IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
10-13 January 2020 // Las Vegas // USA

2nd IEEE Workshop on Scalability and Reliability Issues and Solutions for Software Defined Networks (SRSDN’20)

2nd IEEE Workshop on Scalability and Reliability Issues and Solutions for Software Defined Networks (SRSDN’20)

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2nd IEEE CCNC 2020 International Workshop on Scalability and Reliability Issues and Solutions for Software Defined Networks (SRSDN 2020)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

  Software Defined Networking (SDN) has gained a lot of attention over the last ten years and has been considered as an evolutionary breakthrough for the next-generation network technologies. It enables fine-grained flow control that can make networks more customizable and flexible. Today, SDN is deployed in a wide range of contexts: e.g., enterprise and campus networks, datacenter networks, wide-area networks as well as Internet Exchange centers. However, the transition of traditional networking model to SDN architectures poses scalability issues due to the possible flow entry explosion in SDN switches. The limited size of flow table of SDN switches is not sufficient to handle the thousands upon thousands flows in an Internet-scale network, which decreases the feasibility of implementation of large-scale IP-based SDN severely. 

  Despite the many deployments, today's SDNs are of small scale, e.g., limited to a small network or to a single administrative domain. The next major challenge thus resides in scaling up SDNs. The scope of this workshop is research that addresses the challenge of deploying SDN at scale. Large-scale SDNs may span thousands of switches and routers, for a network that may span large geographic areas and carry millions of flows. Such scenarios require highly scalable control and management planes as well as applications to handle the large amount of control traffic. In addition to the control plane and SDN applications, the data plane must also be scalable. Finally, for cost reasons and to gain confidence in the new technology, software-defined networks should be deployable incrementally.

  On the other hand, SDN becomes more complex due to new and multi-lateral network domains, and poses many critical challenges on the existing network reliability mechanisms in order to achieve the same reliability services. While the controller makes it exceptionally convenient for a network operator to control and manage a network, the controller requires complex logic and becomes a single point of failure within the network. As a result, configuration errors by the controller could be extremely costly for the network provider. Ultimately, one major source of this complexity are network failures, as they trigger execution of unexplored portions of code; these network failures are inevitable, costly, and considering all possible interleaving of bugs is simply infeasible.

  In this workshop, we are seeking novel approaches and unpublished work related to scalability and reliability issues and solutions for SDN. In particular, we would like to focus on recent developments in protocols, application design, and architecture specification for achieving scalability and reliability in SDN in various contexts such as:

  • SDN-Based Datacenter networks, Enterprise networks, Campus networks, Large-Scale Wide-Area networks, 5G/6G Mobile Networks, etc.
  • Scalability and Reliability issues at SDN Control Planes
  • Scalability and Reliability issues at SDN Data Planes
  • SDN Applications and Algorithms (e.g., Traffic Engineering, Mobile Management, Network Slicing, Multi-Tenancy)
  • SDN deployment Issues (e.g., Non-SDN to SDN Incremental Migration, Non-SDN and SDN Hybrid Deployment)
  • Scalable for SDNs
  • Scalable Programming Languages for SDNs
  • Scalable Architectures and Programmable Pipelines (e.g., NetFPGA, Crossbar, TCAM etc.)
  • Experimental Approaches for Scalability and Reliability Issues in SDNs
  • Scalable and Reliable SDN-Based Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Cloud and Fog Computing
  • Next-Generation Network Softwarization Architectures
  • Standardization and Interoperability for Large-scale SDN (e.g., Openflow, OpenDaylight, Inter SDN Controller Communication (SDNi) etc.)  
  • New Value Chains and Business Models for SDN

 

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: 30th Sept. 2019

Acceptance Decisions: 15th Oct. 2019

Camera-ready Abstracts: 15th Dec. 2019

 

  Workshop Steering Committee:

    Wen-Kang Jia                Fujian Normal University, China
    Yi Wu                              Fujian Normal University, China
    Xufang Wang                 Fujian Normal University, China

 

Technical Program Committee:

   

  Ali Malik          University of Portsmouth, UK
     
  Posco Tso                          Loughborough University, UK
     
  Kai-Kit Wong                     University College London, UK
     
  Zihuai Lin                           University of Sydney, Australia
     
  Yau Hee Kho Victoria         University of Wellington, New Zealand
     
  Talal Alharb                        University of Queensland, Australia
     
  Nor Badrul Anuar               University Malaya, Malaysia
     
  Yaw-Chung Chen               National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
     
  Cheng-Fu Chou                  National Taiwan University, Taiwan
     
  Hsiao-Kuang Wu                National Central University, Taiwan
     
  Zhexin Xu                          Fujian Normal University, China
     
  Zheng Yang                        Fujian Normal University, China
     
  Liang Chen                         Fujian Normal University, China
     
  Feng Yan                           Southeast University, China
     
  Weiwei Xia                        Southeast University, China
     
  Jing Hu                              Southeast University, China
     
  Wenfeng Li                        Nanjing University, China
     
  Bin Li                                 Beijing University of Posts and Telecoms, China
     
  Xujie Li                              Hohai University, China
     
  Jun Zhang                         Nanjing University of Posts and Telecoms, China
     
  Xiaorong Zhu                     Nanjing University of Posts and Telecoms, China
     
  Yanli Xu                              Shanghai Maritime University, China
     
  Zhengquan Li                     Jiangnan University, China
     
  Shudi Bao                           Ningbo University of Technology, China
     
  Geng Chen                        Shandong University of Sci. and Tech., China
     
  Shujing Xie                         University of South China, China
     
  Ziyan Jia                             Jiangsu University of Technology, China
     
  Chi-Hua Chen  Fuzhou University, China
     
  Feng Chen                         Fuzhou University, China

 

Workshop Program:

       Jan. 13th, 2020                 morning session

 

Contact Information:

      For more information on the congress, please contact: Xufang Wang, fzwxf@qq.com

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