[aims-announce] IEEE TNSM Special Issue on “Advances in Management of Softwarized Networks” - submissions due: March 1, 2017

[Filip De Turck]

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting to the special issue of IEEE Transactions on 
Network and Service Management (TNSM) on "Advances in Management of 
Softwarized Networks". More details are available on: 
http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/cfp/si-amsn
and also described below.
Submission deadline is March, 1st, 2017.

We look forward to your submissions!

Season's Greetings.

Best regards,
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Wolfgang Kellerer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Kohei Shiomoto, NTT, Japan
Rafael Pasquini, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Filip De Turck, Ghent University-imec, Belgium


CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on "Advances in Management of Softwarized Networks"
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (indexed in Web of 
Science - Thomson Reuters)
        -- http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/cfp/si-amsn --

          * Paper submission date: March 1, 2017
          * Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2017
          * Publication date: December 1, 2017 (*)

(*) the online published version will be available with final DOI in 
IEEE Xplore as soon as the camera ready version has been submitted.

The softwarization of networks is enabled by the SDN (Software Defined 
Networking), NV (Network Virtualization), and NFV (Network Function 
Virtualization) paradigms and offers many advantages for network 
operators, service providers and datacenter providers. Given the strong 
interest in both industry and academia in the softwarization of 
telecommunication networks and cloud computing infrastructures, this 
special issue aims at the timely publication of recent innovative 
research results on this important topic.
In an earlier special issue on this topic in IEEE Transactions on 
Network and Service Management, published in September 2016, the main 
reported research contributions were: SDN control planes optimizations, 
improvements of OpenFlow network traffic balancing and resilience, SDN 
traffic management optimizations, novel virtual network embedding 
algorithms, including algorithms for reliable embedding, efficient NFV 
resource management and advanced platforms for management of softwarized 
network systems. There are many more interesting challenges currently 
being addressed by the research community, which aim at efficient 
management of softwarized networks and the ability to use them to their 
full potential.
We welcome submissions addressing the important challenges (cfr. the 
non-exhaustive list of topics below) and presenting novel research or 
experimentation results. Survey papers that offer an original 
perspective on related work and identify key challenges for future 
research in a novel area will be considered as well.
We look forward to your submissions!

Topics of interest for this special issue, include, but are not limited 
to the following:
- Design of architectural building blocks for managing virtualized 
software-defined systems
- Management of SDIs (Software-Defined Infrastructures)
- Resource management for SDN or NFV-based systems
- Real-time management of softwarized networks
- SDN control planes optimizations
- Security management for SDN and NFV-based systems
- Network Softwarization for 5G
- Wireless Software Defined Networks
- Softwarized edge cloud and fog computing infrastructures
- Management and control of service function chains (SFCs)
- Composition algorithms and automated deployment for SFCs
- Algorithms for efficient orchestration
- Dynamic migration of network functions in NFV-based systems
- Management of software-defined datacenters
- Efficient network and service monitoring for SDN or NFV
- Data analytics for softwarized network and service management
- Automated configuration and repair of virtualized software-defined systems
- Algorithms for diagnosis and correlation of events in SDN or NFV-based 
systems
- Availability and resilience of virtualized software-defined systems
- Protection and restoration in SDN/NFV Networks
- Dynamic resource scaling based on user mobility in SDN and NFV-based 
systems
- Management of federated SDN/NFV infrastructures
- Policy based management in SDN or NFV systems
- Debugging and introspection of software-defined virtualized systems
- Detailed experience reports from experimental testbeds
- Transition strategies from existing networks to SDN/NFV

Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, 
relevance and contribution to the field of management of 
software-defined virtualized systems, as well as their overall quality 
and suitability for the special issue. The submitted papers must be 
written in a good English and describe original research which has not 
been published nor currently under review by other journals or 
conferences. Previously published conference papers should be clearly 
identified by the authors at the initial submission stage and an 
explanation should be provided of how such papers have been extended in 
order to be considered for this special issue.

**Submission guidelines**
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted 
through the IEEE ManuscriptCentral service located at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnsm
Authors must indicate in the submission cover letter that their 
manuscript is intended for the "Advances in Management of Softwarized 
Networks" special issue.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

*Guest editors*
* Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
* Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Wolfgang Kellerer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
* Kohei Shiomoto, NTT, Japan
* Rafael Pasquini, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
* Filip De Turck, Ghent University-imec, Belgium