MOBISLICE 7 Workshop

7th edition of Mobility Support in Slice-based Network Control for Heterogeneous Environments

5th November 2024, Natal, Brazil

Held in conjunction with the X IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks

Scope

This year’s edition of MOBISLICE will shed a transversal multi-disciplinary look at what have been the cutting-edge prospects and instalments for enabling network slicing. Inspired by the recent trials in 5G deployments, their proposition for Beyond-5G capabilities and the current early progression work on 6G, MOBISLICE will showcase evidence of the pursuit for definite solutions towards this utilization capability paradigm. What have been the major hurdles for network slicing? Which mechanisms are the ones that best contribute to such offering? Which utilization scenarios best evidence the capabilities provided by existing network-slicing capable deployments, and how to improvement? What about failed attempts: where do the key issues lie? Which are the learnt stories? From all the supportive 5G enablers (e.g., softwarization, virtualization, AI/ML, service-based architecture, ...) what still needs to be done, and what can be used to help shape the future of networks for slicing?

Topics of Interest

The MOBISLICE workshop focuses, but is not limited to, the following topics targeting slicing:

Use cases and architectures validation:
  • Slices in constrained environments (IoT, Edge, etc.);
  • o Vertical-based scenarios (e.g., Factories of the future including manufacturing automation and process automation; Automotive service and ITS; Telco Operator and enterprise-based environments);
  • Automotive service and ITS scenarios;
  • Smart-X slice mobility, assisted by AI/ML, fog and edge;
  • Reliability and security;
  • Experimental, real trials and their impact in vertical performance.
Network, computation and other enablers:
  • Main operations and API;
  • Inter- and intra-slice mobility;
  • Lifecycle management and impact;
  • Heterogeneous access convergence or abstraction;
  • High availability and reliability techniques;
  • Experimental and real trials;
  • Secure-enabled, AI/ML-enabled and Fog/Edge-enabled slices.
Standardization efforts and activities:
  • Status and progresses in 3GPP/ETSI/IETF/ONF and other SDOs;
  • Proposals and standardization direction for advanced slicing;
  • SDN/NFV initiatives;
  • Slice-enhanced Networking and telecommunication protocols;
  • o AI/ML and Security-based slice standardisation.
Beyond-5G and 6G slicing:
  • Disruptive architectures;
  • Zero-touch slice performance;
  • Experimental and real trials;
  • New scenarios.

Program

The workshop program will be placed here soon! Meanwhile, you can find the full IEEE NFV SDN conference program here.

Important Dates and Information

Workshop paper submission:

17th September

Acceptance notification: 24th September
Camera-ready papers: 1st October

Paper Submission

(Authors are advised to follow the IEEE NFV SDN paper authoring guidelines.)

EDAS Submission link

Keynotes

Prof. Dr. Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Associate Professor, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação

Short bio: Since August 2013, Christian Esteve Rothenberg is Head of the Information & Networking Technologies Research & Innovation Group (INTRIG) and Associate Professor at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where he received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he worked as Senior Research Scientist in the areas of IP systems and networking at CPqD R&D Center in Telecommunications, Campinas, Brazil. During his PhD, he worked on probabilistic data structures applied to packet forwarding in content-centric networks, was a visiting researcher (2008) at Ericsson Research Nomadic Lab, Jorvas, Finland. He holds the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Technical University of Madrid (ETSIT - UPM), Spain, and the M.Sc. (Dipl. Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD), Germany, 2006. During his master thesis at Deutsche Telekom he worked on IMS-based fixed mobile convergence and mobility management, and was engaged in R&D activities on converged access networks (ScaleNet) and self-optimizing radio access networks. He was an Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Research Associate, co-chair of the IEEE SDN Outreach Committee initiative, and member of the CPQD Innovation Committee. Christian has contributed to 07 international patents, co-authored three books, and over 200 scientific publications, including top-tier scientific journals and networking conferences such as SIGCOMM and INFOCOM, altogether featuring 11 000+ citations (h-index: 35+, i10-index: 90+). In 2020, Christian was included in the top-cited career-long impact scientists according to PLoS Biol 18(10).

Keynote Topic: TBD

The workshop will be held on the 5th November, 2024, in conjunction with the X IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks

Special Issues

Improved versions of selected published papers will be invited for possible inclusion in the following Special Issue:

  • Springer's "Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) with Open Access, free of publication charge.
  • Best Paper Award

    Our top quality TPC will sellect a BEST PAPER and present the respective Award Certificate at a ceremony during the workshop session.

    Organization

    MOBISLICE Workshop Co-chairs:

    Daniel Corujo

    Universidade de Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicações
    Portugal

    Augusto Neto

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
    Brazil

    Seil Jeon

    Telia Company
    Sweden

    Roger Immich

    Digital Metropolis Institute (IMD/UFRN)
    Brazil

    Ramon Fontes

    Digital Metropolis Institute (IMD/UFRN)
    Brazil

    Technical Program Committee:

  • Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Carlos Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • David Santos, Instituto de Telecomunicações
  • Dirk Trossen, Huawei
  • Fábio Verdi, Federal University of São Carlos
  • Gino Carrozzo, T-Systems International
  • Juhoon Kim, Deutsche Telekom AG
  • Marco Liebsch, NEC Labs Europe
  • Pankaj Thorat, Samsung
  • Rafael Lopes, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
  • Riccardo Trivisonno, Huawei
  • Rui Silva, Instituto de Telecomunicações
  • Tarik Taleb, Ruhr University
  • Vitor Cunha, Univ. Aveiro and Inst. Telecomunicações
  • Younghan Kim, Soongsil University