[nmrg] 3rd International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2024) - Co-located with NetSoft 2024

[Marco Savi <[e-mail]>]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

3rd International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2024)

co-sponsored by IEEE Network Intelligence Emerging Technologies initiative
(IEEE NI ETI)

technically co-sponsored by IEEE Young Professionals - Italy Section

Link to the official website: https://sites.google.com/view/ens2024/

Workshop co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Network
Softwarization (NetSoft 2024)
St. Luois, USA, 24–28 June 2024


*** ENS 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS ***

Call for papers: https://sites.google.com/view/ens2024/important-dates-cfp

Aim and Scope
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) along with Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) are playing a fundamental role in the softwarization of
the network infrastructure.
In particular, both technologies have revolutionized the way network
functions and services are offered, which are often (partially) pushed
towards the edge for enhanced performance, improved privacy,
better agility and significant cost reduction. Accordingly, this workshop
aims at providing an overview of the softwarization process that has
started occurring in recent years and is
involving the network edge, with focus on future-proof approaches that will
be part of the advanced 5G&B and 6G network solutions.
Edge network softwarization is a fundamental topic that has to be
thoroughly investigated and pushed by the research community.
ENS 2024 has the goal to meet together researchers and practitioners from
academia and industry that are actively involved in network edge
softwarization related research projects.

Topics of Interest
The topics of interest for ENS 2024 include, but are not limited to:

- SDN and NFV distributed solutions for the network edge in 5G&B and 6G
network;
- Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions for network edge;
- Service and network orchestration at the edge;
- Novel solutions for data-plane programmable (e.g. P4, eBPF, XDP) edge
devices;
- Artificial Intelligence and  Machine Learning at the edge;
- Serverless computing and Function-as-a-Service in edge and fog network
architectures;
- Network-aware resource provisioning in Fog Computing;
- Advances to end-to-end tunneling technologies (e.g. VxLAN, IPSEC/GRE);
- Edge computing energy efficiency and resource optimisation;
- Support for low latency applications at the edge (e.g. Tactile Internet);
- Edge-driven use cases (e.g. Agriculture 4.0, Industry 4.0, etc.);
- Privacy and security for the network edge (e.g. zero trust networks);
- Multi-tenancy of edge networks;
- Network edge availability and protection;
- Open Hardware and Software solutions;
- Converged optical and wireless architectures at the edge;
- AI-powered resource allocation and energy optimization at the edge;
- AI for automatic fault recovery of edge computing resources;
- AI-based Digital Twin application for networked services.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: April 5th, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: April 26th, 2024
Camera-ready Submission: May 3rd, 2024
Workshop Date: TBD (Monday, June 24th or Friday, June 28th, 2024)

Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original contributions for presentation at
the workshop.
All submissions must be written in English. Papers should be up to 6 pages,
including references and all other material.
They must use the standard IEEE two-column conference template, which can
be downloaded from www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
Accepted and presented papers will be included in the NetSoft 2024
Proceedings and published on IEEE Xplore.
Depending on the number of final accepted papers with at least one author
being an IEEE Young Professional member, the "Best Presenter Young
Professional Member" will be awarded.
Further information and details about submission can be found on the
official website of ENS 2024: https://sites.google.com/view/ens2024/.

Workshop Organizers
Sebastian Troia, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Christian Grasso, University of Catania, Italy
Marco Savi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Alessio Sacco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Gianluca Davoli, University of Bologna, Italy
Omran Ayoub, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland,
Switzerland

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Marco Savi, PhD
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Building U14, Viale Sarca 336, 20125, Milano (Italy)
Email: [e-mail]
Skype: [e-mail]
Department Website: https://www.disco.unimib.it/
Personal Website: https://marcosavi.altervista.org/
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosavi/
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