In the next decade, the technological substrate and the monetary constrains will create a profound transformation of infrastructures for communications and services. The progressive integration of advanced Information Technologies (IT) and Communication Technologies (CT) will create new markets and products opportunities for the industry and new economic drivers for our society. This new paradigm relies extensively on the pervasive exploitation of processing, storage and networking resources: from smart things and devices to machines and
vehicles, from radio access to micro-data centers in aggregation networks, from virtual middle-boxes to disaggregated service platforms. This calls for a complete rethinking, restructuring and redesigning of the current end-to-end architecture.

Network programmability and dynamic configurability are essential requirements for future carrier networks. Software defined networking (SDN) along with network virtualization is envisaged as one of the key technology enablers for meeting these necessities. Within this framework, in order to fully exploit the potential of network and application virtualization and efficiently handling heterogeneous physical resources, e.g. across network and datacenter domains, network operators need orchestration platforms. Key platform ingredients are algorithms to allocate physical resources to virtual requests and find the optimal location of network functions, IT and CT resources, services and corresponding states, especially at the edge of the network. Equally important are the APIs at the different interfaces between individual resources and their controllers to implement the orchestration functionality. This timely workshop will shed light on the fundamental technology components for SDN management and orchestration, as primary building blocks of the network of the future. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
• Unified management frameworks for SDN/ NFV/ PM/ MCC/ SDDC
• Abstractions, architectures and management functions for rapid service deployment in SDN/ NFV/ PM/ MCC/ SDDC environments
• Position papers on the bottlenecks and architectural challenges to be resolved for maturing SDN /NFV / PM/ MCC/ SDDC environments
• Architectures, functions, interfaces and protocols for efficient management and orchestration
• Quality of Network (QoN): QoS/QoE in (future) networks supported by SDN
• Orchestration of SDN resources and related virtual requests embedding algorithms
• Network abstractions, node and link mapping problem description
• Embedding algorithm implementations, solutions for nodes and links mapping problem
• SLA composition for virtualized network functions
• Auto-X: auto-reconfiguration, auto-monitoring, auto-failure detection and migration in SDN enabled networks
• Evaluation Tools and Testbeds

Author instructions
Complete manuscripts in PDF format must be registered and electronically submitted for peer-review through JEMS (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1812) following the authors´ guideline available athttp://noms2014.ieee-noms.org/content/call-technical-session-papers.
The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE Xplore.

Registration
Registration for SDNMO 2014 can be done through the main conference registration system for NOMS 2014 athttp://noms2014.ieee-noms.org/content/ieee-noms.

Paper submission and workshop schedule
• Full paper submission deadline: 13th January 20014
• Notification deadline: 31st of January 2014
• Camera ready: 15th February 2014
• Workshop date: 9th of May 2014

Workshop Organizing Committee
David Soldani
VP Huawei European Research Centre (ERC)
Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH, Germany
Email: david.soldani@huawei.com

Antonio Manzalini
Manager Strategy, Future Centre, Innovative Architectures
Telecom Italia, Italy
Email: antonio.manzalini@telecomitalia.it

Alex Galis
Professor
University College London (UCL), U.K.
Email: a.galis@ucl.ac.uk

Sergio Beker
Research Manager, Huawei European Research Centre
Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH, Germany
Email: sergio.beker@huawei.com

Stuart Clayman
Senior Research Fellow
University College London (UCL), U.K.
Email: s.clayman@ucl.ac.uk

Bobby Wong
Future Directions Program Director
IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway New Jersery, USA
Email: bobby.wong@ieee.org

Workshop Technical Program Committee

Mr Henrik Abramowicz - Ericsson, Sweden
Dr. Michael Behringer - Cisco, Belgium
Dr. Bela Berde - Alcatel-Lucent, France
Dr. Andreas Berl - University of Passau, Germany
Dr. David Breitgang - IBM Haifa Lab, Israel
Dr. Cagatay Buukkoc - AT&T Labs, USA
Prof. Franco Callegati - University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Walter Cerroni - University of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Prosper Chemouil - Orange Lab, France
Dr. Elizer Dekel - IBM Haifa Lab, Israel
Prof. Spyros Denazis - University of Patras, Greece
Dr. Masakatsu Fujiwara - NTT, Japan
Dr. Laurent Lefevre - INRIA, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France
Dr. Lefteris Mamatas - University College London, U.K.
Prof. Herman De Meer - University of Passau, Germany
Dr. Julius Mueller - Technical University Berlin, Germany
Dr. Konstantinos Pentikousis - European Center for Information and Communication Technology (EICT), Germany
Prof. Danny Raz - Technion, Israel
Dr. Javier Rubio-Loyola - Cinvestav, Mexico
Prof. Susana Sargento - University of Aveiro, Portugal
Prof. Giovanni Schembra - University of Catania
Dr. Fabian Schneider - NEC, Germany
Prof. Masato Tsuru - Kyutech, Japan
Prof. Kurt Tutschku - University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Prof. Djamal Zeghlache - Institut National des Télécommunications, France