Presentation

Today’s telecommunications industry is still engaged in adopting active mechanisms for sharing infrastructure (e.g. energy, space, antennas, hardware, etc.) or specific capabilities/resources (e.g. Virtual Network Operator – MVNO) for the provisioning of resources. Thus, the forthcoming softwarized infrastructures should expect broader approaches for sharing physical or even virtualized resources as a spearhead for network applications and functions that promote incentives and gains to all stakeholders across multiple verticals. In this scenario, the concept of slicing emerges as the basis for the delivery of services in softwarized infrastructures based on network, processing and/or storage resources, providing dedicated and adapted services to the needs of different verticals, focused on the specific requirements of the tenants for a variety of services such as: high definition video (HD), virtual reality (VR) and V2X applications. Thus, the first WSlice (Workshop on Theory, Technologies and Applications of Slicing for Softwarized Infrastructures) aims to integrate researchers and developers from both academia and industry who are developing research, projects and prototypes centered on the concept of slicing in the broader sense. In this way, the WSlice emerges as a forum for technical presentations of ongoing research and relevant activities in the areas of cloud computing and virtualized infrastructure, services and applications in several areas, bringing together researchers and practitioners who actively participate in the provisioning of slicing solutions in these areas. Finally, this workshop aims to be an environment for the establishment of multi-institutional collaborative networks and groups of technical and scientific competence, as well as to encourage the discussion of incipient topics and still not defined directions within its scope.

Topics

Researchers are invited to submit papers in cloud/network/resource slicing, related to the various areas of computing, and especially cloud computing, computer networks, distributed systems and security. A non-extensive list of topics of interest includes:

Methods and models for the design of slices that meet different scenarios and verticals;
Mechanisms of slice control and programming;
Mechanisms for the creation and deployment of slices with guarantees of isolation;
Interaction strategies with tenants;
Mapping mechanisms between slices and services;
Slice segmentation strategies;
Scalable resource partitioning;
Elasticity of slices;
Autonomous architectures for management and operation of slices;
Security mechanisms in slices;
Slices in multi-domain environments;
Slice monitoring mechanisms and architectures;
Strategies for the provisioning and evaluation of QoS/QoE in slice environments;
Projects for adapting existing infrastructures to the concept of slices.

Instructions for Authors

Authors are invited to submit papers with the presentation of research and project results, new guidelines, critical visions or lessons learned, in Portuguese or English, up to 14 pages, through the JEMS system. Accepted and revised articles, as recommended by the Program Committee, will be published in the Proceedings of the SBRC, in the volume of workshops. The format of the papers should be the one indicated by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). The submission will be electronically via JEMS at the SBRC portal. The file must be in PDF (Portable Document Format) format.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: April 01, 2019
Notification of results: April 09, 2019
Submission of the camera-ready version: April 12, 2019
Workshop date: May 6, 2019

Workshop Format

The program includes an opening lecture, to be given by an international researcher (to be invited), the presentation of accepted papers, considering its interest for the SBRC community, and the presentation of a panel with experts from academia and industry. All the WSlice activities are aimed at discussing and presenting research and project results, outlining new guidelines, critical visions or lessons learned. In all these moments, there will be space for discussion of open problems, as well as future directions of research and the formation of multi-institutional and interdisciplinary collaborative networks among researchers.