Call for Proposals

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