past event
IEEE Workshop on Network Automation
Piscataway, NJ
25 February 2019, 9am - 6pm EST
The live-stream is over. For more information, visit https://www.comsoc.org
This single-day workshop is being co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section. This will provide a unique forum for Architects, Developers, Testers, and Business Leaders as well as students and researchers from academia to be informed about the evolving landscape of Network Automation technologies, deployment use cases and business models and an opportunity to network and share their learnings and experiences.
AGENDA/SPEAKERS:
8:45 - 9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks - Workshop Chair, ComSoc Leadership 9:00 – 9:20 AM Trends and Issues in Softwarization of Networks: What’s In What’s Out ? Raj Jain, Washington University in Saint Louis 9:20 – 9:40 AM Network Automation – Opportunities & Challenges Hansraj Nahata, Verizon 9:40 – 10:00 AM Network Service/Slice Orchestration Himanshu Shukla, Ericsson 10:00 – 10:20 AM Implementation Approach for Network Automation Projects Manish Jain, Cisco 10:20 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:50 AM Network Slicing: Enabling Statistical Multiplexing of Multi-tenant Spatial Loads Gustavo de Veciana, University of Texas, Austin 10:50 – 11:10 AM Network Automation in a Service Provider Environment Sunil Maloo, AT&T 11:10 – 11:30 AM Automation for Deploying and Managing Large Scale Network! Gulrukh Ahanger, Comcast 11:30 – 11:50 AM Network Virtualization, 5G Slice Management, Standards and Open Source Raquel Morera, Verizon 11:50 - 12:10 PM Creating the Self-provisioning, Self-optimizing and Self-healing Network Richard Dunsmore, Fujitsu Network Communications 12:10 - 12:30 PM Policy Driven Closed Loop Automation Balaji Subramaniam, Ciena 12:30 - 1:10 PM Lunch 1:10 - 1:30 PM End-to-end Network and Service Automation Marina Thottan, Nokia Bell Labs 1:30 – 1:50 PM Programming Hybrid Networks Nate Foster, Cornell University 1:50 – 2:10 PM A Flexible RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) and its Applications in 5G Rittwik Jana, AT&T 2:10 – 2:30 PM Reconfigurable Network for Next Generation Seong-Hwan Kim, Xilinx 2:30 – 2:50 PM Intent Based Networking - the technology behind the hype Jeff Tantsura, Apstra 2:50 - 3:10 PM Elastic Metro Ethernet and Elastic Cloud Services Mehmet Toy, Verizon 3:10 - 3:20 PM Coffee Break 3:20 – 3:40 PM VNFs: Evolution Testing and Certification Steven A Wright, ONAP 3:40 – 4:00 PM Stuart Mackie, Juniper Networks 4:00 – 4:20 PM In search for a “LIDAR for Self-Driving Networking” Walter Willinger, NIKSUN 4:20 – 4:40 PM Extending OpenDaylight Using Microservices Architecture Shaleen Saxena, Lumina Networks 4:40 – 6:00 PM Panel: Network Automation -- Opportunities and Challenges Anwar Walid, Nokia Bell Labs, Panel Moderator Brian Freeman, AT&T Mehmet Toy, Verizon Balaji Subramaniam, Ciena Stuart Mackie, Juniper Networks Shaleen Saxena, Lumina Networks Nate Foster, Cornell University 6:00 – 6:05 PM Closing Remarks