-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: 1st International Workshop on Network Energy Efficiency in the Softwarization Era (GreenNet 2022) Datum: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:52:45 +0100 Von: Franco Davoli franco.davoli@UNIGE.IT Antwort an: Franco Davoli franco.davoli@UNIGE.IT An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

1st International Workshop on Network Energy Efficiency in the Softwarization Era (GreenNet 2022)

Workshop co-located with the

IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2022)

Milan, Italy, 27 June–1 July 2022

Call for Papers

The convergence of fixed and mobile networks toward softwarized programmable networking platforms based on functionalities implemented for the most part by Virtual Entities (VEs) running on a general-purpose hardware infrastructure is posing new challenges to the designer of control strategies that aim at optimizing the trade-off between performance and power consumption. In such environment, attributing the power consumed by the hardware to specific VEs becomes much more difficult than in networking architectures where the same functionalities are performed by dedicated equipment (e.g., routers or L2 switches). The strong integration between the mobile and fixed network segment, already present in 5G and further strengthened in 6G is going to increase the volume of traffic and applications’ heterogeneity, along with the number of users, making network energy efficiency a full-fledged Key Performance Indicator (KPI) to be coped with.

The aim of the Workshop is to explore some of the issues that this evolution poses on finding suitable traffic and power models, as well as management and control strategies, along with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to be used for the lifecycle management and optimization of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and the creation and dynamic reconfiguration of network slices, to match as closely as possible the desired balance between sustainability in terms of energy efficiency and performance.

We solicit original papers on the following (and related) topics Analytical models of network power consumption Traffic modelling for performance and power representation Management and control mechanisms for the dynamic optimization of the trade-off between power and performance AI/ML techniques for power and performance management in virtualized environments AI/ML in network softwarization for slicing energy efficiency, fog/cloud MEC virtualization, self-x technologies, adaptation, automation, and zero-touch APIs for power management interfaces Architectural solutions toward network sustainability Power-aware network slicing Wired and wireless energy efficiency Energy-saving internet protocols Energy efficiency in the fog/MEC/cloud continuum Energy efficient internetworking of mobile backhaul/core and remote data centers Energy efficient 3D networks Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original papers not published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered for the workshop.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through EDAS: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29269 https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29269 Important Dates

❏ Paper Submission: February 28, 2022

❏ Notification of Acceptance: April 11, 2022

❏ Camera ready: April 25, 2022

❏ Workshop date: June 27, 2022 or July 1, 2022

Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs: Raffaele Bolla, University of Genoa, Italy (raffaele.bolla@unige.it mailto:raffaele.bolla@unige.it);

Hesham ElBakoury, Futurewei Technologies (helbakoury@gmail.com mailto:helbakoury@gmail.com), USA; Franco Davoli, University of Genoa, Italy (franco.davoli@unige.it mailto:franco.davoli@unige.it); Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK (J.M.H.Elmirghani@leeds.ac.uk mailto:J.M.H.Elmirghani@leeds.ac.uk).

Workshop Technical Program Committee

Hamed Ahmadi, University of York, UK Tobias Hossfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany Chiara Lombardo, CNIT, Italy Gianmarco Baldini, JRC, Italy Daniel Kilper, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Taisir Elgorashi, University of Leeds, UK Thomas Zinner, NTNU, Norway Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Riccardo Trivisonno, Huawei, Germany Alessandro Carrega, University of Genoa / CNIT, Italy Roberto Bruschi, University of Genoa, Italy

Lijun Dong, Futurewei, USA Kerry Hinton, University of Melbourne, Australia

Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Jane Frances Pajo, Telenor Research, Norway

Odnan Ref Sanchez, SINTEF, Norway

Sheng Jiang, Huawei, China

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