[nmrg] IEEE Netsoft 2024 PhD Symposium - Submission Deadline extended (April 1, 2024 [FIRM])

[Federica Paganelli <[e-mail]>]

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings]

Dear Colleagues,
the submission deadline for the IEEE Netsoft 2024 PhD Symposium has been extended to April 1st, 2024 [FIRM ]

Important Dates
* Submission deadline: April 1, 2024 [FIRM]
* Author's notification deadline: May 1, 2024
* Camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2024

Early-Stage and Late-Stage PhD Students are strongly encouraged to submit their proposals. Accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.

Best regards,
Federica Paganelli

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                                  Call for PhD Symposium Papers

                                   IEEE NetSoft 2024

                  “Softwarized Networks in the Age of Generative AI”


             10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization

                            24–28 June 2024 – St Louis, USA

                         https://netsoft2024.ieee-netsoft.org/
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***IMPORTANT DATES***
   * Submission deadline: April 1, 2024 [FIRM]
   * Author's notification deadline: May 1, 2024
   * Camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2024

IEEE NetSoft, the premier International Conference on Network Softwarization, addresses

Objectives

The spirit of the PhD symposium is to offer an opportunity for students, currently performing
a PhD in the scientific scope of the Netsoft conference, as specified in the call for papers,
to present the advancement of their research work and collect tailored feedback from  experts
of the Netsoft community. Expected submissions must be issued  by  ongoing  or  very recently
defended PhD students. The PhD symposium clearly expects submissions which summarize the PhD
scientific  activities at a given advancement stage. As such,  they must not overlap  with
traditional scientific papers presented as long or short papers in conferences and workshops.

Since the relevant scientific  aspects evolve according  to a PhD advancement, two types of
submissions are considered in the PhD symposium, as described below.

Early Stage PhD

Expected contribution: Early stage PhD submissions are welcome with papers describing the
general context of the PhD activity and the locks it aims at eventually overcoming.
A synthetic but comprehensive state of the art of the field must be provided and the limits
of current scientific contributions must be especially emphasized so that to  formulate one
 or a few research questions which form the core of the PhD problem statement. Finally, the
selected research methodology and some early ideas, even neither implemented nor validated,
can be exposed. Finally, a general view of the work lying ahead has to be provided too.

Eligibility: The Early Stage paper format is dedicated to the 1st year PhD students or early
 2nd year PhD students who are starting to elaborate their first research contributions.

Paper format:
Submitted papers should not exceed four (4) pages in length, including references.

An Early Stage PhD Symposium paper can be submitted through EDAS using the following link:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31395&track=123334



Late Stage PhD

Expected contribution: Late Stage submissions aim at providing an overview of the accomplished
 PhD work from a methodological perspective. More specifically, it must provide  an up-to-date
state of the art that pinpoints some limits motivating the contribution further exposed.  Then,
the current status of the research work with a particular emphasis on the selected methodology
is expected  and a  comparison with  the state of the art  can be provided when relevant and
achievable. Finally, according to the PhD advancement,  the planned or implemented  evaluation
 methodology and to what extent the latter supports reproducibility of research  (sharing data
sets, codes, etc.) have to be exposed. For PhD students who have already graduated, the PhD
outcomes and the way they push forward the initial limits, as well as their current limits,
is particularly expected.
Please note that late stage submissions must not overlap with standard scientific papers focused
 on a standalone scientific contribution as presented in long or short papers of conferences and
 workshops, such as Netsoft and beyond.


Eligibility: Late Stage submissions target ending PhD students or those who recently graduated,
which is roughly from the beginning  of  the PhD manuscript  writing up to  6 months after the
defense. The Late Stage format is also open to ongoing PhD (i.e. 2nd year) if the submitted
content satisfies with the expectations exposed above.

Paper format: Submitted papers should not exceed six (6) pages in length, including references.

A Late Stage PhD Symposium paper can be submitted through EDAS using the following link:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31395&track=123335.

General Eligibility

As PhD symposium differs from standard scientific tracks, and solely targets ongoing or very
recently defended PhD, some eligibility assessment must be satisfied for submissions to be
considered:
The list of authors is restricted to the PhD student and the supervisor. In the case where
more than one advisor is involved in the PhD, thus leading to several authors in addition to
the PhD student, the PhD symposium chairs must be informed and any official assessment must be provided.
PhD students of accepted PhD symposium papers must register to Netsoft 2024 and they are the sole persons
able to present their work during the event.
An official letter from the PhD advisor(s) is required to state the PhD status (beginning for Early Stage,
ending with PhD defense date (expected or achieved) for Late Stage).

General Submission Guidelines

Two tracks are available for submission: one for Early Stage PhD submissions, and one for Late Stage PhD
submissions. In both tracks, PhD students have to submit two files: the manuscript and the letter of their
supervisor to prove their status as a PhD student. Manuscripts must be written in English and formatted
according to the standard IEEE double-column conference template (10-point font). Templates and examples
 in LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available for download at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Papers not matching the length and formatting requirements or violating IEEE’s guidelines on plagiarized
content will be rejected without review. All other submitted papers will be reviewed. Only PDF files will
be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through EDAS using
the links indicated so far for Early Stage PhD Symposium papers and Late Stage PhD Symposium papers,
respectively.

Accepted submissions are published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library, provided that they are duly presented.

Topics of Interest

The symposium solicits submissions in the same field of the main conference. The topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

Softwarized cloud, fog, and edge infrastructures
Network softwarization for 5G/6G
Softwarization in Metaverse (AR/VR and digital twins)
Cooperative multi-domain, multi-tenant SDN/NFV environments.
Future Internet and New IP architectures.
Mobility management in softwarized networks.
High-precision communications and computing
Service Function Chaining (SFC).
Network slicing and slice management
QoS and QoE in softwarized infrastructures.
Network softwarization for deterministic Internet re-engineering
Softwarization for Cognitive and autonomic networking
Policy-based and Intent-based networking.
AI/ML techniques and network softwarization
Dynamic resource discovery and negotiation schemes.
Assurance and Measurements in softwarized networks
Resilience, reliability, and robustness of softwarized networks
Security, Safety, Trust, and Privacy in virtualized environments.
Energy Efficiency in network softwarization
Abstractions and virtualization of resources, services, and functions.
Programmability for Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN)
Programmable Networking Protocols
Programmable SDN and NFV: languages and architectures (P4 and others)
Open source and network softwarization.
Hardware acceleration for programmable network functions.
Development methodologies for network softwarization (DevOps, NetOps, verification).
Deployment and transition strategies.
Experience reports from experimental testbeds and deployments.
New value chains and service models enabled by softwarization.
Socio-economic impact and regulations for softwarization.



*** PhD Symposium co-Chairs ***
Guillaume Doyen, IMT Atlantique, France ([e-mail])
Giovanni Schembra, University of Catania, Italy ([e-mail])