Message from the Chairs:

Scientific program chair coordinator: Benedetta Picano

October 9, 2023, Meyer Health Campus Firenze, Room 3.

Session Chair: Prof. Tommaso Pecorella

It is our pleasure to hold the workshop in Reliability of Software-Driven Next-Generation NETworks (ReSET) of the 34th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering.

The ReSET workshop deals with new generation networks that are increasingly becoming complex software-driven systems able to provide autonomic reconfiguration of communications, self-testing, and deployment of network functions, offering ubiquitous coverage in a heterogeneous technological space while maintaining specified levels of Quality of Service in a predictable and seamless manner.

Reliability of next-generation networked systems is a broad and multifaceted concept, having different expressions and spanning multiple areas of knowledge, such as software reliability, modeling, design of robust communication protocols, algorithms to achieve desirable performance subject to resource constraints, etc.

Emerging software-driven networks can improve system reconfigurability and service-tailored support, aiming to guarantee stable service availability and meet the agreed-upon level of operational performance, despite the inherent possibility of failures in underlying software/hardware network components. Due to the everincreasing

prevalence of software and programmable devices in next-generation networks, software quality (software reliability, software testing, software maintenance, etc.) is becoming crucial in designing and managing reliable future networked systems.

The ReSET workshop aims to foster knowledge integration among software reliability, modeling, and network science domains. It encourages cross-fertilization of ideas while consolidating collaboration between researchers and industry practitioners in relevant fields.

The ReSET workshop is partially supported by the European Union under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) of NextGenerationEU, partnership on“Telecommunications of the Future” (PE0000001 - program“RESTART”).

We hereby thank all speakers who accepted to take part in the ReSET workshop, giving support to the conference.

We would like to thank all people involved into organizing the ReSET and standing committees for their help, to make ReSET a success.

We hope that the participants of ReSET will enjoy the conference.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Reliability analysis, requirements, and metrics for users, businesses, and the Society

• Robust network design for hostile environments

• High-Rate and High-Reliability Low Latency Communications (HRLLC) in 5G/6G networks and services 

• Stochastic and robust modeling for new generation networks

• Model Driven Engineering for models lifecycle management

• Digital Twin Networks

• Decision-making strategies, games, and market models to improve network reliability

• Theory and algorithms for model-based and data-driven optimization and applications to network design

• Reliability of software for autonomous and adaptive, green and sustainable, mobile systems)

• Reliability of software in technological spaces of 5G/6G and edge-to-cloud computing

• Standardization of network resilience and reliability

• Reliability for network softwarization

• Reliability in intent-based networks

• Architecture and Standards to improve reliability in digital twin-based mobile networks

Organizing committee:

• • • • • • Claudia Campolo, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria

          • Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London

          • Flavio Esposito, Saint Louis University

          • Fumio Machida, Tsukuba University  

          • Andrea Marin, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

          • Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa

          • Benedetta Picano, University of Florence

          • Kishor Trivedi, Duke University

          • Enrico Vicario, University of Florence

          • Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet Berlin

13:30

Speaker: Dr. Fabrizio Brasca-WindTre

Title: The reliability of MEC (Multiaccess Edge Computer) technology in the 5G Network,

Authors: Emanuele Bonfani (WindTre), Fabrizio Brasca (WindTre), Gianluca Rizzi (WindTre)

13:50

Speaker: Dr. Francesco Matera

Title: Towards an Automated and Reliable Management and Orchestration of 5G and Beyond

Networks: Standardization and Considerations for Emulation/Simulation Platforms

Authors: Francesco Matera, Luca Rea, Marina Settembre

14:10

Speaker: Dr. Gianluigi Pezzuco-Open Fiber

Title: Open DataEdgers: moving user data to the edge over Open Fiber network

Authors: Gianluigi Pezzuco, Francesca Parasecolo

14:30

Speaker: Prof. Manuel Roveri-Politecnico di Milano

Title: Tiny Machine Learning: deeper and wider machine learning at the edge

Author: Manuel Roveri

15:30

Speaker: Dr. Alessio Sacco-Politecnico di Torino

Title: Towards Distributed Learning in Autonomous Networks

Authors: Flavio Esposito, Alessio Sacco, Chiara Camerota

15:50

Speaker: Dr. Armir Bujari- Università di Bologna

Title: Challenges and Opportunities in Edge-Cloud Application Development through QoS-aware Middleware Solutions

Authors: Armir Bujari, Andrea Garbugli, Paolo Bellavista

16:10

Speaker: Dr. Davide Borsatti- Universit. di Bologna

Title: Distributed Management of Dynamic Reliability in Beyond 5G Industrial Environments for Extreme Low Latency Communication

Authors: Davide Borsatti, Gianluca Davoli, Walter Cerroni, Carla Raffaelli, Wint Yi Poe, Riccardo Trivisonno, Raffaele Bolla

16:30

Speaker: Prof. Federica Paganelli- Università di Pisa

Title: Declarative Intent-based networking: towards a declarative approach to intent fulfillment and negotiation in service chain provisioning

Authors: Jacopo Massa, Stefano Forti, Federica Paganelli, Patrizio Dazzi and Antonio Brogi

16:50

Speaker: Prof. Tommaso Pecorella-Università di Firenze

Title: Network performance monitoring in the era of encrypted flows - a prerequisite for optimization and Digital Twins

Authors: Nalini Elkins, Mike Ackermann, Mohit P. Tahiliani, Dhruv Dhody, Tommaso Pecorella

Registration is now open. Discounted early registration rates will be offered until September 18th.

To start your registration, please follow the instructions available at https://issre.github.io/2023/attend_registration.html