5GMan 2016 - IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of 5G Networks

5G is envisioned as the next generation of mobile networks since 2012. Several initiatives took place in Asia, America and Europe like the MOST (Ministry of Science & Technology) 5G project in China, the 5G forum formed in South Korea, the “2020 and beyond” Ad Hoc group in Japan, the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) in Europe and several standardization related activities. The emerging common features/requirements from these worldwide activities could be summarized as the following: faster data transfer rates, shorter latency, availability, security, lower costs and power consumption and high performance in fast mobility situations.
Thus 5G will be the place to deploy many technologies. In particular, 5G networks are expected to rely massively on the most recent advances in Software -Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization, hence offering the opportunity to build an open and innovative platform for communications and a novel brand gathering current and future network architectures, technologies and usages…Besides the need for an innovative 5G network architecture, effective and advanced network management architectures and techniques are also cornerstones to fulfil these requirements.
The main goal of the workshop is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of management of 5G networks, addressing topics such as management of SDN and NFV -based networks and services, advances in the management of cloud platforms, programmatic languages and abstraction applied to resources and service management, big data and analytics applied to management.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to one or multiple topic areas listed below:
? Cognitive and autonomic management & orchestration
? Metadata, data and information models and semantics
? Programming abstractions for 5G networks
? Management of cloud, software -defined infrastructure, and NFV
? End-to-end mobile software networks architecture
? Management architecture, building blocks, protocols and APIs for 5G networks, layers and systems
? Operating system for networking in 5G
? Analytics and big data approaches for managing 5G networks and services
? Cloud computing and network virtualization technologies for RAN, backhaul and core
? NFV architectures for 5G networks
? Dynamic service placement and management
? Dynamic Service Function Chaining
? QoS and QoE new metrics in software -defined 5G networks
? Recursive mobile network architectures
? Advances in mobile network management and orchestration
? 5G resilience metrics and approaches
? Fronthaul and backhaul integration, Spectrum sharing
? Evaluation, testbeds and management
? Open Source tools for 5G Prototyping
? Emerging 5G standards
? Economic drivers for the deployment of 5G Networks technologies
? Feedback on 5G experimental testbed
PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission must be written in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 words abstract that clearly outlines the scope and contributions of the paper. There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) for regular conference papers, and 4 pages for short papers describing work in progress. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Authors should submit their papers via JEMS: (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/5gman2016).
PROCEEDINGS
Papers accepted for 5GMan 2016 will be included in the conference proceedings, IEEE Xplore, IFIP database and EI Index. IFIP and IEEE reserve the right to remove any paper from the IFIP database and IEEE Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Awards will be presented to the best paper.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
? Imen Grida Ben Yahia, Orange Labs, France
? Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Italy
IMPORTANT DATES
? Paper Submission Deadline: 15th Dec, 2015
? Acceptance Notification: 30th Jan, 2016
? Camera-Ready Papers: 15th Feb, 2016
? Workshop Day: 25th or 29th April, 2016
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Sana Ben Jemaa (Orange Labs, France)
Mathieu Bouet, (Thales Communications & Security, France)
Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs, France)
Laurent Ciavaglia (Alcatel-Lucent, France)
Stuart Clayman (University College of London, UK)
Christian Destré (Orange Labs, France)
Alex Galis (University College of London, UK)
Imen Grida Ben Yahia (Orange labs, France)
Markus Hofmann (Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, US)
Slawomir Kuklinski, (Orange Polska and Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia, Italy)
Kostas Pentikousis (EICT, Germany)
Tinku Rasheed, (CREATE-NET, Italy)
Radha Ratnaparkhi (IBM, US)
Roberto Riggio (CREATE-NET, Italy)
John Strassner (Futurewei, US)
Kostas Tsagkaris (UPRC/WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece)
Daphné Tuncer, (University College London, United Kingdom)
Sven van der Meer (Ericsson, Ireland)
Djamal Zeghlache (Telecom SudParis, France)