Subject: [Sdn] Call for papers : IJNM Special Issue on SDN/NFV

From: Yaakov Stein <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 08:25:18 +0000

IJNM Special Issue on SDN/NFV

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management (IJNM)

on Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for Flexible Network Management

Publication: January 2016

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2015

Scope of the Special Issue

Economical and operational aspects motivate the demand for fundamental changes towards more flexible management solutions. This trend is stimulated by Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (SDN) that emerged in recent years. These technologies allow networks to be run in a more flexible and cost efficient manner. As an emerging topic, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) allows even further flexibility by migrating network functions (e.g., DHCP, PPPoE, Firewalls, DPI, SBCs) from dedicated hardware to virtual machines running on commodity hardware. Virtualized network functions are appealing to network operators since they can be migrated and flexibly adapted to current demands.

The newly achieved flexibility in network management, particularly for NFV, opens a set of currently unresolved key questions concerning i) function placement, ii) service orchestration iii), reliability and iv) performance. How to operate virtualized network functions in a reliable manner by providing redundancy and load balancing? Can virtualized network functions provide performance guarantees required for network operations and how can such virtualized services be benchmarked and compared? Where should network functions be placed to optimize the network subject to different design criteria? How can services be orchestrated? How can network monitoring in such flexible networks be used to dynamically manage them?

This special issue aims at addressing these and related questions in virtualized networks. Contributions to the following topics are of specific interest, but are not limited to:

• SDN/NFV architectures and applications

• Monitoring and QoE management in virtualized networks

• Advanced content placement in virtualized networks

• Business considerations and economic aspects

• Network Operating Systems and Languages

• SDN in Mobile and Wireless Networks

• SDN/NFV Resource allocation algorithms

• Reliability of virtualized network functions

• SDN/NFV-based service orchestration

• SDN/NFV-based network deployment and Management

• Security Management in SDN/NFV-based systems

• Theoretical foundations of SDN/NFV networks

• Construction and deployment of Service Function Chains

• Fault correlation and diagnosis in virtualized networks

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit their papers in PDF format only to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem

Paper submissions should not exceed 20 pages (double-space).

Author instructions are available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/ForAuthors.html and the respective LaTeX template can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. In case of acceptance, the final and camera-ready version has to take into account comments of reviewers and needs to follow the template’s requirements.

Important Deadlines

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2015

Notification of Acceptance: Aug 31, 2015

Final Version: Oct 15, 2015

Publication: Jan 2016

Guest Editors

Theophilus Benson, Duke University, USA

David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt

Oliver Hohlfeld, RWTH Aachen

Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany