Welcome to CNSM 2020

The 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the area of network and service management research. CNSM 2020 is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. The core track will be accompanied by a series of workshops and poster sessions.

Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2020 will be published as open access on the conference website (with IFIP copyright), and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers, accepted for publication in the CNSM 2020 proceedings, will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal.

Call for Papers

Please download the CNSM CFP flyer here:

Important Dates

Paper Submission: June 21, 2020
Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2020
Camera Ready Due: August 30, 2020
Conference: November 2-6, 2020

Topics of Interest (but not limited to)

Management Paradigms

Centralized management
Distributed management
Hierarchical management
Federated management
Autonomic and cognitive management
Policy-based management
Pro-active management
Energy-aware management
Quality of experience-centric management

Service Management

Cloud computing services
Content delivery services
Multimedia services
Internet connectivity and Internet access
Internet of Things services
Security services
Context-aware services
Information technology services

Business Management

Economic aspects
Multi-stakeholder aspects
Service level agreements
Lifecycle aspects
Process and workflow aspects
Legal perspective
Regulatory perspective
Privacy aspects

Functional Areas

Deployment management
Fault management
Configuration management
Accounting management
Performance management
Security management

Management Technologies

Network function virtualization
Software-defined networking
Orchestration
Cloud computing and cloud storage
Communication protocols
Middleware
Data models, information models semantic models
Operations support systems and business support systems
Information visualization

Methods

Mathematical optimization
Control theory
Probability theory, stochastic processes, and queuing theory
Machine learning, artificial intelligence
Evolutionary computing
Economic theory and game theory
Mathematical logic and automated reasoning
Data mining and (big) data analysis
Monitoring and measurements
Computer simulation experiments
Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation
Field trials

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 8 pages excluding references (full papers) or 4 pages excluding references (short papers). They have to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS. Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will sustain a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal phase.