Call For Papers

The rise of edge, cloud  and in-network computing and the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution in networking  are  promoting  the development of innovative applications like virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, autonomous systems, remotely controlled robotics and tactile applications, promising  to  revolutionize health-care, transportation, industry, agriculture, society and culture. To deploy such applications and to comply with their requirements, there is a need for new Internet paradigms including a Tactile Internet that combines ultra low latency with extremely high availability, reliability and security and has been the focus of both ITU and IETF/IRTF related initiatives. 

Today’s Internet falls short when it comes to providing such requirements due to several design and implementation limitations. To overcome these there is a need to rethink and provide new architectures and protocols by efficiently harnessing recent Technological advances in terms of virtualization, network softwarization, NFV/SDN, Data plane programmability and even when they break the tenets of the current Internet. Such an architecture is embodied in the FlexNGIA Architecture (https://www.flexngia.net) that has the potential to enable novel network services and management schemes adapted to the requirements of future applications.

Topics of Interest

The topics addressed in this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis of  the characteristics and requirements of future network applications.

• Gap analysis highlighting the limitations of the traditional Internet architecture and protocols and their inability to cater to future applications’ requirements.

• Design and evaluation of new architectural paradigms and communication protocols as well as network management schemes based on AI/ML and distributed decision making .

• Use-cases and specific applications and potential mechanisms, protocols and schemes to ensure the performance and reliability required by future applications including the move to Industry 5.0 and 6G networks.

• Solutions to further develop the FlexNGIA towards a full-fledged architecture by addressing key research challenges including service function chaining, functional decomposition, alternative Network/Transport protocols, resource management, signaling, design of high-performance virtual network functions and services, high-precision monitoring, measurements and in-network telemetry, pricing and economics, Security and privacy (please check FlexNGIA Research Challenges)

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original contributions. Submitted manuscripts should use IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 6 pages (including references).

Submission link will provided soon

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: January 8, 2021

• Acceptance notification: February 18, 2021

• Camera-ready submission: March 5, 2021