Call For Papers

The rise of edge, cloud  and in-network computing and the proliferation  of  Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions 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.  This  has  been  the  focus  of  both  ITU and IETF/IRTF related initiatives for the past few years.

Today’s   Internet   falls   short  when  it  comes  to providing such requirements due to Several design  and  implementation  limitations. To overcome these  it is essential to rethink the current  Internet  and  devise  new   architectures  and   protocols  by efficiently harnessing recent technological  advances   in   terms   of virtualization, Network softwarization, NFV/SDN, and Data plane programmability, even when  they  break the tenets of the current Internet. This vision 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 Internet 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 be available here soon!

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: January 8, 2022

• Acceptance notification: February 18, 2022

• Camera-ready submission: March 5, 2022