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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

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