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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> IEEE PVE-SDN 2019 Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> on Approaches, Analyses, and Performance Issues in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Virtualized Environments and Software Defined Networking (PVE-SDN)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> June 24, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Colocated with IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> 24-28 June 2019 – Paris, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> http://sites.ieee.org/sagroups-1916-1/ieee-pve-sdn-2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===========================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The emergence of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">virtualization (NFV) as two pillars of a new networking paradigm has led to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">design and deployment of elastic content- and service-delivery virtual
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">networks on cloud-based data centres whose backbones consist of software-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">defined substrate physical networks. This dynamic, multi-layer architecture
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">for network functions introduces new challenges in maintaining performance
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and quality of service for service providers, and requires new ideas and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">frameworks for performance measurement and network management.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">from software-defined ecosystems to identify and discuss technical
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">challenges, state of the art techniques, and contemporary results related
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to performance analysis of SDN and NFV environments. It is supported by the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IEEE P1916.1 working group that was founded in December 2015 with the goal
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">of developing standards for the performance requirements of SDN/NFV-based
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">environments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions are welcome on a variety of topics including but not limited
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Performance models for virtualized environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Performance metrics in virtualized environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Performance measurement in virtualized environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Quality of Service and Quality of Experience in cloud-based networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Content distribution in virtualized environments and software-defined
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Resource-aware virtualisation and infrastructure as a service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Management of software-defined ecosystems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Service provider requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- SDN/NFV Performance in Context of 5G<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Performance of SDN data, control, and management planes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Design and assessment of efficient SDN northbound/southbound interfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Performance of multi-controller SDN deployments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Service function chaining performance evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Performance of NFV orchestration solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Analysis of SDN and/or NFV systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- SDN/NFV in Context of BlockChains, and FinTech<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Quantum devices and hybrid networks, quantum communications,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">QKD-compatible SDN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Prospective authors are invited to submit papers prepared using IEEE
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">2-column conference style with no more than 6 pages including figures and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">references. All the accepted papers need to be presented at the workshop
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The PDF version of the paper should be then submitted using the official
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">submission page: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25706<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===========================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper submission: March 1, 2019 (Extended)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Acceptance notification: March 22, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Camera-ready submission: April 5, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Workshop Date: June 24, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">For more details, please check the workshop website:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">http://sites.ieee.org/sagroups-1916-1/ieee-pve-sdn-2019/
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===========================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">General Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mohammad Asad Rehman Chaudhry, Soptimizer, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hesham ElBakoury, FutureWei, Huawei, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mohamed Faten Zhani, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS Montreal), Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Technical Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Shahram S. Heydari, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Lucia Gradinariu, Zeepabyte, Inc., USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Panel Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Adrian Popescu, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Amir Sheikh, Cox Communications, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Publicity Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Müge Sayit, International Computer Institute, Ege University, Turkey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Zakia Asad, Soptimizer, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Industry Liaison Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Khalid Adnan, Verizon Wireless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Frank Rayal, Xona Partners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Steering Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mohammad Asad Rehman Chaudhry, Soptimizer, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Shahram S. Heydari, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hesham ElBakoury, FutureWei, Huawei, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mohamed Faten Zhani, ÉTS Montreal, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Müge Sayit, International Computer Institute, Ege University, Turkey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Adrian Popescu, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Amir Sheikh, Cox Communications, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Lucia Gradinariu, Zeepabyte, Inc., USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Zakia Asad, Soptimizer, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Khalid Adnan, Verizon Wireless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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