All times CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Monday, April 19 9:30 – 11:00
Tutorial 1
Chair: Massimo Tornatore
Reliable Resource Allocation for Network Function Virtualization
Eiji Oki, Kyoto University, Japan
Monday, April 19 11:30 – 13:00
Tutorial 2
Chair: Prosper Chemouil
Security, Privacy and Resilience in the Internet of Health Things
Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
Monday, April 19 14:00 – 17:00
Workshop 1
Future is now: will virtualization meet next generation enterprise network’s needs?
Tuesday, April 20 10:25 – 10:45
Welcome ceremony
Opening address by the DRCN 2021 General Chairs and the DRCN Steering Committee Chair
Guido Maier (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Prosper Chemouil (Cnam, France)
Message from the Department Chair
Stefano Tubaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Opening address by the TPC Chairs
Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Tuesday, April 20 10:45 – 12:00
Session 1: Resilience modeling and algorithms
Chair: Sebastian Troia
10:45 Satellite Laser Communication Assisted P-cycle Protection Against SRLG Failures in WDM Optical Networks
Hong Wang, Xin Li and Shanguo Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
11:03 Load Balancing Model under Multiple Failures with Workload-Dependent Failure Probability
Mengfei Zhu, Fujun He and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
11:22 Robust Optimization for Probabilistic Protection with Primary and Backup Allocations under Uncertain Demands
Mitsuki Ito, Fujun He and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
11:41 WLEACH-CK: Weighted K-Means Based LEACH-C Algorithm for Cluster Head Selection
Ruibin Chen, Yachen Zhang, Yichen Fei and Pushpendu Kar (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China)
Tuesday, April 20 13:30 – 14:15
Main-conference Keynote 1
Chair: Achille Pattavina
Energy Efficiency Everywhere: Cloud, Fog, Virtualisation, RAN and IoT
Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Tuesday, April 20 14:15 – 15:30
Session 2: Software Defined Networking
Chair: Giacomo Verticale
14:15 Improved Routing in Networks through Load Prediction Strategy
Ron Posti and Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
14:33 Failure Simulation in Software-Defined Networks with Differential Link Availability
Paulo Melo (Univ Coimbra, CeBER and INESC Coimbra, Faculty of Economics, Coimbra, Portugal); Luisa Jorge (Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI) , IPB, Bragança, Portugal and INESC Coimbra); Teresa Gomes (University of Coimbra, INESC Coimbra, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal)
14:52 Constrained Policy Optimization for Load Balancing
Yassine Kamri, Tran Anh Quang Pham and Nicolas Huin (Huawei Technologies, France); Jeremie Leguay (Huawei Technologies, France Research Center, France)
15:11 Compositional model checking of an SDN platform
Abdul Majith Noordheen (University of Rennes 1 & Inria, Rennes, France); Ocan Sankur (CNRS Researcher, Irisa, France); Hervé Marchand (Inria, Rennes, France); Dinh Thai Bui (Nokia, France)
Tuesday, April 20 16:00 – 17:15
Session 3: Optical networks and telemetry
Chair: Massimo Tornatore
16:00 DRAMA: Disaster Management Algorithm with Mitigation Awareness for Elastic Optical Networks
Rujia Zou (George Washington University & School of Engineering & Applied Science, USA); Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya University, Japan); Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)
16:18 Scalable multi-objective optimization of reliable latency-constrained optical transport networks
Nicola Di Cicco, Valentina Cacchiani and Carla Raffaelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
16:37 On the Comparative Efficiency of Next-Generation Coherent Interfaces for Survivable Network Design
António Eira (Infinera Portugal, Portugal); Joao Pedro (Infinera Unipessoal Lda & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
16:56 Efficient Network Monitoring via In-band Telemetry
Goksel Simsek (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Doğanalp Ergenç (University Hamburg, Germany); Ertan Onur (Middle East Technical University, Turkey & Stony Brook University, USA)
Wednesday, April 21 8:30 – 9:15
Main-conference Keynote 2
Chair: Francesco Musumeci
NTT’s Challenge toward Self-evolving Zero-Touch Network operation with AI
Masakatsu Fujiwara, NTT Network Technology Laboratories, Japan
Wednesday, April 21 9:15 – 10:30
Session 4: 5G
Chair: Francesco Musumeci
9:15 UAV Surveillance Optimization for Networks in Disaster-Stricken Areas
Hiroki Ikeuchi (NTT Corporation, Japan); Hiroshi Saito (University of Tokyo & Mathematics and Informatics Center, Japan); Kotaro Matsuda (NTT, Japan)
9:33 DNN based Multi-Faults Localization for 5G Coexisting Radio and Optical Wireless Networks
