[Deadline Extended] IEEE International Workshop on Manageability and Security of Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (MASONS)

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Call for Papers

IEEE International Workshop on Manageability and Security of Network
Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (MASONS)
With ICCCN 2015 at Las Vegas, Aug 3 =E2=80=93 6, 2015
http://www.manageability-at-scale.org/cfp/icccn-masons.html

MASONS 2015 is Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society

1. Theme
Today, many research organizations in academia, government labs and
industry are exploring SDN and NFV technologies to study and materialize
their benefits in real world networks. These benefits are enabling
automation, reducing time to market in case of new service introductions,
optimization and/or improving overall economics of network and system
management and operations. However to materialize the benefits of SDN and
NFV at larger scale across multiple domains, similar to today=E2=80=99s int=
ernet,
additional investigations are needed which should focus beyond the core
SDN, NFV features and functionalities. This involves: development of
multi-domain SDN network to support Internet; large scale deployment of
novel applications, identification of technological and operational gaps in
research and development over the longer term to increase the capability of
SDN and NFV powered networks, and better integrate them with existing
public Internet and emerging cloud technologies; Identification of
security, manageability gaps, including opportunities to build in
additional levels of security, resilience and management capabilities.

2. Topics of interest
This workshop aims to show case and disseminate new ideas and high quality
research on manageability and security of Software Defined Network and
Network Function Virtualization. We solicit original research articles,
review papers, theoretical studies, and practical software systems
incorporating new paradigms, experimental prototypes, and insightful
requirement analysis with the above theme including, but not limited to the
topics below:

* Design, requirements and prototypes of Software Defined Exchanges (SDX)
to enable interoperability and use of new approaches with the current
Internet infrastructure.
* Security, privacy, authentication, trust, verification for SDN and NFV.
* Integration of compute, storage and network under the Software Defined
Infrastructure (SDI) paradigm.
* Analysis of new management challenges that SDN and NFV has introduced.
* Network management practices and business processes for SDN and NFV, in
service provider and data center infrastructures.
* Tools and operational procedures for managing SDN.
* New paradigms in network operations, administration and management (OAM),
service orchestration, service engineering, converged network-compute and
data center management.
* Software Defined Network (SDN), abstraction, programmability, application
Interface, south and northbound API.
* Network Function Virtualization (NFV), distributed control, virtual
switches, routing virtualization.
* Network system management, orchestration, resource management and
optimization, integration, interoperability.
* Network operations management related automation, troubleshooting and
management tools.
* Cloud based network and system management application paradigms.
* Application of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML),
analytics and big data in network and system management.
* Insights about Network Management System architectural requirements
analysis.
* Scalability of SDN, NFV, SDI, NMS systems.
* User experience, user interface design issues and challenges in NMS for
SDN, NFV, ethnographic studies on network operations centers, usability
studies of management applications.

3. Instructions for IEEE MASONS 2015 Workshop Authors:
Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera ready
format (double column, 10 pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (
http://www.easychair.org/) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5=C3=9711 inch pap=
er).
It should be no longer than 6 pages with up to two extra pages given the
authors are willing to pay an over-length charge per extra page. The
detailed information can be found in the ICCCN 2015 (Las Vegas) website.
For any workshop related questions or additional information please contact
the General, TPC, or Workshop Chairs.
Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under
consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper
titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers
once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2015 for review. Submissions must
include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with
postal and email address(es) and phone number(s). A paper abstract must be
registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below.

4. Speakers, Panelists
* Morning keynote on manageability:  Dr. Gee Rittenhouse , Sr. VP, Cloud
and Virtualization Group, Cisco Systems
* Morning keynote on security:  Phillip Porras , Program Director -
Internet Security Group, SRI International
* Panelists:
 - Inder Monga (Moderator), CTO, ESNet
 - Josh Bailey, Google
 - eepak Bansal, Manager, Microsoft
 - Douglas Freimuth, STSM - Master Inventor, IBM Research
 - Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, Lead Member of Technical Staff - Mobility & Cloud
Security, AT&T

5. Important dates:
* Abstract Due: Apr 15, 2015 (Extended)
* Paper Due: Apr 15, 2015 (Extended)
* Acceptance Notification: Apr 30, 2015
* Camera Ready Due: May 8, 2015

6. Review and Publication of Manuscripts:
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the ICCCN 2015 TPC members and judged
on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of
presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue
by one (who registered/paid full author reg. fee) of authors to be included
in the conference venue. Each full registration covers up to two ICCCN 2015
conference papers authored by the registered/paid author. Accepted and
presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I)
databases. The page limit for papers is 6 pages. Papers should be submitted
on EDAS, the link for this workshop will be published here shortly.
Papers of special merit will be selected for possible fast track at a
journal special issue at IJCNDS (see details at
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=3Dijcnds and
http://www.manageability-at-scale.org/cfp/).

