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<p>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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<b>Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management
(IJNM)</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>Management of SDN/NFV-based Systems</b><br>
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Publication: July 2017<br>
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Scope of the Special Issue<br>
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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.<br>
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- Management of software-defined infrastructures<br>
- Virtualization of resources, functions, and services <br>
- Automated deployment and orchestration of service function chains<br>
- APIs and management protocols for software-defined environments<br>
- Monitoring and configuration of SDN/NFV-based systems<br>
- Fault management, verification and debugging<br>
- Algorithms for resource management and optimization<br>
- Resiliency and performance management<br>
- Security management, attacks and defense techniques<br>
- Economic, legal and regulative issues<br>
- Policy-based management in SDN/NFV-based systems<br>
- Smart and autonomic mechanisms for softwarized infrastructures<br>
- Management of federated SDN/NFV-based environments<br>
- Computing, content and software as a network-centric service<br>
- Management strategies for cloud and fog computing environments<br>
- SDN/NFV management for cyber-physical systems and IoT<br>
- Virtualization of radio network functions<br>
- SDN/NFV management in 5G scenarios<br>
- Experience reports from management in experimental test-beds<br>
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Submission Guidelines<br>
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Authors should submit their papers in PDF format only to <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem</a><br>
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Paper submissions should not exceed 20 pages (double-space). <br>
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Author instructions are available <a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-1190/homepage/ForAuthors.html"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/ForAuthors.html</a>
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and the respective LaTeX template can be found at <a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm">
</a><a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm</a><br>
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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.<br>
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Important Deadlines<br>
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- Submission Deadline: January 1, 2017<br>
- Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2017<br>
- Final Version: June 15, 2017<br>
- Publication: July 1, 2017<br>
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Submissions in PDF format only to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem</a><br>
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Guest Editors<br>
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- Remi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy, LORIA/INRIA, France<br>
- Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Tokushima University, Japan<br>
- Daphne Tuncer, University College London, UK<br>
- Sejun Song, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
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