{"id":7,"date":"2016-06-20T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flexnets.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T08:38:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flexnets.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flex_nets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @flex_nets<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.sigcomm.org\/sigcomm\/2021\/workshop-flexnets.html\">FlexNets&#8217;21<\/a> will be organized under ACM\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.sigcomm.org\/sigcomm\/2021\/\">SIGCOMM 2021<\/a> on August 23, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Flexnets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spatiotemporal changes in the architectural, environmental and service-specific requirements will proliferate in the future requiring an evolution towards flexible and agile networking architectures. An end-to-end network transformation from access networks to core networks is required in a holistic manner. Rapid and autonomous reconfigurability of highly-dynamic topologies under many uncertainties for efficiency and resilience introduce unprecedented challenges, which we address in FlexNets Workshop Series. This year we focus on the AI supported flexibility and agility aspects of future mobile networks, specifically putting emphasis on beyond 5G and 6G architectures relying on autonomous AI-assisted operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the next-generation communication systems beyond 5G, such as 6G, are expected to address a wider range of services and applications with a wider range of dynamic environmental and service-specific requirements, these systems evolve towards an architecture supported by enhanced capabilities to adapt to such flexible environments and connectivity needs. Envisioned 6G systems are expected to serve applications with varying requirements, be adaptive to connectivity requirements through dynamic topologies, and take autonomous decisions to reconfigure the networks for efficiency and resiliency purposes. Flexible and agile networking solutions are required to deal with uncertainties and dynamic parameters. As the number of QoS-demanding applications increases, the capability of end-to-end holistic network transformation is required triggered by the dynamicity and mobility of users and their service demands as well as the radio and resource topology. The complexity introduced by these flexible characteristics needs to be addressed with more adaptive network resource sharing mechanisms among users and applications. This includes the adaptation to individual QoE\/QoS needs and the dynamics of the applications and services, starting from access networks to core networks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ability to process the big data generated by the network derive necessary feedbacks from the network and AI-assisted cognitive network management are key enablers for elasticity and adaptiveness to network dynamics such as topology changes due to mobility of the end-users, base stations, and rearrangement of network resources (either physical or virtual network functions). A distributed, self-*, AI-assisted, and deeply programmable\/reconfigurable end-to-end network architecture is required to address such network dynamics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this FlexNets workshop, the topic of interests include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All aspects of cognitive, flexible, dynamic, agile network architectures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Autonomous management of such networks, (real-time) zero-touch management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Autonomous network function allocation and placement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI-assisted deeply-programmable networks, programmable data planes, and nodes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edge assistance and device-edge-cloud collaboration for elasticity, edge-AI networks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distributed computing environments, hyper-distributed applications, integration of computing, connectivity, IoT, AI<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architectures for collaborative smart nodes with decentralized intelligence, federated machine learning in 6G<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microservice-based flexible architectures, network management, service orchestration<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open interfaces and open source solutions for smart networks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virtual radio access technologies, programmable RAN, RANaaS<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Energy-oriented network management, ultra-low-energy 6G networks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi-context awareness, dynamic multi-service and multi-tenancy, and network slicing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flexible backhauling\/fronthauling, Integrated access\/backhaul (IAB), multi-hop mesh backhauling<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runtime flexibility in services and applications, application-driven optimization<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drone-assisted agile networks, base stations on wheels or wings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flexible and software-defined security, physical-layer security<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flexible and rapid deployment for automated and smart services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private Beyond 5G Networks: Solutions to simplify the lifecycle, deployment, and operation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Official Link<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.sigcomm.org\/sigcomm\/2021\/workshop-flexnets.html\">https:\/\/conferences.sigcomm.org\/sigcomm\/2021\/workshop-flexnets.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Submission Link<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flexnets21.hotcrp.com\">http:\/\/flexnets21.hotcrp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow @flex_nets FlexNets&#8217;21 will be organized under ACM\u00a0SIGCOMM 2021 on August 23, 2021 About Flexnets The spatiotemporal changes in the architectural, environmental and service-specific requirements will proliferate in the future requiring an evolution towards flexible and agile networking architectures. 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