The International Symposium on
Software Defined Networks and Mobile Edge Computing


In conjunction with
The 8th International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2021)
Gandia, Spain 6-9 Dec 2021 (Virtual)

The emerging networking techniques such as Software Defined Network (SDN) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are promising a complete paradigm shift in how we manage our future networks. With their enormous benefits which include reducing the operational cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements, the adoption of such technologies is gaining momentum. Supported by a well-defined basis such as network virtualization and the decoupling of the data and control planes, the integration of SDN and NFV with current systems might be a straightforward process. However, this might incur many challenges which require deep analysis to propose creative solutions. In the (SDMEC 2021) Symposium, we are aiming to invite researchers from both the academia and the industry to present their state of the art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field.

The International Symposium on Software Defined Network and Mobile Edge Computing (SDMEC) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of SDN, MEC, NFV, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing . We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of SDN and NFV management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported SDN, MEC and NFV, to mention but few.

The topics of interest for this symposium include, but are not limited to:

  • Software Defined Network (SDN) Architectures and Design
  • Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Architectures and Design
  • SDMEC Integration
  • SDMEC Orchestration
  • SDMEC Based Control plane design
  • SDMEC Based Data plane design
  • SDMEC Performance Management
  • SDMEC support for Cloud based DataCenter
  • SDMEC support for 5G Networks
  • SDMEC support for Internet of Things (IoT)
  • SDMEC support for Big Data Computing
  • SDMEC support for large scale storage system
  • Hardware system design for SDMEC
  • SDMEC Security management
  • Radio Access Network virtualization at the Edge
  • SDMEC in access networks
  • Edge and Fog Computing
  • Cloud Computing
  • Case studies

Organising Committee

General Co-chairs

    Mohammad Shojafar, Ryerson University, Canada

    Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain

Technical Program Co-chairs

    Zahra Pooranian, University of Padua, Italy

    Zilong Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

    Mehdi Sookhak, Arizona State University, USA

Steering Committee

    Luís Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University, USA

    Cristina Cervelló-Pastor,Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

    Zilong Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

    Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain

Publication and Publicity Co-chairs

    Guillaume Ruty,Cisco Systems, Telecom ParisTech

    Sandra Sendra, Universidad de Granada, Spain

    Sanju Tiwari, Teerthankar Mahaveer University, India

    Neeraj Kumar, Thapar University, India

Technical Programme Committee

    Jingyuan Fan, SUNY Buffalo, USA

    Doan Hoang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Huu-Nghi Nguyen, École Normale Supérieur de Lyon, France

    Tejas Subramanya, FBK CREATE-NET, Italy

    Abeer Alanazi, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA

    Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia

    Vivek Kumar, National Univ. of Science and Technology-MiSiS, Russia

    Gladys Diaz, Paris 13 University, France

    Wael Hosny Fouad Aly, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait

    Zhanqi Xu, Xidian University, China

    Jian Kong, The University of Texas, Dallas, USA

    Yu Xiong, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Yongli Zhao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Lingxia Liao, The University of British Columbia, Canada

    Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

    Gang Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

    Abdulaziz Ghaleb, QU, Qatar

    Kohei Shiomoto, NTT, Japan

    Suleyman Eken, Kocaeli University, Turkey.

    Andy Rindos, IBM Research, USA

    Jianwu Wang, University of California, San Diego, USA

    Ahmed Bouridane, University of Northumbria, UK

    Mohamed Abdel-Maguid, University Campus Suffolk, UK

    Emmanuel Bertin, Orange Labs - France Telecom, France

Important Dates

  • 20 Oct, 2021

    Paper Submission

  • 31st Oct, 2021

    Author's Notification

  • 30th Oct, 2021

    Camera-ready paper submission

  • 10th Nov 2021

Submission Instructions

Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdmec2021
Details about camera ready submission and registion can be found on the main conference papge at the below link
https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2021/CameraReady.php