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    <p><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
            lang="EN-GB">Call for Participation – IFIP Networking 2020</span></b><span
          style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><br>
        <br>
        <span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">The IFIP Networking
          2020 conference is around the corner! </span><span
          style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"><br>
          <br>
          Register now as attendee at a very reduced fee at </span><span
          lang="EN-GB"><a
            href="https://networking.ifip.org/2020/registration"
            moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://networking.ifip.org/2020/registration</span></a></span><span
          style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> (early registration
          deadline: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">June
          8, 2020).</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><span
          style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span> <br>
        <br>
        <span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Due to the COVID-19
          pandemic, <b>IFIP Networking 2020 will take place virtually
            and online during the week of June 22-25</b>, using video
          conferencing tools. IFIP Networking 2020 showcases <b>a
            high-quality technical program</b> including cutting-edge
          research on various issues in networking. <span
            style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The program covers</span></span><span
          style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> 3 days with 2- or
          3-parallel tracks each day, and a total of 55 full paper and
          25 short paper (selected from 235 submissions) presentations.
          Topics include cloud and data center networking, routing,
          transport protocols, network management, programmable control
          and data planes, service function chaining, network security,
          blockchains, 5G and beyond, IoT, industrial and vehicular
          networking, streaming services, AI for networking, network and
          user behaviour modelling, traffic analysis, and more. Other
          program <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">highlights</b>
          include the following:</span><br>
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                style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">5 Keynotes:</span></i></b><span
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          72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
              12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Prof. Serge Fdida (Sorbonne
              University, France): </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
                href="https://whova.com/embedded/session/ifipn_202006/997424/?view="
                moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">New
                  directions to Research Infrastructure in Digital
                  Sciences</span></a></span><span style="font-size:
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          72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
              12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Dr. Marina Thottan (Research Director,
              Nokia Bell Labs, USA): </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
                href="https://whova.com/embedded/session/ifipn_202006/997425/?view="
                moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Future
                  of Network and Service Automation</span></a></span><span
              style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></li>
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          72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
              12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Dr. Chih-Lin I (Chief Scientist, China
              Mobile Research Institute, China):<span
                style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span><span
              lang="EN-GB"><a
                href="https://whova.com/embedded/session/ifipn_202006/997440/?view="
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                  Afterthought of 5G and a Peek at 6G</span></a></span><span
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              style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Prof. George
              Varghese (UCLA, USA): </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
                href="https://whova.com/embedded/session/ifipn_202006/997448/?view="
                moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Network
                  Verification -- When Clarke Meets Cerf</span></a></span><span
              style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></font><font
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          72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
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              style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Dr. Dario Rossi
              (Chief Expert and Director, Huawei Technologies, France):
            </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
                href="https://whova.com/embedded/session/ifipn_202006/997454/?view="
                moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
                  long and winding road to self-driving networks</span></a></span><span
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        72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
            12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Vibrant <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
              normal">poster and demo sessions</b> showcasing new ideas
            and hot topics in networking</span></font></li>
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        36.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
            12pt;" lang="EN-GB">An <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
              normal">industry session</b> reporting latest industrial
            developments on emerging networking technologies</span></font></li>
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        36.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
            12pt;" lang="EN-GB">A distinguished expert <b
              style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">panel</b> with theme
            “Networking challenges for the next decade: just a few or
            too many?!”</span></font></li>
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    <font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
        lang="EN-GB">In conjunction with the main IFIP Networking 2020
        conference are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">four
          international workshops</b> on June 22:</span></font>
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        72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
            12pt;" lang="EN-GB">The 23rd IEEE Global Internet Symposium
            (GIS 2020):<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span><span
            lang="EN-GB"><a
              href="https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/gis-2020"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/gis-2020</span></a></span><span
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        72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
            12pt;" lang="EN-GB">The International Workshop on
            Time-Sensitive and Deterministic Networking (TENSOR 2020): </span><span
            lang="EN-GB"><a
              href="https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/tensor-2020"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/tensor-2020</span></a></span><span
            style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
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        72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
            12pt;" lang="EN-GB">The International Workshop on Network
            Slicing (Network Slicing 2020): </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
href="https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/network-slicing-2020"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/network-slicing-2020</span></a></span><span
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        72.0pt"><font size="-1" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
            12pt;" lang="EN-GB">The International Workshop on the Future
            of Internet Transport (FIT 2020): </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
              href="https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/fit-2020"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/fit-2020</span></a></span><span
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    <font face="Calibri"> </font><font size="-1" face="Courier New,
      Courier, monospace"><font face="Calibri"> <span style="font-size:
          12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Further details on the conference are
          available at </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
            href="https://networking.ifip.org/2020/"
            moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://networking.ifip.org/2020/</span></a></span><span
          style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
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        <span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> We are looking
          forward to seeing you soon in the online conference IFIP
          Networking 2020! </span><br>
        <span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><br>
        <span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Raouf Boutaba
          (Waterloo University, Canada),<br>
          Guy Pujolle (Sorbonne University, France)</span><span
          style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><br>
        <i><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">IFIP Networking
            2020 General Chairs</span></i><br>
        <span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><br>
        <span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Xiaoming Fu
          (University of Goettingen, Germany), <br>
          <span style="mso-tab-count:1"></span>Silvia Giordano
          (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern,
          Switzerland),<br>
          Christian Jacquenet (Orange Labs, France)</span><br>
        <i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"
            lang="EN-GB">IFIP Networking 2020 Program Chairs</span></i></font><span
        style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB"> <br>
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