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The Fourth International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2018)

Deadline extended

in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018), 25-29 June, 2018 Montreal, Canada

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) have changed the networking industry dramatically. NFV virtualizes network services by utilizing virtualization technologies to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware. NFV provides many benefits such as faster service enablement, ease of resource management and lower OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes. SDN provides many benefits such as reduced costs, ease of deployment and management, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic and security. Like traditional networks, they are subject to various security threats and attacks. In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and other related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks and requirements, threats and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide novel methods and approaches to assure security in NFV and SDN.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies
Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security
Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks
Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV
Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems
Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions
5G security architecture, trust and confidence
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in SDN
Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network
Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT
Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing
Risk and compliance issues in SDN
Security architectures for SDN
Security standards for SDN
Security of SDN data plane
Security of SDN control plane
Security of SDN application plane
Security of routing in SDN
Security as a service for SDN

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font), including figures.

Important dates:

· Paper Submission: March 23, 2018

· Notification of Acceptance: April 6, 2018

· Camera Ready: April 20, 2018

Workshop Website

http://computing.derby.ac.uk/sns2018

Workshop Chairs

Dr. Shao Ying Zhu , University of Derby,UK
Dr. Colin Allison, University of St Andrews,UK
Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Dr. George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece

Technical Program Committee (TPC)

Marco Anisetti – University of Milan, Italy
Stéphane Betgé-Brezetz Nokia Bell Labs,France
Gergely Biczók – Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Carolina Canales – Ericsson, USA
Augusto Ciuffoletti – University of Pisa, Italy
Roberto Doriguzzi Corin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
Georgios Gardikis – Space Hellas S.A.,Greece
Bernat Gaston – Fundació Privada I2CAT
Doan Hoang – University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ludovic Jacquin – Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
Felix Klaedtke – NEC Labs Europe, Germany
Harilaos Koumaras – NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Michail-Alexandros Kourtis – NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Kahina Lazri – Orange Labs, France
Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Antonio Lioy- Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Marie Paule Odini – HPE, France
Nicolae Paladi – SICS, Sweden
Dimitrios Pezaros – University of Glasgow, UK
Sachin Sharma – NEC Laboratories Europe,Germany
Sandra Scott-Hayward – Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Eleni Trouva - NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Shao Ying Zhu – University of Derby, UK