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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2018/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">The Second IEEE international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function
Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2017)</a><span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><span> </span><a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2018/index.php" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems
(SDS-2018)</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"> Barcelona, Spain. April 23-26, 2018<span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:red">(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:red"><span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><u><span></span>Call For Papers:</u><br>
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>
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>
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<span></span></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:14pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Important Dates:</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:red">Submission Date: February 10th, 2018 (Final Extension)<span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Notification to Authors: February 20th, 2018<br>
Camera Ready Submission: March 5th, 2018</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Instructions for Authors</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">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<span></span></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"></span></u><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Journal Special Issues:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><br>
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><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">
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<span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">* Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 2.04) - Springer<br>
* Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal (IF: 1.13) - Wiley</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Please send any inquiry on SDN-NFV to Zilong Ye: <a href="mailto:zye5@calstatela.edu" target="_blank" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">zye5@calstatela.edu</a><span></span></span></p>
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Thanks.<br>
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<p>Zilong Ye, Ph.D.</p>
<p>Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science</p>
<p>California State University, Los Angeles</p>
<p>5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032<br>
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<p>(323)343-6689 | zye5@calstatela.edu<br>
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