The “Annals of Telecommunications“, published by Springer from 2008, announce a forthcoming issue on Virtualization: Towards Virtualization at Internet Scale.

Virtualization has emerged as an active research area recently. While the majority of virtualization research and development is focused towards OS and server level virtualization, it has to evolve more globally into an Internet scale model where the network or Internet will be virtualized in a way that is yet to evolve. The concept of virtualization in various forms is prevalent in the networking world, such as VLAN, VPN, VPLS  and lately with virtual routers. But virtualization may evolve into control, data and so-called knowledge plane virtualization and more global wide area virtualization involving control, data and knowledge planes and other new concepts of virtualization.

This special issue will focus on exiting technology, as well new ones that will evolve virtualization technology at the Internet scale.  Contributions are solicited on all aspects of Virtualization, including, but not limited to the following:

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Guest Editors

Manuscript submission:

Authors must submit their manuscript (single column, double-spaced) electronically in PDF format by email to the corresponding guest editor before the deadline. Please also include information about the manuscript (title, complete list of authors, corresponding author's contact, abstract, and keywords) in the body of your submission email message. Articles have to be in English, 15-25 pages each and will be peer reviewed by at least three experts working in the areas.