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Call For Papers (CfP)
Workshop on Continuum Internet and 6G (CI-6G 2023)
This WS is focusing on Continuum Internet realisation as part of 6G, including
research and whitepapers related to (i) architectures and frameworks for
Continuum Internet, (ii) effective Management and Operations for Continuum
Internet, (iii) enhanced Communication, Computing and Network Integrated
Technologies and 6G, (iv) Interconnected and Interworking of Smart Devices
across Continuum Internet and (v) novel use-cases and testbeds relevant to
Continuum Internet and 6G.
Collocated with 19th International Conference on Network and Service
Management, Niagara Falls, Canada, // 30 October - 2 November 2023
WS Paper submission page: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31283
WS Page: http://cnsm-conf.org/2023/workshop_Continuum_Internet.html
Important Dates:
- Workshop paper submission: 8 August 2023
- Acceptance Notification: 25 August 2022
- Camera Ready: 8 September 2022
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Continuum Internet Scope: The Internet is under significant strain due to its
hyper-scale, the increasingly demanding services it is called to support, and
the increasing number of smart devices and virtual objects that must be
interconnected and interworked. Developing efficient and energy-aware smart
vehicles, smart mobile devices, smart homes, smart cities, and other critical
applications and data services that rely on the interaction of smart devices
and virtual objects is essential. As part of the Internet evolution
accommodating smart devices, innovations must consider the different types of
smart devices (e.g., Smart Sensors, Smart IoT, Smart edge systems, Smart Cloud
Nodes, Smart routers deployed across Continuum Edge IoT, Cloud Computing,
Networking and 6G), different communication and management protocols, energy
consumption and extra security and service requirements. Efficient micro and
hyper-scale interconnection and interworking of smart devices are even more
challenging. This is because the number of devices is much larger, and the data
rates and services are much higher. Here are some of the challenges needed to
be overcome for micro and hyper-scale interconnection and interworking of smart
devices:
- Efficient Architectures and frameworks for the Continuum Internet, including
Industrial Edge IoT-to-Cloud-to Network Continuum.
- Heterogeneity of Devices: Smart devices come in various shapes, sizes, and
capabilities. They may use different communication protocols and have
additional security requirements.
- Micro & Hyper Scalability: The number of smart devices is expected to grow
exponentially in the coming years. This will put a strain on existing
interconnection and interworking solutions. It will be necessary to develop new
solutions that can scale down/up to support efficiently low/large numbers of
devices.
- Security: Smart devices are often connected to the internet, which makes them
vulnerable to attacks. It is essential to design interconnection and
interworking solutions that consider security.
- Sustainability: The technical solutions will be integrated into the
end-to-end sustainable platforms to support all applications and services to be
inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
- Elastic management: The administration of networks and services with direct
support for all their operations. It aims to leverage self-management,
automation and autonomic capabilities enabling unprecedented abstraction,
disaggregation, operation, integration, and programmability in infrastructures
and services. It creates a level of decoupling between the infrastructure
delivering the service and the service elements.
- Programmable techniques for remote self-operations and control: techniques
for dynamic injection of code for realising application-specific service logic
or performing dynamic service provision on demand.
- Integrated data spaces: Edge-to-Cloud-to-Network based Data Spaces for
large-scale data operations & relevant capabilities, encompassing the
mechanisms for enhanced interoperable data services and data processing across
numerous ecosystems.
- Energy consumption: Many smart devices are powered by batteries.
Interconnection and internetworking occupied a large part of the power
consumption. The design of the protocols and algorithms should consider energy
consumption to reduce the overall carbon footprint.
- Mobility: Smart devices may occasionally move, leading to the network
topology change. The design of the interconnection and internetworking should
cover the mobility aspects.
- New solutions for inter-computing management systems beyond the Internet's
inter-networking capabilities would make seamless services execution across
multiple inter-working domains possible, each applying different policies and
mechanisms for routing, security, access to resources and application services.
Topics of Interest: Research works, technical achievements, innovations, white
papers and academic papers on the following topics, but not limited to, are
welcomed.
Efficient Architectures and Frameworks for the Continuum Internet, including
Industrial Edge IoT-to-Cloud-to-Network Continuum:
- Novel infrastructures, testbeds, and use cases for Hyper-Scale Continuum
Internet and 6G.
- Novel infrastructures, testbeds, and use cases for Industrial Edge
IoT-to-Cloud-to-Network Continuum and 6G.
Cloud Infrastructures with Data Spaces:
- Novel infrastructure and use cases for interconnected Hyper-Scale Efficient
Cloud Computing and Networking Continuum and Hyper-Scale data spaces (e.g., Use
Cases: smart cities, smart countries and other critical applications and
services that rely on the interaction of smart devices).
