2nd International Workshop on
Edge Network Softwarization
ENS 2023

Aim and Scope

The 2nd International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2023) will be co-hosted at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2023) that will be held from June 19th to June 23rd, 2023 in Madrid, Spain.

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) along with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are playing a fundamental role in the softwarization of the network infrastructure. In particular, both technologies have revolutionized the way network functions and services are offered, which are often (partially) pushed towards the edge for enhanced performance, improved privacy, better agility and significant cost reduction. 

Accordingly, this workshop aims at providing an overview of the softwarization process that has started occurring in recent years and is involving the network edge, with focus on future-proof approaches that will be part of the advanced 5G&B and 6G network solutions. Edge network softwarization is a fundamental topic that has to be thoroughly investigated and pushed by the research community. ENS 2023 has the goal to meet together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry that are actively involved in network edge softwarization related research projects.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest for ENS 2023 include, but are not limited to:

• SDN and NFV distributed solutions for the network edge;

• Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions for network edge;

• Service and network orchestration at the edge;

• Novel solutions for data-plane programmable (e.g. P4, eBPF, XDP) edge devices;

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the edge;

• Serverless computing and Function-as-a-Service in edge network architectures;

• Network-aware resource provisioning in Fog Computing;

• Advances to end-to-end tunneling technologies (e.g. VxLAN, IPSEC/GRE);

• Edge computing energy efficiency and resource optimisation;

• Support for low latency applications at the edge (e.g. Tactile Internet);

• Edge-driven use cases (e.g. Agriculture 4.0, Industry 4.0, etc.);

• Privacy and security for the network edge (e.g. zero trust networks);

• Multi-tenancy of edge networks;

• Network edge availability and protection;

• Open Hardware and Software solutions;

• Converged optical and wireless architectures at the edge.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: March 17, 2023  April 2, 2023 April 4,  2023  (Deadline Extended, FIRM)
Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2023 April 27th, 2023
Camera-ready Submission: April 28, 2023 May 5th, 2023
Workshop Date and Time: Friday June 23rd, 2023 - 9:00-13.30

Paper Submission (closed)

Authors are invited to submit original contributions for presentation at the workshop. All submissions must be written in English. Papers should be up to 6 pages, including references and all other material. They must use the standard IEEE two-column conference template, which can be downloaded from www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the NetSoft 2023 Proceedings and published on IEEE Xplore. 

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/N30678. 

Workshop Organizers

General Co-Chairs

• Sebastian Troia, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 

• Christian Grasso, University of Catania, Italy 

TPC Co-Chairs

• Marco Savi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

• Alessio Sacco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Keynote Co-Chairs

• Frank Slyne, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Michael Seufert, University of Würzburg, Germany

• Victoria Manfredi, Wesleyan University, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

• Koteswararao Kondepu, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India

• Sajad Khorsandroo, North Carolina A&T State University, USA

• Nabeel Akhtar, Akamai Technologies Inc, USA

• Elisa Rojas, University of Alcalá, Spain

• Ryota Kawashima, Nagoya Institute Technology, Japan

• Lihua Ruan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Past Editions of the Workshop

• 1st Edition (ENS 2022)