IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
6-8 November 2017 – Berlin, Germany

Program

Program of the 3rd IEEE NFV-SDN Conference 2017

Program at a Glance (Download)

 

 

Venue Address:           Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany

 Monday, Nov 6, 2017

 

08:00 – 09:30 Registration & Coffee

Workshops

09:30 – 11:00  Workshop 1.a: Third International Workshop on Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 O4SDI)

09:30 – 11:00  Workshop 2.a: Fourth Workshop on Network Function Virtualization and Programmable Networks (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 NFVPN)

11:00 – 11:30  Networking Break

11:30 – 13:00  Workshop 1.b: Third International Workshop on Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 O4SDI)

11:30 – 13:00  Workshop 2.b: Fourth Workshop on Network Function Virtualization and Programmable Networks (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 NFVPN)

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

14:00 – 15:30  Workshop 3.a: Third International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 SNS)

14:00 – 15:30  Workshop 4.a: The Workshop on Federated Testbeds for NFV/SDN/5G: Experiences and Feedbacks (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 FedTest)

15:30 – 16:00 Networking Break

16:00 – 17:30  Workshop 3.b: Third International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 SNS)

16:00 – 17:30  Workshop 4.b: The Workshop on Federated Testbeds for NFV/SDN/5G: Experiences and Feedbacks (IEEE NFV-SDN’17 FedTest)

 

Tutorials

09:30 – 11:00  Tutorial 1 part 1 (Intel; room: Großes Forum): Fast Packet Processing Towards Scalable and Agile VNFs

09:30 – 11:00  Tutorial 3 part 1 (University of Macedonia; room: Kleines Forum): Softwarized Internet of Things with Lightweight Clouds in Practice

11:00 – 11:30  Networking Break

11:30 – 13:00  Tutorial 1 part 2 (Intel; room: Großes Forum): Fast Packet Processing Towards Scalable and Agile VNFs

11:30 – 13:00  Tutorial 3 part 2(University of Macedonia; room: Kleines Forum): Softwarized Internet of Things with Lightweight Clouds in Practice

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

14:00 – 15:30  Tutorial 1 part 3 (Intel; room: Großes Forum): Fast Packet Processing Towards Scalable and Agile VNFs

14:00 – 15:30  Tutorial 2 part 1(University of Bologna; room: Kleines Forum): Intent-based Network Programmability

 

15:30  – 16:00 Networking Break

16:00 – 18:00  Tutorial 1 part 4 (Intel; room: Großes Forum): Fast Packet Processing Towards Scalable and Agile VNFs

16:00 – 18:00  Tutorial 2 part 2 (University of Bologna; room: Kleines Forum): Intent-based Network Programmability

 

 

 

 

18:30 – 21:00  Welcome Reception & Demonstrations

 

Tuesday, Nov 7. 2017

07:30 – 08:30 Registration & Coffee

08:30 – 08:40 Welcome to IEEE NFV-SDN 2017

08:40 – 09:30 Keynote 1: SDN and NFV As Enablers For Digital Business Transformation by Rod Naphan (Fujitsu Network Communication)

09:30 – 10:30 Panel 1: 5G and the NFV and SDN Implications for Standardization

                        Moderator: Tetsuya Nakamura (CableLabs)  

10:30 – 10:45  Networking Break

10:45 – 12:30  Session 1: NFV and SDN Architectures

 

Inter-AS Traffic Engineering with SDN 

K. Kadiyala, J. Cobb (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

 

Practical Extensions to Countermeasure DoS attacks in Software Defined Networking

R. Mohammadi, R. Javidan and M. Keshtgary (Shiraz University of Technology, Iran), M. Conti and C. Lal (University of Padua, Italy)

 

Profile Your Chains, Not Functions: Automated Network Service Profiling in DevOps Environments

M. Peuster, H. Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany)

 

Policy-based Routing and Load Balancing for EVPN-based Data Center Interconnections 

C. Hernandez Benet, K. Alizadeh Noghani and A. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden), O. Dobrijevic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia), P. Jestin (Ericsson, Sweden)

 

Mobility Management with Caching Policy over SDN Architecture

K. Tantayakul, R. Dhaou, B. Paillassa (IRIT/ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, France)

 

12:30 – 13:30  Lunch

 

13:30 – 14:15 Keynote 2: “Algorithmic Opportunities and Challenges of NFV and SDN: A Guided Tour” by Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark)

 

14:15 – 15:35 Session 2: Fast Track Papers

Implementation of Service Function Chaining Control Plane through OpenFlow

G. Davoli, W. Cerroni, C. Contoli and F. Foresta (University of Bologna, Italy); F. Callegati (University of Bologna)

 

End-to-End Reliability Assurance of Service Chain Embedding for Network Function Virtualization

S. Bijwe, F. Machida, S. Ishida and S. Koizumi (NEC Corporation, Japan)

 

Performance Guarantee Aware Orchestration for Service Function Chains with Elastic Demands

T. Wen and H. Yu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); X. Du (Temple University, USA)

 

