[Netslices] MOBISLICE Call for Workshop Papers

[Seil Jeon <[e-mail]>]

Hi NETSLICEers,

[Apologies for cross-posting]

CALL FOR PAPERS

MOBISLICE – 6th Mobility Support in Slice-based network control for
heterogeneous environments



Network slicing has been standing as one of the key enabling technologies
for the 5th Generation of Telecommunications. Alongside other important
technologies, such as NFV, SDN and MEC, its contributions to isolated
network provisioning in a more dynamic and flexible way are being pursued
in different industry and academia arenas throughout the world.
Nonetheless, considering the wide range of foreseen enhanced use cases (not
only in scope of 5G but also Beyond-5G and 6G), slicing aspects have been
mostly targeting either enhancements at the radio level, or the integration
of novel cloud resourcing capabilities for supporting network operation at
the core and/or the edge. As such, there is a wide gap related with the
impact that such slicing-based procedures will exert over mobility
management processes for seamless mobility support while the devices,
network or services move both physically (i.e., change their network point
of attachment) as well as virtually (i.e., between slices). MOBISLICE will
address the evolutionary path that starts from existing deployed
slice-mobility solutions (both still in research as well as in the wild)
and will progress that analysis by assessing the technical considerations
that are not yet feasible by 5G deployments, and must be progressed into
Beyond-5G and 6G research. Here we will address to which degree 5G has gone
beyond initial technological enablement for mobile slices, and paved the
way for further capabilities, enhancements, use case scenarios and
applications, whose scope goes into whole new levels and network evolutions.



Topics

The MOBISLICE workshop focuses, but is not limited to, the following topics
targeting slicing:



- Vertical use cases and architectures evaluation

-- Slices in constrained environments (IoT, Edge, etc.)

-- Factories of the future use cases including manufacturing automation and
process automation

-- Automotive service and ITS scenarios

-- Telco Operator and enterprise-based environments

-- Smart-X slice mobility

-- Reliability and security

-- Experimental, real trials and their impact in vertical performance



-Network, Computation and other enablers for MOBISLICE

-- Main operations and API

-- Inter- and intra-slice mobility procedures

-- Lifecycle management and impact

-- Heterogeneous access convergence or abstraction

-- High availability and reliability techniques

-- Experimental and real trials



- Standardization efforts and activities for MOBISLICE

-- Status and progresses in 3GPP/ETSI/IETF and other SDOs and vertical
associations such as 5G-ACIA/5GAA

-- Proposals and standardization direction for advanced slicing

-- SDN/NFV initiatives

-- Slice-enhanced Networking and telecommunication protocols



- Beyond-5G and 6G slicing

-- Disruptive architectures

-- Zero-touch slice performance

-- Experimental and real trials

-- New scenarios



Technical Program Committee

Alex Galis                           (UCL)

Antonio de la Oliva     (UC3M)

Billy Pinheiro     (Amachains)

Carlos Bernardos             (UC3M)

David Moura            (CTEx)

Diego Lopez     (Telefonica)

Dirk Trossen     (InterDigital)

Fabio Berdi         (UFSCar)

Fernando Farias               (RNP)

Francesco Tusa                 (UCL)

Francisco Fontes     (Altice Labs)

Gino Carrozzo     (Nextworks)

Javier Baliosian     (UdelaR)

Joan Serrat         (UPC)

Juhoon Kim     (Deutsche Telekom AG)

Kashif Mahmood     (Telenor)

Marco Liebsch                  (NEC)

Pankaj Thorat                   (Samsung)

Paulo Ditarso Maciel     (IFPB)

Ramon Casellas                 (CTTC)

Riccardo Trivisonno     (Huawei)

Sung Won                          (Nokia)

Sri Gundavelli     (Cisco)

Tarik Taleb     (Aalto University)

Younghan Kim     (Soongsil University)





Submissions

MOBISLICE will accept papers formatted as the standard IEEE double-column
conference template, with a 6 page limit, allowing 1 additional page with
an additional charge. The best paper voted by the TPC will receive A BEST
PAPER award.

Improved versions of selected published papers will be invited for possible
inclusion in Springer's "Journal of Internet Services and Applications
(JISA) with Open Access, free of publication charge.

Check for more submission information at the workshop’s website:
http://mobislice.com

Important Dates

Paper submission:        18th September, 2023

Notification of Acceptance:    3rd October, 2023

Camera-ready Submission:    9th October, 2023



Workshop Chairs

               Prof. Dr. Daniel Corujo (University of Aveiro and Instituto
de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

               Prof. Dr. Augusto Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande do
Norte, Brazil)

               Dr. Seil Jeon (Telia Company, Sweden)





Regards,

Seil Jeon