ISSN: 2308-4413
ISBN: 978-1-61208-625-5

• Registered: with the Library of Congress of the United States of America (ISSN)
• Free Access: in ThinkMind Digital Library

SOFTNETWORKING 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of NexComm 2018 Congress:

• ICDT 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications
• SPACOMM 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications
• ICN 2018, The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks
• SOFTNETWORKING 2018, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization
• ICONS 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Systems
• MMEDIA 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Multimedia
• PESARO 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications
• CTRQ 2018, The Eleventh International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service
• COCORA 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Cognitive Radio
• ALLDATA 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data
• KESA 2018, The International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Annotation
• SOFTENG 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering

SOFTNETWORKING 2018 tracks:

• Software Defined Networking (SDN): concepts, challenges  and architectures
• Control and Management in SDN; Network Operating Systems (NOS, ONOS) and virtualization in SDNs
• Network Function Virtualization concepts, challenges  and architectures   (NFV, OPNFV)
• SDN and NFV cooperation
• SDN and NFV standardization
• OpenDaylight (goals, platforms, interfaces and applications), OpenStack and SDN
• SDN Controllers design and implementation
• SDN Forwarding Elements design and implementation
• OpenFlow and Southbound Protocols
• Application programming interfaces for SDN
• Forwarding plane abstractions, programmability, languages
• Verification techniques and tools for SDN and NFV
• Performance evaluation, optimization and isolation of the Data and Control Planes
• SDN applications and use cases:
• Data-center/ clouds/ BigData
• Service Provider Networks: dynamic service chaining, optical networks and transport, cellular/mobile, traffic management, resources and QoS management, WANs/carrier networks and support for clouds, virtualization of  aggregation networks
• Enterprise, home, sensors networks
• Software Defined Wireless Networks (SDWN)
• SDN in mobile and 5G networks
• SDN controlled vehicular networks
• Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M communications
• NFV applications and use cases
  • Home environment
  • Mobile Core&IMS, mobile base stations
  • Fixed access networks
  • CDNs
  • NFVIaaS, VNFaaS, VNPaaS, VNF Forwarding Graphs
• Reliability, resiliency and fault management in SDN and NFV
• Security and  privacy and in SDN and NFV
• Data and Control Plane scalability, inter-operability
• Autonomic (self) management technologies in SDN and NFV
• SDN/NFV architecture versus Content delivery and oriented networks, Information Centric Networking
• Operators and Service Providers business and deployment perspective on SDN and NFV
• Planning and Deployment of SDN/NFV technologies and applications in operational networks

Deadlines:

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).