Subject: [nmrg] iPOP 2018

From: "Ciavaglia, Laurent (Nokia - FR/Paris-Saclay)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:12:03 +0000

Dear NMRG,

iPOP 2018 CFP is out and contains several topics of in line with NMRG research agenda.

Best regards, Laurent.

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First Call for Presentation

14th International Conference on IP + Optical Network (iPOP 2018) May 31 - June 1, 2018 NICT Koganei Headquarter, Koganei, Tokyo Japan https://www.pilab.jp/ipop2018/

Important Dates:

  Submission deadline of one-page abstract:  February 23, 2018

  Notification of acceptance:  April 3, 2018

  Submission deadline of final presentation slides:  May 7, 2018

The conference is intended to share the knowledge, new findings, and experiences on the state-of-the art of IP and optical networking technologies among the industry and the academia. It features technical sessions and exhibitions. The opportunity to participate is open to all.

The Technical Program Committee (TPC) for iPOP 2018 is soliciting presentation proposals for this conference. Protocol design, experiments, theories, implementations, and operational experiences are solicited.

The topics of the conference will include but not be limited to the following:

  * SDN/NFV expectation and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) for 5G

  * AI-assisted/autonomous operation and control

  * Automation of network operation and management (zero touch provisioning, etc.)

  * Intent-based networking

  * Policy-based management

  * SDN for packet and optical transport networks

  * Network abstraction/virtualization

  * Service function chaining

  * Control of network slices

  * Open Source Software (OSS) for SDN/NFV

  * Network requirement for IoT

  * Optical networking/switching for cloud services

  * Control plane (MPLS/GMPLS, OpenFlow, etc.)

  * Multi-Layer/Region Networks (MLN/MRN)

  * Traffic Engineering (TE), Path Computation Element (PCE)

  * Flex-grid/elastic optical networks

  * Data center and WAN orchestration

  * Carrier Ethernet and MPLS-TP for backhauling

  * Quality of Service/Experience (QoS/QoE)

  * Standardization/interoperability

If you wish to submit a topic for consideration, please send an extended abstract of 400 words and a maximum of 1 page, including figures and diagrams, speaker's name, affiliation, and contact information to the TPC at [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>.

Please see https://www.pilab.jp/ipop2018/ for more details.
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Laurent Ciavaglia
Nokia, Bell Labs
+33 173 232 881
route de Villejust - Nozay, France
linkedin.com/in/laurent.ciavaglia