Monday June 29, 2020 – Full Day
Room: Virtual Room 1
Opening
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Session Chair: Alex Galis, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Keynote – Performance and Security Isolation in Softwarized Networks: Advances and Challenges
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria
Session Chair: Alex Galis, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Description
Biography
Stefan Schmid is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, at University of Vienna, Austria. He obtained his diploma (MSc) in Computer Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland (minor: micro/macro economics, internship: CERN) and did his PhD in the Distributed Computing Group led by Prof. Roger Wattenhofer, also at ETH Zurich. As a postdoc, he worked with Prof. Christian Scheideler at the Chair for Efficient Algorithms at the Technical University of Munich and at the Chair for Theory of Distributed Systems at the University of Paderborn, in Germany. From 2009 to 2015, Stefan Schmid was a senior research scientist at the Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) and at TU Berlin in Germany (Internet Network Architectures group headed by Prof. Anja Feldmann). In 2013/14, he was an INP Visiting Professor at CNRS (LAAS), Toulouse, France, and in 2014, a Visiting Professor at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. From 2015 to 2017, Stefan Schmid was a (tenured) Associate Professor in the Distributed, Embedded and Intelligent Systems group at Aalborg University, Denmark, and continued working part-time at TU Berlin, Germany. Since 2015, he serves as the Editor of the Distributed Computing Column of the Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (BEATCS), since 2016 as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), and since 2019 as Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN). Stefan Schmid received the IEEE Communications Society ITC Early Career Award 2016 and acquired several major grants including an ERC Consolidator Grant, various other EU grants (e.g., STREP and IP projects), a German-Israeli GIF grant, a Villum Fonden grant, a WWTF grant, and various German grants (e.g., from BSI and BMBF). Stefan Schmid’s research interests revolve around the fundamental and algorithmic problems of networked and distributed systems.
Coffee Break
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
TS1 – Technical Session #1
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
Session Chair: Sophia Petridou, University of Macedonia, Greece
A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method for Network Slice Edge Infrastructure Selection
Ioannis Dimolitsas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dimitrios Dechouniotis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece
Vasileios Theodorou, Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece
Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Symeon Papavassiliou, ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Network Slicing for Multi-tenant Edge Processing over Shared IoT Infrastructure
Vasileios Theodorou, Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece
Maria-Evgenia Xezonaki, Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece
Impact of Slice Granularity in Centralization Benefit of 5G Radio Access Network
Nabhasmita Sen, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Antony Franklin A, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Lunch Break
11:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
TS2 – Technical Session #2
1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Session Chair: Fábio Luciano Verdi, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Towards Cross-Slice Communication for Enhanced Service Delivery at the Network Edge
Ioakeim Fotoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Georgios Papathanail, University of Macedonia, Greece
Angelos Pentelas, University of Macedonia, Greece
Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Vasileios Theodorou, Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece
Dimitrios Dechouniotis, ICCS/National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Symeon Papavassiliou, ICCS/National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
A Cloud-based SDN/NFV Testbed for End-to-End Network Slicing in 4G/5G
Ali Esmaeily, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Katina Kralevska, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Danilo Gligoroski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Priority- and Reservation-based Slicing for Future Vehicular Networks
Abdullah A. Al-khatib, Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Abdelmajid Khelil, Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Coffee Break
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
TS3 – Technical Session #3
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session Chair: Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Smart Provisioning of Sliceable Bandwidth Variable Transponders in Elastic Optical networks
Muhammad Umar Masood, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Ihtesham Khan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Arsalan Ahmad, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Muhammad Imran, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Vittorio Curri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Applying Machine Learning to End-to-end Slice SLA Decomposition
Michael Iannelli, City University of New York (CUNY – City College), USA
Muntasir Raihan Rahman, Microsoft, USA
Nakjung Choi, Nokia – Bell Labs, USA
Le Wang, Nokia Software, Finland
Statistical Characterization of Containerized IP Multimedia Subsystem through Queueing Networks
Mario Di Mauro, University of Salerno, Italy
Antonio Liotta, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Maurizio Longo, University of Salerno, Italy
Fabio Postiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
A Standards-Based, Model-Driven Solution for 5G Transport Slice Automation and Assurance
Reza Rokui, Nokia Canada, Canada
Henry Yu, Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada
Lingli Deng, China Mobile, Canada
David Allabaugh, Fujitsu Network Communications, USA
Mahdi Hemmati, Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada
Christopher Janz, Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Panel & Closing
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Panel: Network Slicing is multifaceted but does its approach and understanding need to be fragmented?
Abstract: Network Slicing keeps growing in significance in the academic and industrial communities. Network Slicing can be defined from different functional or behavioral perspectives, as well as from different viewpoints depending on the stakeholder (e.g., verticals, solution providers, infrastructure owners) and the technical domain (e.g. cloud data centers, radio access, packet/optical transport networks). Standardization bodies and open source projects are being involved in some forms of network slicing support. How far are these views from each other? Is fragmentation leading to incompatible approaches or is there some hope of convergence, at least at conceptual levels? What is the next frontier in Network Slicing? These and other questions will be thrown to our panel experts after introducing their lightning viewpoints.
Moderator: Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brazil
Panel Members
Constantine Polychronopoulos, Juniper Networks, USA
Uma Chunduri, Futurewei, USA
Slawomir Kuklinski, Orange Poland and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Stuart Clayman, University College London, UK
Augusto Venancio Neto, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil