SOFTNETWORKING 2018 - International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization SOFTNETWORKING 2018

SOFTNETWORKING 2018 tracks:
Software Defined Networking (SDN): concepts, challenges and architectures
Control and Management in SDN; Network Operating Systems (NOS, ONOS) and virtualization in SDNs
Network Function Virtualization concepts, challenges and architectures (NFV, OPNFV)
SDN and NFV cooperation
SDN and NFV standardization
OpenDaylight (goals, platforms, interfaces and applications), OpenStack and SDN
SDN Controllers design and implementation
SDN Forwarding Elements design and implementation
OpenFlow and Southbound Protocols
Application programming interfaces for SDN
Forwarding plane abstractions, programmability, languages
Verification techniques and tools for SDN and NFV
Performance evaluation, optimization and isolation of the Data and Control Planes
SDN applications and use cases:
Data-center/ clouds/ BigData
Service Provider Networks: dynamic service chaining, optical networks and transport, cellular/mobile, traffic management, resources and QoS management, WANs/carrier networks and support for clouds, virtualization of aggregation networks
Enterprise, home, sensors networks
Software Defined Wireless Networks (SDWN)
SDN in mobile and 5G networks
SDN controlled vehicular networks
Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M communications
NFV applications and use cases
Home environment
Mobile Core&IMS, mobile base stations
Fixed access networks
CDNs
NFVIaaS, VNFaaS, VNPaaS, VNF Forwarding Graphs
Reliability, resiliency and fault management in SDN and NFV
Security and privacy and in SDN and NFV
Data and Control Plane scalability, inter-operability
Autonomic (self) management technologies in SDN and NFV
SDN/NFV architecture versus Content delivery and oriented networks, Information Centric Networking
Operators and Service Providers business and deployment perspective on SDN and NFV
Planning and Deployment of SDN/NFV technologies and applications in operational networks