The First IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Network Services

The First IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Network Services
Call for Papers

Workshop Chairs

Shangguang Wang, BUPT, sgwang@bupt.edu.cn
Nawaf I. Almoosa, Khalifa University, nawaf.almoosa@ku.ac.ae

Workshop Program Chairs

Alex X. Liu, Michigan State University, alexliu@cse.msu.edu
Qiang Duan, Pennsylvania State University, qxd2@psu.edu

For general questions about this workshop, please contact any of the organizers.

Workshop Program

Description & Scope

With the development of Software-Defined Anything, software is already penetrating into the Internet and even controlling the network. For example, a software developer can make a service/application at the application layer directly obtain the original data of the network device (e.g., switch, router, etc.) in the physical layer using southbound APIs. Software technologies are already changing traditional network services (e.g., Web services, E-mail, and VoD) that are typically provided by servers via application layer protocols into new network services that are provided from the network infrastructure (e.g., firewall service, NAT service, QoS service). The network infrastructure also can provide services through open APIs, allowing network services to benefit operationally by enabling automated provisioning of network applications with different characteristics. For example, a video session has more demands than simple Web access. Network service chaining enables these sessions to be set up and torn down dynamically, without requiring human intervention. This also helps to ensure that specific applications are getting the proper network resources or characteristics (bandwidth, encryption, QoS) linking services from the application layer directly to the physical layer.

Due to these advances, many new service models are emerging in the field of networking. Adoption of the Service-Oriented Architecture principle in networking has enabled the Network-as-a-Service paradigm that is expected to play a crucial role. The emerging network services are usually compositions of multiple service components, APIs or network functions, based on new mechanisms, such as service mesh, internet of services, and service function chaining, running on the network layer and/or application layer. Network services significantly impact performance of higher layer services/applications. The behavior of an end-to-end network service is the result of the combination of the individual network function behaviors as well as the behaviors of the network infrastructure composition mechanism. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Service Mesh
  • Internet of Services
  • Network Services in 5G
  • Service Function Chaining
  • Network Services in IoT/IoV
  • Network Services for AR/VR/MR
  • Network-aware Service Computing
  • Self-Defending Network for Services
  • Network Services in Edge Computing
  • Network Service Model and Architecture
  • Software-Defined Networking for Services
  • Network Functions Virtualization for Services
  • Performance Evaluation for Network Services

Program Committee

Nawaf I. Almoosa, Khalifa University of Science & Technology
Atakan Aral, Vienna University of Technology
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Emamanuel Bertom, Orange Labs – France Telecom
Cergely Biczok, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Peter Bull, QA Higher Education
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University
Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Xiaoliang Chen, University of California Davis
Augusto Ciuffoletti, University of Pisa
Gladys Diaz, L2TI – Paris 13 University
Qiang Duan, The Pennsylvania State University
Abedlkader Lahmadi, University of Lorraine
Chi-Yu Li, University of California, Los Angeles
Alex X. Liu, MIchigan State University
Chung-Horng Lung, Carleton University
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontaro
Raul Munoz, Centre Tecnologic de Telecom. De Catalunya (CTTC)
Leandro Navarro, Univrsitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
Jianli Pan, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Jorge E. Lepez de Vergara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Stephen Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester
Helmut Reiser, Leibniz Supercomputing Center
Charalampos Rotsos, Lancaster Univeristy
Sejun Song, University of Missouri Kansas City
Lin Wang, Vrije University Amsterdam
Shangguang Wang, BUPT
Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Yang Wang, La Salle University
Chase Qishi Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Shaoen Wu, Ball State University
Jiuyun Xu, China University of Petroleum
Yuhong Yan, Concordia University
Jingwei Yang, California State University - Sacramento
Li-Hsing Yen, National Chiao Tung University
Maxwell Young, Mississippi State University
Zhongliang Zhao, University of Bern