- Novel infrastructure and use cases for interconnected Micro clouds and
Microdata spaces (e.g., Use Cases: smart vehicles, smart mobile devices, smart
homes).
Sustainable Energy-aware Protocols and Cloud Infrastructures:
- Make Cloud Computing and Networking Continuum Energy aware.
Design and develop new Energy Instrumentation Enablers, including energy
monitors and energy digital twins; APIs for (i) energy consumption control and
management considering service, compute, management, and connectivity resources
and (ii) rapid deployment and efficient operation.
- Design and development of new Energy-enabled deterministic Cloud Computing
and Networking Continuum enablers and APIs for data servicing across multiple
stakeholders and domains and the associated strict reliability requirements.
- Design development of new Energy-aware addressing and routing protocols for
energy consumption control of the data plane.
- Design and development of Enablers and APIs for domains/slices of a network
to go into sleep mode or operate at an energy-conserving pace.
- Design and develop novel energy consumption models and energy-closed control
loops.
- Design and development of adaptive energy-aware resource management.
Autonomic Cloud and Data Spaces Slicing and Control Services:
- Multi-domain Edge-to-Cloud Network Orchestration and Autonomic Control.
- Autonomic Slicing incorporating self -X control loops at multiple levels
(e.g., level 1- manual configuration, level 2- self-configuration &
organisation, level 3-self energy management, level 4 – self-optimization &
adaptation, Level 5 self-healing and protection, while level 6 represents the
ultimate goal of autonomic, self-managing systems).
- Programmability methods and protocols for Autonomic Slice's adaptation,
deployment, scalability, reliability, and security of the Autonomic Slicing.
- Programmability methods of the traffic sending rate to conserve Energy.
- Auto-deployment slice protocol, multiple slicing types and AI-based system
for Zero-touch operations are provided in the edge-network continuum.
Integrated Technology for Continuum Internet Efficiency of Operations:
- New solutions for integration of services and management systems in 6G.
Innovations in routing technologies and addressing future networks.
- Resource management mechanisms for deterministic data transmission/
Protocols and methods for delivery of high precision services with KPIs
guarantees.
- Methods and frameworks enabling customised functions on data packets and
processes to program the header of the packets.
- High-performance in-network processing and management for routing and
forwarding.
- High-performance, programmable networks for the Edge and Internet of Things.
- Capability exposure APIs and multi-limited domain frictionless orchestration.
- Interoperability of multi-domain domain methods and algorithms for extreme
performance compute and networking, such as very low latency, ultra-high peak
data rate, time-sensitive networking, and deterministic networking.
- Analyse and evaluate the scalability, reliability, and security of the
Compute and Network Continuum.
- Methods for efficient support for emerging application domains: Internet of
senses, holographic communications, massive digital twinning, XR, fully
autonomous driving, and flying networks.
- In-network service level optimisation; predictable KPIs and QoS.
- Management of complexity introduced for realising the additional addressing,
routing, and management semantics.
Paper Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been
published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared
using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 7 pages, including
references. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS
at https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31283. All papers will be peer-reviewed,
and comments will be provided to the authors. Once accepted, the paper will be
included in the conference proceedings and eligible for submission to the IEEE
Xplore Digital Library (indexed by EI). Submission of a paper should be
regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of
the authors will register for the conference and present the work.
Workshop Chairs
Dr. Zhe (David) Lou, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany
Prof. Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Technical Program Committee
Prof. Albert Cabellos-Aparicio; Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Mr. Christian Jacquenet; Orange, France
Prof. Michael Menth; University Tubingen, Germany
Dr. Luis Contreras; Telefonica, Spain
Prof. Tarik Taleb; Oulu University, Finland
Prof. Paolo Bellavista; University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. George C. Polyzos; Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Dr. Luigi Iannone; Huawei, France
Dr. Dirk Trossen; Huawei, Germany
Prof. Lefteris Mamatas; University of Macedonia, Greece
Prof. Michele Nogueira; Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Prof. Stefano Secci; CNAM, France
Prof. Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
Prof. Mohamed Faten Zhani; ETS, Canada
Prof. Kohei Shiomoto; Tokyo City University, Japan
Dr. Hakon Lonsethagen; Telenor, Norway
Prof. Leonardo Linguaglossa; Telecom Paris, France
Prof. Joan Serrat; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Prof. Panagiotis Papadimitriou; University of Macedonia, Greece
Prof. Ning Wang; University of Surrey, UK
Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas; University of Piraeus, Greece
Prof. Filip De Turck; Ghent University - Imec, Belgium
Dr. Marinos Charalambides; Institute of Communication and Computer Systems,
Greece
Prof. Alex Galis; University College London, UK
Dr. Zhe (David) Lou; Huawei, Germany
For any queries, please get in touch with Yulei Wu ([email protected])
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