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************************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 1st IEEE International Workshop on SDN Management and Orchestration (SDNMO) Uniform Management of SDN/ NFV/ PM /MCC/ SDDC (*) environments

In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) Krakow, Poland, 9 May 2014

http://clayfour.ee.ucl.ac.uk/sdnmo2014/ http://noms2014.ieee-noms.org

(*) SDN /NFV/ PM/ MCC/ SDDC = Software Defined Networks / Network Functions Virtualization/ Programmable Networks / Mobile Cloud Computing / Software Defined Datacenter **************************************************************************************

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