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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICIN 2024
27th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks

“Intelligent network service management across the compute continuum”

March 11 - 14, 2024 – Paris, France

https://www.icin-conference.org

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: October 8, 2023
Paper Acceptance Notification: December 14, 2023
Camera-Ready Papers: December 21, 2023

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About ICIN

Since 1989, the ICIN conferences have been bringing together leading Internet and
telecom experts from industry, academia and government from across the globe. ICIN
is a single-track conference that is both intimate and global. It focuses on
leading edge investigations into Internet technologies, from basic networking and
cloud services to novel architectures. ICIN uses a rigorous peer-review process
and has become an established industry forum for discussing emerging trends in
Information and Communications Technology (ICT). It offers an agora for one-on-one
discussions, and cross-fertilization between participants, and leading network
visionaries, with the goal of promoting dialogue and ideation about current and
future trends in networking research and development. ICIN conferences are well
known for the identification of research challenges and industry trends and their
discussions on the impact of cutting-edge technologies on future intelligent and
distributed networking, and related computing services. ICIN has an enviable track
record for identifying key technologies and services – and analyzing their impact
on business models – before they become widely recognized in the industry and
government communication sectors. The interdisciplinary approach and the cross-
fertilization of ideas are the main ingredients that made ICIN a recognized event
in the telecommunications, cloud networking and Internet communities.

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ICIN 2024 will be held in Paris, France on March 11-14, 2024.

For the 2024 edition, ICIN will host an international forum where industry, aca-
demia, and standard development organizations will convene to discuss about the
emergence and developments of “Intelligent network service management across the
compute continuum”. The network and computer arena has recently expanded not only
in number and in type of players, but also in technologies, domains, terminals and
services. This expansion seeks for intelligent and efficient control, orchestra-
tion, and management platforms able to support all the challenging requirements
such as dynamicity, diversity, efficiency, sovereignty, sustainability, security,
reliability and openness in a timely manner, limited operator interventions. Solu-
tions such as AI-based or digital twin may contribute to the solution.

The increasing pervasiveness of data sources heightened by current massive IoT
deployments and by the evolution of highly distributed and heterogeneous computing
environments shaping the “edge-to-cloud” continuum, as well as the trends towards
highly disaggregated network services fostered by the microservice and serverless
models, are only some of the many drivers of an unprecedented level of challenges
in network service provisioning. They must be addressed by leveraging intelligence
at all levels, including network control and management, resource and service or-
chestration, dataplane computing & communication capabilities, assisted/augmented
user-network interaction, sustainable and environment-friendly deployment.

The conference will foster discussion about new ideas and approaches for AI/ML-
assisted service orchestration, as well as enabling technologies and mechanisms
to respond to emerging pervasive data-driven networking and processing, immersive
connectivity, security and sustainability. This vision will enable the conference
to promote approaches and techniques beyond the current state of the art, such as
advances of networks with data, control and management plane flexibility and pro-
grammability that foster reliability, optimality and efficiency for applications
and services to address future society and business needs.

Prospective authors are invited to submit contributions presenting novel technical
research, business studies in impact, or mechanisms and new technologies, as well
as broader position and visionary papers. Contributions discussing lessons learnt
and best practices, describing practical deployment and implementation experiences
as well as demonstrating innovative use-cases are also encouraged.
Authors of selected papers accepted f or publication at ICIN 2024 will be invited
to submit an extended version of their paper to IEEE Transactions on Network and
Service Management (TNSM).


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

- Intelligent network service management
      * Intelligent end-to-end service configuration
      * Intelligence and cooperation models across network segments
      * Intelligent resilience and robustness schemes
      * Cross-network intelligence and services trustworthiness enablers
      * Intelligent and flexible networks and services for high adaptability
      * Support of intelligent network service management by digital twins
      * Distributed intelligence in B5G/6G networks

- Compute continuum and intelligent softwarized networks evolution:
* Intelligent edge for vertical industries
* Digital twins challenges
* Automotive and vehicular networking, vehicular cloud services
* Industrial networks and intelligent automation
* Tactile Internet and precision networking
* Functional decomposition and orchestration, service chaining
* Protocols for ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability
* Fog, edge and multi-access computing and networking
* Security, trust and privacy

- Enablers and services for intelligent wireless and mobile networks:
* Network and service architecture, protocols, application-network layer inter-
working,
* Scalability and multi-tenancy in beyond 5G and emerging networks
* Green networking and efficient resource usage and service delivery
* Security, trust & 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
* Federated learning based applications
* Automated QoS/QoE management
* Orchestration of distributed cloud and network resources
* Security, societal, and legal aspects of network automation

- Technologies for innovation in clouds, Internet and networks
* SDN, NFV, service function chaining, function placement & network embedding
* Cloud-native design applied to network planes
* 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 and open standards

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Submission Guidelines
ICIN 2024 solicits original, unpublished work, not currently under review by other
conferences or journals.
Papers submitted ,to ICIN 2024 will be ,assessed based ,on originality, ,technical
soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience.

Only PDF Files will be accepted for review process. All submissions should be
written in English following Two-Column IEEE Conference Format, with a maximum of
eight (8) pages (Full Papers) or (5) pages (Short Papers) including text, figures,
and references.

Papers should be submitted through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N31119

At least one author is required to register at full rate for the accepted papers
to be presented at the conference and to appear in the conference proceedings.


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Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Carmen Mas Machuca, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Macedonia, Greece

General Co-Chairs
Prosper Chemouil, CNAM, France
Barbara Martini, Universitas Mercatorum, Italy

Details: https://www.icin-conference.org