ARCADIA Special Session on Software engineering approaches aligned with the Softwarization of Networks and Services

• Wednesday, 29 June 2016, 11:00-12:30, Room Kleoniki B
• Session Chair: Raffaele Bolla (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, Italy)

The special session will provide an overview of on-going work in the EU Horizon 2020 projects ARCADIA and INPUT, presentation of related initiatives, and contributions from other researchers and projects. The main goal is to share bleeding-edge knowledge, to cluster complementary activities, and to stimulate the synergy and cooperation from different technology domains and research projects.

The following topics fall within the target area of the workshop:

• Software engineering approaches adopting DevOps practices;
• Smart and automated cloud services orchestration frameworks;
• Software-defined network-based cloud Computing approaches;
• Software-defined infrastructures and fog computing;
• Dynamic service placement and scalability strategies;
• Service function chaining and deployment methodologies;
• Distributed services enabled through SDN for IoT networks;
• Distributed applications performance monitoring and profiling;
• Virtual network function analytics approaches;
• Convergence of computing and networking infrastructures;
• Energy efficiency, QoS and Security issues for distributed computing.

The program is the following:

11:00-11:20 “Network softwarization”, by Dr. Antonio Manzalini, Innovation/Future Centre at TELECOM ITALIA.

11:20-11:40 “NFV and SDN interplay and orchestration challenges”, Diego R. R. Lopez, Senior Technology Expert, Telefonica I+D.

11:40-11:55 “The ARCADIA Framework: a complete framework for software development, orchestration, deployment, and execution”, by Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos (UBITECH).

11:55-12:10 “Bringing computing at the network edge for virtualization of devices and things: the INPUT infrastructure for fog computing”, by Dr. Roberto Bruschi (CNIT), Coordinator of the INPUT project.

12:10-12:30 Short discussion, “Deploying distributed applications over next-generation programmable infrastructure: vision, challenges and research directions”, moderated by Dr. Nikos Koutsouris (WINGS), Dr. Antonio Manzalini (TELECOM ITALIA), Dr. Roberto Bruschi (CNIT).