Track Co-Chairs:
Bo Ji, Virginia Tech, USA, boji@vt.edu
Holger Karl, HPI Potsdam, Germany, holger.karl@hpi.de
Description:
Networks will have to support bigger and more diverse traffic volumes in coming decades. This track asks which advances are needed to enable our network infrastructure to deal with this development and how to make an infrastructure’s capability accessible to applications. A key technique seems to be increasing flexibility of the network infrastructure, enabled on many different levels of a network architecture. This question spans over different network domains - from the Internet at large over mobile/cellular networks to data-centre networks; it can be applied at different levels of a network architecture, from switching hardware over softwarizing networks up to resource management aspects like slicing. And it also encompasses work on different aspects, like management, governance or policing of networks, up to legal, policy-making and ethical aspects.
- Internet at large
- Mobile and cellular networks, including satellite networks, cell-free or core-less mobile networks
- Data-center networks
- Programmable switching hardware (e.g., SmartNICs) and their use in networking protocols or applications
- Softwarization concepts like software-defined networks or network function virtualization
- Flexible resource management, e.g., agile spectrum sharing or network slicing or resource management for unconventional application patterns like machine learning at the edge
- Reconfigurable network infrastructure, e.g., optical networks or radio self-backhauling
- Computation offloading using infrastructure/data processing units (IPU/DPU)
- Automated/intelligent network configuration
- Efficient network misconfiguration diagnosis methods
- Planning, provisioning, deployment, operation, and management
- Policy-making, regulation and governance of networks; sustainable network infrastructures
- Business models like open radio access networks (ORAN) and ethical aspects
- Ana Aguiar, Instituto de Telecomunicações & University Porto, Portugal
- Bengt Ahlgren, Research Institute, Sweden
- Roland Bless, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Daniel Campus-Mur, I2Cat, Spain
- Yubin Duan, Temple University, USA
- Vaji Farhadi, Bucknell University, USA
- Ilario Filippini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Paolo Giaccone, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Zehua Guo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- Shaddi Hasan, Virginia Tech, USA
- Ramin Khalili, Huawei, Germany
- Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA, Spain
- Zoltan Mann, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Peshal Nayak, Samsung Research America, USA
- Fabio Pianese, Nokia Bell Labs, France
- Madhurima Ray, Penn State Beaver, USA
- Christian Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brazil
- Gourav Saha, Ohio State University, USA
- Gamal Sallam, Temple University, USA
- Sanjeev Sondur, Oracle America, USA
- Wouter Tavernier, University of Ghent, Belgium
- Xuyu Wang, Florida International University, USA
- Shizhen Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Jiaqi Zheng, Nanjing University, China
- Jingya Zhou, Soochow University, China