5G-TRANSFORMER @1st Workshop of COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT)

5G-TRANSFORMER co-organises the First Workshop of COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT) in conjunction with the IEEE WCNC.  The IEEE WCNC is the only IEEE conference focused exclusively on wireless research, technology, and applications. The 2018 edition of this conference will be held in Barcelona on April 15-18, 2018 at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB) and will be organized by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)

The Phase 2 5G PPP project calls for papers.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: November 2, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2017
Camera-ready version: January 12, 2018

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.)

For more information on the Workshop click here.

For more information on 5G-TRANSFORMER click here.