O4SDI 2017 - 3rd IEEE Workshop on Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (O4SDI)

3rd IEEE Workshop on
Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (O4SDI)
http://o4sdi.unibo.it/o4sdi3
To be held in conjunction with the 2017 IEEE Conference on
Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
(IEEE NFV-SDN 2017)
6th November 2017 // Berlin, Germany
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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 Third 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
functions 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. The workshop
welcomes contributions 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
● orchestration for fog computing and networking
● dynamic service composition and delivery
● network programmability for service chaining
● orchestration of network slices and data center slices
● 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
● best practices in orchestration
● cloudified mobile networks
● softwarized platforms for verticals
Important Dates
- Workshop Paper Submission: July 9, 2017
- Notification of Acceptance: August 28, 2017
- Camera-ready Submission: September 15, 2017
Paper submissions will be handled on-line through the EDAS system.
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.
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