Subject: [Netslices] Deadline Extension (Nov 12) -- COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT) workshop @ IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Spain

From: LUIS MIGUEL CONTRERAS MURILLO <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 09:29:17 +0000

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENSION) - *COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT) *

workshop co-located at the

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2018

Barcelona, Spain, May 30-June 1, 2018

URL: http://wcnc2018.ieee-wcnc.org/workshop/control-and-management-network-slices-verticals-comvert

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE (extension) November 12, 2017

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Mobile networks have been traditionally composed of three segments: The Radio Access Network (RAN), the Core Network, and the Transport Network interconnecting the RAN with the Core. Developing 5G network architectures nowadays challenges the traditional split of RAN, Transport and Core by adding computing capabilities at the mobile network edge (RAN/Transport) and thus, blurring their boundaries. Such bolstering of the edge capabilities is motivated by the need in 5G to support a wide range of vertical industries, such as automotive, e-Health and media & entertainment, with very diverse and stringent requirements. In fact, from a network architecture perspective, 5G is being defined as the communications and IT substrate on top of which all sorts of diverse services will be offered, co-existing in an isolated and independent manner. The network will have to support simultaneously the requirements of vertical industries (e.g., automotive, media and entertainment, e-Health, industry 4.0) in addition to more conventional M(V)NO deployments. At the infrastructure level, two trends rule its design and deployment. First, the above context entails an increasing technical and cost pressure leading to infrastructure sharing, at least in some parts of the network. And second, the variety of scenarios in general will entail a heterogeneity of technologies not necessarily belonging to the same administrative domain, reinforcing the need of defining appropriate trading mechanisms among providers.

Furthermore, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) shifts the required mobile network functionality closer to the mobile edge. Deploying these edge capabilities is quite compelling for mobile operators as they can now handle a massive amount of local and raw traffic directly at the edge, thus keeping it away from their Transport and Core; hence saving capacity and cost. These edge capabilities also bring an opportunity to leverage on a rich set of context information available at the edge. In this way, context-awareness can be used at large to optimize end-to-end network performance as well as to offer new customized services to other providers including vertical industries. With the computing infrastructure now spanning from the distributed edge to distant data centres and central clouds, it becomes clear that Mobile Transport Networks shall transform from today's rigid interconnection solutions into an SDN/NFV/MEC- based 5G Mobile Transport and Computing Platform (MTP) able of to meet the specific needs of vertical industries.

Therefore, the need for sharing the infrastructure, yet guaranteeing the requirements to the various tenants naturally leads to network slicing. But building such end-to-end slices in a multi-party multi-domain multi-technology framework poses several challenges that must be appropriately handled at the architectural and deployment points of view. These challenges are currently being addressed in several research projects (e.g., H2020 5G-Transformer, 5G-Exchange, 5G-Crosshaul) and standardization bodies. This workshop expects to become a meeting point between industry and academia to discuss about the present and future of network slicing control and management in 5G networks.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

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* Architectures/Protocols/API specifications to allocate verticals/networks on top of single and/or multi-domain mobile transport networks

* Business mechanisms and economic framework for network slicing

* Scalable and secure MANO-based deployments models

* Multi-domain service and resource federation

* Network/Vertical service descriptors

* Virtualization in multi-domain environments

* Integration of network and IT resources

* Vertical/network slice isolation (security threats and performance isolation)

* Inter-slice communication (security threats and control mechanisms)

* Virtualization/containerization of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices

* Monitoring of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices

* Flexible control/data plane splits and fronthaul splits

* Runtime allocation of resources to vertical/network functions/slices/microservices

* Runtime placement of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices

* Enforcement of orchestration policies for the interaction between services/microservices within a slice

* Local breakout/MEC/fog/cloudlets

* Experimentation and lessons learnt with orchestration frameworks CORD, ONAP, Open-O, OSM, Cloudify, OpenBaton, Istio in mobile transport networks

* Experimental mobile transport testbeds including network and IT resources

* Experimental Network/Vertical slice measurements

* Coexistence and migration of legacy operational networks towards slice substrates.

* Standardization efforts on network slicing (ETSI, IETF, 3GPP, BBF, ONF, etc.)

IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper Submission Deadline: *extended to November 12, 2017*

Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2018

Camera Ready version: January 12, 2018

COMMITTEES

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Luis M. Contreras, Telefonica, Spain

Jose Núñez Martínez, Telefonica, Spain

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Carlos J. Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Thomas Deiss, Nokia, Germany

Manos Dramitinos, AUEB, Greece

Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom

Andres Garcia-Saavedra, NEC, Germany

Mario Kind, Deutsche Telekom, Germany

Giada Landi, NextWorks, Italy

Xi Li, NEC, Germany

Kiran Makhijani, Huawei, USA

Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain

Alain Mourad, Interdigital, United Kingdom

Akihiro Nakao, University of Tokyo, Japan

Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brazil

Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Best regards

Luis

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Luis M. Contreras

Technology and Planning
Transport, IP and Interconnection Networks
Telefónica I+D / Global CTIO unit / Telefónica

Distrito Telefónica, Edificio Sur 3, Planta 3
28050 Madrid
España / Spain

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