The 4th IEEE NFV-SDN conference, which will take place in Verona, Italy, invites proposals for two half-day and one full-day tutorials to be held on November 27th, 2018, prior to the main technical program. Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of NFV and SDN research; Provide instruction on established practices and methodologies; Survey a mature area of NFV and SDN research and/or practice; Motivate and explain an NFV and SDN topic of emerging importance; Introduce expert non-specialists to an NFV and SDN research area.
Suggested topics to be considered include, but are not limited to:
- Applications enabled by NFV & SDN technologies
- SD-WAN, IoT, content acquisition and delivery, AR/VR
- NFV and SDN Infrastructure design
- Cloud-Native design principles
- Serverless computing
- Network slicing, dynamic resource allocation
- High performance switching and data plane optimization
- Low latency computing at the network edge
- Benchmarking and performance testing
- Autonomics enabling dynamic network reconfiguration
- Fault management and self-healing
- Security and resilience
- NFV and/or SDN related information modelling, data modelling
- Hands-on with open source software tools
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please submit your IEEE NFV-SDN tutorial proposal directly to the Tutorial Co-Chairs (contact information below). Each submission should include:
- Title of the tutorial
- Length of the tutorial (Half-day or Full-day) and expected total time
- Names, addresses, and a short biography (up to 200 words) of the instructors
- A description of the technical issues that the tutorial will address, emphasizing its timeliness
- An outline of the tutorial content, including a tentative schedule
- Planned format of the tutorial, such as lecture or hands-on
- If appropriate, a description of past versions of the tutorial, including number of attendees, etc.
Submitted tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages.
TUTORIAL Co-Chairs
Tetsuya Nakamura: t.nakamura@cablelabs.com
Walter Cerroni: walter.cerroni@unibo.it
IMPORTANT DATES
Demo proposal submission: July 8, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: July 22, 2018