During the last decade, we have witnessed fast developments of various networking technologies, and many forms of networking are becoming core parts of our daily lives. With the proliferation of future wireless technologies and electronic devices, there is a fast growing interest in ubiquitous and future networks. In the days to come, we expect that the ubiquitous communication and networking technologies will become ubiquitous along with the emergence of many future networking technologies. The ubiquitous and future network will offer multiservice, multimedia services convergence, mobility, service ubiquity and context awareness, fixed-mobile convergence, quality of service, variable connectivity, spontaneous networking, autonomic networking and other capabilities as the norm. Building on the success of the last seven years, the eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2016) aims at addressing advances in research on ubiquitous and future networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to emerging applications and test-bed developments. ICUFN 2016 solicits original, unpublished contributions in all aspects of ubiquitous and future networking. Submitted articles must not be concurrently considered elsewhere for publication. The conference is organized by KICS (The Korean Institutes of Communications and Information Sciences) with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Communications Society and IEICE-CS. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases through EI Compendex, Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Knowledge, Thomson ISI, and IET Inspect.

As Internet of Things (IoT) devices penetrate into our intimate surroundings and transform our daily lifestyle, networks are facing new challenges such as delivering and managing enormous amount and heterogeneity of data and devices. Software defined Networking (SDN) is considered to be a highly effective technology that will enable efficient transfer of data between sensors and clouds, real-time management of devices and rapid deployment of new services. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to present their new ideas and latest achievements in the area of SDN for IoT.

We invite authors from both industry and academia to submit original research and review papers that cover the design, implementation, and optimization with the specific focus on SDN for IoT.