June 19th, 2015 
CI2S Enterprise Content Admin 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/
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/
SOFTNETWORKING 2016, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks
General page: http://www.iaria.org/
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/
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/
– workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.
– 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/
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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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/
ICN 2016 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/
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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/
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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/
SOFTNETWORKING 2016 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/
