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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">| Call for Papers, Tutorials, Workshops and Demos |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">| |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">| IEEE NetSoft 2018 |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">| The 4th IEEE International Conference on |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">| Network Softwarization |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">| “Achieving smart network softwarization” |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">| 25-29 June 2018, Montreal, Canada |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://ieee-netsoft.org">http://ieee-netsoft.org</a> |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 4th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">will be held on June 25-29, 2018 at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">IEEE NetSoft has been created as a flagship conference aiming at addressing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">"Softwarization" of networks and systemic trends concerning the convergence
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">of Cloud Computing, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and Network Function<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Virtualization (NFV). IEEE Netsoft is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Communications Society and the IEEE Computer Society.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Scope<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The telecommunications landscape is expected to change radically in the next<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">few years. Pervasive ultra-broadband, programmable networks, and cost reduction
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">of IT systems are paving the way to new services and commoditization of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">telecommunications infrastructure while lowering entrance barriers for new players
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">and giving rise to new value chains. While this results in considerable challenges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">for service providers, this transformation also brings unprecedented opportunities
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">for the Digital Society and the Digital Economy related to emerging new services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">and applications. Examples include Tactile Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, Cloud
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. 5G will both accelerate and exploit this huge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">transformation, and as such, smart networking with embedded AI techniques leveraging
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">NFV and SDN becomes essential. This will be made possible through the exploitation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">of massive network data with analytic tools and machine learning, allowing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">for proactive management of softwarized infrastructures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">This trend will be reflected in NetSoft 2018 in the various topics of interest under
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">the theme "Achieving smart network softwarization" and the conference will serve as
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">a forum to discuss the latest advances in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Topics of interest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">NetSoft 2018 will feature technical paper presentations, keynotes, tutorials, demos
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">and exhibitions from world-leading experts representing service providers, vendors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">research institutes, open source projects, and academia. Additionally, topical work-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">shops will be co-located so various call for proposals are issued. The topics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Programmable SDN and NFV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Softwarized cloud, fog, and edge infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Cognitive and autonomic networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Network slicing and slice management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Policy-Based Networking and Intent-Based Networking in Software-Defined
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""> Infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Centralized vs Distributed control, management & orchestration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Abstractions and virtualization of resources, services, and functions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Service function chaining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Container/microservice-based network functions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Real-time operations and efficient network/service monitoring in SDN/NFV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Analytics and big data approaches for managing softwarized networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- QoS and QoE in softwarized infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Resilience, reliability, and robustness of softwarized networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Mobility/Security/Safety/Trust support in virtualized environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- SDN switch/router architecture and design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- APIs, protocols, and languages for programmable networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Lifecycle management of network software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Debugging and introspection of software-defined virtualized systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Transition strategies from existing networks to SDN/NFV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Softwarized platforms for Internet of Things (IoT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- New service models and paradigms enabled by softwarization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- New value chains and business models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Socio-economic impact and regulatory implications for softwarization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Energy efficient and green SDI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Experience reports from experimental testbeds and deployments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Call for Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">This trend will be reflected in NetSoft 2018 in the various topics of interest under
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Researchers are invited to submit technical papers, tutorial, demo and workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">proposals that fall into the conference's topics of interest. Deadlines are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- December 1, 2017 : Technical Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- December 15, 2017: Workshop Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- January 15, 2018 : Tutorial Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- May 4, 2018 : Demo Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the conference
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">For more details about submission format and procedure, please check
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://ieee-netsoft.org/authors">http://ieee-netsoft.org/authors</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">General Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">TPC Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Imen Grida Ben Yahia, Orange Labs, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Workshop Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Alex Galis, UCL, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Abdelkader Lahmadi, University of Lorraine, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Tutorial Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Daniel Migault, Ericsson Research, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Demo Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jérôme François, Inria, France
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Rashid Mijumbi, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jeebak Mitra, Huawei, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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