[Tccc] Call for Paper: 5th International IFIP...

Carlos Becker Westphall westphalatinf.ufsc.br
Thu Nov 8 05:11:26 EST 2012



 
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 ONIT 2013 - 5th International IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbeds 
(ONIT) on "Hot Topics in Fixed and Mobile Next Generation Network Evolution"
   

http://www.onit-ws.org/2013/

Friday, May 31, 2013, Genth, Belgium

Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS
       

 Fixed and mobile broadband networks are constantly under transition. The 
Internet influence, namely the all-IP transition has led to major changes 
in the control and service protocols and platforms. The resulting fixed 
and mobile NGNs are being rolled out globally today and their current 
evolution is inspired by Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia services and 
emerging M2M services. The convergence of different networking domains 
demands for standardized solutions in order to enable an open plug&play 
multivendor environment.
 

 The Future Internet is globally considered a hot research topic leading to 
even more drastic changes in these network architectures and technologies. In order 
to stimulate research and development in these complex environments and 
the prototyping and validation of new concepts, algorithms, protocols, 
services open testbeds and experimentation platforms, as well as open 
source software tools are of key importance.
 

 The Open NGN and IMS Testbeds (ONIT) workshop is an established and vivid 
international community, which has been sparked by the Open IMS project in the 
context of NGN in 2009 and has evolved with the related developments, such 
as OpenEPC for mobile broadband networks and the upcoming OpenMTC toolkit 
for emerging M2M platforms. As these pioneering testbed toolkits are just 
examples, there is much more available around the globe, which should be 
captured by the ONIT workshop.
 

 The 5th Workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbed workshop 2013 (ONIT at IM2013) will 
give insights into the state-of-the-art technologies concerning open Next 
Generation Fixed and Mobile Broadband Packet Core Networks and testbeds at 
an international scale. A special focus of the 5th ONIT workshop lies on 
discussing challenges and opportunities of virtualizing telecommunication 
network technologies and applying SDN concepts on them. The objective is 
also to evaluate and share the experience on the quality and impact
of such testbeds in order to improve current offerings and position them for 
future challenges. Therefore methodologies, mechanisms, concepts and research 
results, which address the design, deployment, prototyping and evaluation 
of Next Generation Fixed and Mobile Broadband Packet Core Networks, their 
evolution towards Future Internet and related application domains are 
target.
 

 Especially, the role of and requirements from open source software for Next 
Generation Fixed and Mobile Broadband Networks testbeds, as well as how such 
software and infrastructures can provide the required middleware between 
radio technologies like GSM, UMTS, HSPA, LTE, WiMAX or Wireless LAN and 
Future Internet as well as Machine-to-Machine communication networks, 
shall be discussed in depth.
Also in scope will be the latest developments into standardization and research 
on topics related to Next Generation Broadband Networks, like the integration 
between IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and new all-IP converged network 
technologies as Evolved Packet Core (EPC) based networks, with special 
insight on how cost-effective and accelerated R&D on Voice-over-LTE 
(VoLTE) can happen on traditionally difficult fields with the help of open 
testbeds.
 


Areas of Interest include but are not limited to:
 Evolved Packet Core Architectures
- 3GPP and IP Mobility
- Flow Mobility and Multi-Path Solutions
- Heterogeneous Access
- Always Best Connected and ANDSF evolution
- QoS and Traffic Monitoring
- Policy Control and Charging
- Efficient Routing of User-Plane Data
- Interoperability, Scalability and Performance Issues
- Convergence between 3GPP and non-3GPP Access Networks
- Interactions with Application Functions

 Software-Defined-Networks for Telecommunication Networks
- Virtualized Telecommunication Networks and Clouds
- Quality-of-Service in virtualized Environment
- Open Research Questions in SDN
- Prototypes and Experimental Validation of early Prototypes
- SDN as a new Platform for Businesses
- Carrier and Data Centre Networks
- Mobile Cloud Computing

 Open Source IMS/NGN/Mobile Broadband Network Components Development
- Open Source software as a driver for cost efficient testbeds
- Using and enhancing Open Source software in a telecom environment
 - Solving Common-IMS convergence issues with open source components and 
testbeds
 
- Interoperability and Standardization
- Security and Management Aspects

 Over-the-top (OTT) applications
- Voice over LTE (VoLTE), IMS Centralized Services (ICS)
- Telco Web services and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP)
- Web TV versus Internet TV and P2P video streaming
- Mobile Applications, RCS, MMTel
- Future Applications

 NGN to Future Internet
- Cross Layer Composition and Future Internet Core Networks
- Future Fixed and Mobile Core Networks Concepts
- Next Generation Transport
- Machine-Type-Communication (MTC)
- New Architectures (Evolutionary vs. Clean Slate)
- Virtual and Overlay Networks


 Papers will be withdrawn from IEEE Xplore in case the authors do not present 
their paper at the workshop
 


#Submission Guidelines
 Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in 
PDF format through JEMS using ONIT 2013 Submission Page. Only original papers 
that have not
been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each 
submission will be limited to 8 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (short papers) 
in IEEE 2-column
style. The review process is single blinded (author names should be mentioned). 
Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.
 

 To be published in the IFIP/IEEE IM 2013 Conference Proceedings and IEEE 
Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the 
conference at the full or
limited (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented at the 
conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading 
the final IEEE
formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple 
accepted papers, one full or limited registration is valid for up to 3 papers. 
Accepted and
presented papers will be published in the IFIP/IEEE IM 2013 Conference 
Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
 

#Important Dates
Paper submission:   December 15th, 2012
Author notification: February 1st, 2013
Camera-Ready version: February 15th, 2013
Workshop program:     March 1st, 2013
Workshop date:    Friday, May 31st, 2013


#Workshop organization
-Steering Committee
Thomas Magedanz (TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

-Workshop Chair
Julius Mueller (TU Berlin, Germany)
 Thomas Michael Bohnert (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 
Switzerland)
 

-Publicity Chair
Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

-Program Committee
under construction

 For a complete list of committee, board and TPC members, please visit 
http://www.onit-ws.org/2013/
 











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