Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: 6G-PDN (6G Programmable Deterministic Networking with AI) Workshop co-located with MobiHoc 2023

[Christian Esteve Rothenberg]

Dear P4 folks,
please consider contributing to the following workshop on programmable
deterministic networks.

Long and short papers are accepted, deadline 12th of July 2023.
More information below and at
https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2023/workshop-6G-PDN.html


*6G-PDN (6G Programmable Deterministic Networking with AI) Workshop
co-locate with MobiHoc (Washington, Washington DC, USA, October 23-26,
2023)*
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the roadmap and challenges in the
technological areas of deterministic communications and deep network
programmability in 6G to support future end-to- end time-critical
applications.

*Call for papers*

Creating a deterministic network, understood as end-to-end time sensitive,
reliable, and predictable communications, remains a challenge for cellular
networks, especially in an industrial context. Wired deterministic
communication standards have already emerged including Time Sensitive
Networking (TSN) and Deterministic Networking (DetNet) and 5G has specified
mechanisms for interworking with those standards. However, the available
support of 5G in conjunction with TSN and DetNet is not sufficient for
future end-to-end time-critical applications.
Network programmability is key in supporting emerging 6G networks in
achieving their promises of increased performance and flexibility at a
lower cost. Deep network programmability is expected to characterize the
new generation of mobile networks (6G), currently under development,
towards supporting extreme performance requirements and service-specific
operations.
Enriching next-generation mobile networks with data plane programming
capabilities can bring significant benefits with regards to network slicing
and multi-tenancy, dynamic traffic engineering, offloading network
functions to the data plane, etc. Coupled with edge solutions and advanced
machine learning algorithms for network automation can help to overcome
network performance limits, e.g., in terms of latency and deterministic
delivery.
This workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers to
stimulate discussions, introduce news ideas and technical solutions in the
aforementioned areas and therefore contribute to the progress of 6G
networking research.
Submitted papers may cover any of the following topics:

   - Programmable data planes for TSN
   - Network softwarization for 6G
   - Programmable Networking Protocols
   - Programmable SDN and NFV: languages and architectures (P4 and others)
   - Hardware acceleration for programmable network functions
   - Multitenant data planes
   - Orchestration and Management of Software-Defined Deterministic Networks
   - Control and Management of Data plane programmable devices
   - Artificial intelligence for deterministic networks
   - In network Machine Learning
   - In-network service level tuning and optimization; QoS
   - High precision traffic monitoring/telemetry
   - Service assurance and fulfillment programmability
   - Slicing for 6G
   - Intent-based systems and Digital twinning applied in 6G.
   - Reliability, time sensitiveness and predictability in 3GPP and WiFi
   systems

*Submission Information*
Papers should be submitted via the HotCRP submission website (
https://pdn-6g23.hotcrp.com/). We accept two types of submissions to the
workshop:
- Full Papers: Full papers should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size)
double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM
format.
- Extended abstracts:  Extended abstracts should not exceed 3 pages (US
letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in
standard ACM format. Accepted extended abstracts will be charged at the
same rate as paper contributions.

Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form. Templates
for the standard ACM format can be found at this link.

If you are using LaTeX, please refer to the sample file
“sample-sigconf.tex” after you download the .zip templates file and unzip
it. Note that the document class “\documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}” should
be used. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from
those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting
guidelines will be returned without review.

All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process. The
identity of referees will not be revealed to authors, but author can keep
their names on the submitted papers, on figures, bibliography, etc.

*Organizers (any enquiry can be submitted to 6g-pdn...@googlegroups.com
<6g-pdn...@googlegroups.com>)*
Antonio de la Oliva, University Carlos III Madrid (UC3M)
Chrysa Papagianni, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Dave Cavalcanti, Intel Corporation

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Antonio de la Oliva
Associate Professor
Telematics Department
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
E-mail: aol...@it.uc3m.es
Phone: +34 91 624 8803
Fax:   +34 91 624 8749