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JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT (SPRINGER)



SPECIAL ISSUE

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization 
(NFV) for a Hyperconnected World: Challenges, Applications and Major 
Advancements



*** Submissions due: July 31, 2019 ***



In recent years, people are more and more connected to the network, 
sharing information, collaborating and generating/consuming a huge 
amount of data. This “hyperconnected world” is driven by the next 
generation of Internet, where different networks such as the traditional 
Internet, Internet of things (IoT), smart cities, smart grids, and 
intelligent transportation systems, are federated under the umbrella of 
one network called 5G. Indeed, the 5G is gaining momentum as it extends 
the regular Internet by connecting a diverse range of “things” or 
physical objects like electronic appliances, cars, thermostats, and 
other devices. The 5G could provide a large array of services to the 
society including weather monitoring, medical services, transportation 
and vehicular services, defense applications, and smart cities applications.



In order to implement such networks and services, several challenges at 
different levels need to be addressed. These challenges include 
connectivity management at the different network layers (i.e., from 
physical to application layers), energy management, service management, 
data management, and the development of IoT cognitive capabilities.

In this context, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function 
Virtualization (NFV) technologies could play a central role to address 
these challenges. On one hand, SDN offers a more efficient control of 
the 5G network thanks to the separation of the control plane from the 
data plane and its centralized management approach. On the other hand, 
NFV and virtualization technologies allow to efficiently slicing the 
network depending on the applications’ requirements and promise to 
provide the flexibility of dynamically provisioning network functions 
whenever needed. With such benefits, SDN/NFV is becoming the ultimate 
tool to manage the 5G network in order to handle the high number of 
connected objects and users and to provide high bandwidth traffic and 
low latency applications.



This special issue focuses on the challenges, applications and major 
advancements in SDN/NFV technologies for 5G and beyond. We hence 
encourage original paper submissions, which have not been published or 
submitted for publication elsewhere, from both academia and industry 
presenting novel research addressing the aforementioned challenges.



Topics of interest include, but not limited to:



- SDN/NFV architectures and applications;

- Theoretical foundations of SDN/NFV;

- Network slicing for SDN/NFV;

- Service function chaining in SDN/NFV networks;

- Mechanisms to achieve high packet processing in wireless virtualized 
environment;

- Efficient resource allocation schemes for multiple users in SDN/NFV;

- Optimizing network functionalities with SDN/NFV for Cognitive Radio 
Networks (CRNs) and Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs);

- Energy efficient schemes for SDN/NFV-based networks;

- Performance evaluation of virtual network functions;

- Business and economic aspects of SDN/NFV; and

- Security mechanisms in wireless SDN/NFV.



Planned Schedule



- Manuscript Due: July 31, 2019

- Revision notification: November 13, 2019

- Revised paper due: January 29, 2020

- Final notification: February 26, 2020

- Expected Publication of the Special Issue: July 2020



Submission Format and Review Guidelines



The submitted manuscripts must be written in English and describe 
original research not published nor currently under review by other 
journals or conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. All 
submitted papers, if relevant to the theme and objectives of the special 
issue, will go through an external peer-review process. Submissions 
should (i) conform strictly to the Instructions for Authors available on 
the JNSM website and (ii) be submitted through the Editorial Management 
system available at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jons.



Guest Editors of the Special Issue



- Dr. Abbas Bradai, University of Poitiers, France

Email: abbas.bradai at univ-poitiers.fr

- Dr. Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

Email: mshrehmani at gmail.com

- Dr. Syed Hashim Raza Bukhari, COMSATS Institute of Information 
Technology, Pakistan

Email: hashimbukhari01 at gmail.com

- Dr. Israat Haque, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Email: israat at dal.ca

- Dr. Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Parana, Brazil

Email: michele at inf.ufpr.br