Call
for Papers
IEEE Communications
Magazine
Future Carrier
Networks
Although several
millions Euros of research funds have been spent
on future network technologies, only a few
valuable results are available in the literature
for a critical communication infrastructure,
addressing the primary characteristics of a
global cloud ecosystem and diversified
requirements of next-generation services.
Information Centric Networking (ICN, decoupling
between IP and information), Software Defined
Networking (SDN, decoupling between control and
data planes, OpenFlow), Cloud Networking
(inter-cloud protocols and mist computing),
Virtualization (features of all types of devices,
network, distributed infrastructures, distributed
data / files / storage), Autonomic Management and
Networking (bio-inspired algorithms), and Open
Connectivity (User-to-Network Interface (UNI),
Network-to-Network Interface (NNI)) are the key
ingredients for the "Carrier Network of the
Future".Trust, security and privacy,
enforcement of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and
inter-operability of various virtual cloud
systems remain the primary issues. Another
important trend is the Decoupling between
Hardware and Software (the shift from hardware
defined network elements to software defined
networks using general purpose
hardware).
This Special Issue of IEEE
Communications Magazine will bring together
researchers from industry and academia to present
and analyze the above issues and propose how to
resolve each of these design space components for
Future Carrier Networks (FCN), i.e. networks that
will enable the business of Telco operators in
2020 horizon and beyond, ahead of the existing
standardization frameworks. We are soliciting
original research, analysis of test beds in a
realistic environment, and survey articles
written in a tutorial style, comprehensible to
all readers of the magazine. Submissions will
undergo a rigorous peer review process. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Future Carrier Network
Architectures: use cases, business models,
functional and non-functional requirements,
interface and building blocks (logical elements),
end to end (including terminals).
- Future Carrier Network Security:
security as design architecture goal, instead of
additional overlays; specific vulnerabilities in
architecture, characteristics and
core-technologies of future carrier networks;
methods for security controls and technologies
for vulnerability factors reduction; Security as
a Service (SaaS).
- Software Defined
Networks: resource description languages and
usage; architecture of metadata to describe all
components from end user to cloud centers;
network and mobility operating systems;
algorithms for efficient embeddings; portable
programmability, orchestration and system
composition; Network as a Service (NaaS).
- Information Centric Networking:
active objects (containing both code and data) in
information-centric networks; multi-site clouds
exploitation (optimal placement of applications
in a network of clouds); network adaptation to
applications data paths, end to end (including
terminals).
- Distributed Mobile
Networking: distributed architecture; small and
portable wireless access node with distribution
of network functions, including mobility
functions; mobility events and data paths managed
and anchored as closely as possible to the
terminals.
- Cloud Networking:
protocols for carrier grade cloud
interoperability; cloud federation for greater
resilience and elasticity; autonomic elastic
connectivity; optimization of virtual resource
usage dealing with scale and heterogeneity;
multidimensional, dynamic and large scale
resource scheduling.
Manuscript
Submission and Schedule
Articles should
be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible
to readers outside the specialty of the article.
References should be limited to 10, figures and
tables to a combined total of 6. Mathematical
equations should be avoided. The paper length
should not exceed 4,500 words.Complete
guidelines can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines.
All articles must be submitted through the IEEE
Manuscript Central at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/commag-ieee.Full
Paper Submission Deadline: 30 Nov
2012
Decisions Notification: 28 Feb
2013
Final Manuscripts Due: 31 Apr
2013
Publication of Special Issue: June 2013
(tentative)
Guest Editors
Dr. David
Soldani (Corresponding Editor)
VP Huawei
European Research Centre
Huawei Technologies
Düsseldorf GmbH
Ries str. 25, 80992, Munich,
Germany
E-mail: david.soldani@huawei.com
Dr.
Roberto Saracco
Trento Node Director
EIT
ICTLBS
v. Sommarive 18, 38123, Trento,
Italy
E-mail: roberto.saracco@ictlabs.eu