Subject: [Nfvrg] CFP: IEEE Network Magazine: Special Issue on NFV: Opportunities and Challenges

From: "Liushucheng (Will)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:32:17 +0000

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|                         Call for Papers                         |
|             IEEE Network Magazine: Special Issue on             |
|                Network Function Virtualization:                 |
|                  Opportunities and Challenges                   |
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Over the past decades, the scale of communications network is growing rapidly with the emergence of more and more network-based services. Nevertheless, network operators all over the world are experiencing a declining profitability in the last few years. To address this challenge and paradox, the concept of network function virtualization (NFV) has been introduced with the aim to efficiently enable network-based services (1) by deploying standardized and programmable hardware systems and (2) by virtualizing network functions with software. Compared to the current network and service deployment approach, which is based on a large variety of propriety equipments, NFV opens up many opportunities to the telecommunications industry. By reducing the cost of equipment and increasing the revenue with virtualized services, NFV has the potential to revolutionize the whole telecommunication industry.

Despite the potentials of NFV, there are many challenging issues to be addressed. For example, how to design the network equipment so as to provide programmability to efficiently enable services; how to manage and orchestrate NFV-based systems; what is the trade-off between system performance and equipment cost; how to automate the network-based service provisioning, etc. To understand and solve these problems, this special issue aims at providing a platform for sharing the state-of-the-art research and development on NFV, from both the academia and the industry. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but not limited to the following:

* NFV-enabled equipments and prototypes
* NFV-based network services: applications and use-cases
* Performance of NFV-based network services: Scalability, Reliability, Security
* Programmability on different layers
* Co-existence of NFV systems with legacy network devices
* Inter-operability and compatibility of the NFV systems
* Management of the NFV systems
* Verification of NFV components
* NFV for emerging network systems: 5G, future Internet design
* Open-source for NFV

Manuscript Submission

With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors should submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne for IEEE Network. Choose " Special Issue - Network Function Virtualization: Opportunities and Challenges " from the drop down menu on the submission page. The timetable is as follows:

Submission Schedule

* Manuscript Submission: October 1, 2014
* First revision/reject notification: December 15, 2014
* Acceptance notification: February 15, 2015
* Final manuscript due: March 15, 2015
* Publication date: May 2015

Guest Editors

* Kejie Lu, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
* Shucheng (Will) Liu, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
* Fred Feisullin, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
* Mehmet Ersue, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
* Yu Cheng, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

Regards,
Will
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Shucheng LIU (Will), Ph.D.
Researcher & Standard Representative
Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
http://www.linkedin.com/in/shucheng
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