Track Co-Chairs:
Marcos Dias de Assuncao, École de technologie supérieure, Canada, marcos.dias-de-assuncao@etsmtl.ca
Aris Leivadeas, École de technologie supérieure, Canada, Aris.Leivadeas@etsmtl.ca
Description:
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are essential enablers of an unprecedented paradigm shift, which profoundly impacts the Telecom and ICT industries and ultimately leads to their full convergence. By separating control and data planes and decoupling network functionalities from purpose-built equipment, network softwarization has the potential of efficiently handling heterogeneous resources, spanning networks and data center domains, and quickly and flexibly deploying new services. Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) creates intriguing opportunities in novel network architectures, management frameworks, advanced networking, and computing services while raising security, scalability, and reliability challenges. Considered the game-changer for deploying fifth-generation (5G) networks and the future Next-G networks, SDN and NFV are expected to deliver end-to-end sliced softwarized infrastructures to dramatically transform vertical industries, such as automotive, energy, healthcare, city management, manufacturing. This track aims to encourage fruitful discussion of core challenges and proposals towards the realization of SDN and NFV, both from theoretical and practical perspectives, welcoming work-in-progress and consolidated research results.
- Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)
- SDN/NFV architecture and implementation
- SDN/NFV standardization updates
- SDN/NFV orchestration and management frameworks
- SDN/NFV application scenarios (e.g., IoT, smart cities, automotive, industry 4.0)
- SDN/NFV and fog/edge computing
- SDN/NFV in 5G or Next-G networks
- SDN/NFV enablers for network slicing
- SDN/NFV "as-a-Service" paradigms
- SDN/NFV in multi-domain scenarios
- SDN/NFV optimization algorithms
- SDN/NFV modeling and performance analysis
- SDN/NFV emulation/simulation/experimental platforms and testing approaches
- SDN/NFV pilots
- Security, Privacy, and Trust for Software Defined Networking
- Upper layer SDN-like frameworks and microservices
- Dimitrios Dechouniotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Marios Avgeris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Laaziz Lahlou, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
- Benjamin E. Ujcich, Georgetown University, USA
- Benjamin Aziz, University of Portsmouth, UK
- Piotr Borylo, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Artur Lason, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Anne-Cecile Orgerie, IRISA, CNRS, France
- Guilherme Piêgas Koslovski, UDESC, Brazil
- Isabelle Guerin Lassous, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ENS Lyon, France
- Laurent Lefevre, Inria, ENS Lyon, France
- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, USA
- Fangming Liu, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
- Zehua Guo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- Hongxin Hu, University at Buffalo, USA
- Nadir Shah, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
- Eleftherios Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Javier Rubio Loyola, CINVESTAV, Spain
- Shir Landau Feibish, Open University of Israel, Israel