[AISWorld] Call for papers (CfP) for Addressing, Routing and Management Across Limited Domains and 6G (ARMS) workshop colocated with the IEEE HPSR2022 conference

[Alex Galis]

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                                                             Call for Papers (CfP)
ARMS-22 Workshop (Addressing, Routing and Management Across Limited Domains and 6G)
Co-located with IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, 6–8 June 2022, Taicang, Jiangsu, China https://hpsr2022.ieee-hpsr.org (hybrid conference: in-person and virtual participation)

# Important Dates 
Paper Submission:  March 7, 2022
Workshop Acceptance Notification: April 29, 2022
Workshop Final Version Submission Due: May 4, 2022
Author Registration Deadline: May 4, 2022

# Guidelines for submission:
The submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviews and will be selected based on the quality and relevance of this workshop's main themes. Manuscripts can be up to 6-page in length, and they must comply with the IEEE format as required by IEEE HPSR 2022 (i.e. two-column IEEE Transactions style - https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html)

# How to Submit:
Papers should be submitted as PDF files through the EDAS system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29162&track=111107.

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# Scope and Motivation:
The core principle of IP addressing and routing in the Internet has remained stable for 50 years. However, the Internet is under significant strain during its evolution due to its scale and the increasingly demanding services it is called to support. Although ad-hoc solutions over the years allowed IP networks to cope with emerging requirements in an incremental fashion, further improvements are tough to achieve. Meanwhile, the addressing and routing innovations are active inside Limited Domains (LD – a technical domain with consistent utilization of routing and other policies as enforced by the entity that manages the domain), which are domain-specific. The innovative technologies lead to extra business values with new capabilities, increased flexibilities, efficient utilization of infrastructure resources and better quality of service. Examples of LDs are factory networks, IoT networks, edge networks, CDN networks, satellite networks, extreme requirements use cases domain, etc.

Both inside and across limited domains, addressing and routing has faced many challenges. The support for highly dynamic topologies is one of them, which emanates from satellite and vehicular network deployments. The mobility of network nodes can cause stability problems to existing routing protocols. Supporting alternative addressing semantics beyond network locations is another area of investigation for future routing solutions. Moreover, scenarios involving programmable paths, multi-path, multihoming, security, etc., bring new challenges and opportunities to existing routing protocols and solutions. Additional challenges are related to the emerging 6G requirements of unified integration of network segments and limited domains as a compute continuum, which support seamless execution of services across multiple domains capable of a unified service provision beyond best effort across heterogeneous communication and computing environments.

Network and service management is about administering networks and services with direct support for all their operations. It aims to integrate fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security management in the networking systems and leverage the self-management, automation and autonomic capabilities enabling unprecedented abstraction, disaggregation, operation, integration, and programmability in network infrastructures and services. It creates a level of decoupling between the infrastructure delivering the service and the service elements.

Although the two areas were developed relatively independently in the past 50 years, there is an urgent and critical requirement to break the boundaries and increase direct interactions between different IP infrastructure, management systems, and application domains capable of a unified service provision beyond best effort across heterogeneous communication and computing environments. Such development would significantly enhance and profoundly change how communication infrastructures are designed and operated, enabling rapid and innovative service creation.

New solutions for inter-computing management systems with routing beyond the Internet's inter-networking capabilities would make seamless services execution across multiple and inter-working domains possible, each possibly applying different policies and mechanisms for routing, security, access to resources and application services.

In addition, the solution space in the addressing, routing and management domains has been evolving in a fragmented way. Too many ad-hoc solutions can lead to unnecessary complexity, increased fragility and even security/privacy leakage. A more holistic approach needs to be taken to design architectural recommendations to meet economic and technical objectives to avoid these potential risks. Expected benefits include service performance guarantees, better support for dynamic topologies and mobile users, improved security and privacy, extended data plane programmability and routing scalability, reengineering level 3 & 4 protocols to meet 6G emerging requirements.

# Topics of Interest:
Research works, technical achievements, innovations and visionary papers on the following topics, but not limited to, are welcome for submission to the ARMS workshop.

	• New solutions for integration of addressing, routing and management systems in 6G
	• Innovations in routing technologies and addressing in future networks
	• IP addressing with multi-semantics (e.g., location, name, topology, etc.) enhancement
	• Network interoperability in the presence of alternative addressing
	• Pluginized routing protocols
	• Distributed routing aggregation
	• Service routing
	• Network slice-based routing
	• Topology based routing
	• Routing security and privacy
	• Resource management mechanisms for deterministic data transmission
	• Protocols and methods for delivery of high precision services with KPIs guarantees
	• Methods and frameworks enabling customized functions on data packets and processes to program the header of the packets
	• High-performance in-network processing and management for routing and forwarding
	• Limited domains and their interconnection
	• Ad-hoc multicast creation and management
	• High performance, programmable networks for the Edge and Internet of things
	• APIs, multi-limited domain frictionless orchestration; interoperability multi-domain domain methods and algorithms for extreme performance networking, such as very low latency, ultra-high peak data rate, time-sensitive networking and deterministic networking
	• Methods for efficient support for the new emerging application domains: Internet of senses, holographic communications, massive digital twinning, and XR, fully autonomous driving, flying networks
	• In-network service level optimization; predictable KPIs and QoS
	• Management of complexity introduced for realizing the additional addressing, routing and management semantics

# Workshop Chairs:
Prof. Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Dr. Zhe (David) Lou, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany

# Workshop TPC members:
Prof. Albert Cabellos-Aparicio; Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Mr. Christian Jacquenet; Orange, France
Prof. Michael Menth; University Tubingen, Germany
Dr. Luis Contreras; Telefonica, Spain
Prof. Tarik Taleb, Oulu University, Finland
Prof. Paolo Bellavista; University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. George C. Polyzos; Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Dr. Luigi Iannone; Huawei, Germany
Dr. Dirk Trossen; Huawei, Germany
Prof. Lefteris Mamatas; University of Macedonia, Greece
Prof. Michele Nogueira; Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Prof. Stefano Secci; CNAM, France
Prof. Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Prof. Mohamed Faten Zhani; ETS, Canada
Prof. Kohei Shiomoto; Tokyo City University, Japan
Dr. Hakon Lonsethagen; Telenor, Norway
Prof. Leonardo Linguaglossa; Telecom Paris, France
Prof. Joan Serrat; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Prof. Panagiotis Papadimitriou; University of Macedonia, Greece
Prof. Ning Wang; University of Surrey, UK
Dr. Marinos Charalambides; Huawei, Belgium
Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas; University of Piraeus, Greece
Prof. Filip De Turck; Ghent University - Imec, Belgium
Prof. Alex Galis; University College London, UK
Dr. Zhe (David) Lou; Huawei, Germany