Track Co-Chairs:
Andreas J. Kassler, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany, andreas.kassler@th-deg.de
Cedric Westphal, UCSC & Futurewei, USA, cedric.westphal@futurewei.com
Description:
Networks will have to support bigger and more diverse traffic volumes at low latency in the coming decades. They need to provide more predictable and reliable services as they are an important infrastructure of our society. This track asks which advances are needed to enable our network infrastructure to deal with this development and how to make an infrastructure’s capability accessible to applications and services. Future network infrastructure must be more flexible, on many different levels, layers and elements of the network architecture. An important property is the proper integration of multiple network domains - from the Internet at large over mobile/cellular networks to data-center networks. Flexibility and infrastructure advancements are needed at different levels of the network architecture, from switching hardware over softwarizing networks up to resource management aspects like slicing. The track also looks at how some aspects of computing can be brought into the network in a flexible and programmatic way, and to have the network be more responsive to specific workloads. It also encompasses research and development on different aspects, like management, governance or policing of networks, up to legal, policy-making and ethical aspects.
• Internet at large
• Mobile and cellular networks, including satellite networks, cell-free or core-less mobile networks
• Data-center networks
• SD-WANs
• Programmable software and hardware targets (e.g., SmartNICs) as well as corresponding compilers, architectures, and toolchains
• Programmable offloading for transport and networking protocols
• In-network support for distributed computing or in-network aggregation for distributed Machine Learning, Security, Software-Defined Mobile Networks, Edge and Ubiquitous computing, Augmented Reality, Internet-of-Things and Smart Cities
• Softwarization concepts like software-defined networks or network function virtualization and how they can be flexibly accelerated using customized or programmable networking hardware
• Flexible resource management, e.g., agile spectrum sharing or network slicing or resource management for unconventional application patterns like machine learning at the edge
• Reconfigurable network infrastructure, e.g., optical networks or radio self-backhauling
• Computation offloading using infrastructure/data processing units (IPU/DPU), up to and including in-network computing
• Network support for HPC and high-speed data center fabric
• Automated/intelligent network configuration
• Efficient network misconfiguration diagnosis methods
• Planning, provisioning, deployment, operation, and management
• Policy-making, regulation and governance of networks; sustainable network infrastructures
• Optical Network infrastructure
• Business models like open radio access networks (ORAN) and ethical aspects
TPC List:
• Jingya Zhou, Soochow University, China
• Nurefsan Sertbas Bulbul, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Helge Parzyjegla, University Rostock, Germany
• Yueping Cai, Chongqing University, China
• Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Karlstad University, Sweden
• Wouter Tavernier, Ghent University - imec, Belgium
• Bengt Ahlgren, SICS, Sweden
• Zehua Guo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
• Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal
• Madhurima Ray, Penn State Beaver, USA
• Vaji Farhadi, Bucknell University, USA
• Xuyu Wang, Florida International University, USA
• Sanjeev Sondur, Oracle Corporation, USA
• Gourav Saha, Mahindra University, India
• Fabio Pianese, Nokia Bell Labs, France
• Sándor Laki, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
• Dewang Gedia, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
• Doganalp Ergenc, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Reza Tourani, Saint Louis University, USA
• Michail-Alexandros Kourtis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
• Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
• Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
• Marcus Brunner, Huawei Technologies, Switzerland
• Younghee Park, San Jose State University, USA
• Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
• Rentao Gu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
• Molka Gharbaoui, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
• Carlos J. Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Wolfgang John, Ericsson Research, Sweden
• Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Max Ott, Rutgers University, USA
• Holger Karl, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
• José Quevedo, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
• Sandra Scott-Hayward, Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Tobias Meuser, TU Darmstadt - KOM, Germany
• Vicenzo Mancuso, Imdea Networks, Spain
• Laaziz Lahlou, Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS), Canada