SDN-W 2016 - 2016 Workshop on Software Defined Networking for Wireless Networks (SDN-W)

The IEEE WCNC'2016 Workshop on Software Defined Networking for Wireless Networks (SDN-W)
https://sites.google.com/site/sdnw2016/home
Doha, Qatar, April 3, 2016
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Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: November 1st, 2015
Acceptance notification: December 15, 2015
Camera-ready version due: January 12, 2016
Workshop date: April 3, 2016
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The continuous growth of the Internet and the proliferation of smart devices and social networks pose new challenges for wireless and mobile networks on keeping up with the increasing demand for bandwidth and dynamicity of the hardware and software. In particular, the switches and routers that are involved in the transmission of the data from these networks are typically developed in a vendor specific fashion, which makes hardware and software updates a significant challenge. The emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology is a solution to address such problems that can facilitate updates to the hardware/software and intelligently manage the data flows for providing improved bandwidth. While recent years have witnessed a significant SDN research on the wired network domain, SDN?enabled wireless networks such as 4/5G and wireless mesh/sensor networks are emerging as a viable technology. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to SDN deployment and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for wireless and mobile networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
-SDN applications for wireless mesh networks
-SDN applications for wireless sensor networks
-SDN-enabled Wireless LANs and campus networks
-SDN applications for cellular (4G, 5G, and LTE) networks
-Emerging 5G SDN architectures & standards with SDN
-Emerging 5G Applications and Architectures with SDN
-Resilience and high availability in SDN-based wireless network architectures
-Security in SDN-based wireless networks
-Use cases of SDN in future wireless networks
-NFV architectures for wireless networks
-NFV for Evolved Packet Core (EPC) virtualization
-NFV for baseband virtualization and cloud radio access networks
-SDN for cognitive radio networks
-SDN for green communications
-Performance evaluation of SDN switches and controllers in wireless networks
-Experiences deploying SDN technology and applications in operational wireless networks
-Quality of Service in SDN-enabled wireless networks
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Paper Submission:
Submitted papers should be of sufficient length and detail for review by experts in the field. Papers should be submitted for review through EDAS at:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21596
Final papers will be limited to 7 pages in length in the standard IEEE conference paper format. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore.
For more information, please contact the workshop chairs.
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Workshop Chairs:
Kemal Akkaya, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
A. Selcuk Uluagac, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY.