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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black">The Second international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black">(SDN-NFV 2017)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black">In conjunction with The Fifth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2018)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black"> Barcelona, Spain. April 23-26, 2018</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black"> <span> <wbr> </span><a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2018/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk124565" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:blue">http://<wbr>emergingtechnet.org/SDN-<wbr>NFV2018/</span></a></span></p>
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Call For Papers:<br>
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The emerging networking techniques such as Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are promising a complete paradigm shift in how we manage our future networks. With their enormous benefits which include reducing the operational
cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements, the adoption of such technologies is gaining momentum. Supported by a well-defined basis such as network virtualization and the decoupling of the data and control planes, the integration
of SDN and NFV with current systems might be a straightforward process. However, this might incur many challenges which require deep analysis to propose creative solutions. In the (SDN-NFV 2018) workshop, we are aiming to invite researchers from both the academia
and the industry to present their state of the art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field.<br>
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The Second International workshop on Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications
in the areas of SDN, NFV, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of SDN and NFV management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported SDN and
NFV, to mention but few.<br>
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The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:<br>
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Software Defined Network (SDN) Architectures and Design<br>
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Architectures and Design<br>
SDN-NFV Integration<br>
SDN-NFV Orchestration<br>
SDN-NFV Based Control plane design<br>
SDN-NFV Based Data plane design<br>
SDN-NFV Performance Management<br>
SDN-NFV support for Cloud based DataCenter<br>
SDN-NFV support for 5G Networks<br>
SDN-NFV support for Internet of Things (IoT)<br>
SDN-NFV support for Big Data Computing<br>
SDN-NFV support for large scale storage system<br>
Hardware system design for SDN-NFV<br>
SDN-NFV Security management<br>
Radio Access Network virtualization<br>
SDN-NFV in access networks<br>
Edge and Fog Computing<br>
Cloud Computing<br>
Case studies
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black"> </span><u><span style="font-size:14pt; color:black">Important Dates:</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Submission Date: January 6th. 2018
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Notification to Authors: February 20th, 2018<br>
Camera Ready Submission: March 5th, 2018</span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black">Instructions for Authors</span></u><u></u></p>
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Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 6 pages, strictly following the IEEE Proceedings Templates. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the conference. The papers that
are accepted and presented at the conference will appear in conference proceedings and will be submitted for IEEE. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and that every workshop participant must register and present the paper.
Please submit your paper in PDF format via the electronic submission system
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<span style="font-size:12.8px">Selected papers from the will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme.</span>
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<div><font size="2">* Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 2.04) - Springer<br>
* Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal (IF: 1.13) - Wiley</font></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:black">Please send any inquiry on SDN-NFV to Zilong Ye: <a href="mailto:zye5@calstatela.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">zye5@calstatela.edu</span></a></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"></span></b></p>
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