Please submit your abstracts to cfp2016[at] isocore.com

Please see the following topics (select A – F):

A. Network Analytics, Big Data & Self-Learning Networks:

This track will focus on how developments in big data and analytics are changing network operations, Operational Support Systems (OSS), engineering, planning, and network autonomy.

• Big data network analytics
• Scale-out monitoring stacks
• Telemetrics, analytics and next-generation OSS
• Self-learning networks
• Security analytics

B. Software Defined Networks (SDN)

• Control and Data Plane Decoupling Architectural Benefits, Principles, and Use Cases
• Service Discovery and Network Topology Instantiation
• Applicability of SDN to service provider/carrier networks
• SDN for : MPLS, Optical, Ethernet, Mobile Networks
• Availability, Scalability and Performance of SDN
• Northbound/Southbound APIs standards, open source and operational experience
• SDN Security
• Orchestration and Devops
• Case studies, operational experience with SDN and NFV
• Modeling, Management and Operations with SDN and NFV (Netconf, Yang, XML, Restconf)
• Optimization of Network and DC resources - Mobile networks, Cloud and DC, Wireline Network

• Integration of SDN and NFV
• Virtualization overlays
• Applications of Network function virtualization
• Performance impact NFVI Benchmarking
• Fault Detection and Active Monitoring for NFV
• Interworking with existing architecture
• Operations management: operational considerations and challenges
• Open Source Initiative
• Implementation options: bare metal, hypervisors, container
• Applicability of softwarization to Mobile and Wireless Networks
• Cybersecurity, Security of the Cloud and Data Governance
• Network Service Chaining Applications (ETSI, NFV, IETF)

• Network virtualization underlay/overlay
• Cloud Services
• Mobility in Cloud 
• MPLS in support of mobility in cloud computing 
• Carrier-grade Iaas, Network as a Service (NaaS)
• Resiliency mechanisms 
• IP, MPLS, Ethernet and other networking for Inter-data center connectivity to Cloud
• IP, MPLS, Ethernet and other networking for Customer access to Cloud
• Service Provider, Customer, Enterprise experiences/case studies with Cloud
• Security aspects
• Large flow load balancing

E. Open Source- Software and Technologies

• Open source software and current technology trends
• NFV Architectures using Open source
• Open source in production data centers and networks
• Openstack deployments - Architecture, features and Challenges
• Open-X (Compute Platform, Orchestrator, MANO)

F. Other

• Traffic Engineering
• Path Computation and Routing
• Architecture and Protocol support for Internet of Things (IoT)
  

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