SOFTNETWORKING 2016 - International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks SOFTNETWORKING 2016

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a recent architectural approach that decouples the network control and data planes. It separates the network control logic from the underlying routers and switches by logically centralizing the network control in SDN controllers and implementing the traffic forwarding in switching hardware. SDN offers network programmability capabilities, applicable in a flexible way. SDN introduces novel abstractions in networking, thus simplifying network management and facilitating faster network evolution. SDN is natively based on virtualization. Via service orchestration, applications can automatically reconfigure the network and simultaneously optimize the user experience, application performance and network resource utilization. SDN approach can support or is applicable in various contexts: clouds/data centres; enterprise; WANs, cellular/mobile, wireless, home, sensors ? networks; network and resources management, security; traffic and QoS management, media and content distribution. While still in early stage, SDN is moving very fast towards its adoption in the industry and by the operators, but it still has open research issues.
SOFTNETWORKING 2016, The Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks, is dedicated to advances and challenges on the following SDN-related topics.
Topics:
SDN concepts and architectures
Control and Management in SDN
SDN Controllers design and implementation
SDN Forwarders
Network Operating Systems (NOS) and virtualization in SDNs
SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
OpenFlow and Southbound Protocols
Application programming interfaces for SDNs
Network programmability in SDN
Programming languages
Verification techniques and tools for SDNs
Performance of controllers and forwarders
SDN in data-center/clouds/big data
SDN applications in:
enterprise, WANs, cellular/mobile, wireless, home, sensors networks
network and resources management, security
traffic and QoS management, media and content distribution
Security, privacy and reliability in SDN
SDN scalability in large environments
SDN and Information Centric Networking (ICN)
SDN versus Content/ICN architectures
Operators and Service Providers perspective on SDN
Deployment of SDN technology and applications in operational networks