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The 1st International Workshop on<br>
Management of SDN and NFV Systems (ManSDN/NFV 2014)<br>
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November 21, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<br>
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The first International Workshop on Management of SDN and NFV
Systems<br>
(ManSDN/NFV 2014) will be held in conjunction with the
International<br>
Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2014) in
Rio de<br>
Janeiro, Brazil, November 17-21, 2014. The workshop is endorsed by
the<br>
IEEE Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management
(CNOM).<br>
<br>
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function
Virtualization<br>
(NFV) are two disruptive paradigms that are shaping the
future<br>
networking landscape. They bring the promise of enabling
flexible<br>
management solutions but they also introduce new challenges to
the<br>
area of network management. Given their related nature, this
workshop<br>
seeks to bring together researchers and industry partners to
present<br>
and discuss interesting research results, ongoing work and
experiences<br>
concerning either or both of these paradigms.<br>
<br>
Authors are invited to submit papers that address the paradigms of
SDN<br>
or NFV in the network management domain. Topics of interest
include,<br>
but are not limited to, the following:<br>
<br>
- Design of architectural building blocks for managing SDN
and NFV<br>
systems<br>
- SDN and NFV APIs and protocols<br>
- Advances in measurement, management, security, accounting,
mobility,<br>
and other functions using SDN or NFV systems<br>
- Virtualization of resources, services and functions in SDN and
NFV<br>
- Management of telco cloud computing infrastructures<br>
- Efficient deployment of Service Function Chains (SFCs)<br>
- Management of federated SDN/NFV infrastructures<br>
- Dynamic migration of network functions in NFV-based systems<br>
- Efficient network and service monitoring for SDN or NFV<br>
- Resource management for SDN or NFV-based systems<br>
- Automated configurations and repair<br>
- Integration of SDN and NFV solutions<br>
- Distributed SDN/NFV control<br>
- Abstractions for programmable network elements<br>
- Computing and software as a network-centric service<br>
- Information exchange between management layers, systems, and<br>
components<br>
- Integrated resource management of network and services<br>
- Virtualization of radio network functions<br>
- Policy management in SDN or NFV systems<br>
- Support for bug free Software Defined Networks<br>
- Results from techno-economic, legal and regulatory studies
driving<br>
the deployment of SDN and NFV technology<br>
- Experience reports from management in experimental testbeds<br>
- Transitioning existing networks to SDN<br>
<br>
Paper Submission:<br>
<br>
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished
research or<br>
experiences. Only original papers not published or
submitted for<br>
publication elsewhere may be submitted. Each submission must be
written<br>
in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 words abstract that
clearly<br>
outlines the scope and contributions of the paper. There is a
length<br>
limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures,
tables,<br>
and references) for regular workshop papers, and 4 pages for
short<br>
papers describing work in progress. Submissions must be in
IEEE 2-<br>
column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without
further<br>
review. Authors should submit their papers via EDAS:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://edas.info/N18171">http://edas.info/N18171</a><br>
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Extended versions of the workshop papers can be submitted to the
IEEE <br>
Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) special
issue on <br>
"Efficient Management of SDN and NFV-based Systems". More
information <br>
about this special issue is available at: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ieee-tnsm.org/index.html">http://ieee-tnsm.org/index.html</a><br>
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Proceedings:<br>
<br>
Papers accepted for ManSDN/NFV 2014 will be included in the
conference<br>
proceedings, IEEE Xplore, IFIP database and EI Index. IFIP and
IEEE<br>
reserve the right to remove any paper from the IFIP database and
IEEE<br>
Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Awards
will be<br>
presented to the best paper and to the best student paper
at the<br>
workshop.<br>
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Important Dates:<br>
<br>
- Paper submission: July 20, 2014<br>
- Notification of acceptance: September 01, 2014<br>
- Final version of papers due: October 01, 2014<br>
- Workshop date: November 21, 2014<br>
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Workshop Co-Chairs:<br>
<br>
- Dorgival Guedes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil<br>
- Liam Fallon, Ericsson, Ireland<br>
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, UK<br>
- Toshio Tonouchi, NEC, Japan<br>
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CNSM Workshop Co-Chairs:<br>
<br>
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University-iMinds, Belgium<br>
- José Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,
Brazil<br>
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