NIPAA-21: New Internetworking Protocols Architectures, and Algorithms November 2-5, 2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nipaa21 |
Call For Papers
With the ongoing pandemic, the ICT infrastructure is changing from an optional tool to a necessity for many people. With large numbers of individuals now relying on the Internet to work from home, daily life, online education and entertainment, the significance of the Internet has unprecedentedly surged. As with the increasingly dependence of the Internet application, e.g., Augmented reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) for entertainment, or video and audio streaming for working and education, the requirement on the Internet security, quality, and resilience increases continually.
In order to make 5G and even B5G (Beyond 5G) a large scale success, fixed networks in fronthaul, middlehaul and backhaul will have to play a crucial role. More needs to be done in the ‘fixed’ (non-wireless) network to fully take advantage of these developments.
To automate and ensure efficiency of industry operations, an extremely reliant, intelligent and lean network is required. With regard to lean networking a well-known problem in IIoT is to devise an addressing scheme that would work for an entire spectrum of connected endpoints be it humans, servers or machines such as sensors, robots, virtual PLCs, digital twins, etc. The approach of integrating devices within the Internet address structure does not full satisfy energy and bits on wire efficiency – often the header overhead is higher than the payload.
On the other hand, the evolution of media from Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to holograms is already taking place as a natural progression in this space. The current network infrastructures just barely meet the demands of high bandwidth and low latency AR/VR. But networked-holograms require a paradigm shift in media formats and communication methodologies. The research on holographic media displays is going strong. The question then is, how can network technologies prepare for such type of high volume, low-latency media? Their far-reaching influence is not just anticipated in the entertainment and gaming industry but will inspire the next generation of interactions and visualization technologies in the fields of personal & social communications, education, design, medicine, etc.
Lastly, the Internet infrastructure continues to evolve as applications and data become more localized and concentrated at the edges, yet a part of them is distributed in the cloud. Considerations will be required to describe protocols and on-the-wire data formats that are location, cost, and service-aware but are also security conscious. The current mechanisms do not support these requirements. There is a need to collectively evolve the existing technologies to lay the foundation for networks that support 5G and beyond 5G services and scenarios that are adaptable and deployable at large scale – such an initiative is simply called New IP – the New Internet Protocol.
We invite novel ideas simulating a discussion on algorithms, architectures, and protocols that are relevant in the 5G and Beyond 5G era and will help in defining New IP - the new network layer for the future. New IP aims to look at a set of problems from the key aspects mentioned above: new services, new media and new infrastructures, as a unifying effort.
The workshop will hold well-rounded discussions from both industry and academia about the limitations in the current IP based technologies, their impact of 5G applications on forwarding, routing, scheduling and other aspects of large-scale networks.
Topics of Interest
We solicit stimulating, original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers in the form of extended abstracts. We further encourage papers that propose new research directions or could stimulate lively debate at the workshop. We invite submissions on a wide range of topics of interest, including, but not limited to:
- Architectures, protocols and applications driven by in-/post-pandemic use scenarios or user experiences
- Protocols and frameworks for delivering high precision services
- Network protocols optimizations for Industrial and Tactile networks
- Investigations, surveys and techniques in the data plane for Industrial and Tactile internet.
- Scheduling in large-scale networks for high-precision applications
- Algorithms to support ultra-low-latency in packet-based networks
- Innovations in the datagram and packet-based formats for uRLLC and mMTC.
- Verification and proof of service delivery for reliable applications
- Architecture for trustworthy, secure networks
- Security in uRLLC systems
- Theory and algorithms for lossless packet delivery
- Network security and privacy issues in Industrial and Tactile internet
- Resource allocation mechanisms for deterministic, reliable and lossless data transmission
- Media formats for holographic type communications
- Methods for transmission of very large volumetric data
- Innovations in transport algorithms for VR/AR and Holographic type communications
- Video analytics and smart offloading for VR/AR
Submission Guidelines
All paper submissions will be handled electronically via NIPAA 2021 EasyChair submission website. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full papers. Submitted papers should be no more than 6 pages long (for regular papers) and no more than 3 pages long (for position papers), in two columns, with standard margins and 10 point or larger font, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches).
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Committees
General Co-Chairs
- Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Filip De Turck (Ghent University, Belgium)
- Kiran Makhijani (Futurewei, USA)
- Shen Yan (Huawei, China)
Workshop PC Co-Chairs
- Cedric Westphal (Futurewei, USA)
- Xiaoming Fu (University of Göttingen, Germany)
- Mohamed Faten Zhani (ETS, Canada)
Contact
All questions about submissions could be emailed to Dr. Shen Yan (yanshen@huawei.com)
For More Information Please visit main Workshop Page