SDWN'24: 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE DEFINED WIRELESS NETWORKS  

Aim and Scope

Over the last decade, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a paradigm shift in the way wired data networks are designed, operated, and managed. SDN centralised yet scalable approach has improved wired networks performance, reduced the complexity of their management, and increased innovation in this domain.

This success has inspired the adoption of SDN in wireless data networks to help address several issues such as performance optimisation and management complexity, giving rise to the research field of software defined wireless networks (SDWN). There are currently hundreds of contributions that attempt to apply this concept to different kinds of wireless communication networks and applications ranging from Wi-Fi networks to the Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things.

These contributions efforts of the SDWN research community are currently uncoordinated and at times not aligned or directed by the challenges that the communication networks industry faces. This workshop aims to bring together scientists and developers who are active in this ever-growing domain with stakeholders from the wireless communications industry. It is a follow-up on the successful 1st International Workshop on Software Defined Wireless Networks (SDWN'23) held in January 2023 in Las Vegas (see https://ccnc2023.ieee-ccnc.org/workshop/sdwn23).

Topics of Interest

The list of topics considered in this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Programmability and Virtualisation

• Resource Optimisation and Management

• Mobility Management

• SDWN Architectures

• SDWN Applications

• SDWN Security and Security Applications

• SDWN for 6G

• Open-Radio Access Network (O-RAN)

• Machine Learning Techniques in SDWNs

• SDWNs Simulation and Testing Techniques

• Roadmap to SDWN Adoption and Standardization

Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, with up to six (6) pages for technical content including figures and references in IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. They will be included in the workshop proceedings as well as IEEE Xplore.  The PDF version of the paper should be submitted through EDAS: https://sdwn2024.edas.info/.

Committees

General co-chairs 

• Fayçal Bouhafs, UNSW Canberra, Australia

• Frank den Hartog, University of Canberra, Australia

• Roberto Riggio, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy

Technical Program Committee

• Roberto Riggio, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy 

• Qi Shi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Michael Mackay, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Djamel Djenouri, University of the West of England, UK

• Carlos J. Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain 

• Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

• Frank den Hartog, University of Canberra, Australia

• Faycal Bouhafs, University of New South Wales, Australia

Date, Time, and Location:

The SDWN'24 workshop will be held in conjunction with the PVE-SDN workshop at IEEE Netsoft 2024 in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), see https://netsoft2024.ieee-netsoft.org/. The workshop is scheduled to start at 9 am on the 24th of June 2024 and will take until lunch time. 

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: Extended to April 12, 2024

• Notification of acceptance: May 2, 20214

• Final manuscripts due: May 9, 2024

For more information, please feel free to contact the chairs at: sdwn2024-chairs@edas.info

PDF of Call for Papers: click here.