[Nfvrg] IEEE INFOCOM SWFAN 2017 - Deadline Extended to Jan. 24

["Panagiotis Papadimitriou" <[e-mail]>]

Apologies for cross-postings.

The submission deadline of the INFOCOM SWFAN workshop has been extended 
to January 24.

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2nd IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile 
Networking (SWFAN 2017)
May 1, 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.swfan.org


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Scope and Topics of Interest
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The NFV/SDN paradigms promote the deployment of Network Functions (NF) 
as software components
into cloud infrastructures, and the identification of relevant 
abstractions for their configuration,
control and management. Such NFs can comprise processing elements in the
data plane (e.g., packet inspection, filtering, flow-level monitoring, 
or access control) as well
as control-plane components (e.g., signaling, routing, load balancing, 
mobility management). This
paradigm shift enables new cloud service models, i.e., NF-as-a-service 
(NFaaS), which can lead to
significant operational and technology investment cost savings for 
service providers. Beyond that, telecom
operators can greatly benefit from NFV/SDN, considering the increasing 
trend to implement mobile
communication network functions in software. Software-based networks can 
mitigate problems and shortcomings of
today’s networks, such as long provisioning times, with wasteful 
over-provisioning used to meet
variable demand, and reliance on rigid and cost-ineffective hardware 
devices. Therefore, there is an increasing
need for more flexibility and agility that can be attained via the 
architectural decomposition of
network components and network services into elementary, reusable 
primitives as well as the virtualization of
network processing elements.

In this respect, SWFAN aims at bringing together researchers, engineers,
and practitioners to discuss the latest advances on architectures, 
algorithms, abstractions, and
technologies for fluidity, flexibility, and agility in software-based 
networks. We particularly solicit submissions
of unpublished work on (i) the rapid and elastic provisioning of 
computing, storage, and network
resources for NF deployment and scaling in virtualized infrastructures, 
(ii) the development of new models,
protocols, algorithms, and abstractions for more flexible and agile 
network control, (iii) the specification and
development of elementary and reusable primitives for flexible network 
processing, and (iv) new
technologies for high-performance processing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Algorithms and methods for NF placement
• Dynamic NF state management
• Service chaining
• Abstractions and techniques for network service reconfiguration and 
scaling
• Architectures and interfaces for NF configuration and control
• NF verification, systematic testing, fault management, and protection
• New models, protocols, and abstractions for flexible and agile network 
operations
• Flexible management, control, and slicing in 5G
• Programmable data planes
• Network updates for software-based networks
• Radio Access Network (RAN) virtualization
• Mobile Edge Computing
• Experiences from NFV/SDN deployments in production networks


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Submission Instructions
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Papers should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE format (double-column, 10pt
font) and should be submitted via EDAS
in PDF (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). Reviews will be single-blind,
i.e., the papers should include the author names and affiliations.


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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: January 24, 2017 (firm)
Acceptance notification: February 22, 2017
Camera ready: March 12, 2017
Workshop: May 1, 2017


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Workshop Organizing Team
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Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Danny Raz, Bell Labs, Nokia, Israel


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TPC Co-Chairs
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Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
Stefano Salsano, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy


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Technical Program Committee
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Erez Biton, NOKIA Bell Labs, Israel
Matthew Broadbent, Lancaster University, UK
Zhen Cao, Huawei, China
Giuseppe Carella, TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Marinos Charalambides, University College London, UK
Marco Chiesa, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Claudio Cicconetti, MBI, Italy
Stuart Clayman, University College London, UK
Didier Colle, Ghent University – IMEC, Belgium
Daniel Corujo, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil
Vasilis Friderikos, Kings College London, UK
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Volker Hilt, NOKIA Bell Labs, Germany
Markus Hofmann, NOKIA Bell Labs, USA
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
Eric Keller, University of Colorado, USA
Wolfgang Kellerer, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
Christos Liaskos, FORTH, Greece
Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA
Michael McGrath, Intel Labs, Ireland
Reza Nejabati, University of Bristol, UK
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Roberto Riggio, Create-Net, Italy
Stefan Schmid, Aalborg University, Denmark
Florian Schmidt, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University, USA
John Thomson, OnApp, UK