7. Workshop chairs
* Inder Monga, ESnet and LBNL, USA, [email protected]
* Amitava Biswas, Cisco Systems, USA, [email protected]
* Chen Liu, Microsoft, USA, [email protected]

8. Technical Program Committee
* Christian Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brasil
* Gerhard Hasslinger, T-Systems ENPS Darmstadt
* Israat Haque, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
* Josh Bailey, Google, USA
* Kenichi Ogaki, KDDI Corporation, Japan
* Laurent Lefevre, INRIA
* Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
* Lisandro Granville, Institute of Informatcis of the Federal University of
Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
* Michael Menth, University of T=C3=BCbingen, Germany
* Rajat Mehrotra, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA
* Rajdeep Bhowmik, Cisco, USA
* Roberto Bruschi, DIST - University of Genoa
* Satya Mohanty, Cisco, USA
* Spyros Denazis, University of Patras, Greece
* Steven Latre, University of Antwerp, Belgium
* Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, University of Crete and FORTH
* Walter Cerroni, DEI - University of Bologna

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------</div><div><br></div><div>Call for Papers</div><div><br></div><div>IE=
EE International Workshop on Manageability and Security of Network Function=
 Virtualization and Software Defined Network (MASONS)=C2=A0 <br>With ICCCN =
2015 at Las Vegas, Aug 3 =E2=80=93 6, 2015<br><a href=3D"http://www.managea=
bility-at-scale.org/cfp/icccn-masons.html">http://www.manageability-at-scal=
e.org/cfp/icccn-masons.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div>MASONS 2015 is Te=
chnically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society</div><div><br></di=
v><div>1. Theme</div><div>Today, many research organizations in academia, g=
overnment labs and industry are exploring SDN and NFV technologies to study=
 and materialize their benefits in real world networks. These benefits are =
enabling automation, reducing time to market in case of new service introdu=
ctions, optimization and/or improving overall economics of network and syst=
em management and operations. However to materialize the benefits of SDN an=
d NFV at larger scale across multiple domains, similar to today=E2=80=99s i=
nternet, additional investigations are needed which should focus beyond the=
 core SDN, NFV features and functionalities. This involves: development of =
multi-domain SDN network to support Internet; large scale deployment of nov=
el applications, identification of technological and operational gaps in re=
search and development over the longer term to increase the capability of S=
DN and NFV powered networks, and better integrate them with existing public=
 Internet and emerging cloud technologies; Identification of security, mana=
geability gaps, including opportunities to build in additional levels of se=
curity, resilience and management capabilities.</div><div><br></div><div>2.=
 Topics of interest</div><div>This workshop aims to show case and dissemina=
te new ideas and high quality research on manageability and security of Sof=
tware Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization. We solicit origi=
nal research articles, review papers, theoretical studies, and practical so=
ftware systems incorporating new paradigms, experimental prototypes, and in=
sightful requirement analysis with the above theme including, but not limit=
ed to the topics below: <br></div><div><br></div><div>* Design, requirement=
s and prototypes of Software Defined Exchanges (SDX) to enable interoperabi=
lity and use of new approaches with the current Internet infrastructure.<br=
>* Security, privacy, authentication, trust, verification for SDN and NFV.<=
br>* Integration of compute, storage and network under the Software Defined=
 Infrastructure (SDI) paradigm.<br>* Analysis of new management challenges =
that SDN and NFV has introduced. <br>* Network management practices and bus=
iness processes for SDN and NFV, in service provider and data center infras=
tructures.<br>* Tools and operational procedures for managing SDN.<br>* New=
 paradigms in network operations, administration and management (OAM), serv=
ice orchestration, service engineering, converged network-compute and data =
center management.<br>* Software Defined Network (SDN), abstraction, progra=
mmability, application Interface, south and northbound API.<br>* Network Fu=
nction Virtualization (NFV), distributed control, virtual switches, routing=
 virtualization.<br>* Network system management, orchestration, resource ma=
nagement and optimization, integration, interoperability.<br>* Network oper=
ations management related automation, troubleshooting and management tools.=
<br>* Cloud based network and system management application paradigms.<br>*=
 Application of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), analyt=
ics and big data in network and system management.<br>* Insights about Netw=
