Call for Workshop Papers

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

IEEE NetSoft 2024 will feature a series of half and full-day workshops. The purpose of the workshops is to complement the conference program with in-depth discussions that are dedicated to emerging topics related to NetSoft 2024. Each workshop may include a mix of regular papers, invited presentations, keynotes and panels that encourage the participation of attendees in active discussion. The conference is soliciting paper submissions to the workshops described below.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: ~~08 March 2024;~~ (Extended) April 12, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: April 24, 2024
Camera-ready Submission: May 8, 2024
Workshop Dates: June 24 and June 28, 2024

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Prospective authors are invited to submit original workshop papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the IEEE NetSoft 2024 Conference Proceedings. Papers submitted should describe original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal.

All submissions must be written in English. If not otherwise specified, 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 https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Papers not meeting 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. PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through EDAS. (Edas links are provided for each workshop below.)

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the NetSoft 2024 Proceedings and published on IEEE Xplore.

WORKSHOPS

PVE-SDN 2024: 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF NEXT GENERATION VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS AND SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS

WORKSHOP PAGE

https://sagroups.ieee.org/1916-1/pve-sdn/ieee-pve-sdn-2024/

AIM AND SCOPE

The 6th PVE-SDN workshop aims to explore potential challenges and solutions for the goal of provisioning network performance in next generation virtualized and software-defined network environments. The emergence of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) as two pillars of a new networking paradigm has led to design and deployment of elastic content- and service-delivery virtual networks on cloud-based data centers whose backbones consist of software-defined substrate physical networks. This dynamic, multi-layer architecture for network functions introduces new challenges in maintaining performance and quality of service/quality of experience (QoS/QoE) for service providers and requires new ideas and frameworks in performance measurement and network management. This workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers from software-defined ecosystems to identify and discuss technical challenges and state of the art techniques from the perspective of providing and maintaining the expected services, and contemporary results related to performance analysis of SDN and NFV environments.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Submissions are welcomed on a variety of topics including but not limited to:

Performance models, metrics and measurements for virtualized networking environments
Performance evaluation/analysis in Edge-to-cloud continuum
Performance of AI-enabled SDN
Performance of Digital twins
Performance evaluation/analysis in Programmable networks
NFV in 5G/6G networks
Performance of Metaverse
Containers, microservice architectures, serverless computing, and edge-to-cloud continuum
Network Softwarization for supply chain and e-commerce
SD-WAN, technologies for programmable data plane, and resource orchestration
Performance models, metrics and measurement for virtualized environments
Quality of Service and Quality of Experience in next generation SDN
Content distribution in virtualized environments and software-defined networks
Resource-aware virtualization and infrastructure as a service
Management of software-defined ecosystems
High-Precision and Qualitative Communication Services
SDN/NFV Performance in Context of 5G
Design and assessment of efficient SDN northbound/southbound interfaces
Performance of multi-controller SDN deployments
Service function chaining performance evaluation
Performance of NFV orchestration solutions
Analysis of SDN and/or NFV systems
SDN/NFV in Context of Blockchains, and FinTech
Role of virtualization and software defined environment in enhanced governance and digital transformation
Policy paradigms related to software defined environments

SUBMISSIONS

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, with up to six pages for technical content including figures and possible references in IEEE format. All the accepted papers need to be presented at the workshop. They will be included in the workshop proceedings as well as IEEE Xplore. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers prepared using IEEE 2-column conference style (IEEE paper Template) with no more than 6 pages including figures and references.

The PDF version of the paper should be submitted through EDAS: https://pve-sdn2024.edas.info/

For more information, please feel free to contact the chair at pve-sdn2024-chairs@edas.info

SECSOFT 2024: 6^TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CYBER-SECURITY IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED AND VIRTUALIZED INFRASTRUCTURES

WORKSHOP PAGE

https://www.secsoft-workshop.org/cfp.html

AIM AND SCOPE

Evolving business models are progressively reshaping ICT services and infrastructures, with a growing "softwarization" trend, the massive introduction of virtualization paradigms, and the tight integration with the physical environment. Agile, ubiquitous, pervasive, and programmable networking infrastructures are now leveraging new computation models, where the dynamic and data-driven composition of services disregards the traditional physical and administrative boundaries. Unfortunately, the evolution of cyber-security paradigms has not followed with the same pace, leading to a substantial gap in solutions capable of protecting the new forms of distributed and heterogeneous systems against an evolving landscape of cyber-threats. This is especially worrying considering that part of this overwhelming technological evolution is already encompassing critical infrastructures and industrial systems, such as smart grid components, connected cars and other merging applications within the IoT.

The predominant interspersion of lonely valuable resources with unsafe computing and communication infrastructures makes the application of security perimeter model ineffective. The traditional security tools that organizations have long relied on to protect their networks (i.e., antivirus, intrusion prevention systems, firewalls) are no longer capable of providing sufficient security guarantees against the rapid escalation of advanced persistent threats and multi-vector attacks. The growing complexity of cyber-attacks are urgently demanding more correlation in space and time of (apparently) independent events and logs, and a a higher degree of coordination among different security mechanisms.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The SecSoft workshop aims to gather together novel approaches for providing organizations the appropriate situational awareness in relation to cyber security threats allowing them to quickly detect and effectively respond to sophisticated cyber-attacks. The specific target is complementary research works on complementary cyber-security aspects for virtualized and software-defined infrastructures, including but not limited to:

Cyber-security platforms and architectures for digital services;
Security, trust and privacy for industrial systems and the IoT (including smart grids);
Monitoring and advanced data collection and analytics;
Virtual and software-based cyber-security functions;
Orchestration and Automatic Configuration of security functions;
Novel algorithms for attack detection and threat identification;
Intelligent attack mitigation and remediation;
Machine learning, big data, network analytics;
Secure runtime environments, including trustworthy systems and user devices;
Formal methods and policies for security and trust;
Novel threat and attack models;
Authentication, Authorization and Access control;
Honeypots, forensics and legal investigation tools;
Threat intelligence and information sharing.
Security techniques and new AAA mechanisms for a multi-tenant infrastructure and services;
Resilience and response to cyberattacks;
AI for cybersecurity (including AI for Intrusion Detection);
ORAN security and threats;
Programable data planes security, vulnerabilities and threats;
Secure storage.

