Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to one or multiple topic areas listed below:

• Analytics and big data approaches for managing 5G networks

• Cognitive and autonomic management & orchestration/choreography

• Metadata, data and information models and semantics

• Programming abstractions for 5G networks

• Policy-based management, including imperative, declarative (intent), and other paradigms

• End-to-end mobile software networks architecture

• Cloud Management, software-defined infrastructure, and NFV

• Management architecture, building blocks, protocols and APIs for 5G networks, layers and systems

• Operating system for networking in 5G Cloud computing and network virtualization technologies for RAN, backhaul and core

• NFV architectures for 5G networks

• Dynamic service placement and management

• Dynamic Service Function Chaining

• QoS and QoE new metrics in software-defined 5G networks

• Recursive mobile network architectures

• Advances in mobile network management and orchestration

• Fronthaul and backhaul integration

• Spectrum sharing

• Emerging 5G standards

• Economic drivers for the deployment of 5G Networks technologies

• Evaluation, testbeds and management

• Open Source tools for 5G Prototyping

• Feedback on5G experimental testbed