NetSoft 2021 - 7th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization

***Scope***
Over the years, software has become the core value provider in the
telecommunications industry. Boosted by scientific breakthroughs,
continuous innovation and stringent requirements for new services,
network softwarization is currently transforming telecommunications and
networking industry and is bringing several opportunities, while raising
new challenges, from both conceptual and operational perspectives. To
move ahead cognitive network softwarization, NetSoft 2021 will serve as
a forum to discuss the latest advances in network softwarization
technologies, AI-based software-defined networks, autonomic networking,
intent/policy-based network management, network slicing, and other
related research areas that are anticipated to radically transform
today’s networks. The need for further advances in these topics is
reflected in the overall theme of NetSoft 2021: “Accelerating Network
Softwarization in the Cognitive Age”.
NetSoft 2021 will feature technical paper presentations, keynotes,
tutorials, workshops, demos, and exhibitions from world-leading experts
representing service providers, vendors, research institutes, open
source projects, and academia.
***Topics of Interest***
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Programmable SDN and NFV: languages and architectures
- Softwarized cloud, fog, and edge infrastructures
- Cognitive and autonomic networking
- AI techniques to support network automation
- Big data analytics for managing softwarized networks
- Network slicing and slice management
- Mobility management in softwarized networks
- Policy-based and intent-based Networking
- Centralized vs distributed control, management & orchestration
- Abstractions and virtualization of resources, services and functions
- Service Function Chaining
- Container/microservice-based network functions
- Efficient network/service monitoring in SDN/NFV
- QoS and QoE in softwarized infrastructures
- Resilience, reliability, and robustness of softwarized networks
- Network softwarization for 5G
- Network management at the edge for low-latency services
- Cooperative multi-domain, multi-tenant SDN/NFV environments
- Security, Safety, Trust and Privacy in virtualized environments
- SDN switch/router architecture and design
- Dynamic resource discovery and negotiation schemes
- Lifecycle management of network software
- DevOps methodologies for network softwarization
- Debugging and introspection of software-defined systems
- Softwarized platforms for Internet of Things (IoT)
- Energy-efficient and green software-defined infrastructures (SDI)
- Transition strategies from existing networks to SDN/NFV
- New value chains and service models enabled by softwarization
- Socio-economic impact and regulations for softwarization
- Experience reports from experimental testbeds and deployments
***Paper Submission***
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original
technical papers for presentation at the conference and publication in
the NetSoft 2021 Proceedings. All submissions must be written in English
and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template that can be
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