Jingjie Xin and Xin Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yongjun Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Communications, China); Lu Zhang, Jianghua Wei and Shanguo Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
9:52 Redundant Routing Provision in a FlexE-over-WDM Network based on Segment Frame Replication and Elimination
Kexin Wu (BUPT(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), China); Jiawei Zhang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommnication, China); Ji Yuefeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
10:11 Latency-aware and Survivable Mapping of VNFs in 5G Network Edge Cloud
Prabhu Kaliyammal Thiruvasagam and Abhishek Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Siva Ram Murthy C (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Wednesday, April 21 10:45 – 12:30
Industrial Panel
Open Solutions for the Next Generation Telecom Infrastructure
Wednesday, April 21 13:45 – 14:30
Main-conference Keynote 3
Chair: Guido Maier
The Janus Bifrons and the Matryoshka: Radio Access Network Architecture for 5G
Gino Masini, Ericsson AB, Sweden / 3GPP RAN3 Chairman
Wednesday, April 21 14:30 – 15:45
Session 5: Wireless networks and security
Chair: Sebastian Troia
14:30 Lightweight network interface selection for reliable communications in multi-technologies wireless sensor networks
Brandon Foubert (Inria, France); Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France)
14:48 AI-Powered Real-Time Channel Awareness and 5G NR Radio Access Network Scheduling Optimization
Ying Wang (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Adam Gorski (Virginia Tech & Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation, USA); Luiz DaSilva (Virginia Tech, USA & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
15:07 Complexity-Performance Trade-offs in Robust Access Point Clustering for Edge Computing
Nour El Houda Yellas (Cnam, France); Selma Boumerdassi (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France); Alberto Ceselli (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Stefano Secci (Cnam, France)
15:26 On the dissemination of Cyber Threat Intelligence through Hyperledger
Joanna Moubarak (Potech Labs, P.O.TECH, Lebanon); Carole Bassil (Lebanese University, Lebanon), Joe Antoun (Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Wednesday, April 21 16:00 – 19:00
Gather.town session and virtual vist to BONSAI Lab of Politecnico di Milano – DEIB
Chair: Ligia Moreira Zorello
Thursday, April 22 9:00 – 11:00
Workshop 2 (WIE)
Women in Engineering (Wie) – The road towards a more diverse post-covid era: challenges and opportunities
Thursday, April 22 11:20 – 13:00
Session 6: Demo
Chair: Giacomo Verticale
11:20 Design of Scheduler Plugins for Reliable Function Allocation in Kubernetes
Rui Kang, Mengfei Zhu, Fujun He, Takehiro Sato and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
11:40 Increasing network reliability by securing SDN communication with QKD
Paolo Comi (Italtel, Italy); Paolo Martelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Vicente Martin (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain); Juan Brito (Center Computational Simulation – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain); Alberto Gatto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Rubén Méndez and Rafa Vicente (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Fabrizio Bianchi (Italtel, Italy); Marco Brunero (Cohaerentia, Italy)
12:00 Demonstration of Highly Dynamic Satellite Optical Networks Supporting Rapid Reconfiguration
Zhuangzhuang Ma, Yongli Zhao, Wei Wang and Jie Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
12:20 Resiliency in SD-WAN with eBPF Monitoring: Municipal Network and Video Streaming Use Cases
Sebastian Troia, Marco Mazzara, Ligia Maria Moreira Zorello and Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
12:40 User Plane Function Offloading in P4 switches for enhanced 5G Mobile Edge Computing
Francesco Paolucci (CNIT, Italy); Davide Scano (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy); Filippo Cugini (CNIT, Italy); Andrea Sgambelluri (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy); Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy); Carlo Cavazzoni and Giuseppe Ferraris (Telecom Italia, Italy); Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Thursday, April 22 14:00 – 17:30
Workshop 3
Beyond SDN. Programmable data plane: Abstractions, Architectures and Applications
Workshop 3 Keynote: 16.45 – 17.30
When networks are programmable top-down and end-to-end: what then?
Nick McKeown, Stanford University / Barefoot, USA
Thursday, April 22 17:30 – 18:00
Closing ceremony
BEST PAPER AWARD announcement
Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Wrap-up by the DRCN 2021 Chairs
Guido Maier (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Announcements from the DRCN Steering Committee
Prosper Chemouil (Cnam, France)