs.duke.edu
* David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt
hausheer at ps.tu-darmstadt.de
* Oliver Hohlfeld, RWTH Aachen
oliver at comsys.rwth-aachen.de
* Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
zinner at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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Prof. Dr. David Hausheer
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology
Rundeturmstr. 12, Building S3/19, Room 3
64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone: +49 6151 16 4280
Fax: +49 6151 16 6152
E-Mail: hausheer at ps.tu-darmstadt.de
Web: http://www.ps.tu-darmstadt.de/
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