NV 2011 - Workshop on Challenges and Solutions for Network Virtualization (NV)

Workshop on Challenges and Solutions for Network Virtualization (NV)
Network Virtualization (NV) is becoming an increasingly important technology for the deployment of new network architectures that try to go beyond the Internet’s current capabilities. Virtualization of whole networks allows for increased flexibility with respect to resource management as well as for an efficient deployment of different network architectures in parallel but isolated from each other (e.g., coexistence of 3G and different beyond 3G mobile networks on the same physical hardware). While some virtualization techniques are well known for links (e.g., VLANs, MPLS, Tunneling, VPNs, and so on) the challenges lie more in virtualization of network nodes, whole networks, and an efficient management thereof. Accordingly, network virtualization has received significant attention in the network research community, but it is a field that is just beginning to be understood; recently an IRTF research group has been formed for this topic. The current technological challenges and solutions for network virtualization are of interest in this workshop.

In addition, major drivers for the success of network virtualization are the considered use cases that can be used to derive important requirements for NV architectures. Network virtualization allows providing specialized, dependable, and predictable networks (e.g., a global IP-TV network, a safe kids’ network or a banking network) and also supports network resource scalability, thereby reducing time and overhead required for an introduction of new services (e.g., starting small scale deployments that can grow fast if the service is becoming more mature and popular). The definition of such use cases helps to design and evaluate (technically and economically) NV solutions.
The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners that explore recent investigation on architectural and design issues as well as related implementation, experimentation, or simulation efforts towards realization of network virtualization for the future Internet. A particular focus lies on use cases for network virtualization. Original papers not under consideration of another conference, workshop or journal are encouraged to submit via Conftool (https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/). Submissions should be written in English, adhere to the eceasst format (http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/, special KiVS Workshop template will be provided), and comprise no more than 12 pages in total in this format. It is planned to publish accepted papers in the Open-Access-Journal Electronic Communications of the EASST.

Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:

Solutions and drivers
Virtualization technologies, platforms, and architectures
Use cases, applications and services enabled by NV
Business considerations and economic aspects
Network virtualization in data centers
Mobile virtual network operators
Control plane and management plane mechanisms for virtual networks
Resource allocation for co-existing networks
Radio access network sharing
Monitoring in virtualized environments, e.g. QoE or energy consumption
Network virtualization for energy efficiency
Isolation, performance and security
Submission

Workshop papers are planned to be published in the open access journal ECEASST and will also be distributed to the participants of the conference in electronic form. All papers should be formatted according to the style of the Electronic Communications of the EASST (European Association of Software Science and Technology) journal. The maximum page limit is 12 pages. Templates can be obtained from: http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/
Please submit your paper via the KiVS submission system https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/..

Important Dates

31. Oct 2010 ? Submission Deadline
28. Nov 2010 ? Notification
19. Dec 2010 ? Camera-ready papers
10.-11. Mar 2011 ? Workshop
Organization Committee

Roland Bless (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Marco Hoffmann (NSN)
Martin Stiemerling (NEC Labs Europe/U Göttingen)

TPC Co Chairs

Tobias Hossfeld (U Würzburg)
Wolfgang Kellerer (DOCOMO)
Andreas Kirstädter (U Stuttgart)

TPC Members

Roland Bless, KIT, Germany
Dominique Dudkoswki, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Xiaoming Fu, Univ. of Göttingen, Germany
Marco Hoffmann, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Tobias Hossfeld, Univ. of Würzburg, Germany
Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
Andreas Kirstädter, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
Paul Müller, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Martin Stiemerling, NEC Laboratories Europe/Univ. of Göttingen, Germany
Andreas Timm-Giel, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Kurt Tutschku, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Vishal Anand

Website of the Workshop
http://tm.kit.edu/NV2011