Softwarization of networks, clouds, and internet of things
Filip De Turck, Joon‐Myung Kang, Hyunseung Choo, Myung‐Sup Kim, Baek‐Young Choi, Rémi Badonnel, James Won‐Ki Hong · International Journal of Network Management · 2017
The IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft) was established in 2015, and the second edition (IEEE NetSoft 2016) was organized in Seoul, Korea, during June 6 to 10, 2016.NetSoft 2016 builds further on the successful first edition, held in London, UK, in April 2015 and is the flagship conference established as part of the IEEE software-defined networks (SDN) initiative of the IEEE Future Directions Committee.NetSoft is the primary IEEE forum for publication and technical exchange of the latest research and innovation results in this challenging area and brings together academia and industry to evaluate and ponder maturing developments related to all aspects of network softwarization.NetSoft 2016 focused on the theme, "Softwarization of Networks, Clouds, and Internet of Things," presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with future softwarized networks, clouds, and IoT infrastructures, as well as with novel services provided on top of these infrastructures.Software-defined networks, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and SDN-based cloud computing (SDNCC) are different expressions of software-defined infrastructures (SDI).This transformation trend towards softwarization is deeply impacting telecom and ICT industries.In addition, this trend is also transforming several other industries, bringing softwarization to optimize costs and processes and to bring new values in the infrastructures.In particular, SDN, NFV, and network programmability are creating the conditions to reinvent network and service architectures.