[icnrg] IEEE CNSM Workshop on Future Internet beyond IP - THIS MONDAY 11/2

[Cedric Westphal <[e-mail]>]

Hi,



This may be of interest to the ICN community: http://cnsm-conf.org/2020/workshop_IPFuture.html

We've been organizing a workshop focused on the questions: "can IP be replaced," and "if so, why and how?" associated with CNSM conference. It will be this coming Monday 11/2 between 1:30pm and 6pm CET. I attach the program below.

It's going to be a virtual conference held on Whova platform, and as workshops go, the registration is very affordable: http://cnsm-conf.org/2020/registration.html

Hopefully we’ll see you at the workshop!


1st International Workshop on the
Future Evolution of Internet Protocols
IPFUTURE 2020
13:30pm-13:40pm
Introduction, welcome from the chairs
13:40pm-14:40pm
Session 1:  New Networking Abstractions Cedric Westphal (Futurewei) – Chair
13:40pm-14pm
Invited Talk: Can we use CubeSats as the Backbone Network for Next Generation Communications Systems?
As the Internet evolves to support over 30 billion connected devices by 2021, the reach and connectivity offered by the traditional wired backbone is fast becoming a bottleneck. Nanosatellites, or CubeSats, are envisioned as a promising solution for future backbone communication networks because of their low costs and short deployment cycle. A new generation of CubeSats equipped with multi-band radios for communication in radio frequencies, millimeter wave and terahertz bands has made terabit per second (Tbps) links possible. A dense network of CubeSats worldwide offering Tbps-level connectivity provides an excellent opportunity for realizing the backbone network for next generation communications. Furthermore, this next-generation CubeSat backbone has much to benefit from Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization which provide fine-grained control over the system hardware, improve network resource utilization, and simplify network management. In this talk, a complete system architecture for global CubeSat networks coupled with a ground-based control and management framework is presented, along with novel solutions for large-scale network topology design and low-overhead routing.
Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Ian Akyildiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. He is the Ken Byers Chair Professor Emeritus in Telecommunications at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory. He serves on the Advisory Board for the newly established research center called Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since June 1, 2020. He is the President of the Truva Inc. since March 1989 and CTO for the newly established company Airanaculus since April 2020.  Since 2017, he also serves as a Consulting Professor with the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Cyprus. He is a Megagrant Research Leader with the Institute for Information Transmission Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, Russia, since May 2018. He is a Visiting Distinguished Professor with the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai, India since October 2019 and an Adjunct Professor with Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Iceland since September 2020.
He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the newly established ITU J FET (Journal on Future and Evolving Future Technologies) since August 2020. He is an Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier) (1999-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) (2003-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) (2008-2017), and the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Nano Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal (Elsevier) (2010-2017).  He is an IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow and received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM and other professional organizations. His current research interests are in CubeSats, Terahertz Communication, 5G/6G Wireless Systems, Molecular Communication, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Nanonetworks, and Wireless Sensor Networks in Challenged Environments such as Underground and Underwater. According to Google Scholar as of October  2020, his H-index is 125 and the total number of citations to his papers is 120+K.

14pm-14:20pm
Invited Talk: Innovating at the Network Layer -- How to (Not) Make the Internet Better

The past 15 years have seen several attempts of redesigning the Internet to address issues in different areas. Yet, it has been incredibly difficult to transfer the corresponding results into the running system. Even the introduction of IPv6, a minor upgrade from a research perspective, is happening at an incredibly slow pace. Based on experience in Future Internet Research, Internet Engineering and Applied Industry Research, this talk will distinguish pressing problems in the current Internet from less important ones and discuss areas that absolutely need innovation, as well as viable directions and strategies to actually make the Internet better.

Dirk Kutscher (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer)

Prof. Dr. Dirk Kutscher is a professor for computer science and networking at the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer. Previously he has been the CTO for Virtual Networking and IP at Huawei's German Research Center. He is co-chairing two Research Groups in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) on Information-Centric Networking (ICNRG) and on Decentralized Internet Infrastructure (Proposed DINRG). Dirk has held leading positions in multiple Future Internet Research projects and is currently serving as the technical coordinator for the Piccolo project, a new European research initiative on in-network computing. Dirk has published several IETF RFCs, books, and research publications on Internet technologies. He has a PhD from Universität Bremen. Previously Dirk was the Chief Researcher for Networking at NEC Laboratories Europe and worked as a Visiting Researcher at KDDI R&D Laboratories in Japan.


14:20pm-14:40pm
Invited Talk: Network protocols are dead, long live networking abstractions!
The ossification of the networking layer has long limited the evolution of networking services and applications. The emergence of programmable data planes and their inherent flexibility has enabled the broader community to revisit the network's role.  However, this flexibility is limited, and we lack sufficient primitives to harness and manage this flexibility effectively. This talk will discuss challenges that arise when the network is extended to support rich distributed systems abstractions, i.e., in-network computing, and sketch out a broad set of primitives for enabling in-network computing effectively. I will also describe ongoing work to extend our abstractions to manage traditional accelerators, e.g., GPUs and FPGAs.
Theophilus Benson (Brown University)
Theo is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. His group works on designing frameworks and algorithms for solving networking problems, speeding up the Internet, improving network reliability, and simplifying network management. He has won multiple awards, including best paper awards, Applied Network Research Prize, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook Faculty Awards, and an NSF Career award.

