The emergence of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) as two pillars of a new networking paradigm has led to design and deployment of elastic content- and service-delivery virtual networks on cloud-based data centres whose backbones consist of software-defined substrate physical networks. This dynamic, multi-layer architecture for network functions introduces new challenges in maintaining performance and quality of service for service providers, and requires new ideas and frameworks in performance measurement and network management. This workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers from software-defined ecosystems to identify and discuss technical challenges, state of the art techniques, and contemporary results related to performance analysis of SDN and NFV environments. Submissions are welcomed on a variety of topics including but not limited to:
- Performance models for virtualized environments
- Performance metrics in virtualized environments
- Performance measurement in virtualized environments
- Quality of Service and Quality of Experience in cloud-based networks
- Content distribution in virtualized environments and software-defined networks
- Resource-aware virtualisation and infrastructure as a service
- Management of software-defined ecosystems
- Service provider requirements
- SDN/NFV Performance in Context of 5G
- Performance of SDN data, control, and management planes
- Design and assessment of efficient SDN northbound/southbound interfaces
- Performance of multi-controller SDN deployments
- Service function chaining performance evaluation
- Performance of NFV orchestration solutions
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Approaches relavant to SDN and/or NFV
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Analysis of SDN and/or NFV systems
- SDN/NFV in Context of BlockChains, and FinTech
- Quantum devices and hybrid networks, quantum communications, QKD-compatible SDN
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers prepared using IEEE 2-column conference style with no more than 6 pages including figures and references. All the accepted papers need to be presented at the workshop. They will be included in the workshop proceedings as well as IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Paper submission: March 16, 2018 March 23, 2018 (firm deadline)
Acceptance notification: April 6, 2018
Camera-ready submission: April 20, 2018
Submission guidelines
The paper should be prepared using IEEE 2-column conference style (IEEE paper Template) with no more than 6 pages including figures and references.The PDF version of the paper should be then submitted using the official submission page: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3010