Part I – Call for Papers Call for Papers

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) SDN, NFV and Mobile Edge Computing with QoE Support for 5G Aim and Scope: With the proliferation of latency and bandwidth sensitive mobile applications, the need for new telecommunications standards, with high capacities (e.g., 1000 x) to support massive number of connections with diverse requirements, become a crucial need. Such new standards must be capable of serving large number of devices, especially mobile and wearable devices, with the best Quality-of-Experience (QoE) possible including highly crowded areas. The 5G standard which is not just an extension to 4G has emerged as a viable solution to fulfill the aforementioned needs. The 5G promises a paradigm shift, in telecommunication systems and services, by focusing not only on providing high speed connections with higher data rates, but also in serving large number of devices/users while maintaining high QoE. 5G is regarded as capable of satisfying the resource requirements for the emerging mobile applications such as virtual and augmented reality, vehicular networks (VANETs), and the Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. 5G will support emerging communications including machine-to-machine (M2M) communications with low cost, low latency, high bandwidth, and energy efficiency. The deployment of 5G based systems, which is expected to be available by 2020, may require the integration of multiple new technologies to achieve its goals. Such technologies include Mobile Edge Comping (MEC), wireless virtualization, and software defined systems or networks (SDNs) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) among others. Also methodologies for resource manipulation and sensing as well as allocation for optimized performance so that Quality of Experience (QoE) of the end-users is maximized. Due to the non-linearity of the QoE model, the resource manipulation with solution provision within the context of SDN for MEC devices should be solved concurrently so that the associated performance can be assessed and evaluated. The inclusion of MEC, SDN, and NFV and its possible support for 5G systems is emerging as one of the highly active research areas with a large room for improvements. One specific aspect of great importance is the continuously increasing processing, caching and storage capabilities required by the emerging applications such as IoT and virtual reality. Topics of Interest: The topics relevant to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to: • • • • •

SDN, NFV and MEC architectures with QoE support for 5G deployment QoE in 5G Considerations. Advances in data and control planes, Network Slicing, abstraction and hierarchical controllers for 5G deployment. Optimizing NFV and SDN infrastructures for 5G 5G real-time and efficient communication techniques within SDN, NFV and MEC

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5G architecture features and evolution within SDN, NFV and MEC Wireless virtualization for 5G 5G Applications for VANETs, Health, Military, etc... 5G and D2D for the Internet of Things integration Mobile Edge Computing and 5G QoE in Mobile Edge Computing Edge Analytics for Internet of Things and 5G Cloudlet based computing support for 5G Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability in 5G Data storage, processing, and management at MEC platform within 5G Future directions for 5G research.

Coherent list of topics: Papers must be tailored to the emerging fields of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing and explicitly consider recent deployments models, challenges and novel solutions. The Guest Editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the ETT guidelines (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1541-8251/homepage/ForAuthors.html). Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscriptcentral (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ett) according to the timetable below. Important Dates (Tentative): - Submission deadline: 15/12/2017 - Author Notification: 15/3/2018 - Final Manuscript: 15/5/2018 - Publication: Q4-2018 Guest Editors: 1. Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, [email protected] 2. Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, [email protected] 3. Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA , [email protected] 4. Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan, [email protected]