<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.apple-tab-span
{mso-style-name:apple-tab-span;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m involved in the following CFP. This might be of your interest (hopefully an interest of many of you).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hosnieh <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Special issue about standardization in SDN and NFV</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces invites submissions to a special issue about standardization in SDN and NFV. Submission are due by March 31st, 2016. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">URL: <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-standards-and-interfaces/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-standardization-in-sdn-and-nfv/">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-standards-and-interfaces/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-standardization-in-sdn-and-nfv/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Impact Factor: 2014: 0.879 © Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2015<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Software Defined Networks (SDN) is a new approach to manage network services by decoupling the data and control planes and providing an open interface between them able to support programmability. In parallel,
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept based on the application of technologies inspired in current cloud infrastructures to virtualize traditional network functions (mobile services, CDNs, Firewalls, etc.) and build network
services by interconnecting these virtualized functions.<br>
<br>
SDN and NFV are complementary and they have become two key paradigms in today’s networking. Due to its impressive growth and fast adoption, many standardization bodies such as IETF, IEEE, ETSI, ITU-T, ONF, TM Forum and 3GPP, and open source projects such as
OpenStack and OpenDayLight among others, are taking positions to define frameworks, protocols, data models and reference implementations that pave the way for interoperable, extensible and standard SDN and NFV solutions.<br>
<br>
This special issue wants to bring the attention of the community to the current state in the standardization area of SDN and NFV by inviting industry, practitioners and researchers to contribute with original works that allow identifying and proposing solutions
to important gaps, still under development in SDN and NFV standardization organizations, and to show the synergies and mismatches between open source solutions and standardization processes. Moreover, review articles will be welcome to help the readership
to understand the effort carried out in the different standardization bodies and their future directions.<br>
<br>
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, aspects related with standardization in:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• SDN and NFV frameworks and architectures.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• SDN and NFV challenges.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• SDN northbound, southbound and east-west interfaces.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Integration of SDN and NFV, problems and challenges.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• SDN programming languages and data models.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Data plane components (switch, routers, etc.) design.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• NFV and SDN alignment and standardization processes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Security, trust and privacy for SDN and NFV infrastructures, interfaces and protocols.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Big data analytics in SDN enabled network and privacy issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in SDN and NFV.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• SDN and NFV in wireless and mobile networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Applying SDN and NFV to 5G networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Applying SDN and NFV to IoT.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Applying SDN and NFV to cellular 3GPP-based networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Standards-based NFV and SDN testbeds, open source implementations and platforms.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Testing and performance evaluation of existing proposals in NFV and SDN.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Reliability, Availability and Load Balancing in NFV and SDN.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Orchestration and Management in SDN and NFV.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Multi-domain considerations in SDN and NFV.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• SDN and NFV in multi-tenancy environment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Submission guidelines<br>
<br>
Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and contribution to the topic associated with the special issue, as well as their overall quality. The submitted papers have to describe original work which has not been published
nor currently under review by other journals or conferences<br>
<br>
Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and authors will be promptly
informed in such cases.<br>
<br>
Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript are available in:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-standards-and-interfaces/0920-5489/guide-for-authors">http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-standards-and-interfaces/0920-5489/guide-for-authors</a><br>
<br>
Papers should be submitted via the EES application in the following link:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/csi/">http://ees.elsevier.com/csi/</a><br>
<br>
To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for their inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select SI-Standardization SDN&NFV in the “Article Type” step during the submission process.<br>
<br>
Schedule<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Paper submission: March 31st, 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>• Reviewing process and revision submission: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>
• First round of reviews: June 30th, 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>
• Second round of reviews: September 15th, 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>
• Acceptance of Final papers: October 30th, 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>
• Final Manuscript Due: December 31st, 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Production process (online publication): March 31st, 2017<br>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hosnieh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>