IT networks are identified as complex systems with the expanding structures, updating hardware devices and software, integrating with heterogeneous network devices and networks, improving network functions and performance, emerging developed network application and network based services. The increasing evolution in IT networks brings lots of new vulnerabilities to networks and related online services, and the challenges in network protection, management, modeling and designing for future networks.

Security in existing and Future Networks (i.e. Future Internet) is a subject that continues to receive a lot of attention from research and industrial communities, especially due to the fact that Future Networks must exhibit various in-built security mechanisms. The same applies to other Management aspects for Future Networks (i.e. Future Internet), whereby certain capabilities must be incorporated into the architecture from the dawn of designing an architecture, and not as an afterthought. Such capabilities include Self-Management Capabilities, Trust, various forms of Mobility Management features and mechanisms, etc. The other aspect that is becoming increasingly important in the design of Future Networks, including in the evolving networks, is that of Modeling and associated Tools, since models are increasingly becoming important both in network design and for guiding the operation of networks e.g. Federation Models, etc. The implementation of network security, management, modeling and toots in evolving networks helps to realize the self-* management (self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization and self-protection), proactive, autonomic, controllable management for future IT networks. The session will provide a forum to researchers to propose theories, technologies and experience on network security, management, modeling & tools for Future Internet/networks.