[aims-announce] CFP - IJNM - Special Issue on Management of SDN/NFV-based Systems - Deadline: January 1, 2017

[Remi Badonnel]

CALL FOR PAPERS

*Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management (IJNM)**
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**Management of SDN/NFV-based Systems*

*Submission deadline: January 1, 2017**
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Scope of the Special Issue

Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides a new approach to manage 
network services in a flexible manner, by separating the control and 
data planes. In addition, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a 
new concept of network architecture that virtualizes traditional network 
functions (mobile services, CDNs, firewalls) and builds network services 
by interconnecting these virtualized functions. These new technologies 
bring the promise of enabling flexible management solutions, but they 
also introduce interesting challenges to the realization of efficient 
network management. For this special issue, we welcome submissions 
addressing these challenges (e.g. in the areas listed below, but are not 
limited to) and presenting novel research or experimentation results.

- Management of software-defined infrastructures
- Virtualization of resources, functions, and services
- Automated deployment and orchestration of service function chains
- APIs and management protocols for software-defined environments
- Monitoring and configuration of SDN/NFV-based systems
- Fault management, verification and debugging
- Algorithms for resource management and optimization
- Resiliency and performance management
- Security management, attacks and defense techniques
- Economic, legal and regulative issues
- Policy-based management in SDN/NFV-based systems
- Smart and autonomic mechanisms for softwarized infrastructures
- Management of federated SDN/NFV-based environments
- Computing, content and software as a network-centric service
- Management strategies for cloud and fog computing environments
- SDN/NFV management for cyber-physical systems and IoT
- Virtualization of radio network functions
- SDN/NFV management in 5G scenarios
- Experience reports from management in experimental test-beds

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 
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/%28ISSN%291099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm>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 versions have to take into account comments of 
reviewers and need to follow the template’s requirements.

Important Deadlines

- Submission Deadline: January 1, 2017
- Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2017
- Final Version: June 15, 2017
- Publication: July 1, 2017

Submissions in PDF format only to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem

Guest Editors

- Remi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy, LORIA/INRIA, France
- Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Tokushima University, Japan
- Daphne Tuncer, University College London, UK
- Sejun Song, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

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