SCAN 2017 - IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Software Defined and Context Aware Cognitive Networks (IEEE SCAN-2017)

Future wireless systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are networked, organized, configured, optimized, and recovered automatically based on their operating situations. With the emergence of software defined networks, dynamic adaptive services and applications are gaining much attention since they allow automatic configuration of devices and their parameters, systems, and services to user's context change. The automatic configuration of devices and their parameters with data analytics allow devices to implement cyber defense solutions. In addition, context awareness, with the help of software defined and cognitive systems, allows customization of operating parameters of devices, users, applications, and networks based on the current context.
Our aim is to promote the development of intelligent networks by creating intelligent framework, protocols and algorithms. The proposed INFOCOM workshop SCAN‐2017 will serve as a forum for researchers from academia, government and industries to exchange ideas and present new results and provide future visions on the software defined and context‐aware cognitive networks.
Topics include, but not limited to:
Architecture and protocols for software defined networks
Big data analytics in software defined and cognitive networks
Cybersecurity through software defined and cognitive networks
Software defined and cognitive networks for cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things
Software defined and cognitive networks for smart cities
Reliability, efficiency and routing issues in context‐aware systems
Fundamental limits for opportunistic cognitive communications
Co‐existence of opportunistic communication networks
Opportunistic spectrum access in mobile and vehicular networks
Data dissemination techniques in context‐aware systems
Context aware mechanisms and algorithms
Cognition‐driven information processing and decision making
Trust, security, privacy, and reputation
Socio‐economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
Cognitive communication and networking
Context based content delivery and adaptive schemes
Network virtualization and software defined networks
Wireless virtualization and dynamic spectrum sharing
Self‐organization, self‐configuration and self‐recovery
Software defined systems scalability and optimization
Software defined systems challenges and opportunities
Biological‐inspired networking