Call for Papers

Over time, the capacity of networks has dramatically increased, thanks to advances in optical communications. However, the Internet traffic is still growing every year which forces network operators to look for efficient solutions to manage this traffic. Since the advent of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), the majority of researchers focus their attention on centrally managed networks with efficient traffic management solutions. However, current networks still operate mostly in a distributed fashion. They were developed in this manner to avoid performance bottlenecks and single points of failure. Their transition into centrally-managed networks involves complications.

Using multipath transmissions improves network utilization by allowing the use of several disjoint paths between any two points in the network. Despite the benefits of this approach being obvious, current networks still do not use such mechanisms. Therefore, there is a renewed interest today in the design and performance evaluation of new traffic management techniques, multipath transmissions, congestion control mechanisms, and other solutions to maximize network efficiency and end-to-end performance. Moreover, recent advances in wireless networks, including 5G and beyond created new challenges and  possibilities.

This Feature Topic (FT) aims at investigating recent advances in traffic management designed for all sorts of networks including wired or wireless networks, distributed or centralized control. Prospective authors are invited to submit original high-quality contributions in all areas related to this topic including, but not limited to, the following:

• Multipath approaches: design, path selection, performance evaluation;
• New trends and results in congestion control;
• Flow-based traffic control;
• Applying machine learning/artificial intelligence for increasing network efficiency;
• Assuring high Quality of Service;
• Other solutions aiming at increasing network efficiency.

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Manuscript Submission Guidelines. Please, check these guidelines carefully before submitting since submissions not complying with them will be administratively rejected without review.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select the “FT-2211/Traffic Management in Next-Generation Networks” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles. Please observe the dates specified here below noting that there will be no extension of submission deadline.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 August 2022
Decision Notification: 15 November 2022
Final Manuscript Due: 1 December 2022
Publication Date: February 2023

Guest Editors

Robert Wójcik (Lead)
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Jorge Carapinha
Altice Labs, Portugal

Bo Jiang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China