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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">**********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Special Issue of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> International Journal on Network Management (IJNM) on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Security for Emerging Open Networking Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submission deadline: March 31st, 2017 (extended)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Publication: September 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">**********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Emerging open networking technologies and paradigms, such as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(NFV), and programmable networks, are reshaping the way networks are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">designed, deployed, and managed. The benefits are manifold, including<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">an unprecedented flexibility for network operation and management, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">a favorable environment for delivering innovative network applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and services. However, this paradigm shift brings a multitude of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">security challenges that have to be addressed in order to provide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">secure, trustworthy, and privacy-preserving data communication and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">network services. Addressing these challenges may require not only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">revisiting existing solutions (e.g., for intrusion detection, privacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">preserving, and resilience against attacks), but also designing novel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">security and resilience schemes tailored to the specific design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">of open networking technologies and infrastructures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">----------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Topics of Interest:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This special issue of the International Journal of Network Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">aims to put focus on the state-of-the-art advances, contributions and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">solutions to security-related challenges arising with emergent open<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">networking technologies. We seek new and unpublished contributions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">addressing issues in the Security for Emerging Open Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Technologies including, but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Secure and resilient design and deployment of open networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Privacy-preserving solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security models and threats<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security and privacy properties and policies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Verification and enforcement of security properties<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Trust and identity management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- NFV-based security functions and services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security of software-defined infrastructures, protocols
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and interfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security and availability management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security for Internet of Things<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Intrusion detection, tolerance, and prevention<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Network forensics and auditing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Detection and resilience against large-scale distributed attacks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security of programmable components<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security-related business and legal aspects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security challenges and trends for open networking technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">----------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2017 (extended)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Author Notification: May 15th, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Revision Deadline: July 1st, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Final Decision: August 1st, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Camera Ready: August 15th, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Publication: September 1st, 201<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">----------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Guest Editors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Carol Fung, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Mohamed Faten Zhani, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Weverton Cordeiro, UFRGS, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Jérôme François, Inria Nancy Grand Est, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">----------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Author Instructions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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