ork Management System architectural requirements analysis.<br>* Scalability=
 of SDN, NFV, SDI, NMS systems.<br>* User experience, user interface design=
 issues and challenges in NMS for SDN, NFV, ethnographic studies on network=
 operations centers, usability studies of management applications.</div><di=
v><br></div><div>3. Instructions for IEEE MASONS 2015 Workshop Authors:</di=
v><div>Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera read=
y format (double column, 10 pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (<=
a href=3D"http://www.easychair.org/">http://www.easychair.org/</a>) as PDF =
files (formatted for 8.5=C3=9711 inch paper). It should be no longer than 6=
 pages with up to two extra pages given the authors are willing to pay an o=
ver-length charge per extra page. The detailed information can be found in =
the ICCCN 2015 (Las Vegas) website. For any workshop related questions or a=
dditional information please contact the General, TPC, or Workshop Chairs.<=
/div><div>Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be unde=
r consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper tit=
les and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once p=
apers are submitted to ICCCN 2015 for review. Submissions must include a ti=
tle, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and email=
 address(es) and phone number(s). A paper abstract must be registered on Ea=
syChair by the deadline indicated below.</div><div><br></div><div>4. Speake=
rs, Panelists</div><div>* Morning keynote on manageability:=C2=A0 Dr. Gee R=
ittenhouse , Sr. VP, Cloud and Virtualization Group, Cisco Systems<br>* Mor=
ning keynote on security:=C2=A0 Phillip Porras , Program Director - Interne=
t Security Group, SRI International<br>* Panelists: <br>=C2=A0- Inder Monga=
 (Moderator), CTO, ESNet<br>=C2=A0- Josh Bailey, Google<br>=C2=A0- eepak Ba=
nsal, Manager, Microsoft<br>=C2=A0- Douglas Freimuth, STSM - Master Invento=
r, IBM Research<br>=C2=A0- Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, Lead Member of Technical Sta=
ff - Mobility &amp; Cloud Security, AT&amp;T</div><div><br></div><div>5. Im=
portant dates:</div><div>* Abstract Due: Apr 15, 2015 (Extended)<br>* Paper=
 Due: Apr 15, 2015 (Extended)<br>* Acceptance Notification: Apr 30, 2015<br=
>* Camera Ready Due: May 8, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>6. Review and Pub=
lication of Manuscripts:</div><div>Submitted papers will be reviewed by the=
 ICCCN 2015 TPC members and judged on originality, technical correctness, r=
elevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented =
at the conference venue by one (who registered/paid full author reg. fee) o=
f authors to be included in the conference venue. Each full registration co=
vers up to two ICCCN 2015 conference papers authored by the registered/paid=
 author. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference =
proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and I=
ndexing (A&amp;I) databases. The page limit for papers is 6 pages. Papers s=
hould be submitted on EDAS, the link for this workshop will be published he=
re shortly.</div><div>Papers of special merit will be selected for possible=
 fast track at a journal special issue at IJCNDS (see details at <a href=3D=
"http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=3Dijcnds">htt=
p://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=3Dijcnds</a> and=
=C2=A0 <a href=3D"http://www.manageability-at-scale.org/cfp/">http://www.ma=
nageability-at-scale.org/cfp/</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>7. Workshop ch=
airs<br>* Inder Monga, ESnet and LBNL, USA, <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
">[email protected]</a> <br>* Amitava Biswas, Cisco Systems, USA, <a href=3D"ma=
ilto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <br>* Chen Liu, Mic=
rosoft, USA, <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</=
a></div><div><br></div><div>8. Technical Program Committee<br>* Christian R=
othenberg, University of Campinas, Brasil<br>* Gerhard Hasslinger, T-System=
s ENPS Darmstadt<br>* Israat Haque, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada=
<br>* Josh Bailey, Google, USA<br>* Kenichi Ogaki, KDDI Corporation, Japan<=
br>* Laurent Lefevre, INRIA <br>* Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia=
, Greece<br>* Lisandro Granville, Institute of Informatcis of the Federal U=
niversity of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil<br>* Michael Menth, Universi=
ty of T=C3=BCbingen, Germany<br>* Rajat Mehrotra, Desert Research Institute=
, Reno, NV, USA<br>* Rajdeep Bhowmik, Cisco, USA<br>* Roberto Bruschi, DIST=
 - University of Genoa<br>* Satya Mohanty, Cisco, USA<br>* Spyros Denazis, =
University of Patras, Greece<br>* Steven Latre, University of Antwerp, Belg=
ium<br>* Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, University of Crete and FORTH<br>* Walte=
r Cerroni, DEI - University of Bologna<br></div></div>

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