[Nfvrg] Final deadline extension Workshop on'5G Cloud Native Design' - IEEE 5G WF 2018

[José Soler <[e-mail]>]

Apologies for multiple-channel posting.

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Final- Deadline extension : May 1st, 2018
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Call for Papers for the NGPaaS Workshop on'5G Cloud Native Design'
in conjunction with IEEE 5G WF 2018,
9-11 July,
Santa Clara, California, USA
http://ieee-wf-5g.org/5g-cloud-native-design-workshop/

**Scope and Motivation:

While bare metal deployment of applications seems fraught with problems and risk, the virtualization revolution,
i.e. a layer of abstraction on top of the hardware, is transforming 5G software in "everything is a service",
which leads the Telco industry to cloud-native architectures.
Cloudification refers to Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
PaaS is a platform that hides infrastructure details - typically IaaS details - from application development, build, ship, and deployment.
PaaS promises to deliver network services and applications with higher agility and performance through "ancillary services" - scalability,
high availability, state management, controllers, orchestrator. - provided once by the PaaS.
Developers and service providers can therefore concentrate on their applications and businesses and improve time to market.
An ideal 5G PaaS should not only facilitate building, shipping and running virtual network functions (VNF) with "telco-grade" quality,
it should also combine those VNF with all sorts of third-party applications (from start-ups, FOSS, Verticals.) for creating new,
more versatile and powerful cloud objects, breaking silos between connectivity and computing.
As 5G should be designed and implemented to run on public and/or private IaaS installations, the term "cloud-native 5G"
describes the technology transformation that will essentially make 5G a platform.

**Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

- Carrier-grade PaaS.
- Intent based programming.
- RAN microservices design.
- Platform abstraction and API.
- Open-source software and tools experimentation in cloud-native 5G.
- Cloud-RAN Architecture, functional aspects, design issues and protocols.
- Analysis, modelling and characterization of Cloud-RAN systems.
- 5G testbed implementation and deployment.
- Virtualization technologies for cloud-native platforms.
- Software defined hardware accelerators (FPGA, GPU).
- New DevOps models with performance and quality enhancements.
- Distributed management system e.g. decentralized OSS.
- Multi-service and multi-tenancy and network slicing.
- High availability (resiliency, self-healing, redundancy).
- Design principles and best practices for 5G application development.
- Analytics based policy.
- Automation

The workshop is organized by the NGPaaS project (http://ngpaas.eu), a H2020 5G-PPP phase 2 project and endorsed by
5G-PPP Software Network working group (https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-ppp-work-groups/).

Do not miss the keynote speech on Platform transformation by George Glass (BT, UK).

**Important Dates:

- Workshops Paper Submission (Firm-Final Deadline): May 1st, 2018.
- Notification: May 20th, 2018.
- Camera-ready submission: May 31st, 2018

**Chairs:

- Bessem Sayadi, Nokia Bell-Labs, FR
- Jose Soler, DTU Fotonik, DK
- Paul Veitch, BT, UK
- Bela Berde, Nokia Bell-Labs, FR

**Program Committee Members:

- Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland.
- Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK.
- David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK.
- Luis Tomas Bolivar, Redhat, Spain.
- Michael MacGrath, Intel Labs, Ireland.
- Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Research Institute, China.
- Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden.
- Danny Ras, Technion, Israel.
- Latré Steven, Antwerp University-IMEC, Belgium.
- Imran Latif, Nokia Bell-Labs, France.
- Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.
- Vasilis Friderikos, Kings College London, UK.
- Robert Piechocki, University of Bristol, UK.
- Ning Wang, University of Surrey, UK.
- Rufael Mekuria, Unified streaming, Netherland.
- Michail Flouris, OnApp, UK.
- Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
- Erez Biton, Nokia, Israel

Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
José Soler
Associate Professor (Lektor)
Networks Technology & Service Platforms

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