[aims-announce] 2nd IEEE Workshop on Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (O4SDI-2)

[Stuart Clayman]

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 CALL FOR PAPERS

 2nd IEEE Workshop on 
 Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (O4SDI-2)

 To be held in conjunction with the
 2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software 
 Defined Networks (IEEE NFV-SDN 2016)

 November 7, 2016 - Palo Alto, California, USA

 http://o4sdi.unibo.it/o4sdi2

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 IMPORTANT DATES

 Paper submission deadline:  July 15, 2016
 Acceptance notification:    September 16, 2016
 Camera-ready papers:        October 7, 2016


 SUBMISSION INFORMATION

 Paper submissions are handled on-line through the EDAS system:

 https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22175&track=81344

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 SCOPE

 The current industry trend of convergence between computing and 
 networking eco-systems clearly shows that software will play an 
 unprecedented dominant role also in future communication environments. 
 Computing, storage, and connectivity services, as well as any other 
 present and future application instances, will be deployed in the form 
 of virtualized assets within a software-defined infrastructure running 
 on top of general-purpose processing and communication hardware, all 
 managed and made available under the cloud “As A Service” paradigm. 
 This technological convergence and infrastructure sharing between the 
 computing and communication systems portend a scenario with a “fog” of 
 micro-clouds composed of generalized virtual functions providing both 
 applications and network services that supplement those deployed in 
 traditional cloud datacenters.

 The Second IEEE Workshop on Orchestration for Software-Defined 
 Infrastructures (O4SDI) addresses the challenges that will facilitate 
 orchestration and programmability of generalized virtual functions in 
 Software Defined Infrastructures (SDI), enabling cloud and network 
 providers to deploy integrated services across different resource 
 domains. Orchestration mechanisms will facilitate the live deployment 
 and lifecycle management of these virtual elements, at the application 
 level, the server level, and the network level within a single domain 
 and across multiple domains. Without such orchestration it will not
 be possible to enable dynamic establishment of generalized virtual 
 function chains, according to service requirements.

 These challenges of orchestration are many-fold, with many open 
 questions that need to be addressed in the areas of:
   -  network "softwarization," which requires unified management of 
      computing, storage, and network resources for the effective
      deployment, lifecycle management, and run-time configuration of 
      generalized virtual functions;
   -  abstraction models and open standard interfaces, needed for 
      assuring vendor interoperability;
   -  adaptation and optimization mechanisms, which must be enforced at 
      global and/or local level for coping with user demand, application 
      requirements, resource unavailability, etc.

 O4SDI aims at providing an international forum for researchers and 
 practitioners from academia, industry, network operators, and service 
 providers to discuss and address the challenges deriving from such 
 emerging scenario where systems, processes, and workflows used in both 
 computing and communications domains are converging. 

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 TOPICS OF INTEREST

 Due to the highly interdisciplinary scope of the workshop,
 contributions are expected from both computing and network-oriented
 research communities, with the aim of facilitating discussion, cross-
 fertilization and exchange of ideas and practices, and successfully 
 promote innovative solutions toward a real programmatic use of software-
 defined infrastructures as a whole. Contributions that discuss lessons 
 learnt and best practices, describe practical deployment and 
 implementation experiences, and demonstrate innovative use-cases are 
 especially encouraged for presentation and publication.

 We are particularly interested in papers that cover, but are not 
 limited to, the following topics:
   -  single domain and cross domain orchestration issues
   -  integrated network and computing resource control and management
   -  control and abstraction of heterogeneous networks
   -  orchestration in SDN/NFV
   -  run-time orchestration
   -  orchestration for next-generation IP and optical networks
   -  orchestration in 5G networks
   -  QoS/QoE in software-defined infrastructures
   -  orchestration for high-availability and resilience in 
      software-defined infrastructures
   -  intent-based orchestration
   -  dynamic service composition and delivery
   -  network programmability for service chaining
   -  software engineering and operating systems techniques applied 
      to orchestration
   -  description, specification, and abstraction languages 
      for orchestration
   -  optimal orchestration algorithms
   -  context-aware orchestration
   -  functional architectures of orchestrating elements
   -  testbed experiments on orchestrations
   -  performance evaluation of orchestration elements
   -  standardization issues in orchestration

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 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

 Stuart Clayman, University College London, UK - s.clayman at ucl.ac.uk 
 Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy - walter.cerroni at unibo.it 
 Barbara Martini, CNIT, Pisa, Italy - barbara.martini at cnit.it 
 Federica Paganelli, CNIT, Firenze, Italy - federica.paganelli at cnit.it 


 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITEE

 To be announced soon

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 AUTHOR GUIDELINES

 Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality, original technical
 papers for presentation at the workshop and publication in the O4SDI 
 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Papers must be written in English, 
 unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted 
 as the standard IEEE double-column conference template. All final 
 submissions should have a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages 
 (10-point font), including figures, without incurring additional page 
 charges.

 To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for 
 publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is 
 required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE 
 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the 
 conference (including its removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not 
 presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they 
 do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any 
 other conference at the same time (double submission).

 For additional author guidelines, please refer to:

 http://nfvsdn2016.ieee-nfvsdn.org/authors/call-for-papers/submission-guidelines/