ICN 2021 - 8th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2021)

ACM ICN 2021 solicits research contributions across the full spectrum of technologies and architectures related to ICN, including work that advances core ICN concepts, architectures, technologies, and capabilities; extends current ICN concepts to new networking environments and use cases; realizes, demonstrates, and quantifies the benefits of ICN in traditional and emerging application domains; and catalyzes, incentivizes, simplifies, and supports ICN deployments in realistic, operational environments and settings.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Development, refinement, and extension of existing ICN architectures;
Design and implementation of global and local information-centric approaches, including named-data, publish-subscribe, and distribution-oriented systems
Global routing, forwarding, and caching for information-centric networks
Feature advancement of ICN including policing, QoS, multimedia transport, and adaptive network functions
ICN implementation approaches based on software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), or other emerging technologies
Experiences with application of information-centric networking and computation in various domains such as Internet-of-things, personal communications, public content distribution/exchange, etc.
Information-centric networking as an approach in mobile or constrained environments including 5G and network slicing, vehicular networking, autonomous driving, and machine-to-machine communication
Information-centric solutions for integrating big data platforms and machine learning frameworks
AI/ML techniques to support ICN networks management
Approaches to coexistence/evolution of information-centric and host-centric networking, including IP-based protocols in support of information-centric operations
Virtualization, operation, and orchestration of named network resources including forwarding, storage, computation, and the distributed Web
Platforms allowing specification of computations on data, and orchestration of such computations, including named computing functions at the network edge
Software design and architectures to support ICN including testing and verification
Information-centric network management including zero-conf bootstrapping
Measurement and analysis of protocols, applications, and infrastructure for distribution of named content
Security services including confidentiality and access control, authentication, and non-repudiation, as well as infrastructure resilience
Privacy of consumers and producers of content objects
Namespace management approaches, case studies, and empirical evaluation campaigns
Incentives, money flow, and other sociotechnical aspects of information-centric networking.