Issues of Modern Computer Networks

• Algorithms, protocols and applications for wired and wireless communications;
• Software-Defined Network monitoring and analysis;
• SDN&NFV solutions architecture: effective network devices design (switches, routers), hardware network acceleration, distributed control plane, software-defined data plane;
• Theory of SDN&NFV technologies;
• Software-Defined infrastructure security;
• SDN architecture for telecoms and enterprise networks;
• Architectures for SDN control plane;
• Optimized data transmission (transport protocols, route management, load balancing);
• Control plane programming (libraries and applications) and customization of control plane, programmable control plane;
• Novel offload and acceleration techniques to support SDN operations (e.g. using smart NICs, switch dev, FPGA and kernel or network stack bypass;
• Performance and reliability issues, Service Level Agreement and QoS guarantees in the network layer.

Service Virtualization in SDN Networks

• Network function virtualization infrastructures;
• Virtual services management in SDN networks;
• Management and orchestration of virtualized services in SDN;
• SDN&NFV in control of traffic processing stream: dynamic service chaining, orchestration policies, machine learning algorithms for service adaptation and state monitoring, reliability and automatic recovery issues etc;
• Architectures, methods and tools for dynamic deployment of network services.

Application of Modern Computer Networks

• SDN&NFV use-cases (SD-Wan, IoT, Smart cities, home, wireless, cellular, enterprise, data-center, backbone, and content distribution networks etc.);
• Modern network technologies in real-time systems.

Issues of Cloud Computations

• Cloud computation architecture;
• SDN solutions for Cloud computations (SDN in DC, inter-DC SDN);
• Management and orchestration of cloud computations;
• Cloud computations security;
• Performance, scalability and reliability in cloud computing;
• Cloud computing in the heterogeneous environment based on micro data centers

Application of Cloud Computing

• Cloud computing: application and best practices;
• Cloud computations as-a-service;
• Cloud computing and bigdata;
• Cloud computing economy. New economic models and environments based on SDN&NFV.