[Nfvrg] IEEE NetSoft 2018 - Call for Participation - Early-bird registration deadline: April 30th

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|                              Call for Participation                             |

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|                               IEEE NetSoft 2018                                 |

|                    The 4th IEEE International Conference on                     |

|                             Network Softwarization                              |

|                     "Achieving smart network softwarization"                    |

|                        25-29 June 2018, Montreal, Canada                        |

|                             http://ieee-netsoft.org                             |

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The organizing committee is delighted to invite you  to the 4th IEEE  International

Conference   on   Network   Softwarization   (NetSoft 2018)  that  will  be held on

June 25-29, 2018   in  the  heart  of  Montreal,  Quebec,  Canada. IEEE NetSoft has

been  created  as  a  flagship  conference  aiming at addressing   "Softwarization"

of networks  and systemic trends  concerning  the  convergence  of Cloud Computing,

Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).



IEEE   NetSoft  2018  will  feature  4  keynotes, 10  technical  sessions,   6 demo

sessions,  4 tutorials  and  a  Distinguished  Expert Panel.  The conference   will

also host 4 workshops on cutting-edge topics related to network softwarization.



The detailed program is available at http://netsoft2018.ieee-netsoft.org/program





Keynotes

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- Keynote 1:  Raj Jain  (Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,  Washington

  University in St. Louis)

- Keynote 2:  Jim Ghadbane (President and CEO, CANARIE)

- Keynote 3:  Jeff Tantsura (Head of Technology Strategy, Nuage Networks)

- Keynote 4:  Richard Li  (Chief Scientist  and Vice-President of  Future Networks,

  Huawei USA)





Technical Sessions and Demo Sessions

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- SDN Control and Reliability

- Security and Monitoring

- SDN at the Edge

- Service Migration

- NFV Placement

- Modeling, Ontologies and Machine Learning

- QoS, Reliability and Security

- Network Slicing and Edge Computing

- Programmability and SDN Control

- Service Function Chaining and Network Function Placement





Tutorials

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- Tutorial 1:  Network  Slicing  Landscape:  A   holistic  architectural  approach,

  orchestration and management with applicability in mobile and fixed networks

- Tutorial 2:  Security Issues  in SDN and IoT Applications

- Tutorial 3:  Advanced  Topics  in  Architectural and  Robust Operational Research

  for Virtual Networks

- Tutorial 4:  A Language  and Framework  for Prototyping  and  Experimenting  with

  Edge-Oriented IoT





Workshops

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- Workshop 1:  Emerging Trends  in Softwarized Networks  (ETSN 2018)

- Workshop 2:  Advances  in Slicing  for Softwarized Infrastructures  (S4SI 2018)

- Workshop 3:  Smart  network  Technologies  and  Edge computing  for  the  Tactile

              Internet  (STET 2018)

- Workshop 4:  Performance Issues in Virtualized Environments and  Software Defined

               Networking  (PVE-SDN 2018)





Registration Information

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- Author registration date: April 20, 2018

- Early-bird cut-off date: April 30, 2018

- Advance registration: by June 11, 2018

- General registration: after June 11, 2018



For additional information (fees and procedure):

http://netsoft2018.ieee-netsoft.org/registration





General Co-Chairs

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- Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France

- Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada





TPC Co-Chairs

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- Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada

- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil

- Imen Grida Ben Yahia, Orange Labs, France





Keynote Co-Chairs

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- Alex Clemm, Huawei, USA

- Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada





Panel Co-Chairs

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- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium

- Antonio Manzalini, TIM, Italy





Workshop Co-Chairs

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- Alex Galis, UCL, UK

- Abdelkader Lahmadi, University of Lorraine, France





Tutorial Co-Chairs

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- Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

- Daniel Migault, Ericsson Research, Canada





Demo Co-Chairs

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- Jérôme François, Inria, France

- Rashid Mijumbi, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland

- Jeebak Mitra, Huawei, Canada