Call for Proposals
The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other subjects in keeping within the thematic framework.Security aspects
- Routing security
- RPKI
- Anti-spoofing
- MANRS
Segment Routing
- SR deployments and standard update
- SRv6 for mobility
- SRv6 for Cloud
- 5G deployments : slicing and service chaining
- SDWAN with 5G slicing leverage
MPLS extensions
- In-situ OAM
- Time sensitive networking
- Network slicing & programming
EVPN
- OAM
- New services (egg Multi-homing)
- New extensions
Self healing networks
- Service assurance
- Closed loop automation
- Intent-based networking
Network programming
- Full network programmability
- SDN and NFV integration
- Deploying functions on demand
AI & ML
- Distributed AI & ML and knowledge aggregation
- Application of digital twins
- AI understandability
- Levels of intent (in the layers from natural language to DSLs)
- Data generation and provenance
5G transport network
- 5G requirements on slicing (hard slicing)
- Sync: new requirements from 5G
- Low latency
- QoS: difference between 5G & 4G
- 5G for verticals: challenges & solutions
- 5G for time sensitive network (TSN): challenges and solutions
MPLS vs SD-WAN & SASE
- Internet underlay
- Scalability and security issues
- Management & orchestration
- uCPE
- Enterprises and SPs testimonies
Automation
- New architectures
- Automation at scale
- YANG models
- Use cases
Management & Orchestration
- Cord, Onap reports
- Inter-domain orchestration
- Operational aspects
- Automation
- WAN agility
- Network modeling
- Containers
MPLS & SDN
- Synonymous labels
- EVPN use cases
- MPLS and SDN Use cases
- Flex Ethernet to MPLS
- Deterministic network
- Service assured network
- SDN WAN
- Engineering
- Transport SDN
- Virtualized routers (vPE, vRR)
- Path Computation Element
- Standardization
- MPLS interactions
- IEEE DCB
- Resiliency, Performance and High-Availability issues
NFV
- Docker for optimization
- CPE virtualization
- PoCs reports
- Mobility
- OP-NFV
- Service chaining
- L4-L7 services
- Gi LAN Services
- Cloud Management
- Virtual Network Infrastructure
- VNF performance
Data center virtualization
- Standardisation
- Wan & virtualization
- Ethernet virtual networks
- NFV environments
- Data center interconnection
- Applications
Deadline for turning in abstracts: January 15th, 2022.