Digital transformation enhances both economic development and the quality of life for citizens. This evolution is based on the deployment of a network, computing and service infrastructure that is highly sophisticated in terms of its size, the diversity of its components and the range of specialized uses it allows. Such an infrastructure is made of a large set of heterogeneous hardware/software components resulting in a system of systems whose availability, reliability, performance, interoperability and energy efficiency are becoming major challenges. Disruptive intelligent technologies are key enablers for this evolution, driving automation, enabling early detection of faults and cyberattacks, and optimizing resource usage to meet stringent service performance and resource requirements. 

A special focus will be set on the conference theme “Disruptive Intelligent Technologies for Next-Generation Clouds and Networks”.  

Areas of interest and topics include, but are not limited to:

Intelligent network service management

    Intelligent end-to-end service configuration
    Intelligent and cooperative management models across heterogeneous network segments from IoT to Cloud and back
    Intelligent, resilient and robust schemes in the IoT-edge-cloud continuum service management
    Enablers for cross-network intelligence and services trustworthiness
    Intelligent and flexible networks and services for high adaptability
    Digital twin for network service management
    Distributed intelligence in B5G/6G networks

IoT-edge-cloud continuum

    Intelligent edge for vertical industries 
    Digital twin challenges for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum and life cycle automation 
    Vehicular cloud services
    Industrial networks and services for an intelligent automation
    Functional decomposition and orchestration, service chaining
    Communication protocols for ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability
    Fog, edge and multi-access computing and networking
    Security, trust and privacy  for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum

Enablers and services for intelligent wireless and mobile networks

    Network and service architecture, protocols, application-network layer interworking
    Scalability and multi-tenancy in beyond wireless, cellular and emerging networks
    Green networking and efficient resource usage and service delivery
    Security, trust and privacy management in large systems and smart environments

Network automation and orchestration architectures and protocols

    Zero-touch network and service management and orchestration
    Artificial Intelligence for networks and networks for Artificial Intelligence
    Orchestration of mobile and ephemeral resources, automated infrastructure discovery
    Network data analytics, anomaly detection and feature extraction
    Autonomic and cognitive networking
    Automated data, control, and management planes
    Intent-based network management
    Self-driving networks
    Network programmability
    Automated QoS/QoE management
    Orchestration of distributed cloud, edge and network resources
    Security, societal, and legal aspects of network automation
    Federated learning-based applications
    Federated Networks

Technologies for innovation in clouds, edge, networks and IoT

    SDN, NFV, service function chaining, function placement and network embedding
    Serverless computing and FaaS
    Application-aware networking
    Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies in networking and network services
    Advanced multimedia and real-time communications
    QoE/QoS Assurance
    Lightweight virtualization technologies, software and hardware acceleration
    Energy-efficient software-defined infrastructures
    Measurement, monitoring and telemetry
    Time-sensitive and deterministic networking
    Open-source projects, testbeds and open standards