Workshop on Data-Plane Programmability and Edge Network Acceleration in the AI Era (NetAccel-AI 2024)
Call For Papers
The 1st International Workshop on Data-Plane Programmability and Edge Network Acceleration in the AI Era (NetAccel-AI 2024) will be co-hosted at the 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2024) that will be held from July 22nd to July 24th, 2024 in Pisa, Italy.
This workshop would like to offer a common venue to exchange visions and latest advances in research for professionals and researchers working on the areas of programmable data-planes and acceleration techniques. These topics have become of paramount importance in our era in which network softwarization and automation are mating with the explosion of artificial intelligence in all the applications of telecommunications. In this perspective, there is a constant need to improve performance of both network and computing devices in order to support processing functions with ever increasing requirements in terms of dynamical placement, data-transfer delays and monitoring.
Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:
- Programmable data-plane techniques
- Programmable data-plane languages
- P4 packet processing
- eBPF advanced packet handling
- Kernel bypass technologies
- Hardware acceleration techniques
- GPU acceleration and CPU offloading
- Network function virtualization in accelerated servers
- Smart NIC implementations
- Orchestration of distributed AI functions
- Acceleration and data plane programmability combined
- Distributed computing functions
- Cloud-edge-far-edge continuum
- Accelerated IoT devices
- Accelerated machine learning
- In-band Network Telemetry
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Paper Submission: May 17, 2024 May 24, 2024 (EXTENDED)
Workshop Notification of Acceptance: June 7, 2024 June 12, 2024
Camera-ready Submission: June 14, 2024 June 18, 2024
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Workshop Co-Chairs
Guido Maier, (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Walter Cerroni, (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)
Leonardo Linguaglossa, (Telecom Paris, France)
Workshop on Control and Management of Future Optical Networks (ContOptNet 2024)
Call For Papers
Submit your Paper to Control and Management of
Future Optical Networks (ContOptNet 2024)
The 1st International Workshop on Control and Management of Future Optical Networks (ContOptNet 2024) will be co-located with the 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing that will be held from July 22nd to July 24th, 2024 in Pisa, Italy.
This workshop aims to explore innovative solutions, methodologies, and strategies for effectively controlling and managing future optical networks
The topics of interest for ContOptNet 2024 include, but are not limited to:
- Control, management, and orchestration of disaggregated optical networks, including SDN and NFV solutions
- Control of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint coherent optical pluggables
- Multi-band optical networks
- Multi-mode/few-modes/multi-core optical spatial division multiplexed (SDM) networks
- Zero-touch network and service management at scale
- Digital twin-based network management
- Optical networks exploiting photonic integrated circuits
- Slicing, service chaining, virtualization and multi-tenancy techniques
- Field trials and interoperability demonstrations
- Application of ML/AI in optical networks
- Algorithms and procedures for optimizing novel optical networks
- Routing and spectrum assignments in optical networks
- Optical network availability, resilience, and survivability
- Optical network security and privacy
- Optical-packet transport
- Design, optimization and control of QKD networks
- Optical networks in 6G: backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul networking
- Novel network telemetry and real-time monitoring technologies for optical networks
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Paper Submission: May 17, 2024 May 24, 2024 (EXTENDED)
Workshop Notification of Acceptance: June 7, 2024 June 12, 2024
Camera-ready Submission: June 14, 2024 June 18, 2024
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Workshop Co-Chairs
Alessio Giorgetti, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrea Sgambelluri, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Lluis Gifre, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
