-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: EWSDN 2012 Datum: Tue, 15 May 2012 18:30:07 +0200 Von: Stefano Salsano stefano.salsano@uniroma2.it An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN-2012)

http://ewsdn.eu

The European Workshop on Software Defined Networks will be held on October 25-26, 2012 in Deutsche Telekom Campus, Darmstadt, Germany (15 minutes from Frankfurt Airport)

*SDN* Software Defined Networking (SDN) is emerging as a promising architectural solution to support and foster innovation in telecommunication networks. Several switch/router vendors are “opening” their hardware, offering APIs to allow a “software defined” control of the networking operations. The vitality of the SDN approach is witnessed by the release of several SDN tools and development environments, most of which are open sourced.

*OpenFlow* The OpenFlow specifications, now standardized by the Open Networking Foundation, can represent a key component in a SDN architecture, but the SDN scope and concept is much wider than the OpenFlow APIs. In particular there is the need of higher level SDN abstractions and higher level SDN APIs, as the ones that should be offered to applications (e.g. SDN “north-bound” interfaces).

*European* What makes an SDN workshop “European”? Traditional strengths of European research and development have been in optical transmission and wireless, especially cellular networks. The workshop emphasizes aspects of Software Defined Networks that come up when extending SDN 'beyond Ethernet'. In this regard, “European” does not mean that we restrict to a geographic scope, we welcome contribution and participation from all over the world.

*Motivation* One goal of the workshop is to bring together industry and academia on the topics of SDN, in particular the workshop will feature an “industry forum”, i.e. a session with presentations of key industrial players (manufacturers, telecom operators…). A special session will include presentation and discussion of the highest ranked proposals to the 2nd open call of the OFELIA project (http://www.fp7-ofelia.eu/open-calls/2nd-open-call/).

*Contributions to the workshop* We are interested in both papers showing consolidated results and in position papers bringing up innovative ideas. We welcome contributions including, but not limited to, the following topics: - Optical extensions to OpenFlow, SDN - Wireless integration, characterization of wireless interfaces, flows, handover support - Evolved packet core, LTE support for OpenFlow - New controller architectures, Application Programmer's Interfaces, SDN “north-bound” interfaces - Higher level SDN abstractions, APIs, object models - New networking paradigms like Content or Information Centric Networks (CCN/ICN) and their relation with SDN - Carrier-grade SDN architectures and equipment - Network Virtualization techniques based on SDN - Practical experiments on OpenFlow / SDN based testbeds - Identification of use cases for SDN, SDN related business models - SDN frameworks and tools, SDN based equipment: controllers, switches, integrated development environment, testing and debugging environment

*Workshop Proceedings* The EWSDN Workshop proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore.

*Important dates* Deadline for Call for Papers (up to 6 pages, double column 10pt font): June 20th, 2012 Acceptance notification: July 31st, 2012 Camera ready: September 5th, 2012

*Paper submission* EWSDN submission will be managed using the EasyChair submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewsdn12

*Workshop registration and hotel rooms* The registration cost for the two-day workshop is 200€, including electronic proceedings, one dinner, two lunches, coffee breaks. Hotel rooms at Deutsche Telekom Campus are available for workshop participants at the special rate of 68€ per nights.

*Workshop Chair* Hagen Woesner, EICT, Berlin, Germany

*Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs* Juergen Quittek, NEC, Heidelberg, Germany Stefano Salsano, Univ. Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy Elio Salvadori, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

*Technical Program Committee*

(in progress… few more invitations have been sent)

Achim Autenrieth, ADVA, Germany Siamak Azodolmolky, Univ. of Essex, UK Dean Bogdanovic, Juniper Networks Marco Canini, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Ramon Casellas, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain Didier Colle, IBBT - Ghent University, Belgium Francesco De Pellegrini, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy Thomas Dietz, NEC, Germany Eduardo Jacob, Basque Country University, Bilbao, Spain Wolfgang John, Ericsson Sweden Pawel Kaczmarek, ADVA, Poland Holger Karl, Univ. Paderborn, Germany Wolfgang Kellerer, DOCOMO Europe, Munich, Germany Marc Koerner, TUB, Berlin, Germany Teemu Koponen, Nicira Networks Andreas Köpsel, EICT, Berlin, Germany Alessandro Leonardi, AGT, Germany Diego R. Lopez, Telefonica Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia Ruben Merz, Telekom Innovation Laboratories & TU Berlin, Germany Giacomo Morabito, Univ. of Catania / CNIT, Catania, Italy Reza Nejabati, Univ. of Essex, UK Bernhard Plattner, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Robert Raszuk, NTT MCL Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy Charalampos Rotsos, University of Cambridge, UK Rob Sherwood, Big Switch Networks Pontus Skoldström, ACREO, Sweden Marc Sune, i2CAT, Barcelona, Spain, TBC Vincenzo Suraci, Univ. La Sapienza, Roma, Italy Attila Takacs, Ericsson Hungary Mallik Tatipamula, Ericsson Steve Uhlig, Queen Mary University of London, UK Luca Veltri, Univ. of Parma / CNIT, Parma, Italy Hagen Woesner, EICT, Berlin, Germany