5G-T @Workshop on Control and management of network slices, CfP deadline Nov. 12th

5G-Transformer organises a workshop on Control Management of network slices @ IEEE WCNC’18  (15-18 April 2018, Barcelona, Spain) and calls for papers

TOPICS OF INTEREST
-Architectures/Protocols/API specifications to allocate verticals/networks on top of single and/or multi-domain mobile transport networks
-Business mechanisms and economic framework for network slicing
-Scalable and secure MANO-based deployments models
-Multi-domain service and resource federation
-Network/Vertical service descriptors
-Virtualization in multi-domain environments
-Integration of network and IT resources
-Vertical/network slice isolation (security threats and performance isolation)
-Inter-slice communication (security threats and control mechanisms)
-Virtualization/containerization of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Monitoring of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Flexible control/data plane splits and fronthaul splits
-Runtime allocation of resources to vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Runtime placement of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Enforcement of orchestration policies for the interaction between services/microservices within a slice
-Local breakout/MEC/fog/cloudlets
-Experimentation and lessons learnt with orchestration frameworks CORD, ONAP, Open-O, OSM, Cloudify, OpenBaton, Istio in mobile transport networks
-Experimental mobile transport testbeds including network and IT resources
-Experimental Network/Vertical slice measurements
-Coexistence and migration of legacy operational networks towards slice substrates.
-Standardization efforts on network slicing (ETSI, IETF, 3GPP, BBF, ONF, etc.)