NGNS 2014 - Next-Generation Networking Symposium

To ensure complete coverage of the advances in this field, the Next Generation Networking Symposium solicits original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas:
? Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
? Software Defined Networking (SDN)
? Software Defined Radio (SDR)
? Overlay networks and peer-to-peer networking
? Network and service virtualization
? Cloud-based networking
? Mobile cloud
? Centralized-RAN and CPRI architectures
? Network sharing mechanisms
? Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services
? Flow management: resource sharing, congestion control, etc.
? Routing: unicast, multicast, anycast, etc (wireless, wireline)
? Multihoming, network planning and optimization
? Addressing and naming, especially in the presence of mobility and portability
? Operational and research issues with IPv6
? VoIP protocols and services
? Self-protecting networking
? Switch and router architectures, performance, control, buffer
management, packet scheduling
? Network management methodologies and control plane design
? Internet survivability and network resilience strategies
? Mechanisms for self-organization and autonomous networking
? Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling, visualization, and
engineering
? Anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection/prevention
? Policy based mechanisms and high-speed firewall technology
? Packet classification and forwarding mechanisms at ultra-high link
rates (terabits)
? High speed and parallel processing architectures for next generation routers
? Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain networks, wireless-wireline internetworking
? Connecting mobile/wireless devices to the Internet
? Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency
? Internet of Things, M2M, MTC
? Mobile/wireless content distribution
? Internet applications including interactive media, voice and video, games, immersive applications
? Internet signaling and service enabling protocols, including SIP, NSIS, HTTP, RTSP/RTP, etc.
? Privacy and/or security issues and intrusion detection/prevention in the Internet
? Design methodologies for Internet services
? Internet economics, pricing models, accounting, Internet growth modeling
? IP multimedia subsystem: architecture and design