Fachgespräch Network Softwarization

The 2nd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Network Softwarization

Jointly with SFB 901 meets Industry Event

Paderborn University, September 24/25, 2018

The notion of "network softwarization" has gained significant traction over the last few years, providing an umbrella term for separate yet complementary approaches like software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), but also techniques like reconfigurable radio systems. It is considered a pivotal concept for the evolution of the Internet, 5G mobile networks, as well as data centre networks.

This workshop continues its first iteration. It intends to bring together researchers from various perspectives, ranging from hardware architectures that enable softwarization (e.g., FPGAs in mobile fronthauls), over suitable network architectures (e.g., the relationship of virtualization and slicing), to suitable software engineering concepts (e.g., DevOps for softwarized networks). We invite interested participants from both academic and industrial backgrounds.

Topics

Possible topics hence include, but are not limited to:

SDN/NFV architectures
Adjacent technologies like hardware enables or DevOps
Use cases and business models for SDN/NFV
SDN/NFV in unconventional scenarios
SDN/NFV integration with legacy networks (hybrid SDN)
SDN/NFV testbeds and emulation platforms
Dependability concepts for softwarized concepts
Performance and scalability, flexibility
Monitoring, SLAs, policing in softwarized networks
Security for and by softwarized networks
Teaching activities
Deployment and standardization reports

For more information, please contact the organizers.

Format

Fachgespräch

The workshop as such is intended to last from lunchtime Monday to lunchtime Tuesday, depending on number of accepted submissions. Depending on submissions, a separate poster session time slot will be organised.

SFB 901 meets industry

On Tuesday afternoon, a joint even with SFB 901 will take place: SFB meets Industry, focusing on how the results of the NFV community and the notion of "on-the-fly computing" can interact to bring to live an IT infrastructure that can quickly deploy and support a wide range of complex applications, going beyond today's cloud approaches.

This event is based on invited talks. All participants of the Fachgespräch are cordially invited to attend.

Confirmed speakers:

Kostas Samdanis, Huawei Munich

Submission guidelines

Authors can choose three forms of submission:

Title, abstract and reference of previously published work to present and discuss in the KuVS community.
Short paper or a poster for a project outline, work in progress, a teaching project, a demo description, or a challenges/visionary talk, pertaining to the topics at hand.
A PhD topic outline presentation - get feedback from your peers about your intended topic. Intended for first or second year PhD students. Will take place in separate session.

Submitted material will be published as a technical report on Arxiv. It should follow IEEE's conference layout (double column) and be at most two pages. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that the material is free of any copyright issues.

Send submissions as PDFs to Holger Karl.

Dates

August 20: Submission deadline
September 3: Notification of acceptance
September 10: Camera-ready material

Note that there will only be a very light review process, as is in the tradition of Fachgespräche.

Organizers

Holger Karl, Paderborn University
Martina Zitterbart, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Menth, University Tübingen

Technical Program Committee:

Georg Carle, TU Munich
Artur Hecker, Huawei Munich
Frank Kargl, Ulm University
Wolfgang Kellerer, TU Munich
Stefan Schmidt, Aalborg University
Fabian Schneider, NEC Labs Heidelberg
Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt
Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen
Hagen Woesner, B-ISDN, Berlin

Registration and local information

To register for the event, please send an email to Mrs. Tanja Bürger. We will charge a small participation fee (details to be announced; likely around 50€) covering coffee and lunches. Social event on Monday evening to be announced.

The workshop will take place in the building O of the main campus of Paderborn University, lecture hall O2. See here for details and travel hints. No hotel rooms have been reserved; please handle that yourself.