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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;padding-right:70.85pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>IEEE NetSoft 2017</b></span></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;padding-right:70.85pt;"><i>The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization</i></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;padding-right:70.85pt;">3-7 July 2017, Bologna, Italy</div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;padding-right:70.85pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">"<b><i>Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-connected World: en route to 5G</i></b>"</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2017) will be held July 3 to 7, 2017 at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy. IEEE NetSoft is the flagship conference
of the IEEE SDN Initiative which aims to address “Softwarization" of networks and systemic trends concerning the convergence of Cloud Computing, Software-Defined Networks, and Network Function Virtualization. </div>
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<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">*** <b>Scope</b> ***</div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">The telecommunications landscape will change radically in the next few years. Pervasive ultra-broadband, programmable networks, and cost reduction of IT systems are paving the way to new services
and commoditization of telecommunications infrastructure while lowering entrance barriers for new players and giving rise to new value chains. </div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">While this results in considerable challenges for service providers, this transformation also brings unprecedented opportunities for the Digital Society and the Digital Economy related to emerging
new services and applications. Examples include Tactile Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, Cloud Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. 5G will both exploit and accelerate this transformation. </div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">NetSoft 2017 aims to capture the theme of "<i>Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-connected World: en route to 5G</i>" and serve as forum for researchers to discuss the latest advances in this
area. </div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">NetSoft 2017 will feature technical paper, keynotes, tutorials, and demos and exhibits from world-leading experts representing operators, vendors, research institutes, open source projects,
and academia.</div>
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<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;"><b>*** Topics of interests</b> ***</div>
<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into the area of software- defined and virtualized infrastructures. </div>
<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</div>
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<ul style="text-align:justify;margin:0 70.85pt 0 0;padding-left:35.45pt;">
<li>SDN and NFV as enabling technologies for 5G</li><li>From Cloud Computing to Edge-Fog Computing</li><li>5G Functional Decomposition and Infrastructure slicing</li><li>5G sustainable ecosystems: IoT, Industry 4.0, Pervasive Robotics, </li><li>Self-driving vehicles, Tactile Internet, Immersive Communications, Artificial Intelligence applications</li><li>Software Defined infrastructures for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) network services</li></ul>
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<li>Service Function Chaining for NFV: Modeling, composition algorithms, deployment</li><li>Intent-based interfacing for NFV</li><li>SDN/NFV Network & Service Orchestration and Management</li><li>Management of federated SDN/NFV infrastructure and frameworks</li><li>Real time operations and efficient network/service monitoring in SDN/NFV</li></ul>
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<li>Performance, reliability and scalability issues in NFV implementation scenarios</li><li>Traffic Engineering and QoS/QoE in SDN/NFV</li><li>APIs, protocols and languages for programmable networks and </li><li>Software-Defined Infrastructure</li><li>SDN switch/router architectures/designs</li><li>SDN/NFV issues and opportunities for security, trust and privacy</li><li>Experience reports from experimental testbeds and deployment </li><li>Softwarized platforms for Internet-of-Things (IoT)</li><li>New value chains and business models</li></ul>
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<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">*** <b>Call for Submissions</b> ***</div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">NetSoft 2017 will feature technical paper presentations, tutorials, demos and exhibitions from world-leading service providers, vendors, research institutes, open source projects, and academia.
Additionally, topical workshops will be co-located so various call for proposals are issued. Deadlines are as follows:</div>
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<li><b>December 5, 2016: </b><i>Technical Papers </i></li><li><b>December 15, 2016: </b><i>Workshop Proposals</i></li><li><b>January 15, 2017: </b><i>Tutorial Proposals </i> </li><li><b>February 15, 2017: </b><i>Demo Proposals </i> </li><li><b>March 15, 2017: </b>Exhibition Proposals</li></ul>
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<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">*** <b>Paper Submission</b> ***</div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original papers not published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers can
be of two types: full (up to 9 pages) or short (up to 5 pages) papers. Full Papers accepted as short Papers will be required to be reduced to 5-pages length. Papers should be in IEEE 2-column US-Letter style using IEEE Conference template</div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;"> (<a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</u></font></a>)
and submitted in PDF format via JEMS at:</div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;"> <a href="https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2657"><font color="blue"><u>https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2657</u></font></a>. </div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All submitted papers will be subject to a peer-review process. </div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:70.85pt;">Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.</div>
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<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">*** <b>Important dates for Main Track</b>***</div>
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<li>Paper submission deadline: <b>December 5, 2016</b> </li><li>Acceptance notification: <b>March 6, 2017</b> </li><li>Full Conference Paper: <b>April 10, 2017</b></li><li>Author registration: <b>April 10, 2017</b> </li><li>Early-Bird Registration: <b>May 30, 2017</b></li></ul>
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<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">*** <b>General Co-Chairs</b> ***</div>
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<li><b>Antonio Manzalini</b>, <i>Telecom Italia</i><i> Mobile</i>, Italy</li><li><b>Roberto Verdone</b>, <i>University of Bologna</i>, Italy</li></ul>
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<div style="padding-right:70.85pt;">*** <b>TPC Co-Chairs</b> ***</div>
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<li><b>Franco Callegati</b>, <i>University of Bologna</i>, Italy</li><li><b>Alexander Clemm</b>, <i>Sympotech</i>, USA</li><li><b>Kohei Shiomoto</b>, <i>NTT Labs</i>, Japan</li></ul>
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<div>*** <b>Steering Committee Chair</b> ***</div>
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<li><b>Prosper Chemouil</b>, <i>Orange Labs</i>, France</li><li> </li></ul>
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