Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization Performance

Program

14:00-14:15 Introduction and Opening Remarks by Mohammad Asad Chaudhry

14:15-15:30   Technical Session 1

15:30-16:10 Keynote 1: Marco Ruffini (CONNECT Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin), SDN control of optical networks: from network automation to quantum communications

16:10-16:30    Coffee Break

16:30-17:10 Keynote 2: Andrea Campanella (ONF Ambassador, US)Exploiting the Benefits of Network Programming at the Edge 

17:10-18:05   Technical Session 2

18:05-18:15 Closing

Technical Session 1 : NFV Performance

A Zero-Touch as-a-Service Active Monitoring Framework for Virtualized Network Environments Alireza Mohammadpour (CNIT – S2N National Lab, Italy); Chiara Lombardo (University of Genoa & CNIT- Research Unit of the University of Genoa, Italy); Raffaele Bolla (University of Genoa, Italy); Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy); Franco R. Davoli (University of Genoa & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy); Lorenzo Ivaldi (University of Genoa, Italy)

On the Performance Benefits of Heterogeneous Virtual Network Function Execution Frameworks Haruna Umar Adoga, Yehia Elkhatib and Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Network Performance Benchmarking for Containerized Infrastructure in NFV environment Minh-Ngoc Tran and younghan Kim (Soongsil University, Korea (South))

Orchestration Software for Resource Constrained Datacenters: an Experimental Evaluation Alexandros Valantasis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Nikos Makris (University of Thessaly & CERTH, Greece); Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)

Technical Session 2: SDN Performance

Latency-aware Topology Discovery in SDN-based Time-Sensitive Networks Sanaz Mohammadi (UGent – Imec, Belgium); Didier Colle (IMEC – Ghent University, Belgium); Wouter Tavernier (Ghent University – imec, Belgium)

Evaluation of an SDN-based Microservice Architecture Anton Hölscher, Mikael Asplund and Felipe Boeira (Linköping University, Sweden)

Probability-based dispatching framework for speed-test applications: design and implementation Francesco D’Alterio (Sapienza University of Rome & Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (FUB), Italy); Marco Teodori, Luca Rea and Francesco Matera (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy)