VMS 2014 - International Workshop on Virtualized Multimedia Services (VMS2014)

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) are emerging paradigms that aim at increasing the flexibility of network infrastructures. The first playground for these innovative solutions were cloud datacenters, due to the compelling need of addressing the challenges raised by the management of large numbers of virtualized resources in multitenant environments.
However, SDN and NFV will also play a role in core, access and customer networks, as the growing interest of Telecom operators for such technologies demonstrate. For example ETSI's document on NFV use cases lists Customer Premises Equipments (CPEs) and Provider Edge routers (PEs) as possible targets for the implementation of NFV, as well as other uses of NFV for virtualizing network functions in core networks (e.g. EPC) and IMS.
By making the network controllable by logically centralized software entities, SDN aims at playing a key role for enabling the creation of virtualized network infrastructures on-demand (a feature usually referred to as Network-as-a-Service, NaaS). The proper combination of these concepts will lead to virtualization of IMS functions, as well as to the virtualization of Home Networks and of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
This Workshop aims at collecting and present recent developments and trends in the area of Virtualized Multimedia Services, i.e. multimedia services offered to residential or mobile users through the adoption of SDN and/or NFV solutions.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Network Function Virtualization for Multimedia Services
Virtualized functions in IMS networks
Virtualized functions for residential home gateways
Multimedia delivery in Software Defined Networks
Combined use of NFV and SDN for network virtualization
The role of SDN in service chaining
VNPaaS and VNFaaS service models
Network as a Service
CDN as a Service
Software Defined Networking for Mobile Multimedia Services
Use of SDN in Mobile Clouds
Mobile Cloud Networking and Multimedia Services
Cloud Computing and NFV convergence
SDN/NFV Testbeds
SDN/NFV and Open Source
SDN/NFV in 5G
Standardization efforts
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Roberto Canonico, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy (roberto.canonico [at] unina.it)
Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy (antonio.manzalini [at] telecomitalia.it)
Prof. Khalid Al-Begain, University of South Wales, UK (kbegain [at] computer.org)
(Provisional) Technical Program Committee (TPC):
Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez, Telefonica I+D, Spain
Roberto Bifulco, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Gonzalo Camarillo, Ericsson Research, Finland
Bruno Chatras, Orange, France
Pasquale Donadio, Alcatel-Lucent, Italy
Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK
Edmundo Monteiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Nicholas Race, Lancaster University, UK
Simon Pietro Romano, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Wenyu Shen, NTT, Japan
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission deadline 30 May 2014
Notification of Acceptance 22 June 2014
Author/Early Registration 30 June2014
Camera Ready 30 June 2014
Workshop Date 11 September 2014