NoF2021: Future Internet Designs |
Website | https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4633 |
Abstract registration deadline | April 30, 2020 |
Submission deadline | October 30, 2020 |
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Issues with current Internet architectures
- Forwarding and routing schemes with a focus on novel routing architectures (e.g., Babel, RIFT, BGP Auto-discovery)
- Protective and collaborative networking approaches
- Advanced network service production schemes by means of automated tasks and procedures
- Interconnect design schemes
- Security trends for a new Internet era
- Massively-deployed Internet of Things (IoT) networks and services: issues, design and production practices, foreseeable impacts (e.g., performance, scalability)
- Users’ privacy preservation and networking techniques
- Internet measurement, modeling, and visualization at large
- Close collaboration between IP and transport layers (e.g., for fine-tuned, application-inferred, traffic engineering purposes)
- CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) serviceability and security
- Energy-aware networking
- Service Assurance and Fulfillment techniques
- CDN (including CDN Interconnection) service and network design redux (e.g., taking advantage of edge computing resources)
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with a focus on deployment considerations and experience sharing
- Network Virtualization and Abstraction
- Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with a focus on deployment considerations and experience sharing
- Distributed services (including gaming and VoIP) and how their design affects Internet operation at large
- Novel Data Center architectures and their ability to take advantage of automation techniques
- Novel transport protocols, challenges, and deployment experience
- Deployability assessment of Self-* (self-healing, self-organized, etc.) architectures
- Internet Governance
- Studies on Internet fragmentation (geographic-based networks)
- Novel network management and operations approaches
- On the failure of traditional QoS models and their foreseeable evolution
- Network and service automation and the role of Artificial Intelligence applied to dynamic network resource provisioning
- Trends in transmission techniques (optics, satellite communications, quantum communications)
Submission Procedure
You are invited to submit to the editors a 2-page extended abstract of the chapter you propose. Full manuscripts will be invited upon the acceptance decision based on the initial proposals. A second round of review of the full manuscripts will be organized before their final versions are produced for publication.
The initial extended abstract must contain the following information:
- Title
- Full list of authors with affiliations and contact information
- A list of keywords
- 2-page description of the chapter contents: problem statement, technical options, evolution perspectives, etc., along with the foreseen chapter organization.
Important Dates
April 30, 2020: Submission of initial extended abstract
May 15, 2020: Notification of acceptance
October 30, 2020: Submission of full manuscript
December 7, 2020: Return of final review
December 21, 2020: Submission of final version with revisions
2021: Target date for publication