<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Apologies if you receive multiple copies</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">**********************************************************************</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> The 1st International Workshop on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> Management of SDN and NFV Systems (ManSDN/NFV 2014)</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> November 21, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> <a href="http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2014/sdnnfv2014.html">http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2014/sdnnfv2014.html</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">**********************************************************************</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">The first International Workshop on Management of SDN and NFV Systems</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">(ManSDN/NFV 2014) will be held in conjunction with the International<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2014) in Rio de</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Janeiro, Brazil, November 17-21, 2014. The workshop is endorsed by the</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">IEEE Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">(NFV) are two disruptive paradigms that are shaping the future</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">networking landscape. They bring the promise of enabling flexible</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">management solutions but they also introduce new challenges to the</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">area of network management. Given their related nature, this workshop</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">seeks to bring together researchers and industry partners to present</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">and discuss interesting research results, ongoing work and experiences</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">concerning either or both of these paradigms.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Authors are invited to submit papers that address the paradigms of SDN</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">or NFV in the network management domain. Topics of interest include,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">but are not limited to, the following:</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Design of architectural building blocks for managing SDN and NFV<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> systems</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- SDN and NFV APIs and protocols</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Advances in measurement, management, security, accounting, mobility,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> and other functions using SDN or NFV systems</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Virtualization of resources, services and functions in SDN and NFV</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Management of telco cloud computing infrastructures</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Efficient deployment of Service Function Chains (SFCs)</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Management of federated SDN/NFV infrastructures<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Dynamic migration of network functions in NFV-based systems</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Efficient network and service monitoring for SDN or NFV</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Resource management for SDN or NFV-based systems</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Automated configurations and repair</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Integration of SDN and NFV solutions</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Distributed SDN/NFV control</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Abstractions for programmable network elements</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Computing and software as a network-centric service</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Information exchange between management layers, systems, and</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> components</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Integrated resource management of network and services</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Virtualization of radio network functions</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Policy management in SDN or NFV systems</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Support for bug free Software Defined Networks</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Results from techno-economic, legal and regulatory studies driving</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"> the deployment of SDN and NFV technology</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Experience reports from management in experimental testbeds</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Transitioning existing networks to SDN</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Paper Submission:</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">experiences. Only original papers not published or submitted for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">publication elsewhere may be submitted. Each submission must be written</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 words abstract that clearly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">outlines the scope and contributions of the paper. There is a length<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, tables,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">and references) for regular workshop papers, and 4 pages for short<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">papers describing work in progress. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">review. Authors should submit their papers via EDAS:</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><a href="http://edas.info/N18171">http://edas.info/N18171</a></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Proceedings:</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Papers accepted for ManSDN/NFV 2014 will be included in the conference</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">proceedings, IEEE Xplore, IFIP database and EI Index. IFIP and IEEE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">reserve the right to remove any paper from the IFIP database and IEEE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Awards will be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">workshop.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Important Dates:</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Paper submission: July 20, 2014</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Notification of acceptance: September 01, 2014</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Final version of papers due: October 01, 2014</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Workshop date: November 21, 2014</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">Workshop Co-Chairs:</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Dorgival Guedes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Liam Fallon, Ericsson, Ireland</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, UK</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Toshio Tonouchi, NEC, Japan</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">CNSM Workshop Co-Chairs:</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- Filip De Turck, Ghent University-iMinds, Belgium</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000">- José Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil</font></div></body></html>