The fourth workshop on Advances in Network Optimization and Management (ANOM)

Introduction

This workshop aims to identify challenges and solicit novel solutions in network optimization and management for the new SDN and 5G networking paradigms. Specifically, we invite original contributions that envision future directions of network optimization and management. We welcome high quality papers containing the latest theoretical and/or experimental results. Researchers and engineers from both academia and industry are welcome to attend the workshop for discussions and idea sharing.

Scope

Software defined networking (SDN) provides network communities with innovative networking ideas, while the emerging 5G wireless networks ensure that various contemporary wireless applications can be timely and satisfactorily served anytime and anywhere. Today, the rapidly developing SDN and 5G networks bring forth many challenges for network optimization and management. In particular, traditional methods are either unavailable or inoperative for these new networking paradigms. Therefore, new advances in network optimization and management are needed urgently in order to maintain normal operations of SDN and 5G networks.

Topics

Particular topics of interest include:

Artificial intelligence in next-generation networks
Cloud-based, edge-based and fog-based networking
Optimization and modeling for SDN/5G
Operation and management for SDN/5G
Content-centric networking and named data network
Converged networks and applications
Emerging added-value network services and applications
Data center network architectures and performance
Big data driven optimization and management technologies for SDN/5G
Intelligent optimization, operation, and management for communications
Network service management for new networking paradigms
Cloud-native networking architectures
Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
Energy-efficient green communications
Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain wireless-wireline internetworking
Network Automation, Intent-based and policy-based network control and management
Advanced modeling and management theory and methods for network traffic
Network traffic characteristics for SDN/5G
Network traffic model and characteristics for SDN/5G
Estimation and prediction approaches for network traffic
Internet survivability and network resilience strategies
Integrated networking, storage and computing
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
Networking flying vehicles such as UAVs and drones
Next-generation flow management: resource sharing, congestion control
Simulation techniques for network optimization and management
Machine Learning techniques for network optimization and management
Simulation tools and software for network optimization and management
Next-generation networking protocols
Next-generation network management and control
Operational and research issues with IPv6
Packet classification and forwarding mechanisms at ultra-high link rates (terabits)
Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in next-generation networks
Applications based on network optimization and management
Resource allocation/service management/security analysis/performance analysis for intelligent communications networks
Quantum Internet
Resource orchestration in next-generation networks
Routing and switching
Self-protection and self-organization networking
Artificial intelligence and deep-learning based approaches for network optimization and management
Optimization and management in mobile edge computing and fog computing and cloud computing
Measurement and evaluation in network optimization and management
Traffic measurement, analysis, modelling, visualization, and engineering
Vehicular networking
Optimization and management in Satellite/aerial/terrestrial communications networks
Network planning and scheduling for intelligent communications networks
Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV)
Terahertz wireless communications

Workshop Organizers/ Chairs

Liuwei Huo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Lei Shi, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

TPC Members

Zhihao Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Feng Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Litao Zhang, Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management, China

Publication

Accepted and presented technical papers will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library. Workshop Papers will be published as a part of the (SIMUTools’22) Conference Proceedings. Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Submission

We invite workshop participation through contributions that respond to one or more of the mentioned research questions in (6–11) pages. Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).