Multi-disciplinary and collaborative research projects are encouraged to submit joint papers describing their integrated architectures and cyber-security platforms, with special emphasis on how they address the challenging cyber-security requirements of softwarized environments and critical infrastructures.

SUBMISSIONS

Interested authors are invited to submit papers according to the following guidelines:

For more information, please feel free to contact the chair at: secsoft2024-chairs@edas.info

ENS 2024: 3^RD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON EDGE NETWORK SOFTWARIZATION

WORKSHOP PAGE

https://sites.google.com/view/ens2024/home

AIM AND SCOPE

The 3rd International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2024) will be co-hosted at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2024) that will be held from June 24th to June 28th, 2024 in St. Louis, USA.

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.

SUBMISSIONS

Interested authors are invited to submit papers according to the following guidelines:

The PDF version of the paper should be submitted through EDAS: https://ens2024.edas.info

For more information, please feel free to contact the chair at: ens2024-chairs@edas.info

WIN 2024: 4^TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INTENT-BASED NETWORKING

WORKSHOP PAGE

http://www.adda-association.org/win-2024/

AIM AND SCOPE

Intent Based Networking (IBN) focuses on technology-agnostic, flexible and robust interactions between network infrastructure management and operating systems and their users. One of the main goals of IBN is the lifecycle automation and deployment acceleration of communication services and applications. As such, IBN articulates various mechanisms to recognize, understand, augment and refine intents based on service and operational requests. Intent-based systems continuously strive to fulfill and assure service and network operation within the expected qualitative and performance boundaries, thanks to reliable system feedback.

The concept of IBN appeared in the 2010’s with a focus on automated policy configuration. IBN now reaches out to versatile applications and services deployed over heterogeneous digital communication infrastructures. A core challenge of IBN solutions is the stretch between generalization of the application scope (potentially spanning horizontally and vertically end-to-end through networks) and the need of to run in a well-defined network scope and associated knowledge domains, while preserving enough flexibility.

The goal of this workshop is to gather research and experiments from industry, academia, standards and open-source works, to get a sense of IBN technology maturity, areas that require further exploration, development and validation. To this end, the workshop will cover IBN aspects of all domains including applications, concepts, lifecycle, challenges, architectures, modeling, instantiation, robustness, etc.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include and are not limited to:

IBN concepts, architectures, and frameworks
IBN enabling techniques: knowledge graphs, natural languages understanding, policy refinement, feedback control loops, smart telemetry, etc.
IBN support by machine learning and artificial intelligence
IBN applications and use cases, including scenarios combining digital infrastructures and vertical industries
IBN proof-of-concepts, experimentations; report on field trials and real-world deployments
IBN and digital twins
IBN implementations, tools, and user interface design
IBN applications for 5G, 5G-Advanced and 6G networks
IBN and cybersecurity
Intent modeling, representation, languages, and intent translation techniques
Intent and intent-related information models (policies and services)
Intent recognition, recommendation, and abstraction techniques
Intent assurance and assessment
Availability, resiliency, performance, trust, and security considerations in IBN
Interfaces and API for intent-based systems
Recent advances on IBN in standards and open source

SUBMISSIONS

Interested authors are invited to submit papers according to the following guidelines:

The PDF version of the paper should be submitted through EDAS: https://win2024.edas.info/

For more information, please feel free to contact the chair at: win2024-chairs@edas.info

SDWN 2024: 2^ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE DEFINED WIRELESS NETWORKS

WORKSHOP PAGE

https://sites.google.com/view/sdwn2024/

AIM AND SCOPE

Over the last decade, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a paradigm shift in the way wired data networks are designed, operated, and managed. SDN centralised yet scalable approach has improved wired networks performance, reduced the complexity of their management, and increased innovation in this domain.

This success has inspired the adoption of SDN in wireless data networks to help address several issues such as performance optimisation and management complexity, giving rise to the research field of software defined wireless networks (SDWN). There are currently hundreds of contributions that attempt to apply this concept to different kinds of wireless communication networks and applications ranging from Wi-Fi networks to the Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things.

These contributions efforts of the SDWN research community are currently uncoordinated and at times not aligned or directed by the challenges that the communication networks industry faces. This workshop aims to bring together scientists and developers who are active in this ever-growing domain with stakeholders from the wireless communications industry.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The list of topics considered in this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Programmability and Virtualisation
Resource Optimisation and Management
Mobility Management
SDWN Architectures
SDWN Applications
SDWN Security and Security Applications
SDWN for 6G
Open-Radio Access Network (O-RAN)
Machine Learning Techniques in SDWNs
SDWNs Simulation and Testing Techniques
Roadmap to SDWN Adoption and Standardization

SUBMISSIONS

Interested authors are invited to submit papers according to the following guidelines:

The PDF version of the paper should be submitted through EDAS: https://sdwn2024.edas.info/

For more information, please feel free to contact the chair at: sdwn2024-chairs@edas.info

Call for Workshop Papers