Call for Proposals

IPv6 & SRv6

• IPv6 deployment cases
• IPv6 control plane
• SRv6OPS
• 5G xHaul design with Segment Routing
• Link/Resource Slicing (Slice ID encapsulation and Slices isolation)

AI & ML

• AI4Net and Net4AI
• NetOps
• Telemetry Aggregation and Modeling
• Network Digital Twins for Planning and Control
• AI understandability
• AI/ML for SR
• Data generation and provenance
• Business transformation (NOC engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Network Engineer etc.)

Self healing networks

• Service assurance
• Closed loop automation
• Intent-based networking

Clocking

• Interoperability and security of multi-domain
• Multi-profile time synchronization networks

EVPN

• Security (Secure EVPN, Secure IP Binding Synchronization via BGP EVPN and EVPN First Hop Security)
• Broadcast/Unknown/Multicast Forwarding using BIER
• Fast and scale-independent convergence
• Group Based Policies

Open RAN

• Implementations
• Measurements parameters
• Mobility network functions

IP/Optical Convergence

Cloud native applications

• Kubernetes
• Open source projects
• Optimized overlay networks

5G and the Edge

• Deploying leading edge 5G
• Time-sensitive networking (TSN)
• Synchronization
• Multi-tenant edge cloud

6G/5G transport networks

• 6G & new requirements from 5G
• Hard slicing
• Low latency
• 5G for verticals: challenges & solutions
• 5G for TSN

Scalability

• Issues and challenges
• Deployments reports

Automation

• New architectures
• Automation at scale
• YANG models
• Use cases

Management & Orchestration

• Cord, Onap reports
• Inter-domain orchestration
• Operational aspects
• Automation
• WAN agility
• Network modeling
• Containers

Network programming

• Full network programmability
• SDN and NFV integration
• Deploying functions on demand

Security aspects

• Routing security
• RPKI
• Anti-spoofing
• MANRS

Data center virtualization

• Cloud Nativeness Aspects
• Wan & virtualization
• Ethernet virtual networks
• NFV environments
• Data center interconnection
• Applications

MPLS extensions