<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SDN-NGAS 2014 - Workshop on Software Defined Networks for a New Generation of Applications and Services</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> August 20, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Niagara Falls, Canada </div>
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising architecture that is reinventing the way of thinking the networks. The decoupling of control and data planes in network devices and the centralized control of the networks remove the rigidity of today’s networks. This new concept enables the integration between different heterogeneous architectures and facilitates the creation of Network Applications and Services more adapted to the needs of customers. Moreover, this New Generation of Application and Services opens the door of innovative business opportunities. However, the potential techno-economic sustainability of SDN requires the consensus between research community, vendors, regulators and customers. This Workshop represents a unique opportunity to expose the latest advances in this technology as well as share experiences and build collaborations.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Topics for this Workshop:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Advancement in the development of Applications and Services for SDN networks</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Advancement in Southbound and Northbound APIs for SDN networks.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– SDN programming and simulation.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– Tools for Management and Troubleshooting of SDN based networks.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– Interoperable service-oriented technologies to share real world data among heterogeneous devices.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– Advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the SDN technology.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– Integration of Software Defined technologies with traditional network architectures.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– Performance analysis on single and multi-controller architectures.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– Orchestration of virtual network resources.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">– Other related topics.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Paper acceptance notification: June 5, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Camera ready papers due: June 19, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop: August 20, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Publication:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-------------------------------------------------</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/" target="_blank">www.Elsevier.com</a><<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/" target="_blank">http://www.elsevier.com/</a>> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/" target="_blank">www.sciencedirect.com</a> <<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/</a>> ), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank">www.scopus.com</a> <<a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank">http://www.scopus.com/</a>> ) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/" target="_blank">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/" target="_blank">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Extended and revised version of the best papers presented in the Workshop will be invited to these two journal special issues: IET Networks (Special Issue on Software Defined Networking) and IET Wireless Sensor Systems (Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking and Software Defined Sensor Networks).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Committees:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-------------------------------------------------</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Chairs:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Technical Program Committee:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Tarun Banka, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Sergio Beker, Huawei Technologies, Munich, Germany.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Anura P. Jayasumana, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Eric Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- JongWon Kim, GIST, Gwangju, Korea</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Junda Liu, UC Berkeley, ICSI, Google Inc., USA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Diego Lopez, Telefónica I+D, Spain</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Cristian Lumezanu, NEC-Labs, Princeton, NJ, USA</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Yan Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- David Meyer, Brocade Systems, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Yasuo Okabe, Kyoto University, Japan</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Eddie Ruan, Cisco Systems, CA, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Albert Vico Oton, The i2CAT Foundation, Spain</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Mehmet Can Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Chunming Wu, Zhejiang University, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Guang Yao, Tsinghua University, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Petros Zerfos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA</div></div>