MPLS SDN World Congress 2015: Call for Proposals
The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other subjects in keeping within the thematic framework.
The role of open source organisms
- ONF
- OpenDaylight
- Openstack
Spring & RSVP
Migration scenarii
Data center virtualization
- Standardisation
- Wan & virtualization
- Ethernet virtual networks
- NFV environments
- Data center interconnection
SDN & NFV
- Standardization
- MPLS interactions
- IEEE DCB
- MEF Dynamic Responsive Ethernet
- OpenFlow impact
- MPLS and SDN Use cases (BoD – Bandwidth on Demand, VM, DCN applications, SPIT)
- Resiliency, Performance and High
- Availability issues
Multi-topology
IPv6 deployments
P2mp
- TE trees
- Protection
- Re-optimization
- Inter-area
- OAM
Protection
- Shared mesh
- Ingress/egress protection
- Multi-failure
- Multi-layer (SRLG)
- PW endpoint (S-PE)
- P2MP PW, etc.
Domain-wide global labels
I2RS
- Service chaining
- Security
- I2RS in MBH
- Applicability connection/network on-demand
- Service topology
PCE
- Statefull PCE
- Hierarchical PCE
- Inter-layer
- Inter-domain
- P2MP
Dynamic placement of multi-segment PW
NVO3
End-to-end MPLS
- Unified MPLS
- Requirements for a common packet transport architecture
- MPLS TP features
- Network designs
- Scalability issues
- Migration strategies
- Control and management plane
MPLS and Network /Infrastructure Virtualization (Cloud Services)
- Seamless VM mobility
- Virtualized Network Architectures
- Convergence and Resiliency in Data Center Networks
- Scaling and management of Data Center networks
- MPLS and Data Center Interconnect (inter-DC, Intra-DC)
- Impact of IPv6 transition to Cloud Services
- SP, Cloud Service Providers Case Studies
MPLS and next generation mobile packet networks:
- MPLS in LTE
- Seamless MPLS and mobility
- Various options for backhaul
- MPLS synchronization for LTE networks
- Fixed mobile convergence and mobile broadband
- Wi-Fi offload
- Scaling MPLS and Pseudo wires
- Lightweight MPLS and Pseudo wire based aggregation
GMPLS and Optical Networking:
- Current standard issues
- Lambda switching
- Optical VPNs
- Signalling at the edge between optical access devices/metro DWDM devices
- Applicability of GMPLS in non-optical technology areas
- PCE/PCC
- 100G and beyond
- GMPLS control plane challenges
- Planning and optimization
Service provider’s deployments reports:
- MPLS TP OAM Issues
- VPLS Multicast Deployment
- VPN deployments
- Experience in MPLS Services scalability
- Experience in managing MPLS networks
- VPLS vs LAN Emulation: what makes the former more successful than the later
- Experiences with FRR, Diff-Serv aware TE
- Deployment of hierarchical LSPs
- Operational challenges of running MPLS networks
- Migrating legacy services to MPLS
- Transition efforts case studies
- Emulating ATM over MPLS
- Deployment of Layer 2 VPNs
- Deployment of MPLS Point-to-multipoint LSPs
- VPN Multicast Deployment
Access and Core: Packet Transport Technologies
- Lightweight MPLS to the CE
- Role of MPLS pseudo-wires in the access
- Role of MPLS in access broadband networks (MPLS to the DSLAM)
- Packet transport in the aggregation infrastructure
- Packet transport in core networks
- Technical challenges in packet transport -- performance monitoring, provisioning, QoS, resilience
- Technologies for overcoming the above challenges
MPLS in the enterprise:
- Enterprise best-practices
- Deployment experiences
- Should Enterprise have more control over path their traffic take in Service Provider network?
Quality of Service and Resiliency:
- QoS strategies for L2/L3 VPNs
- Fault tolerance/graceful restart
- MPLS guaranteed bandwidth
- Fault isolation and resource partitioning in multi-service MPLS networks
Management and Planning for MPLS:
- Application of policy management to MPLS
- Provisioning/monitoring/trouble-shooting
- LSP provisioning management
- LSP verification tools/procedures
- SLA verification/monitoring
- Planning tools for designing, modelling, and simulating MPLS-based networks and services
- Network management for MPLS-practices and tools
- Billing in MPLS networks
- Setting accurate SLAs
- Verifying negotiated SLAs
- SLAs for MPLS-based Layer2 VPNs
Performance Issues:
- Scaling requirements for systems and protocols
- Impact of current infrastructure or system limitations
- Experience in Multicast MPLS deployment performance
- Fast convergence of MPLS enabled networks
Inter-provider and inter-domain case studies:
- Inter-domain and inter-provider 2547 VPNs
- Inter-domain and inter-provider VPLS
- Inter-domain and inter-provider pseudo
- wires
- Inter-domain and inter-provider L2 VPNs
Reports from interoperability testing:
- Lessons learnt
- Issues found
- Guidance for MPLS development going forward - for standards, vendors, and providers
Deadline for turning in abstracts: August 22, 2014
The Interop Platform
The European Advanced Networking Test Center ( EANTC) in collaboration with Upperside Conferences will invite industrials to a multi-vendor MPLS SDN & NFV interoperability test in January 2015, that will be demonstrated during the Congress.
In 2014, Cloud delivery and orchestration were the major focus of the interop along the topics of:
- Software Defined Networking (SDN): OpenFlow and PCE
- IPv6 Migration Scenarios
- MPLS and Ethernet Transport
- Data Center Interconnection
During the congress, EANTC will present results in regular guided tours to conference attendees. The showcase will be open for the full four days of the conferences (Tuesday to Friday).
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