14:40pm-15pm
Virtual Coffee Break
15pm-16:20pm
Session 2: Can We Evolve IP? Enrico Natalizio (LORIA) – Chair
15pm-15:20pm
Invited Talk: Evolving IP to support Emerging Applications?
The Internet protocol suite has withstood numerous challenges that emerging applications have continually posed over the last several decades, and has admirably served the needs of our information driven society. The fundamental principles behind the design continue to serve us well even in these challenging times. Given this background, is there a reason to reconsider enhancements to the network layer in the context of even newer applications that are likely to emerge as we grow more and more dependent on networking. This will discuss a few applications that are gaining traction that can be substantially helped by a network layer more responsive to application needs in terms of latency, flexible naming and service features. Vehicular applications, rich 360-degree video distribution and augmented reality are emblematic of such emerging applications, and I will discuss the network layer features that these applications could use to improve their capabilities.
K. K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside)
Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Previously, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs-Research. Prior to 1994, he was a Technical Director and Consulting Engineer in Networking at Digital Equipment Corporation. Between 2000 and 2002, he was at TeraOptic Networks, Inc., as Founder and Vice President. K. K. is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow and an AT&T Fellow, recognized for his fundamental contributions on communication networks, including his work on congestion control, traffic management and VPN services. He has published over 280 papers and has 183 patents issued in his name.  K. K. received his MTech from the Indian Institute of Science (1978), MS (1981) & Ph.D. (1983) in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

15:20pm-15:40pm
Paper 1: A PCE-Based Framework for Future Internet Deterministic and Time-Sensitive Networks
Daniel King (Lancaster Univesity)
Adrian Farrel (Old Dog Consulting)

15:40pm-16pm
Invited Talk: The Problem with IP
This talk looks at how expected new applications will stress IP. It looks at the shortcomings  that IP has in addressing these needs and then explores research work that is being undertaken to mitigate these weaknesses.
Stewart Bryant (Futurewei, University of Surrey)
Stewart Bryant is a Distinguished Engineer (consultant) to Futurewei USA and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey UK. Stewart is a specialist in the Internet routing systems and is an author on 32 IETF RFCs and an inventor of over 80 patents in this area.  Stewart’s current research interest is in making packet switching networks address the needs of applications that require deterministic behaviour.

16pm-16:20pm
Paper 2: A formal approach for automatic detection and correction of SDN switch misconfigurations
Wejdene Saied (University of Carthage, Tunisia)
Adel Boujoula (Arabian Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain)

16:20pm-16:40pm
Virtual Coffee Break
16:40pm-18pm
Session 3: The Future of the  Data Plane Chair Cedric Westphal
16:40pm-17pm
Invited Talk: TCP/IP replacement: an overview of potential options.
The Internet has shown unexpected robustness by continuing to work well despite increasing traffic, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when numerous activities moved from physical to online. Even though TCP/IP networks are still performing up to the expectations, alternative network architectures and protocols are being explored both in the industry and in academia. In this talk, I will present the QUIC protocol, initially developed by Google to replace TCP, and the Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture, designed within the framework of the NSF Future Internet Architecture program by a consortium of Universities. The dynamic and intense competition among diverse entities creates the ideal environment for economically viable innovation in the field of networking.
Caterina Scoglio (Kansas State University)
Caterina M. Scoglio is currently the Paslay Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University. She received the Dr.Eng. Degree from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 1987. Before joining Kansas State University in 2005, she worked at the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni from 1987 to 2000 and the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2000 to 2005.  Her main current research interests include network science, and modeling and analysis of complex networks, with applications in epidemic spreading.

17pm-17:20pm
Invited Talk: Future IP: which network programmability challenges?
Network programmability has arguably been the mainstream research topic in networking for the last dozen of years, and any future Internet proposal cannot prescind from this. Actually, some among the more visionary proposals even bring back into play some original active networking ideas, such as software code embedded in the packets themselves. But which programming abstractions may sustain such a deep level of programmability? And does this trend call for innovative data-plane programming architectures capable to process packets at multi-gigabit wire-speed? These, as well as additional issues and challenges, will be discussed during the talk, with in mind the application to proposals for future Internet Protocols.
Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Roma Tor Vergata)
Giuseppe Bianchi is Full Professor of Networking at the University of Roma Tor Vergata since 2007. His research activity includes wireless networks (his pioneering research work on WLAN modelling and assessment has received the ACM SigMobile 2017 Test-Of-Time award), programmable network systems, privacy and security, traffic modelling and control, and is documented in about 250 peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, accounting for almost 20.000 citations (source: Google Scholar). He has coordinated six large scale EU projects, and has been (or still is) editor for several journals in his field, including IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Network and Service Management, and Elsevier Computer Communications.

17:20pm-17:40pm
Paper 3: Connection-Free Reliable and Efficient Transport Services in the IP Internet
JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Abdulazaz Albalawi (University of California, Santa Cruz)

17:40pm-18pm
Closing Remarks