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Special Issue: Software Defined Networking</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
The numbers of devices connected as well as the amount of traffic in the network have increased exponentially in the last years. Moreover, the emergence and maturity of new services and use cases such as mobility, server virtualization, cloud computing and Internet of Things have been driven, and somehow restricted, by the limitations of actual network architectures.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Software Defined Networking is a new way of thinking the networks. SDN separates the control and data planes in network devices and logically centralizes the control of the network. This paradigm makes easy the development of new services and applications. Moreover, SDN also has impulsed new concepts in networks such as Network Operating Systems (NOS), High Level Network Operating Languages and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). SDN has the potential to revolutionize the way networks are built. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The aim of this special issue is to publish research papers reflecting the most recent research and application results in Software Defined Network and Network Functions Virtualization.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The following topical areas will be covered in this special issue, but are not limited to:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- Theoretical foundation of separation of control and data plane architecture</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- Northbound and Southbound Programming of Software Defined Networks</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- Standardization of SDN interfaces </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- Advances for enabling SDN and NFV</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
- Orchestration of Virtual Network Resources</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- Testing and Security analysis for SDN</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- Experiences deploying new SDN Applications and Services </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- SDN-enabled multi-platform convergence</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- SDN-NFV analysis and market expectations</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
- Co-existence and Integration of SDN with traditional architectures</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">- Performance Analysis on single and multi-controller architectures</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">All submissions are subject to the journal’s peer-review procedures. The authors should follow the journal’s Author Guide at <a href="http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide" target="_blank">http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide</a> when preparing papers for submission to the Special Issue. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The Authors should indicate “Special Issue on Software Defined Networking” on their manuscripts.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">All papers must be submitted through the journal’s Manuscript Central system: <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-net" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-net</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Important Dates:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">-------------------------------------------------</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Submission deadline: 31 August 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
Publication: March 2015</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Editor-in-Chief: </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
-------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Guest Editors:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">-------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">E-mail: <a href="mailto:javiergv@fdi.ucm.es" target="_blank">javiergv@fdi.ucm.es</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Jun Bi, Tsinghua University & Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), China</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">E-mail: <a href="mailto:junbi@tsinghua.edu.cn" target="_blank">junbi@tsinghua.edu.cn</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
Anura P. Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">E-mail: Anura.Jayasumana@Colostate.edu</div></div>