Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

– ICN 2016, The Fifteenth International Conference on Networks

– SOFTNETWORKING 2016, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks

The submission deadline is October 5, 2015.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== ICN 2016 | SOFTNETWORKING 2016 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICN 2016, The Fifteenth International Conference on Networks

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/ICN16.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SubmitICN16.html

SOFTNETWORKING 2016, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SOFTNETWORKING.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SOFTNETWORKING.html#SubmitAPaper

Events schedule: February 21 – 25, 2016 – Lisbon, Portugal

Contributions:

– regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

– short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

– ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

– doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

– mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

– workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

– tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

– panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: October 5, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICN 2016 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/CfPICN16.html

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1. Communication theory

2. Communications switching and routing

3. Communications modeling

4. Communications security

5. Computer communications

6. Distributed communications

7. Signal processing in communications

8. Multimedia and multicast communications

9. Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks)

10. Next generation networks [NGN] principles

11. Storage area networks [SAN]

12. Access and home networks

13. High-speed networks

14. Optical networks

15. Peer-to-peer and overlay networking

16. Mobile networking and systems

17. MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks

18. GRID networks

19. Broadband networks

20. Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]

21. Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS]

22. Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring

23. Voice over IP services

24. Performance evaluation, tools, simulation

25. Network, control and service architectures

26. Network signalling, pricing and billing

27. Network middleware

28. Telecommunication networks architectures

29. On-demand networks, utility computing architectures

30. Applications and case studies

31. NGN protocol design and evaluation

32. NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.]

33. NGN Device Instrumentation

34. Network Management, scheduling and policy

35. NGN policy-based control

36. Networks policy-based management

37. Management of autonomic networks and systems

38. Vehicular Networks

39. Delay tolerant networks

40. Mobility management

41. Small cell networks

SOFTNETWORKING 2016 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

CfP: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SOFTNETWORKING.html#CallForPapers

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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

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ICN 2016 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/ComICN16.html

SOFTNETWORKING 2016 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SOFTNETWORKING.html#Committees