A Practical Architecture for Mobile Edge Computing

T. Subramanya (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy); L. Goratti (FBK Create-Net, Italy); S. N. Khan (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy); E. Kafetzakis (Orion Innovations P. C., Greece); I. Giannoulakis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); R. Riggio (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy)

 

Testbed for Security Orchestration in a Network Function Virtualization Environment

A. Kalliola (Nokia Bell Labs & Aalto University, Finland); S. Lal (Aalto University & Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); K. Ahola (VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland); I. Oliver (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); Y. Miche (Nokia Solutions and Networks, Finland); S. Holtmanns (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland)

 

15:35 – 15:50  Networking Break

 

15:50 – 17:35  Session 3: NFV and SDN Infrastructure and Elements 

The Acceleration of OfSoftSwitch

N. Bonelli and G. Procissi (University of Pisa, Italy), D. Sanvito (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), R. Bifulco (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)

 

On the Feasibility of Cloud-Based SDN Controllers for Residential Networks

C. Taylor (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), T. Guo, C. Shue and M. Najd (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

 

A Model for QoS-Aware VNF Placement and Provisioning

D. Boru Oljira, K.-J. Grinnemo, J. Taheri and A. Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden)

 

A NEAT Framework for Enhanced End-Host Integration in SDN Environments

Z. Bozakov (Dell EMC Research Europe, Ireland), S. Mangiante (EMC, Ireland), C. Hernandez Benet, A. Brunstrom, R. Santos and A. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden), D. Buckley (Dell EMC Research Europe, Ireland)

 

Design of a Hybrid Modular Switch

A. Aghdai (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA), Y. Xu (New York University, USA), H. Jonathan Chao (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA)

 

 

19:00 – 22:00  Social Event

 

Wednesday, Nov 8. 2017

 

07:30 – 08:30 Registration & Coffee

08:30 – 08:35 Welcome to Second Day

08:35 – 09:25 Keynote 3: “NFV in 5G Networks” by Zoltán Turányi (Ericsson Research Hungary)

09:25 – 10:30 Panel 2: Speed of Transformation, Are We Moving With Purpose?

                        Moderator:  Diego Lopez (Telefonica)

10:30 – 10:45  Networking Break

 

10:45 – 12:30  Session 4: NFV and SDN Operations

 

DiscOF: Balanced Flow Discovery in OpenFlow 

L. Nacshon , R Puzis, P. Zilberman (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

 

A High-Speed Cheetah Flow Identification Network Function (CFINF)

S. Maji, M. Veeraraghavan, M. Buchanan and F. Alali (University of Virginia, USA), J. Ros-Giralt (Reservoir Labs, Inc., USA), A. Commike (Reservoir Labs, USA)

 

Generating Random Service Function Chain Embedding Problems

A. Fischer (Karlstad University, Sweden)

 

ChainGuard: Controller-independent Verification of Service Function Chaining in Cloud Computing

M. Flittner, J. Scheuermann and R. Bauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

 

Blocking Intrusions at Border using Software Defined-Internet Exchange Point (SD-IXP)

A. Gangwal, M. Conti (University of Padua, Italy)

 

12:30 – 13:20  Lunch

13:20 – 13:30   Reflections on operationalizing SDNFV (Dan Pitt, Senior VP, MEF)

13:30 – 15:15 Session 5: Performance Analysis and Optimization

 

Performance Analysis of VNFs for sizing Cloud-RAN infrastructures

V. Quintuna and F. Guillemin (Orange Labs, France)

 

Genetic Algorithms with Particle Swarm Optimization based Mutation for Distributed Controller Placement in SDNs

L. Liao (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada), V. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)

 

Deploying QoS-assured Service Function Chains with Stochastic Prediction Models on VNF Latency

T.-H. Lei and Y.-T.Hsu, I-C. Wang, C. Wen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

 

Performance Comparison of State Synchronization Techniques in a Distributed LTE EPC

P. Satapathy and J. Dave, P. Naik, M. Vutukuru (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)

 

Approaching Incast Congestion with Multi-host Ethernet Controllers

G. Jereczek (CERN & Maynooth University, Switzerland), G.Lehmann-Miotto (CERN, Switzerland), D. Malone (Maynooth University, Ireland), M. Walukiewicz (Intel, Poland)

 

15:15 – 15:30  Networking Break

 

15:30 – 17:15  Session 6: Results and Evaluations in Application Scenarios

 

SDN-Assisted Adaptive Streaming Framework for Tile-Based Immersive Content Using MPEG-DASH

S. Zhao (MediaTek USA & University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA), D. Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

 

A Low-Delay SDN-based Countermeasure to Eavesdropping Attacks in Industrial Control Systems

G. Nicolas Kabasele Ndonda and R. Sadre (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

 

Mobility-aware VNF Placement in the LTE EPC

A. Patel, M. Vutukuru (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India), D. Krishnaswamy (IBM Research, India)

 

Towards QoS-aware Routing for DASH Utilizing MPTCP over SDN

K. Herguner, R. Shokri Kalan, C. Cetinkaya and M. Sayit (Ege University, Turkey)

 

VNF Service Chaining in Optical Data Center Networks

V. Nikam, J. Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), A. Rostami (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

 

17:15 – 17:30  Conference Closing