2° IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE DEFINED 5G NETWORKS (SOFT5G) Evolvable and. dependable SG ‘networks: architectures, on paraaigms, and standards ZENETSOFT SEOUL, KOREA — JUNE 10", 2016 ‘/www.soft5g.o1 SCOPE ‘The second IEEE International Workshop on Software Defined 5G Networks (SoftSG 2016) will be held on June 10", 2036 in Seoul, Korea along with 2" IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2015). Sofware defined networking (SDN) is undoubtedly ono the most popular topic in the wired and the wireless networking domains raising interested among the academic and the industrial communties alke. Additionally the evolution of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) brings the ‘opportunity to implement network services in software on top of generic hardware architectures paving the way to a truly evolvable network. The mobile networks beyond LTE and LTE Advanced are required to cope with dramatic increases in data traffic and with ‘2 highly diverse devices, applications and services ecosystem. AS a result, several research niatives on 5G mobile networks have been launched worldwide targeting the defintion ofthe next generation mobile networking ecosystem. In parallel, network related standardization activiles are mushrooming at the most important SDOs. SDN brings the promise of enabling flexble, scalable, highly configurable and reliable mobile networks by leveraging on programmable control, managemert, and data planes. This warkchop aims at bringing together research and industry partners fo present and discuss preliminary résearch results, ongoing work and experiences on the opic of software based, programmable 5G networks and services. TOPICS OF INTEREST ‘Authors. are invited to submit papers that fall nto the area of software-defined and virtualized mobile infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the folowing: Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks ‘© Advances in wireless network management and EPC evolution towards 5G Core ‘orchestration NEV architectures for 5G ‘¢ End-to-end resource allocation in 5G networks Programming abstractions for SG networks ‘¢ Dynamic service placement & scalability strategies Software based PHY and MAC modelling for SG End-to-end wireless sofware networks architecture + Programming abstractions for spectum sharing Cloud computing and network vitualization + Autonomous and self-backhauling technologies for RAN, backhaul and core + Software programmed end-user devices Distributed data-centres architectures for 5G * Benchmarking of software defined networks QoS and QoE in software defined 5G networks + Software networks evaluation and testbeds Ditributed clouds technologies for future wireless + Open Source tools for 8 Prototyping networks Emerging 5G SDN architectures & standards + Network services and applications life-cycle + Emerging 5G Applications and Architectures management ‘* Service Function Chaining Approaches Edge network support Cross Layer Application Programming High availabilty in sofware wireless networks # M2NtnoT architectures in 5G Software robustness for shared network * Recursive mobile network architectures environments PAPER SUBMISSION ‘Authors are invited to submit only original papers not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers can be up to 6 pages Papers must be in IEEE 2column UStetter style using IEEE Conference templates hiip im ieee. org/conferences_events/conferences/publishingtemplates.him) and submitted in PDF format via JEMS (tips /isubmissoes,sbc.org.br/home,cqi7c=2439). Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and selt-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All submitted papers will be subject to peer-review. Accepted and presented papers wil be published in the IEEE SoftSG Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: February 14", 2016, NETSOFT GENERAL CO-CHAIR heaton of Aceparcs Pau 2" 2018 lames Wonski Hong, POSTECH, Korea Camera Ready Papers: March 15", 2016 NETSOFT WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Workshop date: June 10", 2016 Burkhard Siler, University of Zurich, Switzerland WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada ‘Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Youngtan Kith, Soongstl University, Korea. Germany IEEE SDN Initiative Chair Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Italy wees Akihiro Nakao, Tokyo University EESizss Antonio Manzalini, Telecom tala, Italy ‘Ashutosh Dutta, AT&T Labs ‘TECHNICAL SPONSORS IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society. ieee IEEE E ‘COMMUNICATIONS @®computer i wap A ‘» SOCIETY society Sonai Pocessing ob